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.


dinnerladies (1998)
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Maxine Peake
Twinkle (16 episodes)

Thelma Barlow
Dolly Bellfield (16 episodes)

Anne Reid
Jean (16 episodes)

Shobna Gulati
Anita (16 episodes)

Duncan Preston
Stan Meadowcroft (16 episodes)

Victoria Wood
Brenda (16 episodes)

Celia Imrie
Philippa Moorcroft (16 episodes)

Andrew Dunn
Tony Martin (16 episodes)

Sue Devaney
Jane (7 episodes)Secretary (3 episodes)
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