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Up The Workers

Comedy

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.

Sep 4, 19732 seasons14 episodesIn ProductionEN

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Henry McGee

Dicky Bligh

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Lance Percival

Bernard Peck

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Ivor Dean

Sir Henry Carmichael

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Dudley Sutton

Bert Hamflitt

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Charles Halton

Mick Briggs

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Norman Bird

Sid Stubbins

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Seasons

Season 1

8 episodes

Premiered Sep 4, 1973

Season 2

6 episodes

Premiered Feb 25, 1976

Episodes

1–6 of 8

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Ep 1

Up the Workers

Sep 4, 1973

30m

In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.

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Ep 2

Grapevine

May 1, 1974

30m

The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.

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Ep 3

The Bullet Maker

May 8, 1974

30m

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.

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Ep 4