Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width - ITV1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
Genre
Broadcast
Channel
Episodes
40 (1 pilot + 6 series), plus 1 short special
Stars
John Bluthal, Joe Lynch, Bernard Spear, Cyril Shaps and Eamonn Kelly
Writers
Directors
Alan Tarrant, Stuart Allen and Ronnie Baxter
Producers
Ronnie Baxter, Stuart Allen and Alan Tarrant
Companies
Two tailors of differing religious and political views manage to run a tailoring business in London's Whitechapel.
In the early 1950s, English Jew Manny Cohen - "the finest coat maker in the country" - set up shop in an East End back street, and employed staunch Irish Catholic Patrick Kelly - "trouser maker to the gentry" - to complement his work and produce suits.
Almost twenty years later, the two men thoroughly respect each other as tailors but are utterly incapable of understanding the other's religious and patriotic beliefs, and are constantly at each others' throats. Each considers the other a heathen, and neither Rabbi Levy nor Father Ryan can begin to bring them closer together. Nevertheless, there's an underlying love between the pair - if they can get over their bickering!
Additional details
Also known as
- Armchair Theatre: Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width (Pilot.)
- Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width
Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Black and white / Colour
Website links
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Saturday 18th February 1967 at 10:30pm on ITV1