Category: Lists of TV series by city setting Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... Bread was a British sitcom, written by Carla Lane and made by the BBC from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. ... Brookside was a soap opera based in Liverpool, which was introduced with the new British television channel, Channel 4. ... A Family At War was a British television drama made by Granada Television for ITV. The series was transmitted between 1970 and 1972 and examined the lives of the working-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences during the Second World War. ... Softly, Softly was a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC One. ... Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ...