The Worker
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| First episode date | February 27, 1965 |
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| Final episode date | December 24, 1978 |
| Networks | ITV |
| Number of episodes | 35 |
| Written by | Charlie Drake |
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| ID | 2152379 |
About The Worker
The Worker is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1965 to 1978. Co-written by and starring comedian Charlie Drake, the programme revolved around a man who has been dismissed from nearly 1,000 jobs.
Reading fire: Crane rescues worker next to burning high rise
... " There was a massive cheer from all The Workers on the ground...
Tsingtao beer worker urinated into tank after argument
... The Worker was filmed urinating into a tank used to store ingredients to make one of China s most popular beers last month...
Lib Dem plan to protect workers from sex harassment to become law
... The Worker Protection Bill, introduced by Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse, puts a duty on bosses to stop harassment instead of relying on employees to report incidents...
UK Windows and Doors: 500 jobs to go as firm goes bust
... " First someone from management came on and said they had gone into administration and were making 563 people redundant, " The Worker said...
Pret a Manger fined over London worker stuck in freezer
... Westminster City Council, which investigated the incident, said The Worker became trapped in the freezer, which typically had its temperature set at -18C, at the chain s Victoria coach station shop on 29 July that year...
PSNI data breach: Details posted on wall near Sinn Fein Belfast office
... The Worker, who is based outside Belfast, said many of his colleagues were in " extreme panic" especially those with unique surnames...
Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta plane engine
... The Worker was " ingested" into the engine of a Delta plane that was taxiing towards its gate with one engine turned on, officials said...
Assaults, neglect and a Taser revealed in ‘deeply shocking' BBC care home investigation
... Although the electronic stun device was never delivered - it was impounded by Customs and Excise - The Worker told investigators he had bought it with the intention of using it as a last resort in the home, because he felt he didn t have enough protection there...
James Bond film studio worker jailed over toilet spycam
Peter Hartley was jailed for 16 months
A sex offender who concealed a spy camera in the ladies' toilets at Pinewood Studios has been jailed.
Maintenance worker Peter Hartley , 50, planted a tiny motion-triggered camera behind a grille in the toilets at the studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.
The camera was spotted in June by a woman working at Pinewood, where the new James Bond film is being shot, Aylesbury Crown Court heard.
Hartley, of Uxbridge, west London, was jailed for 16 months.
The latest Bond film is being filmed at Pinewood Studios in BuckinghamshireHe will be on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
Hartley, who was working as a maintenance man, was caught after The Worker noticed light reflecting from the lens similar "to light reflecting off The Face of a watch" and used a screwdriver to Take Off the grille.
Prosecutor Daniel Wright told the court The Device was marketed as a "spy camera" and Hartley had used a piece of tape to cover its LED light to try to stop it being detected.
Hartley, who has a history of similar offences dating back to 2008, contacted his public protection officer at the Met Police later that morning to tell him he had reoffended.
He has previous convictions for placing cameras in a council building in Coventry in 2009 and for placing one in the changing rooms of a leisure centre in 2016.
Hartley has a total of three convictions for eight offences.
He later pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.
In a victim impact statement, the young woman who found the camera said she had needed Mental Health treatment and had suffered from acute anxiety.
Jailing Hartley, Judge Francis Sheridan said The Victim 's life "has been devastated by a dirty-minded individual who preys On Women ".
james bond, pinewood studios, uxbridge, iver heath
Source of news: bbc.com
