Breeze Block (TV Series)
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Breeze Block is a short-lived British TV series written by Ian Pattison
Ian Pattison
Ian Pattison is a Scottish writer who lives in Glasgow, most famous for writing the 10 series of the sitcom Rab C Nesbitt. He also wrote the 1995 to 1996 sitcom Atletico Partick; the six-episode series Breeze Block starring Tim Healy which aired on BBC Choice in 2002, and he created and co-wrote...

 which aired on BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...

 in 2002.

Synopsis

Ralph Breeze lives with his wife Iris and children Eric, Carol and Billy in a block of flats in the Byker
Byker
Byker is an inner city electoral ward in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It is in the east of the city, south of the Heaton area and north of St Peter's. Byker Metro station serves the area.The area also contains the Byker Wall estate. The population of the ward is...

 area of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Ralph has lost his confidence after being made redundant and feels that he is a "stopped clock". As he tries to overcome his paralysis, his wife Iris flirts with his brother Tommy and Tommy flirts with Billy. Eric works as a window cleaner and Carol works for lecherous fishmonger Mr Shields. Billy, encouraged (and pimped) by Uncle Tommy, starts work as a gigolo but is rather unsuccessful as he falls in love with each of his clients.

Ralph attends assertiveness classes to help him overcome his condition and, although Iris is supportive, his children - particularly Eric - are pretty indifferent to the point of cruelty (all for comic effect).

Cast

  • Tim Healy
    Tim Healy (actor)
    Timothy Malcolm Healy is an English actor. He is best known for playing Dennis Patterson in the television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He is married to the actress Denise Welch.-Career:...

     - Ralph Breeze
  • Su Elliot - Iris Breeze
  • David Nellist - Eric Breeze
  • Alison Mac
    Alison Mac
    Not to be confused with Allison MackAlison Mac is a British actress from North East England. She has played Kate in the BBC Three comedy series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which she was in for one series, in 2004...

     - Carol Breeze
  • Craig Heaney
    Craig Heaney
    Craig Heaney is a British screen, stage and radio actor. He may be best-known as Private Roy W Cobb in the award-winning ten-part mini-series Band of Brothers . He played Phil in Danny Cannon's 2005 football movie Goal! and its 2009 sequel, Goal! 3: Taking on the World...

     - Billy Breeze
  • Berwick Kaler
    Berwick Kaler
    Berwick Kaler is a British actor most famous for playing the dame in York Theatre Royal's annual pantomime, which he also writes and directs. He has been awarded the freedom of the city, and in 2002 received an honorary degree from the University of York. Having grown up in "the slums of...

     - Uncle Tommy
  • Mark Benton
    Mark Benton
    Mark Benton is an English actor, perhaps most famous for his roles as Eddie in Early Doors and Howard in Northern Lights.-Life and career:Benton was born in Guisborough, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England....

     - Mr. Shields
  • Dale Meeks
    Dale Meeks
    -Acting career:Meeks is best known for his role as Simon Meredith in the British TV drama Emmerdale. He also starred in Byker Grove as the leader of a gang from rival youth club Denton Burn between 1990 and 1992, and the 1960s set drama Heartbeat....

     - Hips
  • David MacCreedy - Stairmonster

Episode 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Angels

Original Air Date: 4 March 2002

Ralph has lost his eyes and, on being told by Iris that they are in his head where he left them, he realises that there's not as much to see as there used to be.

Episode 2

Season 1, Episode 2: Higher

Original Air Date: 11 March 2002

Billy starts his career as a gigolo. Uncle Tommy introduces him to a neighbour with a shepherd fixation. Soon Billy is wearing a clothing range by One Man and His Dog
One Man and His Dog
One Man and His Dog is a television series in the United Kingdom featuring sheepdog trials, presented by Phil Drabble with commentary by Eric Halsall, and later by Ray Ollerenshaw, Robin Page, and Gus Dermody. At its peak, in the early 1980s, it attracted audiences in excess of eight million...

 to please his new lady friend.

Episode 3

Season 1, Episode 3: Saturday, Sinday

Original Air Date: 18 March 2002

After a heavy night out, looking for a poke, Eric ends up in a fight. It's not until the next morning that he realises he's been stabbed. Ralph is feeling anxious and has thrown off his blanket, which used to be used to calm down the budgie.

Episode 5

Season 1, Episode 5: Unspeakable

Original Air Date: 1 April 2002

Ralph gets caught sniffing a labourer's dungarees which were left hanging on a nail. When confessing to his family about his indiscretion, he reminisces about when he was a working man at the Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter, formerly known as "Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson", was one of the best known shipbuilding companies in the world. Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which...

shipyard, coming home every night with "sweat rings the size of dinner plates".

Episode 6

Season 1, Episode 6: Wet

Original Air Date: 8 April 2002

Ralph gets a job collecting trolleys for a derisory wage.Carol goes on an unsatisfactory date with her old art teacher.

One o' the lassies: "Waddya give him, continental or the full English?".

Carol: "Cheese dip with no banger so I guess there's unfinished business".
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