
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.

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as Bill Seaton

as Bella Seaton

as Tom Seaton

as Billy Seaton

as Matt Headley

as Jessie Seaton

as Dolly Mather

as Sir Horatio Manners

as Sarah Lytton

as Arthur Ashton

as Duke of Bedlington