Down The Gate

All Episodes 1976

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  • 1976-07-17T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Comedy
The bustle and banter of London's iconic Billingsgate fish market provided the backdrop for Reg Varney's first sitcom following his phenomenal success in On the Buses. In the mid-Seventies, Billingsgate was Europe's premier fish market, its turnover running into the hundreds of tons: a muddle of boxes and barrows, merchants and white-smocked porters with their fish boxes perched precariously on their heads. East Ender Varney plays porter Reg Furnell, whose misadventures Down the 'Gate and beyond were charted over two series between 1975 and 1976; Dilys Laye stars as his long-suffering wife, Irene. Although twelve episodes were made only seven now still exist and, for the first time, this set brings together all the remaining episodes of this lesser-known slice of Cockney humour.

12 episodes

Series Premiere

1x01 The Lie

Series Premiere

1x01 The Lie

  • no air date30m

Reg has a dilemma: he's promised to take Irene to the pictures, but it's his best mate Wol's birthday. He really catches it when he tries to please them both. But a mink stole is surly the way to win a woman's heart - provided he can get around all those lies he's told. Down the 'Gate ran for two successful series but at some point after transmission all the master taper were destroyed. The only copies now known to exist are six episodes from series two that Reg Varney himself recorded off-air in 1976 and which the kaleidoscope organisation have preserved and transferred to a modern digital format. Though these recordings are obviously not of transmission quality they are the only copies in existence

Season Premiere

1976-07-17T23:00:00Z

2x01 The Lie

Season Premiere

2x01 The Lie

  • 1976-07-17T23:00:00Z30m

Reg has a dilemma: he's promised to take Irene to the pictures, but it's his best mate Wol's birthday. He really catches it when he tries to please them both. But a mink stole is surly the way to win a woman's heart - provided he can get around all those lies he's told. Down the 'Gate ran for two successful series but at some point after transmission all the master taper were destroyed. The only copies now known to exist are six episodes from series two that Reg Varney himself recorded off-air in 1976 and which the kaleidoscope organisation have preserved and transferred to a modern digital format. Though these recordings are obviously not of transmission quality they are the only copies in existence

1976-07-24T23:00:00Z

2x02 Held In Camera

2x02 Held In Camera

  • 1976-07-24T23:00:00Z30m

1976-07-31T23:00:00Z

2x03 Squatters' Rights

2x03 Squatters' Rights

  • 1976-07-31T23:00:00Z30m

1976-08-07T23:00:00Z

2x04 The Green-Eyed Monster

2x04 The Green-Eyed Monster

  • 1976-08-07T23:00:00Z30m

1976-08-14T23:00:00Z

2x05 The Guv' Comes to Dinner

2x05 The Guv' Comes to Dinner

  • 1976-08-14T23:00:00Z30m

1976-08-28T23:00:00Z

2x06 Pearls for Tears

2x06 Pearls for Tears

  • 1976-08-28T23:00:00Z30m

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