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- Christopher Beeny played the smarmy van driver, who was always making advances toward long haired Gillian Taylforth (Cathy Beale, from Eastenders). While Anna Karen (Olive from another gem of a series On The Buses) played one of the skiving machinists.
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From 1977 to 1978, Karen reprised the role of Olive in the LWT revival of the sitcom The Rag Trade created by the same writers as On the Buses. The series depicted a group of female workers in a clothes factory; Karen appeared in all twenty two episodes. [ 19 ]
The 1977–78 version ran for two series, most of the scripts being based on the BBC episodes from the 1960s, and featured Anna Karen (reprising her role as Olive from On the Buses) and future EastEnders star Gillian Taylforth as factory workers.
The Rag Trade: Created by Ronald Chesney, Ronald Wolfe. With Diane Langton, Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny. Follows the humorous struggles of workers in a London clothing factory.
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- 1977-09-11
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The BBC rejected the new series and the writers took it to LWT, but only Miriam Karlin and Peter Jones returned in their original roles. Anna Karen reprised her On The Buses role of Olive in the new Rag Trade, with the cast also featuring Gillian Taylforth (who went on to fame as Kathy Beale in EastEnders).
Feb 23, 2022 · Karen reprised the role in The Rag Trade from 1977 to 78, and also appeared in two Carry On films - Carry On Camping in 1969, and Carry On Loving the following year.
Jan 24, 2019 · Only Karlin and Jones returned in their original roles aided and abetted this time by former On The Buses star Anna Karen (reprising her role of Olive - bus driver Stan's frumpy sister), Gillian Taylforth (who, like Karen went on to star in EastEnders), Diane Langton and Christopher Beeny (after Upstairs Downstairs).
The Rag Trade. TV sitcom; BBC One / ITV1; 1961 - 1978; 58 episodes (5 series) Each working day at Fenner's Fashions is a new struggle between the management and the workers. Stars Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Christopher Beeny, Esma Cannon and more.
