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S2 E6 · How to Succeed in Business
Up The Workers is a comedy TV series that premiered on September 4, 1973. It has 2 seasons and 14 episodes so far. The latest episode, Season 2 Episode 6 "How to Succeed in Business", aired on April 14, 1976.
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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14 episodes · 2 seasons
1973 · 8 episodes · Last episode: 52 years ago
Season 1 for the series consists of 1 pilot (1973) and seven episodes (1974).
Up The Workers Season 1 release dates →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.’
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.
Automation with its attendant problems has arrived at ‘Crockers Components, in the shape of a large crate from Japan.
That ancient British tradition, “the tea break’ is the cause of a certain amount of industrial unrest.
Bert Hamflitt, the part-time medical assistant, feels his position is threatened when the company engage a trained nurse.
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.
The greatest influence on top management comes from a shop floor apprentice, Mick.
In the middle of a heatwave, workers down tools because there is no factory heating.
1976 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 50 years ago
Season 2 consists of 6 episodes (1976).
Up The Workers Season 2 release dates →Fred Hamflitt decides to improve his station in life but holds out on the golf course.
Shop steward Sid Stubbins' union business manages to upset Dicky Bligh's fishing weekend.
Bernard Peck finds himself lumbered with a concrete lorry—— which is no place to entertain a new girlfriend!
Who will greet the special visitor to Cockers Components and in what order of precedence?
In the second episode it seems that everyone is “in the money” except Labour Relations Officer Bernard Peck. All the staff have been awarded pay rises, including the two secretaries who are making plans for their forthcoming summer holidays. Managing Director Dicky Bligh has also been given a new car in appreciation of his services, by Sir Charles. Peck is being hounded by his bank manager and he decides to ask Bligh for a rise. All he gets is a key to the executive toilet and a surprise when he goes to use it. Having overheard one of the sales managers threaten to resign if he did not get a rise, and realising that this ploy might work, he immediately hands in his resignation, Bligh rubs his hands in glee. . .
Return of the comedy series dealing with the scuffles between workers and management at a Midlands factory.
Created by Lance Percival
Mark Chapman
The Cleaner
Mark Chapman
The Cleaner
John Nettles
Mechanic
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The most recent episode of Up The Workers, Season 2 Episode 6 "How to Succeed in Business", aired on April 14, 1976.
Up The Workers has 2 seasons with 14 episodes in total.
Up The Workers first aired on September 4, 1973.
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