making out

[polar]

does anyone remember a programme on bbc1 in the late eighties called making out it starred Margie Clarke Kieth Allen Shirley Stellfox (Emmerdales Edna Birch) and a whole load of other famous faces it was set in an electronics factory i think anyone know if this is available to buy

[spudqueen]

Yes, I remember 'Making Out'. Fantastic series (wasn't Margie Clarkes characters surname Buttercup?). Sorry though, I don't know if it's available to buy.

[polar]

not sure but i think her name was queenie

[johngammon]

Making Out was a gritty, funny drama from 1989-1991 about a woman forced to take a job in a factory.  The show like so many others should have got more than the (I think) two series the BBC gave it and a bit more publicity.  It was written by Debbie (Cutting It) Horsfield and produced by Franc (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Quadrophenia) Roddam.  The cast was uniformly good, but for me Margi Clarke (Queenie), Moya Brady (Klepto) and Keith Allen (Rex) were particularly memorable.  Curiously, a few years ago Making Out turned up in the British Film Institute's all-time top 100 television programmes, as voted for by viewers.

[lucyshandbag]

i remember that, wasn't the lady who played the first rose in keeping up appearances in it too? that wasn't edna birch was it?