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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Up The Workers

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    In the strike-strewn 1970s it was inevitable that a sitcom would use industrial relations as its focus.

    Although written by Brennand and Bottomley, the series’ co-star Lance Percival came up with the idea for the show, basing the action at a small Midlands car factory – Cockers Components Ltd – and suggesting that worker-management strife should form the hub of the episodes.

    Percival played the part of the labour relations officer, Bernard Peck, whose position in the pecking order was uncomfortably between his co-star Henry McGee’s role as managing director of the company, Richard (Dicky) Bligh, and that of the shop-steward Sid Stubbins (Norman Bird).

    The factory’s owner, Sir Charles (Charles Lloyd Pack) was a lovable old buffoon who did his best to stay out of the conflict. In one episode, he commissioned his workforce to make a life-size replica of the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as a present for his grandchildren.

    A decade after The Rag Trade the cry of “everybody out!” was heard in TV comedy once again as the Cockers workers took umbrage against the arrival of new Japanese machinery, the prospect of too little or too much overtime and many other crises.

    All concerned would doubtless have been pleased to see, however, that none of the episodes was blighted by the frequent ITV technicians’ strikes that marked the decade.

    Richard ‘Dicky’ Bligh 
    Henry McGee 
    Bernard Peck 

    Lance Percival 
    Sid Stubbins 

    Norman Bird
    Bert Hamflitt 

    Gordon Rollings (1)
    Dudley Sutton (2)
    Fred Hamflitt
    Victor Maddern
    Sir Charles
    Charles Lloyd Pack
    Sir Henry Carmichael
    Ivor Dean
    Mick Briggs
    Charles Bolton
    Deirdre Hargreaves

    Lynn Smith (1)
    Trudi Van Doorn (2)
    Andrea

    Lesley Duff
    Mavis

    Vivienne Martin
    Fergy

    Léon Vitali
    Arthur Henthorne

    Peter Hill

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