dinnerladies - Season 1 - Eps 2: Royals
There is excitement in the canteen when news of a royal visit to the factory comes through. Nobody's very sure who's coming - Princess Anne doesn't do factories, Prince Edward does theatres - but they're all getting into a flap. When it turns out it's someone called the Duke of Danby, nobody has heard of him, save for Stan, who met him at Catterick years ago. Everyone throws themselves into role play and preparations: Twinkle has to be warned not to say they serve ""arseholes on toast"" and Anita is worried about her nipples popping up. Tony is adamant that the royals aren't speaking to the girls - God help the Duke if he does. When they eventually turn up, Twinkle's struck dumb, Anita says the wrong thing and Stan's devastated that the Duke doesn't remember him. Meanwhile, all the Duke wants is a bit of sex with poor Bren.
About dinnerladies

Title: dinnerladies
First Air Date: 1998-11-12
Last Air Date: 2000-01-27
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.4/10 (from 32 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 16
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.
Cast

Maxine Peake
Twinkle

Thelma Barlow
Dolly Bellfield

Anne Reid
Jean

Shobna Gulati
Anita

Duncan Preston
Stan Meadowcroft

Victoria Wood
Brenda

Celia Imrie
Philippa Moorcroft

Andrew Dunn
Tony Martin