• When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 1976 and 1981. Across the whole series, events are set in the...
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  • "When The Boat Comes In" (or "Dance Ti Thy Daddy") is a traditional English folk song, listed as 2439 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The popular version...
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  • creating Callan (1967–1972) and When the Boat Comes In (1976–1981). The son of a shipyard worker, Mitchell also wrote under the pseudonyms James Munro and...
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  • series, including The Likely Lads, New Tricks, Heartbeat (playing three different characters), When The Boat Comes In and Grandpa in My Pocket. Coronation...
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  • James Bolam (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh...
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  • working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly When the Boat Comes In, and also the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which...
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  • British actress best known for her portrayal of Dolly in 1970s BBC television drama When the Boat Comes In. Since 1984 she has been married to actor Kevin Whately...
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  • Judy Loe (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
    Heartland and The Gentle Touch before appearing in two episodes of Sunday Night Thriller and three episodes of When the Boat Comes In (1981). She starred...
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  • Sabina Franklyn (category Articles lacking in-text citations from April 2011)
    starred in the ITV sitcoms Keep It in the Family and Full House, and was also in the final episode of Fawlty Towers, as well as episodes of When the Boat Comes...
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  • relationship. When the Boat Comes In (1976–77) as Bella Seaton Our Day Out (1977) as Mrs Kay Emmerdale Farm (1978) as Phyllis Acaster Boys from the Blackstuff...
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    Terrence Hardiman (category Actors from the London Borough of Newham)
    (Secret Army, Colditz, Wish Me Luck and Enemy at the Door) and a British officer (When the Boat Comes In). His other roles include: a police inspector (Prime...
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  • English actor. He acted in many television programmes, including possibly his best-known role as Matt Headley in When the Boat Comes In, a popular 1970s series...
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  • appearances in numerous other UK soaps and dramas including, When the Boat Comes In, The Sweeney, Minder, Juliet Bravo and Heartbeat, in which he appeared...
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  • Alec Sabin (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2013)
    British actor. His television appearances include: Coronation Street, When the Boat Comes In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Maybury, Doctor Who, Bergerac, Call...
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    part of the borough of South Tyneside. In 1976, the Boldon Colliery Band appeared in episode 13 of the television series When the Boat Comes In. The mine...
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  • role in the popular 1970s TV series When the Boat Comes In. He played Tom Seaton, one of the two sons in the Seaton family at the centre of the series...
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  • Christopher Benjamin (actor) (category Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2013)
    the regular adversary in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin, Channing in several episodes of the third series of When The Boat Comes In,...
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  • (1970), then The Pallisers, Love For Lydia, Bergerac, Cover Her Face, Lovejoy, Cadfael, When the Boat Comes In, Inspector Morse and The Men's Room (1991)...
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  • of Sarah Headley (née Lytton) in the 1970s and 1980s BBC television drama When the Boat Comes In. Bailey has appeared in numerous British television drama...
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    episode of the TV series Thriller, 1975), When the Boat Comes In (1976), and a leading role in The Cedar Tree (1976-77). His final credit was in a 1978 episode...
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  • her role in the BBC mini-series The Cleopatras and as Gill Gregory in Coronation Street. Other television credits include When the Boat Comes In (as Mary...
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  • Ian Cullen (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    When the Boat Comes In (as Geordie Watson - 1977–1981) and Channel 5's soap opera Family Affairs (as Angus Hart – 1997–1999). He has guest starred in...
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  • James Garbutt (category Actors from the City of Sunderland)
    include: The Troubleshooters, The Borderers, Z-Cars, The Onedin Line, Warship, Doctor Who (in the serial Genesis of the Daleks), Bill Brand, When the Boat Comes...
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    television programmes including The Pallisers, The Duchess of Duke Street, On Giant's Shoulders, When the Boat Comes In, Rentaghost and Miss Marple. As...
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  • Val McLane (category Academics of the University of Sunderland)
    appeared in numerous television roles, including Brookside in 1983 as Maureen Lomax, a friend of regular character, Sheila Grant; When the Boat Comes In, Behind...
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  • Ashton, the headmaster who married Jessie Seaton, in When the Boat Comes In. He played Pinch in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Comedy...
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  • Lois Baxter (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2013)
    Stanton in Coronation Street from 1976 to 1977, and Lady Caroline in the period drama When the Boat Comes In. Baxter was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, the daughter...
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  • Christopher Neame (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    drama When the Boat Comes In in 1981 portraying Robin Cunningham. In 1983, he played Mark Antony in the BBC series The Cleopatras. In addition, Neame...
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  • Tom Georgeson (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2013)
    Interest", 1980) The Black Stuff (1980) When the Boat Comes In ("Back to Dear Old Blighty", 1981) Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) Juliet Bravo (Ten Episodes)...
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  • Alex Glasgow (category Alumni of the University of Leeds)
    scripts for the TV drama When the Boat Comes In, the theme song of which he sang. The son of a coal miner, Glasgow was born in Gateshead. His parents had previously...
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