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Big Jim And The Figaro Club
Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1979 - 1981
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

The Figaro Club is a group of mates in the building trade who frequent a small seaside town during the nineteen-fifties. Stars Norman Rossington, David Beckett, Sylvester McCoy, Gordon Rollings, Roland Curram and more.

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Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Credit: BBC

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1979 - 1981
Channel
BBC 2
Episodes
6 (1 pilot + 1 series)
Stars
Norman Rossington, David Beckett, Sylvester McCoy, Gordon Rollings, Roland Curram, Priscilla Morgan, David John and Bob Hoskins
Writer
Ted Walker
Producer
Colin Rose
Company

It's the early 1950s and, in a small seaside town, a group of mates in the building trade find there is nothing better than escaping to their own world - the Figaro Club. Their inscrutable leader, Big Jim, is a carpenter by day and at the centre of a club that has its own private language and call-to-arms. Their nemesis is the Chief of Works at the council office, Harold Perkins, a dictator of epic proportions whose social climbing knows no bounds.

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 24th June 1979 at 8:05pm on BBC Two

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