Dinnerladies

1990s British tv sitcom

Season 2  - Dinnerladies tv sitcom episodes guide

Women working in factory canteen somewhere in Manchester have plenty of time to talk while they prepare the meals and they have a lot to talk about - each of them have personal problems to deal with.



Dinnerladies Season 2 (1999)


1

Catering

Gormless work experience girl Sigourney has trouble finding the canteen, and when decorators arrive early they cause a lot of trouble by accidentally trapping Glenda the bread lady behind a fifteen-foot ladder. They must cut it and free her before her weak bladder causes her to have an accident, but they need permission from the ladder’s owner who can’t be reached by phone. Jane from Planning arrives, and they play a game involving blindfolded Jayne being hit over the head with a tin tray while listening to belly-dancing music.

2

Trouble

There’s trouble afoot after Jean’s husband leaves her for a Welsh dental hygienist, prompting Jean to pick fights with everyone. Meanwhile, an anonymous bunch of flowers sent to Bren provokes rumours of a secret lover (they are actually from Stan to thank her for helping his father), and Anita’s continual stories about her new boyfriend bore the others. Tony invites Bren on Jane’s holiday; after losing her place, it opens up again after Steve Greengrass is injured. Bren’s elderly mother claims to be pregnant by Leonardo DiCaprio.

3

Holidays

Everyone’s very excited about their holidays - Bren and Tony are going to Marbella and Dolly’s going on a luxury cruise. Petula’s caravan blows up, prompting her to ask Bren for her holiday money to fix it. Although her workmates tell her she should keep the money and tell selfish Petula to find it elsewhere, Stan’s poem reflecting on his father’s death prompts Bren to give it to her. Meanwhile, Dolly and Anita discuss breast implants and biryanis.

4

Fog

The November fog has allowed a convicted murderer to escape from Strangeways prison just a few miles away from the factory. The National Blood Service comes to encourage people to donate – Bren’s secret fear of needles means she feels faint whenever they are mentioned and refuses to give blood, causing her colleagues to speculate that she might be pregnant. Jean talks about her handsome new boyfriend but when he arrives to pick her up, Philippa panics and calls the police, thinking he is the escaped convict. In the confusion, the real fugitive, disguised as one of the nurses, escapes. Philippa tries to pluck up the courage to leave Mr Michael and is furious when he dumps her just before she gets round to it.

5

Gamble

Tony and Bren’s developing relationship is the subject of a bet between the dinnerladies and the Planning department: if they "get it on" before Christmas, the canteen staff win fifty pounds. They cause controversy when they turn up late together the next day, but this is due to Bren accompanying Tony to a late-night hospital appointment. Meanwhile, Philippa looks forward to having sex at Christmas, Dolly searches for novelty hot-water bottles and Anita’s awful taste in Christmas presents appalls the rest of the team. Just after Tony and Bren finally have their first kiss, a most unexpected visitor arrives: Bren’s husband, Martin.

6

Christmas

After revealing that she was married (but separated), Bren begins to doubt her relationship with Tony, and his secretive actions eventually make her decide to dump him and resign from the canteen. However, just as she is about to tell him this, he reveals a huge surprise birthday party for her, and the pair fly up to Scotland to spend Christmas with his friends. The other caterers also receive presents out of their bran tub (Stan gets a cheap watch from Jean, Tony is given bacon by Twinkle and Twinkle receives a china horse from Dolly). Meanwhile, Philippa has a crush on a co-worker and Anita mysteriously leaves before the party with a mumbled excuse...

7

Minnellium

Philippa gets impatient in organising the company’s Millennium Meal, but riots in the city centre prevent her from attending. Jean’s husband seems to want to reconcile, but it turns out he just wants a wallpaper table; Jean later goes home with Stan. Tony and Bren are trying to settle into their relationship, but the discovery of a baby on the fire escape leaves Bren feeling miserable, particularly when she discovers a note asking her to look after it. The dinnerladies discuss who the mother could be and eventually decide Twinkle is most likely. Just before midnight, Anita returns in tears to reclaim her son.

8

Christine

With Anita away on maternity leave, new girl Christine joins the team. While Dolly is very taken with her, Christine’s backhanded compliments and paranormal beliefs, combined with her dreadful personal hygiene and flatulence problem, leave her very unpopular with the others, especially Stan. After a mixup involving Viagra and mugs of tea, Dolly turns against Christine, who flees the canteen in tears. Meanwhile, Bren stands up to a social worker over Petula’s living arrangements, Norman develops a fear of bread, and Stan worries about his sexual prowess with Jean.

9

Gravy

All the staff are moving on in their lives. Tony and Bren consider moving to Scotland, while Twinkle applies to become a lap dancer and Dolly makes plans to move to Mobberley. The new self-clear system proves difficult to maintain, and Petula arrives in an ambulance and announces she has has only three weeks left to live. Tony finally tells Bren he loves her, and they start making financial calculations for their move and quickly realise they don’t have enough money. Bren discovers that she has been accepted as a contestant on the quiz show Totally Trivial where she could win the money after Jean applied on her behalf. On the show, Bren gets through to the final round and is invited to come back to play for the grand prize.

10

Toast

Bren leaves the canteen for the Totally Trivial studios (after been given various drugs to help her relax) and plans to stop at the hospital to visit her mother on the way. The remaining staff tune in to watch Bren, but she does not appear on the show. Bren arrives with a large rubbish bag and a video cassette and tells them that Petula died while she was visiting. They watch her video will in which Petula reveals that there is money in the bag. Dolly is horrified after throwing it away, and Stan says the skip lorry will have already taken it. Philippa reveals that the canteen will be closing, and the staff will lose their jobs; they discuss their plans to move on. They hear the lorry arrive and Stan realises the unreliable watch Jean gave him had the wrong time. They retrieve the bag, which contains tens of thousands of pounds which Bren gives out to the rest of the gang.




Seasons of Dinnerladies

1998 Season 1
1999 Season 2


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