(Incidentally-although totally irrelevant to this review-Glasgow wrote three episodes in this series and Sid Chaplin two.) What Peter Mitchell has done is to take one storyline-the relationship of Jack Ford and Jessie Seaton-which runs through the first six episodes, focusing purely on those written by his father, James Mitchell, and omitting one by Tom Hadaway and one by Alex Glasgow, which means the play is made up of episodes 1, 3, a bit of 4, and 6. But how on earth is it possible to condense about ten hours of TV into just over two hours (including interval) of stage performance time? Series 1 (8 January to 1 April 1976) consisted of 13 x 50 minute episodes and it is on this series that this stage version is based. When the Boat Comes In, which ran for four series on BBC TV from January 1976 to April 1981, is generally regarded as a TV classic, but for North Easterners it is much more than that it is iconic, the first major TV drama to be set in the region.
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