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
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1967 - 1971
- Channel
- ITV
- 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
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- Armchair Theatre: Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width (Pilot.)
- Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width
- Production setting
- 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