David Jason leads the all-star cast in comedy drama series A Bit of A Do, with each episode taking place at a different social function or ‘do’. Based in a fictional Yorkshire town, the show features Jason and Gwen Taylor as the working-class Simcocks who bump into their bitter rivals, the middle-class Rodenhursts, at the various bashes.
Add to the mix their gaggle of friends and there’s almost certainly the chance of one disaster or another amid the warm wine and vol-au-vents.
Writer David Nobbs is also the creator of the legendary Reginald Perrin.
production details
UK | ITV – Yorkshire | 13×50 minutes | Broadcast 13 January – 1 December 1989
Writer: David Nobbs
Producer: David Reynolds
Theme Music: Ray Russell
Executive Producer: Vernon Lawrence
cast
DAVID JASON as Ted Simcock
GWEN TAYLOR as Rita Simcock
DAVID THEWLIS as Paul Simcock
NICOLA PAGETT as Liz
MICHAEL JAYSTON as Neville Badger
STEPHANIE COLE as Betty Sillitoe
DIANA WESTON as Corinna Price-Rodgerson
SARAH JANE HOLM as Jenny
WAYNE FOSKETT as Elvis Simcock
TRACY BRABIN as Sandra
MALCOLM TIERNEY as Geoffrey Ellsworth-Smythe
