The Rag Trade was a popular early 60's comedy that was revived for another run in late 70's redoing many of the original episodes. Someone has found a tape of an unaired pilot shot in 1975 for the revival and I have added it to Disc 2. Very interesting. Peter Jones is still there as Mr. Fenner but the role of shop foreman (originally played by Reg Varney and later by Christopher Beeny in the revived version) is played by Tony Robinson (of BlackAdder and Time Team fame) and it's pretty much a different crew of ladies on the shop floor, including a shop steward played by Gaye Brown (played by Miriam Karlin in both series). The original version is a true comedy classic. Unfortunately, only about half the episodes survive. Now......everybody out!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rag_Trade
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