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Curry and Chips

1969 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · ITV1

Comedy

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Curry and Chips is a British sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network. Set on a factory floor of 'Lillicrap Ltd', it starred a blacked up Spike Milligan as an Asian immigrant who went by the name of Kevin O'Grady. It also featured Eric Sykes as the foreman, Norman Rossington as the shop steward, and other regulars were Kenny Lynch, and Sam Kydd. The series was written by Till Death Us Do Part writer Johnny Speight, but based on idea by Milligan. It was the first LWT sitcom to be made in colour, and all episodes still exist.

Episodes

  • S01E01Episode 11969-11-2130m

    When Arthur Blenkinsop (Eric Sykes), foreman at Lillicrap Ltd., gives a job to the half-Irish, half-Pakistani Kevin O'Grady (Spike Milligan), the existing workforce don't take kindly to a new "wog" in their midst.

  • S01E02Episode 21969-11-2830m

    When all he wants to do is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, Kevin has trouble understanding the work-shy and heavily union-based ethics of his colleagues.

  • S01E03Episode 31969-12-0530m

    Upon winning £250,000 in the football pools, Kevin suddenly finds that he has far more friends than he ever realized. His landlady cooks him a special meal, and the landlord stands a round of drinks at the local.

  • S01E04Episode 41969-12-1230m

    On his way to holy confession in case he gets killed at a football match, Kevin walks into the middle of a race riot and gets walloped and arrested. When Young Dick finds out that Kevin has doubled his chance of getting to heaven by being both Catholic and Muslim, he is ever so slightly appalled.

  • S01E05Episode 51969-12-1930m

    Among those giving O'Grady trouble is Kenny; he has always thought of himself as 'one of the lads', but since O'Grady's arrival, the black Cockney workman finds himself now firmly placed on the 'immigrant' side.

  • S01E06Episode 6 (1969 Christmas Special)1969-12-2630m

    Redecorating the office for Cristmas, Smelly laments the impending lack of a Queen's Speech on the television that year. The Shop Steward is quick to denounce Christmas as a capitalist racket, but Kevin puts him straight.

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