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Up The Workers

19732 Seasons30m episodes

Comedy

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Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Origin: GB

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This comedy series lets you in on the secrets of industrial relations and management-workers consultations. Or at least how they happen at the Midlands factory of Cockers Components Ltd. They mainly center on the dealings between managing director Dicky Bligh, shop steward Sid Stubbins and labor relations officer Bernard Peck.

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

Details

Status: In Production
First aired: Sep 4, 1973
Studio: Associated Television

Time to finish

7 hrs

14 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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SERIES

Up The Workers

19732 Seasons30m episodes

Comedy

Your rating

Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Origin: GB

About

This comedy series lets you in on the secrets of industrial relations and management-workers consultations. Or at least how they happen at the Midlands factory of Cockers Components Ltd. They mainly center on the dealings between managing director Dicky Bligh, shop steward Sid Stubbins and labor relations officer Bernard Peck.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Sep 4, 1973 · 30m
Up the Workers
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
E2 · Airs May 1, 1974 · 30m
Grapevine
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
E3 · Airs May 8, 1974 · 30m
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.
E4 · Airs May 15, 1974 · 30m
Florence Nightingale
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
E5 · Airs May 22, 1974 · 30m
Tea Break
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
E6 · Airs May 29, 1974 · 30m
Made in Japan
Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.
E7 · Airs Jun 4, 1974 · 30m
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.
E8 · Airs Jun 5, 1974 · 30m
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.’

Details

Status: In Production
First aired: Sep 4, 1973
Studio: Associated Television

Time to finish

7 hrs

14 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

Episodes

0 of 0 watched

E1 · Airs Sep 4, 1973 · 30m
Up the Workers
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
E2 · Airs May 1, 1974 · 30m
Grapevine
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
E3 · Airs May 8, 1974 · 30m
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.
E4 · Airs May 15, 1974 · 30m
Florence Nightingale
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
E5 · Airs May 22, 1974 · 30m
Tea Break
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
E6 · Airs May 29, 1974 · 30m
Made in Japan
Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.
E7 · Airs Jun 4, 1974 · 30m
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.
E8 · Airs Jun 5, 1974 · 30m
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.’

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