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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Long forgotten Liverpool TV show that was 'ahead of its time'

A long forgotten TV show about a schoolboy desperate to become a Liverpool FC player featured Kop legend Kenny Dalglish's acting debut.

Following on from his critically acclaimed 'Boys from the Black Stuff', writer Alan Bleasdale's 'Scully' – broadcast on Channel 4 in 1984 – was a surreal TV comedy about a Liverpool lad with big dreams of making it at Liverpool FC.

Although largely consigned to the graveyard of British TV history, 'Scully' was a hit with viewers and in some ways ahead of its time.

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