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The Rag Trade

The Rag Trade
Created byChesney and Wolfe
Starring
No. of series5
No. of episodes58 (16 missing)
Production
Producers
Running time30 minutes
Production companies
  • BBC (Series 1–3)
  • LWT (Series 4–5)
Original release
NetworkBBC
Release6 October 1961 (1961-10-06) –
30 March 1963 (1963-03-30)
NetworkITV
Release11 September 1977 (1977-09-11) –
20 October 1978 (1978-10-20)
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The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by ITV between 1977 and 1978.[1] Although a comedy, it shed light on gender, politics and the "class war" on the factory floor.[2][3]

The scripts were written by partners Chesney and Wolfe, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, Meet the Wife and On the Buses. Wild, Wild Women was a period variation of The Rag Trade.[4][5]

  1. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Rag Trade, The (1961-63)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  2. ^ The Rag Trade: ‘Everybody Out!’ Gender, Politics and Class on the Factory Floor by Mary Irwin, pp66-79, British TV Comedies, doi:10.1057/9781137552952_5
  3. ^ British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies, edited by Juergen Kamm and Birgit Neumann, 2016, ISBN 9781137552945
  4. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Wolfe, Ronald (1924-2011) and Chesney, Ronald (1920-) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  5. ^ Guide, British Comedy. "Wild, Wild Women - BBC1 Sitcom". British Comedy Guide.

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