Henry McGee
Dicky Bligh
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Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1973
Up The Workers
Season 1
Season 1 for the series consists of 1 pilot (1973) and seven episodes (1974).
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Episode 130 min1973-09-04
Up the Workers
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
Episode 230 min1974-05-01
Grapevine
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
Episode 330 min1974-05-08
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.
Episode 430 min1974-05-15
Florence Nightingale
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
Episode 530 min1974-05-22
Tea Break
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
Episode 630 min1974-05-29
Made in Japan
Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.
Episode 730 min1974-06-04
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.
Episode 830 min1974-06-05
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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