Comedy series set on a seaside town building site during the booming but restrictive post-war 1950s.
Series 1
Episodes
Transport of Delight
Demobbed Old Ned heads south after the war and joins a special construction team.
The French Connection
The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins hurl insults - and then onions.
On the Line
Perkins can't get a site phone, so his workmates get him a handset and more besides.
Up the Pole
When Perkins befriends the Carnival Queen, the workmates plot a little sabotage.
Boning Up on History
Perkins wants to dig for post-war Britain, but the workmates decide to soil his plans.
The Old Dunkirk Spirit
Perkins has no materials to rebuild post-war Britain, which well suits the workmates.
Cast
Norman Rossington as 'Big Jim'Roland Curram as 'Harold Perkins'Harold Goodwin as 'Old Ned'David John as 'Nimrod'David Beckett as 'Chick'Sylvester McCoy as 'Turps'Douglas Blackwell as 'The Farmer'Karen Ascoe as 'The Farmer’s Daughter'Bernard Cribbins as 'Storyteller'