The Riff Raff Element

The Riff Raff Element is a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC One.^[1][2] The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.^[3]

The basic plot was "the Tundishes, down-at-heel country aristocrats, are compelled to rent out their former servants' wing and live cheek-by-jowl with the vulgar Belchers from Salford"^[4] so simultaneously drawing on the English north-south divide and class divide.

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
• Greg Wise – Alister
• 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

• The Riff Raff Element at IMDb
• The Riff Raff Element at British Comedy Guide
• Plot summaries at BFI, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 12 August 2014.

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