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When the Boat Comes In

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 British drama series, showing on The BBC running from 1976 to 1981 (three seasons from 1976-77 and a fourth in 1981), starring James Bolam as Jack Ford, a First World War veteran who returns to his Tyneside town of Gallowshields.He falls for Jessie Seaton, a local teacher, but just as they're about to marry, he ends up getting another woman pregnant and has to marry her. They both end up in increasingly loveless marriages.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In the meantime, Jack starts to work his way up in the world of 1920s England. From unemployed fitter, he gets elected local secretary of the fitters trade union. Associating with a rich industrialist, he starts getting into property of his own.Features a lot of contemporary politics, particularly of the trade union variety.
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 The Chessmaster: Jack himself, who does prison time for theft to get himself elected as head of the local branch of the Amalgamated Union of Fitters, a £400 a year position. He gets industrialist Sir Horatio Manners to give his fitters an increase in one pence on the hourly rate by pointing out that if he goes for not doing it, his successor will strike. When Sir Horatio calls in the favour by asking him to use his union role to slow down a rival machining company, Ford identifies that the company is using unsafe machines- and so is Sir Horatio. So they're both shut down.
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