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Series 1 - Episode 1 - Monday A typical Monday in the canteen. Jean is frantically preparing for her daughter's wedding — though she needn't bother, as we learn at the end that her daughter has had an attack of nerves at the prospect of a glitzy wedding and has already tied the knot. Bren and Dolly discuss the weekend's television offerings in great detail. Twinkle arrives late again. New Human Resources manageress Phillippa Moorcroft tries to rope everyone in to a group Scottish country dancing session, without much success. And Tony tries to keep everyone focused on actually making some food.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 1 - Episode 2 - Royals The dinner ladies are very excited about an impending royal visit, though they aren't impressed to find out that they've been allocated His Royal Highness Prince James, The Duke of Danby, as they've never heard of him, with the exception of Stan who had met him 30-odd years before at Catterick Garrison army base. There are lots of rehearsals to ensure everything goes smoothly but of course things go anything but. Twinkle finds she's unable to string a sentence together because of nerves, while Anita's (Shobna Gulati) mouth runs away with her on the topic of nipples. Dolly and Jean compete with each other to perform the best curtsy, and Bren receives a most unexpected proposition from the Duke...    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 1 - Episode 3 - Scandal Bren is horrified when her flatulent mother Petula moves into the factory car park with her 16-year-old fiancé Clint (Kenny Doughty). Shelagh, Clint's mother, is also less than happy about the arrangements and forms a picket line around the factory, with the national press in attendance. As the factory deliverymen gradually stop visiting for fear of the mob outside, Anita unexpectedly has the good idea of an impromptu Oprah Winfrey-style talk show to sort the matter out with the help of local "Northern Roundup" news journalist, Carmel (Lynda Baron). Meanwhile, a TV researcher visits the canteen to assess whether the dinner ladies would make good docu-soap material.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 1 - Episode 4 - Moods Tony and Bren arrive early to the canteen in much better moods than usual. Unfortunately, everyone else is in a bad temper. Stan's had trouble with his father, Dolly and Jean bicker continuously, Anita is convinced her new haircut makes her look like Fatima Whitbread (and isn't happy about it) and Twinkle thinks she's pregnant. Phillippa suggests having a "Bring Your Mother To Work" day to cheer everyone up, though sarcastic Enid (Dolly's mother) and nymphomaniac Connie (Jean's mother) do little to raise the workers' spirits. And that's before Bren's mother has even arrived...    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 1 - Episode 5 - Party A merger with a Japanese company means that the factory's Christmas Party has an Oriental theme to it. Tony and Bren plan to attend as a couple but Petula throws a spanner in the works by inviting herself along as Bren's dinner partner. Anita gets very drunk at the party and makes a fool of herself, while Twinkle and her friend Tiffany are unimpressed by the older workers' dancing. Petula flings herself at every man in sight, including Jean's husband Keith. Bren and Tony try to salvage what was meant to be their night together, but first they have to fend off the respective advances of Stan and Jean — can they finally get together?    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 1 - Episode 6 - Nightshift An unexpected order comes in, prompting the factory manager to ask all the staff, including the dinnerladies, to work a 24-hour shift. With Tony off work having chemotherapy for his cancer, obnoxious temporary manager Nicola Bodeux ("B-O-D-E-U-X") gives the staff a hard time, resulting in Dolly, Jean, Anita and Twinkle walking out. Realising her constant failure to connect with people, Nicola herself then resigns and decides to become a lighthouse keeper. Bren prepares for the impossible task of manning the canteen single-handedly all night — will anyone come back to help her out?    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 1 - Catering Gormless work experience girl Sigourney (Joanne Froggatt) has trouble finding the canteen — in fact, she has trouble doing almost anything! When the decorators arrive a day early they cause a lot of trouble by accidentally trapping Glenda, the bread lady with the bladder trouble, behind a fifteen-foot ladder. It's then a race against time to free her before she has an accident of her own. Meanwhile, the dinner ladies debate the possibility of conceiving a baby in the queue at Homebase. Near the end of the program, 'Jayne from Planning' arrives and suggests Glenda 'wets herself, it's easier', Dolly suggests a game they should play and the episode ends with blindfolded Jayne being hit over the head with a tin tray whilst listening to belly-dancing music.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 2 - Trouble It may be the first day of summer, but there's trouble afoot at the factory after Jean's philandering husband Keith leaves her for his dental hygienist, Bronwen, prompting Jean to pick fights with everyone. Meanwhile, an anonymous bunch of flowers sent to Bren provokes rumours of a secret lover (in fact they're from Stan as a thank-you for helping his father when he was ill), and Anita's continual stories about new boyfriend Pedr bore the others almost to tears. Tony invites Bren on holiday with him and some friends. Bren's elderly mother claims to be pregnant (by Leonardo DiCaprio)!    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 3 - Holidays Everyone's very excited about their holidays — Bren and Tony are going to Marbella and Dolly's going on a luxury cruise. Petula's caravan blows up, prompting her to ask Bren for her holiday money to fix it up. Although her workmates tell her she should keep the money and tell selfish Petula she'll have to find the cash elsewhere, the death of Stan's father, and his subsequent wish that he could have the chance back to do good deeds for his dad, Bren decides to let Petula have the money. Meanwhile, Dolly and Anita discuss breast implants and biryanis. Jean did not appear in this episode as she was staying with her sister to get over depression.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 4 - Fog The dinner ladies are dismayed to hear that the November fog has allowed a convicted murderer to escape from Strangeways prison just a few miles away. The National Blood Service comes to encourage people to donate — Bren's secret fear of needles means she feels faint whenever they are mentioned, causing her colleagues to speculate that she might be pregnant. Jean harps on about her handsome new boyfriend but when he arrives to pick her up, Phillippa panics and calls the police, thinking he is the escaped convict. In the confusion, the real fugitive manages to escape again — he was in fact disguised as one of the nurses taking blood, explaining why she seemed so inept when receiving Dolly's donation. Phillippa tries to pluck up courage to leave Mr Michael and is furious when he dumps her just before she gets round to it.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 5 - Gamble Tony and Bren's developing relationship is the subject of a bet between the dinner ladies and the Planning Department — if they get together before Christmas the canteen staff win fifty pounds. They cause controversy when they turn up late together the next day, though in fact this is due to a late-night hospital appointment for Tony. Meanwhile, Phillippa looks forward to having sex at Christmas for the first time, Dolly searches for novelty hot-water bottles and Anita's awful taste in Christmas presents appalls the rest of the team. When Tony and Bren finally have their first kiss a most unexpected visitor (Bren's husband, Martin)arrives to really kill the mood!     Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Series 2 - Episode 6 - Christmas After revealing that she was married (but separated) at the end of the previous episode, Bren begins to doubt her relationship with Tony, and his secretive actions throughout this episode eventually make her decide to dump Tony and resign from the canteen. However, just as she is about to tell him this, he reveals a huge surprise birthday party for her (Christmas Eve is Bren's birthday), and the pair fly up to Scotland to spend Christmas with friends of Tony's. The other caterers also receive presents out of their Bran Tub (Stan receives two cheap watches, Tony is given bacon by Twinkle and Twinkle receives a china horse from Dolly which was given to her by Jean previously). Meanwhile Phillippa has a crush on a co-worker and Anita mysteriously leaves before the party with a mumbled excuse...     Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Series 2 - Episode 7 - Minnellium Phillippa is organising the company's "no-expense-spared, once-in-a-lifetime" Millennium Meal, but riots in the city centre and the closure of the fly-over prevent her from attending herself. Jean's estranged husband arrives and seems to want a reconciliation, but it turns out all he wants is the wallpaper table. Jean later goes home with Stan. Tony and Bren are trying to settle into their relationship, but the shock discovery of a baby on the fire escape leaves Bren feeling miserable, particularly when she discovers an anonymous note asking her to look after the child. The dinner ladies discuss who the mother could be and eventually decide Twinkle is most likely. Just before midnight, however, Anita returns to the canteen in tears to reclaim her son.     Play all 4 videos Play all(4)
Series 2 - Episode 8 - Christine With Anita away on maternity leave, new girl Christine (Kay Adshead) joins the team. Whilst Dolly is very taken with her, Christine's back-handed compliments and outright insults, combined with her dreadful personal hygiene and flatulence problem, leave her very unpopular with the others. Twinkle manages to score the impotent Tony some Viagra, but Christine mistakes the tablets for Dolly's sweeteners and puts them in her teacup. Horrified and (somewhat irrationally) fearing for her life ('It'll bounce back and head straight for my heart wont it?! I'll die of a heart attack! It'll be like a Land Rover going top speed into a cul-de-sac!'), Dolly turns against Christine, who flees the canteen in tears and doesn't return. Meanwhile a social worker visits Bren to discuss Petula's living arrangements, Norman develops a fear of bread, and Stan worries about his sexual prowess as Jean pushes him to take their relationship to the next level.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 9 - Gravy All the staff are considering moving on in their lives. Tony and Bren consider moving to Scotland to run a Bed and Breakfast, while Twinkle applies to become a Lap dancer and Dolly makes plans to move to Mobberly. Even Phillippa announces that she's thinking of leaving the firm. A self clear system is introduced to the canteen that proves difficult to maintain. Petula meanwhile arrives in an ambulance and announces she has only has three weeks left to live. After admitting it to Phillippa Tony finally tells Bren he loves her. Tony and Bren start making financial calculations for their move to Scotland and quickly realise they don't have enough money. Shortly afterwards Bren discovers that she has been accepted as a contestant on a TV Trivia show, Totally Trivial with a top prize of £10,000, this comes as a bit of a shock as it was Jean who originally applied on Bren's behalf. On the show Bren gets through to the final round with her chosen topic of film and is invited to come back to play for the grand prize. The new uniforms arrive and are universally hated by the staff.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
Series 2 - Episode 10 - Toast Bren leaves the canteen for the Totally Trivial studios (after been given various drugs to get her to relax - Jean's old Prozac, Philippa's antidepressants, Anita's herbal medicine, Jane's gran's tranquilisers, Dolly's husband's tablets and Stan's cat powders!) and plans to stop at the hospital to visit her mother on the way. Stan waits all afternoon for his skip collection. The remaining staff tune in to watch Bren to find she does not appear at the studios. Bren shuffles through the door with a large rubbish bag and a video cassette and informs the staff that Petula died whilst she was visiting. They play her living will on the video player, whilst this is happening, Dolly throws the rubbish bag in the skip (which has still not been picked up). During the living will, Petula tells them that there is money in the rubbish bag, Dolly is horrified when Stan says that the skip lorry will already have been. Whilst they contemplate, Phillipa tells Bren the canteen will be closing and turned into office space. They then hear the skip lorry arrive and Stan realises his unreliable watch he received out of the bran tub told him the wrong time. They jump in the skip and retrieve the bag, which contains a newspaper clipping which, to Dolly's horror, says that the Rubber and Bondage scene in Mobberly is on the increase. Also in the bag is tens of thousands of pounds which Bren gives out to the rest of the gang.    Play all 3 videos Play all(3)
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