The Worker - The Complete Series

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With a career spanning well over fifty years, Charlie Drake will always be one of the nation's favourite comedians and, without a doubt, his crowning glory (or should that be clowning glory) is The Worker. The Worker stars Charlie Drake as Charlie - a per

With a career spanning well over fifty years, Charlie Drake will always be one of the nation's favourite comedians and, without a doubt, his crowning glory (or should that be clowning glory) is The Worker. The Worker stars Charlie Drake as Charlie - a persistently unemployable labourer. It's not that he doesn't like working, it's just that he's no good at it - a fact which consistently raises the hackles (and blood pressure) a Labour Exchange clerk Mr. Pugh (Henry McGee)! With each episode a guaranteed excuse for Charlie's much-loved inventive slapstick, The Worker is a comic gem of a show and this set contains all four ATV series plus what remains of the mini-episodes that formed part of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night in 1978.Disc One - Series One.The Machinery of Organisation. Out of The Mouths of Casual Labourers. The Mechanics of Piecework.No Automation Without Representation. A Democratic Democratism. And Never The Twine Shall Meet.Disc Two - Series Two.A Host Of Golden Labourers. Eight And Thruppence. Little Tom. A-Punting We Will Go. Through A Glass Darkly.The Man Who Moved His Head. I Just Don't Want To Get Involved.Disc Three - Series Three.Hallo Cobbler. You Have Enjoyed The Sweets, Now You Must Suffer The Sours. The Siege of Kidney Street.Now Is The Time For All Left Legs. When Adam Delved And Eve Span.Disc Four - Series Four.A Change Is As Good As A Rest. Breed In For Speed, Breed Out For Stamina. Cough. The Saucerer's Apprentice.Ma Chandelle Est Mort. I Babble, Babble As I Flow To Join The Brimming River.No Room At The Inn For The Odd Couple Up The Staircase., With a career spanning well over fifty years, Charlie Drake will always be one of the nation's favourite comedians and, without a doubt, his crowning glory (or should that be clowning glory) is The Worker. The Worker stars Charlie Drake as Charlie - a persistently unemployable labourer. It's not that he doesn't like working, it's just that he's no good at it - a fact which consistently raises the hackles (and blood pressure) a Labour Exchange clerk Mr. Pugh (Henry McGee)! With each episode a guaranteed excuse for Charlie's much-loved inventive slapstick, The Worker is a comic gem of a show and this set contains all four ATV series plus what remains of the mini-episodes that formed part of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night in 1978.Disc One - Series One.The Machinery of Organisation. Out of The Mouths of Casual Labourers. The Mechanics of Piecework.No Automation Without Representation. A Democratic Democratism. And Never The Twine Shall Meet.Disc Two - Series Two.A Host Of Golden Labourers. Eight And Thruppence. Little Tom. A-Punting We Will Go. Through A Glass Darkly.The Man Who Moved His Head. I Just Don't Want To Get Involved.Disc Three - Series Three.Hallo Cobbler. You Have Enjoyed The Sweets, Now You Must Suffer The Sours. The Siege of Kidney Street.Now Is The Time For All Left Legs. When Adam Delved And Eve Span.Disc Four - Series Four.A Change Is As Good As A Rest. Breed In For Speed, Breed Out For Stamina. Cough. The Saucerer's Apprentice.Ma Chandelle Est Mort. I Babble, Babble As I Flow To Join The Brimming River.No Room At The Inn For The Odd Couple Up The Staircase.Special Features:Disc Five:Hallo Cobbler.Image Gallery.Pre-Broadcast Colour Version.The Worker on Bruce's Big Night - the remaining shows.

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