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14 x 30 minute episodes
This sequel to The Squirrels (1974) followed the office politics in an accounts department of a large company in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Ralph West (Peter Davison) and his colleagues – the handsome, skirt-chasing work-shy Harvey (Peter Blake) and a day-dreaming innocent lad called Osborne (Tyler Butterworth) – were caught up in the dangerous arena of office hierarchy, battling it out for a promotion and wary always of a stab in the back.
They were ruled over by paranoid office boss JJ Morley (Charles Kay) who threatened, bullied, and connived.
Ralph – a well-scrubbed, pink-cheeked well-meaning, public-school-educated accident-prone failure-cum-idiot (but soft-centred and likeable with it) had been 15-years with the company.
His loving and competent wife was the always-dependable Paula Wilcox. Cindy Day costarred as Norma, the bimbo-shaped blonde secretary.
The weak offering from Yorkshire Television was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp, Duty Free, Home To Roost).
Ralph West
Peter Davison
Ros West
Paula Wilcox
JJ Morley
Charles Kay
Harvey
Peter Blake
Osborne
Tyler Butterworth
Norma
Cindy Marshall-Day
Episodes
The Scapegoat | Norma Dove | The Dark Horse | The Whiz Kid | The Velvet Glove | Detective Story | Time Out | The Secret File | The Man Most Likely To | We Don’t Want to Lose You: Part 1 | We Don’t Want to Lose You: Part 2 | The Fiddle | Undue Influence | Cut and Dried