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Slinger's Day
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Brian Cooke
Starring	Bruce Forsyth Paul Clarkson David Kelly Philip Bird Andrew Paul Liz Crowther Charlie Hawkins Vicky Licorish Suzanne Church Jacqueline de Paza
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	12
Production
Producer	Mark Stuart
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Thames Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	3 September 1986 (1986-09-03) – 14 October 1987 (1987-10-14)
Related
Tripper's Day Check It Out! Full Frys

Slinger's Day is a British sitcom that aired for two series from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of Tripper's Day, which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter's death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff.

Like Tripper's Day, it was created by Brian Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and Sorry! creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.

Slinger's Day represented Forsyth's only ever situation comedy acting role, and he remained more associated with stand-up routines and game shows.

Plot

Cecil Slinger (played by Forsyth) is designated by the Supafare supermarket chain as the new manager in the branch that had previously been run by Norman Tripper. Like his predecessor, Slinger is forced to manage a supermarket branch that employs possibly the worst supermarket staff in the world: Mr. Christian (played by Clarkson), the cheerful but naïve assistant manager; Fred (played by Kelly), a lazy, alcoholic and inept security guard; Hardie (played by Bird), the union shop steward; as well as Higgins, Hardie's assistant of sorts (played by Paul), secretary Sylvia (played by Crowther) and checkout cashier Dottie (played by Licorish).

Fred replaced Alf (played in Tripper's by Gordon Gostelow), and in the second series Sylvia was replaced by Miss Foster (played by Church) and Dottie was replaced by Shirley (played by de Paza).

Cast

The three main actors credited in the opening credits of Tripper's Day (Leonard Rossiter, Pat Ashton and Gordon Gostelow) did not reprise their roles for Slinger's Day, with the Rossiter and Gostelow roles replaced respectively by Bruce Forsyth and David Kelly. Many of the supporting cast of Tripper's Day did reprise their roles for the show, however only Philip Bird and Paul Clarkson appeared in both series of Slinger's Day.

• Bruce Forsyth as Cecil Slinger
• David Kelly as Fred
• Philip Bird as Hardie
• Paul Clarkson as Mr Christian
• Andrew Paul as Higgins (series 1)
• Vicky Licorish as Dottie (series 1)
• Liz Crowther as Sylvia (series 1)
• Suzanne Church as Miss Foster (series 2)
• Jacqueline De Peza as Shirley (series 2)
• Charlie Hawkins as Colin Wilkins (series 2)

Episodes

Series 1 (1986)

Series 2 (1987)

Home media

The complete series of Slinger's Day was released on 23 April 2012.

See also

• Check It Out! (Canadian-produced series following the Tripper's/Slinger's format with Don Adams)

References

• Mark Lewisohn, BBC Online Comedy Guide/Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy
• British TV Online Resources

External links

• Slinger's Day at IMDb
• Slinger's Day at British Comedy Guide
• Slinger's Day at the British TV Online Resources

• 1980s British sitcoms
• 1986 British television series debuts
• 1987 British television series endings
• British English-language television shows
• ITV sitcoms
• Television shows produced by Thames Television
• Television series by Fremantle (company)
• Television shows set in London
• Television series set in shops
• Television shows shot at Teddington Studios