Stan (Norman Tipton) and Sheila (Claire Faulconbridge) move into their newly acquired (courtesy of the Batley and Pontefract Building Society) little house at 32 Appleby Drive, Manchester, and find the upstairs is occupied by alternative society squatters Jimmy (Paul Nicholas) and Flo (Su Pollard).
They are members of APOCALYPSE (Anti-Property Owning Collective of Anarchist Leninist Youth for Political and Sexual Equality), and their relentless enthusiasm and goodwill exert a moral blackmail that makes it impossible to dislodge them.
The contrasting lifestyles are neatly packaged: Flo – a wan-looking waif with a will of iron – creates lopsided pots and smocks made out of “special Third World material, all hand-woven, all organic, all recycled”, while Sheila is the sort of girl who can spend a happy morning going through her spice rack.
Stan (Norman Tipton) tries desperately to hang on to his conventional concepts of property, while Jimmy’s convictions are tempered by the sort of pragmatism that allows him to accept non-organic chips if they are free and who includes shoplifting under the heading of “self-sufficiency”.
Produced in Birmingham, Two Up Two Down aired on BBC 1 on Fridays at 8.00 pm.
It suffered from being slotted in just before the repeat of those marvellous verbal pyrotechnics by Roy Clarke, Open All Hours, and very few new comedy series could stand up to that sort of comparison!
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Paul Nicholas Flo
Su Pollard Stan
Norman Tipton Sheila
Claire Faulconbridge
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They are members of APOCALYPSE (Anti-Property Owning Collective of Anarchist Leninist Youth for Political and Sexual Equality), and their relentless enthusiasm and goodwill exert a moral blackmail that makes it impossible to dislodge them.
Stan (Norman Tipton) tries desperately to hang on to his conventional concepts of property, while Jimmy’s convictions are tempered by the sort of pragmatism that allows him to accept non-organic chips if they are free and who includes shoplifting under the heading of “self-sufficiency”.
