Fiddlers Three (TV series)

Fiddlers Three is a British sitcom series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV which ran for 14 episodes from 19 February to 21 May 1991. Written by Eric Chappell and directed by Graham Wetherell, it stars Peter Davison as Ralph West, Paula Wilcox as Ros West, Charles Kay as J.J. Morley, Peter Blake as Harvey, Tyler Butterworth as Osborne and Cindy Marshall-Day as Norma.

Fiddlers Three
GenreSitcom
Written byEric Chappell
Directed byGraham Wetherell
StarringPeter Davison
Paula Wilcox
Charles Kay
Peter Blake
Tyler Butterworth
Cindy Marshall-Day
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes14 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerVernon Lawrence
ProducerGraham Wetherell
Running time30 minutes
(including adverts)
Production companyYorkshire Television
Original release
NetworkITV
Release19 February (1991-02-19) –
21 May 1991 (1991-05-21)

The sitcom is about office politics in an accounts department in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.[1]

It is a remake of Chappell's earliest sitcom, The Squirrels, broadcast from 1974 to 1977, excluding the scripts written by other writers.[2]

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Episodes edit

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"The Scapegoat"19 February 1991 (1991-02-19)
2"Norma Dove"26 February 1991 (1991-02-26)
3"The Dark Horse"5 March 1991 (1991-03-05)
4"The Whiz Kid"12 March 1991 (1991-03-12)
5"The Velvet Glove"19 March 1991 (1991-03-19)
6"Detective Story"26 March 1991 (1991-03-26)
7"Time Out"2 April 1991 (1991-04-02)
8"The Secret File"9 April 1991 (1991-04-09)
9"The Man Most Likely To"16 April 1991 (1991-04-16)
10"We Don't Want to Lose You: Part 1"23 April 1991 (1991-04-23)
11"We Don't Want to Lose You: Part 2"30 April 1991 (1991-04-30)
12"The Fiddle"7 May 1991 (1991-05-07)
13"Undue Influence"14 May 1991 (1991-05-14)
14"Cut and Dried"21 May 1991 (1991-05-21)

References edit

  1. ^ "BBC - Comedy Guide - Fiddlers Three". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ Hewett, Richard (2003–14). "Chappell, Eric (1933-)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

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