
Series — 1998
dinnerladies (1998)
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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S1 · 0/6 watchedDirector: David Tyler
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Cast & crew

Maxine Peake
Twinkle

Thelma Barlow
Dolly Bellfield

Anne Reid
Jean

Shobna Gulati
Anita

Duncan Preston
Stan Meadowcroft

Victoria Wood
Brenda

Celia Imrie
Philippa Moorcroft

Andrew Dunn
Tony Martin
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