The Worker
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1965 - 1978
- 36 episodes (5 series)
Charlie Drake is The Worker, a man who has had 980 jobs in 20 years - most of them for one day! He is unemployable but that doesn't stop him trying. Also features Percy Herbert and Henry McGee.
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 4 - A Punting We Will Go
Charlie is on a losing streak with the horses, so when he gets a job as a cleaner at a betting shop he thinks it may turn his luck ...
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 23rd October 1965
- Time
- 8:25pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 35 minutes
Cast & crew
| Charlie Drake | Charles Drake |
| Henry McGee | Mr Pugh |
| Eddie Byrne | Odds clerk |
| Glyn Houston | Fred Higgs |
| Peter Hager | Counter clerk |
| Jean Marlow | Mrs Higgs |
| Barry Lowe | Pools man |
| Charlie Drake | Writer |
| Lew Schwarz (as Lewis Schwarz) | Writer |
| Shaun O'Riordan | Director |
| Alan Tarrant | Producer |
| Brian Bartholomew | Production Designer |