Lance Percival
Director
Up The Workers (1973)
Season 1
Season 1 for the series consists of 1 pilot (1973) and seven episodes (1974).
Released Sept. 3, 1973
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Associated Television (ATV)
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Up the Workers
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
Sept. 4, 1973, midnight
S1E2 - Grapevine
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
May 1, 1974, midnight
S1E3 - The Bullet Maker
Managing Director Dicky Bligh (Henry McGee) is going fishing, Bernard Peck (Lance Percival) is to attend his mother’s wedding (her second, he hastens to add), Sid Stubbins (Norman Bird) is off to London for a conference of his union's national executive and Bert Hamflitt (Dudley Sutton) is showing his prize marrow at the local women’s institute. That is until a ‘bullet maker’ in the guise of Fred Brewer (Derek Newark) puts a spanner in the works. He gives shop steward Sid Stubbins, his bullets to fire in the form of endless union demands, which must be thrashed out over the weekend.
May 8, 1974, midnight
S1E4 - Florence Nightingale
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
May 15, 1974, midnight
S1E5 - Tea Break
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
May 22, 1974, midnight
S1E6 - Made in Japan
Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.
May 29, 1974, midnight
S1E7 - The Big Noise
The bone of contention between the management and workers of Cockers, is the unacceptable noise level on the factory floor, which has led to a ban on overtime.
June 4, 1974, midnight
S1E8 - Calm Before the Storm
Cockers’ Managing Director, Dicky Bligh, (Henry McGee) with yet another problem on his hands. For the first time in the company’s history, no-one has any grievances. A photographer is sent to take pictures of the happiest firm in the group for the company magazine. But it seems that no-one, wants to be associated with ‘contented Cockers.’
June 5, 1974, midnight
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Sept. 3, 1973
Last Air Date: April 14, 1976, midnight
Status: In Production
Certification: NR
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