Big Jim And The Figaro Club
The Figaro Club is a group of mates in the building trade who frequent a small seaside town during the nineteen-fifties
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1979 - 1981
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 6 (1 pilot + 1 series)
- Starring
- Norman Rossington, David Beckett, Sylvester McCoy, Gordon Rollings, Roland Curram, Priscilla Morgan, David John and Bob Hoskins
- Writer
- Ted Walker
- Producer
- Colin Rose
It's the early 1950s and, in a small seaside town, a group of mates in the building trade find there is nothing better than escaping to their own world - the Figaro Club. Their inscrutable leader, Big Jim, is a carpenter by day and at the centre of a club that has its own private language and call-to-arms. Their nemesis is the Chief of Works at the council office, Harold Perkins, a dictator of epic proportions whose social climbing knows no bounds.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Sunday 24th June 1979 on BBC Two at 8:05pm
- Last new broadcast
- Wednesday 12th August 1981 on BBC Two at 8:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
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