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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 2, Episode 4 - A Punting We Will Go
Charlie is on a losing streak with the horses, so when he gets a job as a cleaner at a betting shop he thinks it may turn his luck ...
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 23rd October 1965
- Time
- 8:25pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 35 minutes
Cast & crew
Charlie Drake | Charles Drake |
Henry McGee | Mr Pugh |
Eddie Byrne | Odds clerk |
Glyn Houston | Fred Higgs |
Peter Hager | Counter clerk |
Jean Marlow | Mrs Higgs |
Barry Lowe | Pools man |
Charlie Drake | Writer |
Lew Schwarz (as Lewis Schwarz) | Writer |
Shaun O'Riordan | Director |
Alan Tarrant | Producer |
Brian Bartholomew | Production Designer |