The Worker. Charlie (Charlie Drake)
The Worker
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1965 - 1978
- 36 episodes (5 series)
Charlie Drake is The Worker, a man who has had 980 jobs in 20 years - most of them for one day! He is unemployable but that doesn't stop him trying. Also features Percy Herbert and Henry McGee.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - The Mechanics Of Peacework
An international incident is narrowly averted when Charlie turns up to see Mr Whittaker in a tight gold lame trousers - to keep him out of mischief he is put on piecework.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 13th March 1965
- Time
- 8:25pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 35 minutes
Cast & crew
| Charlie Drake | Charles Drake |
| Percy Herbert | Mr Whittaker |
| Oliver Johnston | Mr Simnel |
| Jane Eccles | Miss Wokingham |
| Arthur Hewlett | Mr Wiggins |
| Erik Chitty | Mr Corby |
| Peter Hughes | Mr Engles |
| Bernard Severn | Workman |
| Charlie Drake | Writer |
| Lew Schwarz (as Lewis Schwarz) | Writer |
| Shaun O'Riordan | Director |
| Alan Tarrant | Producer |
| Brian Bartholomew | Production Designer |