S2, E6. Dinnerladies Christmas Special 1999

It's Christmas Eve, and all is not well in the canteen

Dinnerladies Christmas Special 1999

Christmas Eve. All is not well in the canteen. Bren has blown it with Tony, and Petula's hopes of a family Christmas are thwarted by Twinkle and Stan. Could things get any worse?

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Victoria Wood's iconic canteen comedy set in 90s Manchester

Victoria Wood’s canteen comedy set in 90s Manchester, starring Julie Walters and Maxine Peake. Head dinner lady Bren comforts and cajoles her team through life’s ups and downs.

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Jean frantically prepares for her daughter's wedding while Phillippa tries to lift morale.

Monday

The ladies are very excited about an impending visit by the Duke of Danby.

Royals

The girls are excited about the proposed visit of the Duke of Danby. But Stan's met royalty before, so it's only a question of choosing the right toupee. Meanwhile, Bren is put in an awkward position.

Bren's mother, Petula, causes mayhem in the factory with her ill-considered romance.

Scandal

Bren's mother Petula causes mayhem in the factory with her ill-considered romance, and her caravan is getting in the way of Stan's work. Meanwhile, a debate reaches an unpredictable climax.

Tony and Bren are happy, but everyone else is in a bad mood.

Moods

Tony and Bren are happy, but everyone else is in a bad mood. To cheer things up, a tea party is organised for everybody's parents. Unfortunately this includes Bren's wayward mother Petula.

The work do becomes incredibly formal and mock-Japanese.

Party

The works' party has a Japenese theme, and Bren's mother decides to invite herself. Meanwhile, Dolly has a fried-food fiasco and Jean makes a less-than-sober play for Tony.

Dolly and Jean walk out in protest because of the new manager's abrasive approach.

Nightshift

Tony is in hospital, Dolly and Jean walk out objecting to the new manager's abrasive approach, and Bren has to single-handedly run the canteen through the most important night-shift of the year.

Bren wants to teach the work experience girl about a typical day in the canteen.

Catering

Bren wants to teach the work experience girl about a typical day in the canteen, but then the work experience boy jams a 20ft ladder right across the cooker.

Jean is taking the departure of her husband with a Welsh dental hygenist badly.

Trouble

Jean is taking the departure of her husband with a Welsh dental hygenist badly, and her yelling puts Tony off his plan to ask Bren to go to Marbella with him.

Bren is so excited about her holiday that she might even buy some decent clothes.

Holidays

Bren is so excited about her holiday with Tony that she might even buy some decent clothes. Stan, however, has some sad news about his father, and Petula is doing dangerous things with the gas in her caravan.

An escaped convict from Strangeways Prison is on the loose.

The Blood Donor van has come to the factory and an escaped convict from Strangeways Prison is on the loose. And Bren is upset when she sees Tony's holiday photos.

Everyone's desperate for Bren and Tony to get together, partly because they've made a bet.

Gamble

Stan is furious with Philippa for failing to save the fuse bulbs on last year's Christmas lights. The ladies, meanwhile, are desperate for Bren and Tony to get it together - mainly because they've got a bet on.

The staff are catering for the firm's millennium dinner.

Minnellium

It's New Year's Eve and the dinnerladies are catering the firm's Millennium dinner in town. But when Tony goes out for a cigarette, he finds something on the fire escape that puts the dinner right out of thier minds.

Anita's replacement in the canteen is hated by everyone except for Dolly.

Christine

Anita's replacement is championed by Dolly and loathed by everyone else. The crunch comes when she makes a brew and fails to hand out the correct mugs.

It's February and the winds of change are blowing through the canteen.

Gravy

It's February and the winds of change are blowing through the canteen. The new self-cleaner system starts today, depriving Bren of her favourite part of the job.

Stan is hoping for a proposal, while Bren is being coached for a television quiz.

Toast

It's 29th February and Stan is hoping for a marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Bren is busy being coached for her big television opportunity and Dolly is so upset by the new uniforms that she may have to go and live in Cheshire.

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Series 2

1. Catering

2. Trouble

3. Holidays

4. Fog

5. Gamble

6. Dinnerladies Christmas Special 1999

7. Minnellium

8. Christine

9. Gravy

10. Toast