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Joe and Ethel suffer a money headache on the works outing. Popular 50s sitcom with Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. From August 1954.

With the factory outing looming, Joe and Ethel Huggett find themselves in a mess over money.

Starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison.

The popular working-class Huggett family first hit the cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and 1949.

This subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to 1962.

Selection of surviving episodes in the BBC Archive.

Written by Eddie Maguire.

Joe ...... Jack Warner
Ethel ...... Kathleen Harrison
Jane ...... Vera Day
Bobby ...... Anthony Green
Fred Stebbings ...... Charles Leno
Mrs Stebbings ...... Beatrice Varley
Mr Campbell ...... Kenneth Connor

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1954.

30 minutes

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