When the Boat Comes In - Season 4 Episode 5 Oh, My Charming Billy Boy
Jack is visited by former schoolmate, teacher Sid Meek, who is in touch with Bill Pierce, Matt's nephew, now a brilliant law student at Oxford and in financial straits. Sid, secretly in love with Bill, asks Jack to investigate which takes him to Oxford where he meets Bill at a charity ball hosted by Labour philanthropist Violet Laurence, who occasionally pays Bill for 'favours'.
Bill, heavily in debt, considers dropping out of his course to take manual work with his girlfriend's father but Jack loans him the money, attracting the attention of Mrs Laurence's niece Imogen Lorrimer, visiting from London.
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC One
Director: James Mitchell
Cast: James Bolam
Crew: David Maloney (Producer), Martha Livesley (Makeup Artist), Sheila S. Tomlinson (Editor), Christian Dyall (Costume Design), David Fanshawe (Original Music Composer)
First Air Date: Jan 08, 1976
Last Air date: Apr 21, 1981
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 51 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 6.50/10 by 2.00 users
Popularity: 1.2681
Language: English
Keyword : war veteran, world war i, poverty, period drama, newcastle, england, 1920s, 1910s, 1930s, north east england, workplace politics
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