Name: Both Ends Meet
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1972-02-19
Cast: Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean, Wendy Richard

This Programme used to be shown on Anglia ITV Regions on Friday evenings and had veteran comedian Dora Bryan starring in this LWT sitcom as Dora Page, a cash-strapped widow who has to raise her son Ronnie while working at the factory of Cannon's Family Sausages, run by Julius Cannon (played by Ivor Dean). The first series of seven episodes went out as Both Ends Meet but the second was titled simply Dora. On a regular basis good old Dora would patronisingly say "Yes, Mr Can-NNNNON!" and always seemed to get herself into rather desperate situations with the other girls in the factory. Both Ends refers to the sausages !

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Both Ends Meet was about a group of working class women in a sausage factory. Dora Bryan, the lead played a widow supporting her teenage son and her father in law. The women were all friends which made for lots of gossipy fun

Pat Ashton and Dora Bryan in Both Ends Meet (1972)

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