dinnerladies (1998)
dinnerladies is a 1998 comedy series created by Victoria Wood. It stars Maxine Peake, Thelma Barlow and Anne Reid.
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.
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Cast
- Maxine Peake as Twinkle
- Thelma Barlow as Dolly Bellfield
- Anne Reid as Jean
- Shobna Gulati as Anita
- Duncan Preston as Stan Meadowcroft
- Victoria Wood as Brenda
- Celia Imrie as Philippa Moorcroft
- Andrew Dunn as Tony Martin
- Sue Devaney as Jane
- Julie Walters as Petula
- Christopher Greet as Mr. Michael
- Adrian Hood as Norman
