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The Riff Raff Element

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Genre
  
Drama

Directed by
  
Jeremy Ancock

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
2 April 1993

Network
  
BBC One

Number of episodes
  
12

8.6/10
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Written by
  
Debbie Horsfield

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of series
  
2

Final episode date
  
24 May 1994

Number of seasons
  
1


Cast
  
Celia Imrie, Greg Wise, Ronald Pickup

Similar
  
Tales from Pleasure Beach, I - Lovett, Wood and Walters, Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore, Manhunt: The Search for the Yo

The Riff Raff Element was a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC1. The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.

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Plot

The basic plot was "the Tundishes, down-at-heel southern aristocrats, are compelled to live cheek-by-jowl with the vulgar Belchers from Salford" so simultaneously drawing on the English north-south divide and class divide.

Cast

The Belchers

  • Trevor Peacock — Acky Belcher
  • Susan Brown — Maggie Belcher
  • Mossie Smith — Petula Belcher
  • Jayne Ashbourne — Carmen
  • Cal MacAninch — Declan

    • The Tundishes

  • Ronald Pickup — Roger Tundish
  • Pippa Guard — Phoenix
  • Richard Hope — Mortimer Tundish
  • Celia Imrie — Joanna Tundish
  • Nicholas Farrell — Boyd Tundish
  • Stewart Pile — Oliver Tundish
  • Stewart Bewley — Oliver Tundish
  • Ashley Wright — Nathan Tundish

    • Others

  • Lionel Guyett — Father Casper
  • Dicken Ashworth — Nelson
  • Kate Binchy — Dearbhla
  • Brenda Bruce — Granny Grogan
  • George Costigan — Vincent
  • Greg Wise — Alister

    • References

    The Riff Raff Element Wikipedia
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