Very best movie i ever watch

A lot of fun.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I love this programme even though I am going to moan about some of the characters. I love the intrigue between Ford and Sir Horatio Manners. I really like the Duke and his daughter. THere are some nasty working class characters but Matt Headley isn't one of them. Matt drops lucky with finding a wife.Dolly Ford moans through series 2. Tom Seaton moans through series 1- 3. Bill Seaton is very grumpy but usually quick to see reason His wife Bella SEaton is a lovely character but Dr Billy Seaton is a very selfish individual when it comes to loyalty to his family.The star of the show is Jack Ford. An excellent many layered character played by James Bolam.

I recently purchased the box set of the entire series with some trepidation - it is expensive, especially when NZ dollars have to be converted to British pounds. Half way through the first episode, I said to my husband, "I remember this series as being good, but I hadn't realised just how good it is." Several discs further on, I have had no reason to revise that judgement. The writing is tight, the characters brilliantly conceived, written and portrayed, and the whole thing a great pleasure. The creation of the time and place is faultless. James Bolam - wonderful in everything he does - is superb, as are Susan Jameson, and Jean Heywood as her mother Bella. (It is great to see Bolam and Jameson again in the current 'New Tricks'.) They do NOT make 'em like this any more! This was money well spent.

I loved 'when the boat comes in' it was such an excellent series,with the brilliant James Bolam in the lead role as Jack ford, who made his way up to the top under dire circumstances, and who helped his adopted family the Seatons. He battled and won against the establishment and bosses who tried to keep him and the working man down. Season 4 let the whole series down for me. We did not see the Seatons, grumpy Bill with 5 shops at the last count, and his wife who dreamed of having a nice home.Tom Seaton his friend or as geordies would say 'Marrow', and Dolly now with a successful market garden business.We did see the love of his life Jessie Seaton,apparently she had left her husband and three children, and now with her brother Billy,planned a gun running expedition into Spain, I know she was a Labour activist but surely this was out of character for both her,and Billy who's now a wealthy consultant doctor, surely they would have concentrated there efforts on the sick and needy at home. I also thought it was such a shame when Jack ford was killed off in the end, surely the writers could have come up with a better ending to this wonderful series.

I bought this series for my father as he watched when it was on first time round in the UK (I am too young, just!) I watched it with him and I really enjoyed it. The first three seasons are the best. With the Seatons and life just after World War one but season four just doesn't seem up to the same standard. Season four jumps all over the place there is no continuity (other than Jack Ford). There was a four year gap between season three and four, which might explain why it had lost it edge.May be they should have stopped at three. If you like good drama then definitely one to watch, just a shame about the last season!