
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1967 - 1971
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 40 (1 pilot + 6 series), plus 1 short special
- Starring
- John Bluthal, Joe Lynch, Bernard Spear, Cyril Shaps, Eamonn Kelly and Jim Norton
- Writers
- Vince Powell and Harry Driver
- Directors
- Stuart Allen and Ronnie Baxter
- Producers
- Ronnie Baxter and Stuart Allen
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!
- Production companies
- Also known as
- Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width (Other official name)
- Armchair Theatre: Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width (Pilot.)
- Picture
- Black and white / Colour
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Saturday 18th February 1967 on ITV at 10:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Tuesday 14th September 1971 on ITV at 8:30pm