The Rotters' Club

Season 1

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Coe about three friends growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s.

Where to Watch Season 1

3 Episodes

  • The Chick and the Hairy Guy
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    The Chick and the Hairy GuyIt's 1974, and fifteen-year-olds Ben, Doug and Philip are best mates at a Birmingham grammar school King William's. Ben's older sister Lois isn't much luckier in love, resorting to arranging a date through the personal ads. Her date is a guitarist and self-professed 'Hairy Guy'.For the parents, life is more complicated. Ben's father Colin has no romantic problems but plenty of work worries - he's middle management at the strife-ridden Longbridge car factory, where Doug's father Bill is shop steward and an active Union man. Meanwhile, clandestine love is in the air with Bill playing away from home with Miriam, a colleague, and Philip's mum Barbara being pursued by the charming Nigel Plumb, Philip's art teacher.... But will Barbara succumb to Plumb and risk her marriage to Sam? For Lois, life has got better and better. She's fallen for Malcolm and he's equally smitten. But his proposal of marriage ends in tragedy when the couple are caught up in the IRA bomb in a pub in Birmingham city c
  • The Maws of Doom
    E2
    The Maws of Doom
  • Look Over Your Shoulder
    E3
    Look Over Your Shoulder

Cast of Season 1

  • Geoffrey BretonBen Trotter
  • Kevin DoyleColin Trotter
  • Rebecca FrontSheila Trotter
  • Alice O'ConnellLois Trotter
  • Alice EveCicely Boyd
  • Rafe SpallSean Harding
  • Elizabeth BerringtonIrene Anderton
  • Hugo SpeerBill Anderton
  • Julian Rhind-TuttNigel Plumb
  • Mark WilliamsSam Williams
  • Nicholas ShawDoug Anderton
  • Rasmus HardikerPhilip Chase
  • Sarah LancashireBarbara Chase
  • Christine Tremarco
  • Peter BankoléSteve Richards
  • Tony Haygarth
  • Henry Lloyd-Hughes
  • Olivia Poulet
  • Cara HorganClaire Newman
  • Roderick SmithDonald Newman
  • Sebastian HardingPaul Trotter
  • Tony SmithDirector
  • Dick ClementWriter
  • Ian La FrenaisWriter
  • Chrissy SkinnsProducer

 

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