
The Rag Trade (1961)
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Esma Cannon as
Episodes 58
Getting Married
Paddy promises Carole the girls will be able to make her a wedding dress with material left over from an order for Arcadia Gowns.
Read MoreEarly Start
Fenner installs a time clock to help gain a contract with chain store Parks & Spicer and the resultant docking of wages leaves the girls with no money to bet on a sure thing at the races.
Read MoreThe French Fashions
Fenner arranges for Carole to model a pair of slacks at the Ritz Plaza to help secure an American order.
Read MoreThe Sample
Paddy allows Carole to wear a sample dress to lunch with her sailor boyfriend and a resultant mishap jeopardizes a 3:30 viewing by a prospective buyer.
Read MoreUnhappy Customer
Fenner is determined to enforce a ban on eating in the workroom when an angry customer returns items of food in his garments.
Read MoreSeries 1, Episode 7
(Lost Episode) Fenner Fashions has been awarded a contract to supply Wren uniforms to the Admiralty by inadvertently tendering bankruptingly low prices so the girls have to show their workmanship is shoddy to save the situation.
Read MoreDoctor's Orders
Fenner is laid low with a heavy cold at the very moment he has to produce a gown which is to be worn on television by an international singing star and lead to numerous orders.
Read MoreThe Italian Designer
(Lost Episode) The arrival of Roberto, an Italian beachwear designer, causes strained relations among the girls in the workroom.
Read MoreChristmas Box
To make a bit of pocket money for the Festive season, Paddy and the girls produce 300 golliwog dolls, unbeknownst to Fenner.
Read MoreLily's Dog
Lily's puppy Dinky is feeling poorly so she brings him into the factory.
Read MorePainting Fenner's Flat
Fenner gives Reg the keys to his flat so that he can paint the walls. Paddy holds her birthday party there. Fenner returns unexpectedly and so does his battle-axe of a mother-in-law.
Read MoreSeries 2, Episode 5
(Lost Episode) Carole and Paddy take the day off, but find themselves in hot water when Mr. Fenner returns unexpectedly.
Read MoreThe Client
Fenner makes a time and motion study of the girls, but loses money on the deal. His potential buyer for the dresses is a gourmand, so he tries to get Reg and the girls to provide a slap-up meal in his office.
Read MoreStay-In Strike
A stuck-up new secretary takes Carole's job of modelling causing Paddy to take industrial action.
Read MoreThe Fish and Chip Shop
(Lost Episode) Paddy and Reg take over the running of a fish and chip shop.
Read MoreSafety Precaution
Paddy calls frequent stoppages for fire drills. Reg has to impersonate a French designer and romance a female buyer.
Read MoreStainproofer
Chaos results at Fenner's Fashions when bleach is exchanged for stain proofing.
Read MoreBarber's Shop
Paddy adds laundry service to Fenner's Fashions to earn some extra money.
Read MoreThe Bank Manager
Fenner tries to persuade his bank manager that Fenner's Fashions is a good investment. He cannot sell a batch of baby doll nighties, but the girls sew fringes on them and they sell as flapper dresses.
Read MoreThe Australian
(Lost Episode) Fenner and Paddy try to find Reg a woman
Read MoreSeries 3, Episode 3
(Lost Episode) Fenners hires Reg's mother as his new assistant
Read MoreSeries 3, Episode 4
(Lost Episode)
Read MoreBaby Dolls
(Lost Episode) Fenner becomes obsessed with horse racing
Read MoreMistaken Tax
(Lost Episode) Reg's lies over his tax forms come back to haunt him
Read MoreAfter The Ball
(Lost Episode) Fenner has to pretend Judy is his daughter when they go to represent Fenners Fashion at a ball
Read MoreThe Budgie
(Lost Episode)
Read MoreSeries 3, Episode 9
(Lost Episode)
Read MoreThe Italian Girl
(Lost Episode) Judy accuses Reg of having an affair
Read MoreBabysitters Unlimited
(Lost Episode) Fenner finds himself in debt with only the girls to help him
Read MoreNational Productivity Year
(Lost Episode) Paddy's job is on the line when another strike attempt sadly backfires
Read MoreThe Engagement Ring
(Lost Episode) Reg and Judy's engagement party is ruined when the engagement ring is stolen
Read MoreStay In Strike
Fenner entertains a German client who's keen to see the workforce. Unfortunately, it's before nine o'clock and the workers aren't working. To ensure the staff arrive on time, a clocking-in machine is installed which leads to a strike.
Read MoreThe Sample
The girls have produced an exclusive Italian sample dress for a potential buyer. Unfortunately, when the buyer arrives to see it, Kathy is wearing it out on a date.
Read MoreFixing the Rate
Fenner has a problem - a rising wage bill and falling production. To improve the situation, he sets up a time and motions study. The girls of course throw a spanner in the works.
Read MoreThe Lunch Problem
The local diner has put its prices up, leaving the girls out of pocket. They are outraged when Fenner refuses to give them a special subsidy, so they take special measures to dine in luxury at the factory.
Read MoreThe Export Order
Fenner is ecstatic to land an order from the US. Knowing the American market is demanding, he insists on perfection. Unfortunately the girls spend the afternoon celebrating Kathy's birthday.
Read MoreThe Italian Line
Mr. Fenner brings in an Italian designer to help with the smooth running of the factory. Paddy is instantly opposed, until she meets the Italian heart-throb.
Read MoreOlive's Baby
After a row with her old man, Olive has no choice but to bring her baby into work. Terrified that Fenner will disapprove, she tries her best to hide him.
Read MoreThe Wedding Dress
Kathy announces that she's marrying Big Jim who works on an oil rig. To save her expense, the girls agree to make her a wedding dress from stock fabric. Unfortunately, Mrs. Fenner is helping to stock-take.
Read MoreThe Sideline
Fenner has picked up an order for a line of fur coats. When Olive makes a panda toy with some of the waste, Paddy spots an opportunity to sell her new boyfriend, Roger, a batch of soft toys.
Read MoreThe Guvnor's Wife
When Kathy and Paddy tape down the button which switches the intercom on, Mrs. Fenner hears some home truths from her husband who is talking with the girls in the work room.
Read MoreThe New Girl
Mr. Fenner realises that during his absence, production plummets. To counter this, he hires stuck-up June to supervise. The girls hatch a plan to get rid of the stuck-up overseer.
Read MoreThe Accident
When Kathy falls off a chair in the restroom while trying on a dress, Paddy tries to get her compensation by rigging up an accident in the workroom.
Read MoreThe New Brother
Skilled seamstress Shana Ahmed is employed to complete the hand embroidery on a new line. Her husband objects to her working there and is worried that she'll pick up bad habits.
Read MoreChristmas Rush
Production always slows down as Christmas nears and one dress gets destroyed as the clock reaches 5pm. Will anyone stay behind and help Mr. Fenner?
Read MoreThe Annual Ball
The girls are busy getting an order ready for Glamour Gowns, but once again their work is interrupted by Mrs Fenner, who wants her dress altered, unfortunately it vanishes.
Read MoreThe Leather Line
Fenner has an order, a design and the stock for a range of leather garments, unfortunately Paddy and the girls feel that it is work they should not be carrying out, claiming that leather work is a specific skill.
Read MoreA Bad Patch
Things go from bad to worse for Fenner, not a single order comes through, to keep busy, the girls offer to decorate the restroom, for £30 a head.
Read MoreCome Back Paddy
Fenner is close to landing a large order, but he's up against Roger Jackson's rival factory. Chances of the order seem slim when Jackson offers Paddy a job at his factory.
Read MoreSelf Defence
The girls are terrified by the number of attacks in the area, and threaten industrial action, unless Fenner pays for them to have lessons in self defence.
Read MoreFenner's Folly
Fenner's in a flap over a sample cocktail dress, and even agrees to an extortionate rate from Paddy, the reason, Miss Butler of The Chelsea Boutique.
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