High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yosser Hughes (first name Jimmy uttered by his wife Maureen (Jean Warren) in the pilot episode) is a fictional character from Alan Bleasdale`s 1982 television series Boys from the Blackstuff, set in Liverpool, though ironically the character was played by Manchester-born actor Bernard Hill. Yosser appears as a tall man in his mid thirties who wears predominantly black clothes and a distinctive bushy moustache. He always appears unkempt and unshaven. He has a wife called Maureen, an aggressive, unloving harridan who frequently berates him and had an affair with another man, the likely father of their three children (played in the drama by Alan Bleasdale`s children).