Up The Workers - starring Henry McGee & Lance Percival (1976)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- The ups and downs of a group of factory workers at Cocker's Components Ltd in the Midlands, most of whom seem hell bent on strike action. Not a particularly good sitcom, but a curiosity from the mid-1970s with a good cast.
This episode - "Just The Job" - the chairman of Cocker's Components reveals the details of a new project intended to bring about a spirit of co-operation between the workers and management of the company. Includes an appearance by a young John Nettles (Bergerac)!
What a great channel, i was born in 1967 and there are some absolute gems on this channel ❤❤
Thanks so much for this, I don't remember ever seeing this at all in '76, it's lovely to see things that I don't recall, thank you
An ATV production featuring Henry 'Benny Hill' McGee and Lance 'TW3' Percival. Plus, John Nettles from Bergerac and Midsomer Murders is also featured in this. Cheers 🥂 for this ❤ 😊
Henry McGee. "Tell 'em about the honey, Mummy". "I'm NOT his mummy".
Lots of familiar faces, and a rather famous car!
Enjoyed watching, thanks for uploading!
John Nettles with long hair!
OMG!
Why is all the actors I grew up watching are all gone, now I'm 60 I no longer want to watch TV because the kids that pretend to be actors, are all about how they look😢
Same here...horrible feeling, to be honest with you. I started to think this when Terry Wogan passed away. Very sad.
the intellect has gone ...dumbed down .....
@@Wench64 Yes, it's All Vanity, there's no substance , it's horrible
This is a show that could only have existed in strike torn '70s Britain.
I’m in the US and I think it would have fit here then for the same reason.
I've gotta admit, to this day I still except Fred Scuttle to appear out of nowhere whenever Henry McGee appears.
After a VERY slow start, it shaped up quite nicely towards the end! 😅
... 1976... BEFORE ENGLAND WENT BAD
Yeah before Thatcher and her ilk.
@@mazzab1970 ... " ilk " Say's it All that Word... HAAAAA HAAAAAAA HAAAAAA 🥂🏴🌄
WE all know what caused it . .. . . .
Lance Percival played the ship's chef in the 1962 film "CARRY ON CRUISING" -Originally the part was supposed to have been played by Charles Hawtrey, but he withdrew after a dispute over credit appearance.
2:04 There's always some nosey tw@t in the background when you're trying to film something 🤣
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Enjoyable!
Leon Vitali as Fergy - just after making of all things Barry Lyndon he died recently a very remarkable man.
STRANGE PLACE TO FIND NORMAN BIRD
He was a nice guy Norman Bird. I used to live by him back in the 90's. I remember he was always out and about on Saturdays with his wife shopping lol
Norman is one of the unsung heroes of British tv. Such a reliable comic performer, they don't make them like him anymore!
Watch out....hyacinth is coming!
Thanks for all these. I suppose Bottle Boys isn't knocking about? Looking for S2 ep 1 "Things That Go Bump in the Night"... Several VHS rips on here but that isn't one of them. 😞
I've seen Bottle Boys on TH-cam!
"Charles Lloyd-Pack" not trigger's dad by any chance?
It turns out he is! I just looked it up on Wikipedia.
Wasnt this in Ricky Gervais' Extras series😂😂
John Nettles looking like Jimmy Saville . .. lol
That guy was putting a lot of effort with that machine, not a to can be said about the women behind
Roger's dad or brother?
Roger's dad and Emily Lloyd's grandad.
This was a lousy programme made by ATV that used a giggle machine, because they knew it was not funny and rightly got panned by the TV critics of the day.
Helen Mirren ??
Good actors wasted with awful scripts
Pretty dire. With canned laughter. 👎
is up the worker have a stuido audience or laugh track
Laugh track. It may actually be first sitcom recorded (all on video, not film) entirely on location.
Charles Lloyd-Pack; Trigger's old man.
Mike Savage; uncredited on IMDB but in a load of stuff including The Professionals, Minder, Man about the House, and Prospects.
Not a very good series though. It marks the end of a golden age of ITV - LWT TV and the beginning of the BBC finally catching up with modern times circa 1969 - 1980. Then everything began to fall apart. But a sense of the rise of the neoliberal mindset and the end of unionization is felt here - with the problematic shop steward and the friendly bosses.