British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
The Rag Trade. Image shows from L to R: Harold Fenner (Peter Jones), Paddy Fleming (Miriam Karlin). Copyright: BBC
The Rag Trade

The Rag Trade

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One / ITV1
  • 1961 - 1978
  • 58 episodes (5 series)

Each working day at Fenner's Fashions is a new struggle between the management and the workers. Stars Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Christopher Beeny, Esma Cannon and more.

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Wild, Wild Women. Copyright: BBC TV

Wild, Wild Women

Period variation on The Rag Trade, starring Barbara Windsor as the leader of female workers at a milliner's in 1902.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV TV

Up The Workers

1973 Sitcom

On The Buses. Stan Butler (Reg Varney). Copyright: London Weekend Television TV

On The Buses

Comedy following workshy bus driver Stan and his family; his conductor, Jack; and their depot boss, Inspector Blake.

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width. Image shows from L to R: Emmanuel 'Manny' Cohen (John Bluthal), Patrick Kelly (Joe Lynch) TV

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width

Culture-clash comedy featuring an English Jew and an Irish Catholic tailor working in London's East End.

dinnerladies. Image shows from L to R: Jean (Anne Reid), Stan (Duncan Preston), Brenda (Victoria Wood), Twinkle (Maxine Peake), Dolly (Thelma Barlow), Tony (Andrew Dunn), Anita (Shobna Gulati). Copyright: Good Fun / Pozzitive Productions TV

dinnerladies

The day-to-day work lives of the kitchen staff in a factory canteen. The staff are managed by Tony who is in love with dinnerlady Bren.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC TV

Spanner In The Works

Comedy Playhouse pilot starring Norman Rossington and Jimmy Jewel as the boss of a small engineering company and the workers' union shop-steward.

Barbara Windsor. Copyright: Rex TV

The Barbara Windsor Story

A celebration of the life and career of screen icon Dame Barbara Windsor.

Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width. Image shows from L to R: Patrick Kelly (Joe Lynch), Manny Cohen (John Bluthal) Film

Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width

Film spin-off of the hit ABC/Thames sitcom of the same name about a Catholic and a Jewish tailor working together in Whitechapel.

Carry On At Your Convenience. Image shows from L to R: Vic Spanner (Kenneth Cope), Willie (Geoffrey Hughes), Sid Plummer (Sid James). Copyright: Peter Rogers Productions Film

Carry On At Your Convenience

Sid James plays Sid Plummer, a works foreman struggling to bridge the gap between an unreasonable, strike-happy shop steward and a naive manager's son.

The Gaffer. Image shows from L to R: Fred Moffat (Bill Maynard), Harry (Russell Hunter), Betty (Pat Ashton). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

The Gaffer

Fred Moffatt, The Gaffer, is the director of a recession-hit, light-engineering company and is always teetering on the edge of disaster.

Mr Digby Darling. Image shows from L to R: Roland Digby (Peter Jones), Thelma Teesdale (Sheila Hancock). Copyright: Yorkshire Television TV

Mr Digby Darling

Pesticide company middle-manager Roland Digby finds relaxation not at home but in the office, not least thanks to his dedicated secretary, Thelma.

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