Nice Work: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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...

Series details

• Title: Nice Work
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1989-10-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 1989-10-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 55 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 24340
• IMDb ID: tt0131679
• TVDB ID: 78082

Cast and credited roles

• Warren Clarke — Vic Wilcox
• Haydn Gwynne — Robyn Penrose
• David Calder — Stuart Baxter
• John Forgeham — Brian Everthorpe
• Tricia George — Shirley
• Janet Dale — Marjorie Wilcox

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1989-10-04; final listed air date 1989-10-25; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Nice Work on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.