The IT Crowd: Series 1, Episode 1 - Yesterday's Jam

TV sitcom
Channel 4
2006 - 2013
25 episodes (4 series)

Sitcom set in a computer support department. The staff are IT geeks Roy and Moss, and their boss Jen, who knows nothing about computers. Stars Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Chris Morris, Matt Berry and Noel Fielding

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Series 1, Episode 1 - Yesterday's Jam

The unloved, ignored, socially-awkward Roy and Moss make up the I.T. department of Reynholm Industries. Their world is shattered by the arrival of Jen, a new 'relationship manager'.

Further details

Jen, a young woman who knows as much about computers as your average 17th-century farmer, joins socially-awkward Roy and Moss in the basement of Reynholm Industries.

Roy and Moss are annoyed by Jen's obvious lack of computer literacy, while Jen is equally gutted to be exiled to 'middle earth', a dingy basement where the I.T. department is located. However, it isn't long before Roy and Moss realise that a female presence in their team can have its benefits...

Notes

Episode double-bill to launch the new series.

Broadcast details

Date: Friday 3^rd February 2006
Time: 9pm
Channel: Channel 4
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Chris O'Dowd	Roy
Richard Ayoade	Moss
Katherine Parkinson	Jen
Chris Morris	Denholm Reynholm

Guest cast
John Hopkins (as John Willie Hopkins)	Postman Harry
Nancy Lodder	Office Girl
Laura Pyper	Laura
Pete Deagle	Office Worker

Writing team
Graham Linehan	Writer

Production team
Graham Linehan	Director
Ben Gosling Fuller (as Ben Fuller)	Director
Ash Atalla	Producer
Derrin Schlesinger	Producer
Paul Machliss	Editor
Dennis De Groot	Production Designer
Neil Hannon	Composer

Press

The IT Crowd is a new sitcom. Only last month, the sitcom was pronounced dead, which would dishearten many. It is engagingly old-fashioned. You hardly expected that. It is neither shakey nor surreal. There is a studio set and a studio audience.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 4th February 2006

The IT Crowd is the new Graham Father Ted, Black Books Linehan sitcom, and therefore of major importance to anyone who habitually throws themselves on the sofa and sighs, "Ah, I love telly". The ludicrously talented Richard Ayoade finally gets a lead role, Chris Morris returns as a wholly satisfying parody of manhood, and the whole thing seems comfortably bedded in within 15 minutes. All in all, no reason to lose faith in humanity just yet.

Caitlin Moran, The Times, 28th January 2006

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