Up The Workers

Season 1

1973 · 8 episodes · 4h 0m in all

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

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Up the Workers

   4 Sept 1973 · 30 min

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

2. 2

   2. Grapevine

   1 May 1974 · 30 min

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

3. 3

   3. The Bullet Maker

   8 May 1974 · 30 min

   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.

4. 4

   4. Florence Nightingale

   15 May 1974 · 30 min

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

5. 5

   5. Tea Break

   22 May 1974 · 30 min

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

6. 6

   6. Made in Japan

   29 May 1974 · 30 min

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

7. 7

   7. The Big Noise

   4 Jun 1974 · 30 min

   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.

8. 8

   8. Calm Before the Storm

   5 Jun 1974 · 30 min

   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.’