Dinnerladies

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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.

All Seasons

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Season 11998

8.071562h 52m

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Season 21999

8.3983105h 1m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Victoria Wood Brenda Furlong

Thelma Barlow Dolly Bellfield

Andrew Dunn Tony Martin

Shobna Gulati Anita

Celia Imrie Philippa Moorcroft

Maxine Peake Twinkle

Duncan Preston Stan Meadowcroft

Anne Reid Jean

Sue Devaney Jane

Julie Walters Petula Gordeno

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