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It's 1986 and Industry Year, which is great news for manufacturing in Rummidge, an unlovely sprawling city in the heart of the Midlands, raked by motorways. Thatcherism is working and the recession is levelling out. Suffering from the last round of cuts in funding, the University is desperate to cast off its ivory-tower image. Its first effort towards achieving this is entering the Industry Year Shadow Scheme . Robyn Penrose is chosen as the University' s representative. She's a young, idealistic lecturer in English Literature and an expert on the Victorian industrial novel. Straight from school into academia, she s never set foot in a factory. Now she finds herself shadow to Vic Wilcox, the middle-aged, self-made managing director of a Rummidge engineering firm. The thought of following his every move for one day a week for the next six months is totally unappealing to Robyn. And Vic, for his part, is equally hostile. But over time, they both find themselves drawn to each other...

Show Info

Network: United Kingdom BBC Two (1989 - 1989)
Schedule: Wednesdays at 21:25 (55 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type: Scripted
Genres: Drama
Episodes ordered: 4 episodes

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Episode 4

Episode 1x04; Oct 25, 1989

Summer Term. Robyn returns to Rummidge to find urgent messages from Vic and Charles - and from Philip Swallow, inviting her to meet a famous American visitor. What will happen to Robyn and Vic in their relationship and their careers? The endings of t

Previous Episodes

Episode NameAirdateTrailer
1x04: Episode 4Oct 25, 1989
1x03: Episode 3Oct 18, 1989
1x02: Episode 2Oct 11, 1989
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