Dockers - Part 2

Programme Outline

This is the second part of a three-part television drama written by people affected by the Liverpool docks dispute (1995—98). The pace quickens and the plot thickens with the development of the dockers’ struggle against summary dismissal.

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00:00
Title sequence.

01:08
Dockers’ wives and partners form the ‘Women of the Waterfront’ support group.

01:50
Jean Walton campaigns bravely on behalf of the sacked dockers, but incurs Tommy’s wrath.

08:34
International solidarity for the dockers.

13:37
Kenny Walton, Tommy’s 9-year-old son, bravely sports a dockers tee-shirt in his football team’s changing room.

14:10
More evidence of foreign and domestic solidarity.

15:55
A Liverpool footballer bravely sports a dockers tee-shirt, to the delight of the dockers watching the game.

17:28
Kenny’s football team trains proudly in dockers tee-shirts.

18:25
General Secretary of TGWU assures sacked dockers: ‘You will never walk alone... Victory to the Liverpool Dockers!’

20:28
Andy Walton and his wife reflect on life for his former employer and his wife.

21:42
Confrontation betweenTommy and Macca.

27:15
The Waltons’ anguish for the effects of the dispute on their teenage son Thomas.

28:42
End credits.