Ffizz
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1987 - 1989
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Upmarket wine merchants Mowbray & Crofts find times getting harder as a recession bites: the owners are forced to meet something called 'work'. Stars Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu, Robin Kermode, Phyllida Law and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1987 - 1989
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 12 (2 series)
- Stars
- Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu, Robin Kermode, Phyllida Law, Peggy Aitchison and George Ballantine
- Writers
- Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss
- Director
- Derrick Goodwin
- Producer
- Derrick Goodwin
- Company
Jack and Hugo are the directors of upper-crust wine merchants Mowbray & Crofts, a long-established company serving London's great and good, from Lords to bankers to embassies.
Work has never been a word they have easily recognised, preferring to drink the stock whenever possible and conduct all other 'business' from a heavy social basis: life for these two is an endless round of exclusive parties!
However, the duo must learn to adapt to a new life when their accountant dies suddenly, exposing a gaping chasm in the firm's finances that leave them with no option than to call in assistance from the bank - who impose a young, go-getting executive, Alan, tasked with turning the business around with a series of new initiatives, cutbacks, and money-making schemes.
The question remains, just how will Jack and Hugo cope with their newfound need to put some actual effort in?
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Multi-camera
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 9th September 1987 at 8:30pm on ITV1