Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width. Image shows from L to R: Emmanuel 'Manny' Cohen (John Bluthal), Patrick Kelly (Joe Lynch)
Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1967 - 1971
  • 40 episodes (6 series)

Culture-clash comedy featuring an English Jew and an Irish Catholic tailor working in London's East End. Stars John Bluthal, Joe Lynch, Bernard Spear, Cyril Shaps and Eamonn Kelly

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width. Image shows from L to R: Patrick Kelly (Joe Lynch), Emmanuel 'Manny' Cohen (John Bluthal)

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
1967 - 1971
Channel
ITV1
Episodes
40 (1 pilot + 6 series), plus 1 short special
Stars
John Bluthal, Joe Lynch, Bernard Spear, Cyril Shaps and Eamonn Kelly
Writers
Vince Powell and Harry Driver
Directors
Alan Tarrant, Stuart Allen and Ronnie Baxter
Producers
Ronnie Baxter, Stuart Allen and Alan Tarrant
Companies

Two tailors of differing religious and political views manage to run a tailoring business in London's Whitechapel.

In the early 1950s, English Jew Manny Cohen - "the finest coat maker in the country" - set up shop in an East End back street, and employed staunch Irish Catholic Patrick Kelly - "trouser maker to the gentry" - to complement his work and produce suits.

Almost twenty years later, the two men thoroughly respect each other as tailors but are utterly incapable of understanding the other's religious and patriotic beliefs, and are constantly at each others' throats. Each considers the other a heathen, and neither Rabbi Levy nor Father Ryan can begin to bring them closer together. Nevertheless, there's an underlying love between the pair - if they can get over their bickering!

Additional details

Also known as
  • Armchair Theatre: Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width (Pilot.)
  • Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width
Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Black and white / Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 18th February 1967 at 10:30pm on ITV1