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Season 1 Episode 5: Maggie's Dad

Tony employs his first woman driver, a strident feminist who almost causes a walk-out. Maggie's dour father also comes to visit and makes it clear he has no truck with working class people living above their stations. Fortunately both...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Walking Out

1. Walking Out

Aired: Sep 4, 1990

Tony Carpenter has come to grips with his wife leaving. She's always been dri...

Episode 2 Mum

2. Mum

Aired: Sep 11, 1990

Tony worries how he will explain Ruth walking out on him to his mother. Furth...

Episode 3 Mr. Burton

3. Mr. Burton

Aired: Sep 18, 1990

Ruth has not returned and Tony asks Dawn to act as a model at his stall adver...

Episode 4 Dawn

4. Dawn

Aired: Sep 25, 1990

Ruth visits,accusing Tony - wrongly - of having had sex with Dawn and announc...

Episode 5 Maggie's Dad

5. Maggie's Dad

Aired: Oct 2, 1990

Tony employs his first woman driver, a strident feminist who almost causes a ...

Episode 6 Douglas

6. Douglas

Aired: Oct 9, 1990

Sam gets a call to drive a mystery woman to the airport. It turns out to be R...

Episode 7 Barbados

7. Barbados

Aired: Oct 16, 1990

Tony resigns from the golf club in protest at the president's anti-Semitism. ...

Info about On the Up

Seasons: 3

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres:Comedy