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dinnerladies (1998)

Series · 1998 · 2 seasons · Comedy

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.

Created by Victoria Wood

Starring Maxine Peake, Thelma Barlow, Anne Reid, Shobna Gulati, Duncan Preston, Victoria Wood, Celia Imrie, Andrew Dunn

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Series details

First aired12 November 1998
Latest episode27 January 2000
StatusEnded
Seasons2 (16 episodes)

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