
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1987 - 1989
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 12 (2 series)
- Starring
- Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu, Robin Kermode, Phyllida Law and George Ballantine
- Writers
- Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss
- Director
- Derrick Goodwin
- Producer
- Derrick Goodwin
Jack and Hugo are the directors of upper-crust wine merchants Mowbray & Crofts, a long-established company serving London's great and good, from Lords to bankers to embassies.
Work has never been a word they have easily recognised, preferring to drink the stock whenever possible and conduct all other 'business' from a heavy social basis: life for these two is an endless round of exclusive parties!
However, the duo must learn to adapt to a new life when their accountant dies suddenly, exposing a gaping chasm in the firm's finances that leave them with no option than to call in assistance from the bank - who impose a young, go-getting executive, Alan, tasked with turning the business around with a series of new initiatives, cutbacks, and money-making schemes.
The question remains, just how will Jack and Hugo cope with their newfound need to put some actual effort in?
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 9th September 1987 on ITV at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Tuesday 29th August 1989 on ITV at 8:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes