dinnerladies (1998)

11/12/1998 (EN) • 30m

Comedy

Overview

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

Top Billed Cast

Maxine Peake

Twinkle

16 Episodes

Thelma Barlow

Dolly Bellfield

16 Episodes

Anne Reid

Jean

16 Episodes

Shobna Gulati

Anita

16 Episodes

Duncan Preston

Stan Meadowcroft

16 Episodes

Victoria Wood

Brenda

16 Episodes

Celia Imrie

Philippa Moorcroft

16 Episodes

Andrew Dunn

Tony Martin

16 Episodes


Last Season

Season 2

1999 | 10 Episodes

Season 2 of dinnerladies premiered on November 25, 1999.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

mother

manager

northern england

workplace

working class

staff

sitcom

canteen

handyman

workplace comedy

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