dinnerladies

Synopsis

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

First aired

12 Nov 1998

Created by

Victoria Wood

Runtime

30 min / episode · 2 seasons

Cast

Maxine Peake

Twinkle

Thelma Barlow

Dolly Bellfield

Anne Reid

Jean

Shobna Gulati

Anita

Duncan Preston

Stan Meadowcroft

Victoria Wood

Brenda

Celia Imrie

Philippa Moorcroft

Andrew Dunn

Tony Martin