The Riff Raff Element is a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC One. The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.
Plot The basic plot was "the Tundishes, down-at-heel country aristocrats, are compelled to rent out their former servants' wing and live cheek-by-jowl with the vulgar Belchers from Salford"Debbie Horsfield article in The Independent so simultaneously drawing on the English north-south divide and class divide.
Cast The Belchers Trevor Peacock – Acky Belcher Susan Brown – Maggie Belcher Mossie Smith – Petula Belcher Jayne Ashbourne – Carmen Cal MacAninch – Declan
The Tundishes Ronald Pickup – Roger Tundish Pippa Guard – Phoenix Richard Hope – Mortimer Tundish Celia Imrie – Joanna Tundish Nicholas Farrell – Boyd Tundish Greg Wise – Alister Stewart Pile – Oliver Tundish Stewart Bewley – Oliver Tundish Ashley Wright – Nathan Tundish
Others Lionel Guyett – Father Casper Dicken Ashworth – Nelson Kate Binchy – Dearbhla Brenda Bruce – Granny Grogan George Costigan – Vincent
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External links
Plot summaries at BFI, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 12 August 2014.