The Security Men
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 2013
- 1 episode
One-off comedy drama about a group of night security guards who must create an elaborate scheme to hide the fact they've let a robbery occur. Stars Brendan O'Carroll, Bobby Ball, Dean Andrews, Peter Wight, Paddy McGuinness and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2013
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 1
- Stars
- Brendan O'Carroll, Bobby Ball, Dean Andrews, Peter Wight, Paddy McGuinness, Archie Kelly, Ben-Ryan Davies, Denice Hope and John Rawling
- Writers
- Caroline Aherne and Jeff Pope
- Director
- David Drury
- Producers
- Jeff Pope, Saurabh Kakkar and Caroline Aherne
- Company
Comedy drama telling the story of four hapless security guards in a shopping centre whose normally mundane routine is thrown into chaos when a robbery threatens to expose their idleness.
With boss Kenneth on his break, Jimmy, Duckers and Ray seize the opportunity to switch the alarms off and enter an electrical store to watch the big boxing match in HD with surround sound.
Caught red-handed, the trio persuade a reluctant Kenneth to let them watch the fight until the end. Their high energy and laughs soon become despair when they turn the alarms back on and discover, to their horror, a jewellers in the centre has been broken into.
The Security Men observes as Kenneth, Jimmy, Duckers and Ray must create an elaborate scheme in a bid to hold onto their posts.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
- Picture
- Colour
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 12th April 2013 at 9pm on ITV1
- Episode length
- 1 hour
- All previous repeats
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- Friday 23rd March 2018 at 10:00pm on ITV3
- Sunday 20th July 2014 at 9:00pm on ITV3
- Thursday 23rd May 2013 at 11:35pm on ITV1