Up The Workers

Season 1 for the series consists of 1 pilot (1973) and seven episodes (1974).

• Ep 1

  1.Up the Workers

  04-09-197330m

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

• Ep 2

  2.Grapevine

  01-05-197430m

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

• Ep 3

  3.The Bullet Maker

  08-05-197430m

  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...

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• Ep 4

  4.Florence Nightingale

  15-05-197430m

  Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.

• Ep 5

  5.Tea Break

  22-05-197430m

  That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.

• Ep 6

  6.Made in Japan

  29-05-197430m

  Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.

• Ep 7

  7.The Big Noise

  04-06-197430m

  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.

• Ep 8

  8.Calm Before the Storm

  05-06-197430m

  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...

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