The Rag Trade
- TV sitcom
- BBC One / ITV1
- 1961 - 1978
- 58 episodes (5 series)
Each working day at Fenner's Fashions is a new struggle between the management and the workers. Stars Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Christopher Beeny, Esma Cannon and more.
The Rag Trade - Series 1 & 2
The Rag Trade is a true British comedy classic that attracted enormous audiences when first broadcast in 1961. Widely praised not just for its hilarious script and energetic performances, but for its ground-breaking strong female characters, and loved for iconic catchphrase "Everybody out!", the sitcom has earned its place in TV comedy history.
Penny-pinching Harold Fenner (Peter Jones) runs Fenner Fashions, a small clothing workshop in London that makes high quality clothing, but nothing ever runs smoothly. Work life is constantly disrupted by the shop's militant steward Paddy Fleming (Miriam Karlin), who leads the female workforce. Paddy is after any excuse to take on Fenner and lead the women out on strike, yelling "Everybody out!".
Amongst the long-suffering workforce are Carole (Sheila Hancock), Little Lil (Esma Cannon), Shirley (Wanda Ventham) and Gloria (Barbara Windsor). And stuck in the middle of the whole situation is poor downtrodden foreman Reg (Reg Varney), trying to keep everyone happy and failing miserably!
The series was created and written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney (On The Buses).
First released: Monday 23rd October 2017
- Distributor: Simply Media
- Region: 2
- Discs: 4
- Minutes: 480
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: 169693
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