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The Rag Trade is a true British comedy classic which attracted enormous audiences when first broadcast in 1961. Widely praised not just for its hilarious script and energetic performances, but for its ground-breaking strong female characters. And its iconic catchphrase Everybody out! has earned its place in TV comedy history. Penny-pinching Harold Fenner (Peter Jones) runs Fenner Fashions, a small clothing workshop in London that makes high quality clothing, where nothing ever runs smoothly. Work life is constantly disrupted by the shop's militant steward Paddy Fleming (Miriam Karlin), who leads the female workforce. Paddy is after any excuse to take on Fenner and lead the women out on strike yelling Everybody out! Amongst the long-suffering workforce are Carole (Sheila Hancock), Little Lil (Esma Cannon), Shirley (Wanda Ventham) and Gloria (Barbara Windsor). And stuck in the middle of the whole situation is poor downtrodden foreman Reg (Reg Varney), trying to keep everyone happy and failing miserably! (Simply Media)
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Peter Jones
UK
Best series:
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969) (series)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) (series) - narrator
The Avengers (1961) (series)
Sheila Hancock
UK
Best series:
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Wanda Ventham
UK
Best series:
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All Creatures Great and Small (1978) (series)
Only Fools and Horses.... (1981) (series)
Betty Huntley-Wright
UK
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Jack Smethurst
UK
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The Bill (1984) (series)
Heartbeat (1992) (series)
Gwendolyn Watts
UK
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The Benny Hill Show (1969) (series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (series)
Esma Cannon
Australia
Beryl Nesbitt
Best series:
Hale and Pace (1988) (series)
Blakes 7 (1978) (series)
The Day of the Triffids (1981) (series)
Judith Furse
UK
Judy Carne
UK
Best series:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) (series)
I Dream of Jeannie (1965) (series)
Bonanza (1959) (series)
Barbara Windsor
UK
Best series:
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
Dad's Army (1968) (series)
One Foot in the Grave (1990) (series)
Jeremy Lloyd
UK
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'Allo 'Allo! (1982) (series)
The Avengers (1961) (series)
Lynda Baron
UK
Best series:
Rome (2005) (series)
Doctor Who (2005) (series)
Doctor Who (1963) (series)
Irene Handl
UK
Frank Thornton
UK
Best series:
Benny Hill (1962) (series)
Are You Being Served? (1972) (series)
The Avengers (1961) (series)
Miriam Karlin
UK
Best series:
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
The Bill (1984) (series)
Willoughby Goddard
UK
Best series:
Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979) (series)
Blackadder (1983) (series)
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1986) (series)
Reg Varney
UK
Ann Beach
UK
Best series:
Only When I Laugh (1979) (series)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Barbara Keogh
UK
Best series:
Mind Your Language (1977) (series)
Big Train (1998) (series)
Little Britain (2003) (series)