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Big Jim And The Figaro Club

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Summary

The members of the Figaro Club work in the building trade in a seaside town in the 1950s.

The leader of the group, Big Jim (Norman Rossington), can usually be relied on to come up with some scheme or other to get one over on their arch-enemy, Clerk of Works Harold Perkins (Roland Curram).

Cast List

  Norman Rossington as Big Jim
  Bob Hoskins as Narrator
  David Beckett as Chick
  Roland Curram as Harold Perkins
  Sylveste McCoy as Turps
  Gordon Rollings as Old Ned
  David John as Nimrod
  Tony Robinson as Titch
  Priscilla Morgan as Glad
  Patrick Murray as College (Pilot)
  Helen Keating as Glad (Pilot)

Production Details

Written by:
Ted Walker

Directed by:
Colin Rose

Produced by:
Colin Rose

1 series, 6 episodes

Transmitted: 1979 (Pilot); 1981

BBC Television