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Clocking Off

TV·2000–2003·4 seasons, 27 episodes·BBC One·Drama·55m·Created by Paul Abbott

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Clocking Off is a British television drama series broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced by Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott. Effectively an anthology programme that followed the lives of a group of workers at a Manchester textile factory, with each episode focusing on the private life of a different character. How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing spouses, and gang harassment.

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Episodes by season

Season016Episodes2000AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Clocking Off S01E01The Leaches' StoryJanuary 23, 2000Some men just disappear. They kiss their wives and children goodbye, saying they'll be home for tea and are never seen again. Stuart Leach i
  2. S01E02Clocking Off S01E02Yvonne's StoryJanuary 30, 2000Exactly what is a woman supposed to do when the man she sleeps with kicks her out of their home, leaving her and her children with no where
  3. S01E03Clocking Off S01E03KT's StoryFebruary 6, 2000KT's life is about to be turned upside-down. At the bottom of the factory's hierarchy, KT works the shopfloor and lives with his grandparent
  4. S01E04Clocking Off S01E04Steve's StoryFebruary 13, 2000Steve Robinson, factory foreman and Mack's right-hand man, is trying to save his marriage. His wife Sylvia suspects he has had a fling, alth
  5. S01E05Clocking Off S01E05Trudy's StoryFebruary 20, 2000Trudy, Mack's secretary, has spent her whole life looking after other people: her father, Mack, the employees at the factory. So busy has sh
  6. S01E06Clocking Off S01E06Catherine and Mack's StoryFebruary 27, 2000On the morning after their wedding anniversary, Mack lavishes Katherine with gifts in a bid to hold onto her. After yet one more night of lo

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season027Episodes2001AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Clocking Off S02E01Kev's StoryApril 2, 2001Ever wondered what goes on behind the neighbours' doors? Sometimes its best not to delve into other people's lives, as Kev Leach finds out.
  2. S02E02Clocking Off S02E02Bev's StoryApril 9, 2001Good-time girl Bev likes a drink and a laugh, but life hasn't turned out quite as planned. She's lonely, her only son is nothing but trouble
  3. S02E03Clocking Off S02E03Freda's StoryApril 23, 2001After sitting all week at a sewing machine at Mackintosh, Freda is ready for a girls' night out. However, she has to tell her friends to go
  4. S02E04Clocking Off S02E04Barry's StoryApril 30, 2001Life has not been good to Barry Jackson. His wife ran off with his previous boss, leaving him to bring up two young daughters in his mother'
  5. S02E05Clocking Off S02E05Ronnie's StoryMay 7, 2001For over 20 years, Mackintosh truck driver Ronnie Anderson has cared lovingly and devotedly for his wife Jess (Kate Fitzgerald), a wheelchai
  6. S02E06Clocking Off S02E06The LadsMay 14, 2001After a night on the town, Ade, Barney, Kev and Nick are waiting in the taxi queue when some drunks start a fight, during which someone is k
  7. S02E07Clocking Off S02E07Trudy, Mack and Martin's StoryMay 21, 2001Martin and Trudy are together and very happy. Martin's relationship with Mack, however, is not so good. Mack is jealous that Trudy, who was

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season038Episodes2002AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Clocking Off S03E01Franny's StoryJanuary 31, 2002Franny is one of those people who cannot admit defeat. Whatever he's up against, he'll keep going, until it breaks him in two. And if he dec
  2. S03E02Clocking Off S03E02Tasha's StoryFebruary 7, 2002Tasha (Katie Blake) is a textile design student, doing work experience at Mackintosh. She's a posh girl from a leafy suburb and she doesn't
  3. S03E03Clocking Off S03E03Mark's StoryFebruary 14, 2002Sometimes the reality of who people are is so terrifying, even to themselves, that it must remain hidden. Mark Talbot (James Murray) is one
  4. S03E04Clocking Off S03E04Julie's StoryFebruary 21, 2002Julie (Siobhan Finneran) is a Mackintosh old hand. She's a strange girl really - mid thirties, lives at home with her parents, popular, kind
  5. S03E05Clocking Off S03E05Jenny's StoryFebruary 28, 2002Jenny (Sophie Okonedo) has a pretty good life. She drives a forklift at Mackintosh alongside her best mate, Suzie (Nicola Stephenson), so wo
  6. S03E06Clocking Off S03E06Alan's StoryMarch 7, 2002Alan (Bob Pugh) is always the life and soul of the party. In his mid-forties, he's not quite one of the lads anymore but still sees life as
  7. S03E07Clocking Off S03E07Gary's StoryMarch 14, 2002Gary (Marshall Lancaster), works in the off cuts department at Mackintosh, and has a beautiful, expensive home, full of costly antiques and
  8. S03E08Clocking Off S03E08Mack's StoryMarch 21, 2002Mack has never exactly been a bundle of laughs but over the last few months, his bitter disappointment with life has been increasing, day-by

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season046Episodes2003AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01Suzie's StoryMarch 2, 2003Suzie Davidson is getting married to Jamie, the man of her dreams, but she disappears through the bathroom window in her wedding dress, leav
  2. S04E02Pat & Roy's StoryMarch 9, 2003Pat is given a target of doubling the factory's production and is determined to get the staff on her side. However, success at work is marre
  3. S04E03Maya & Kev's StoryMarch 16, 2003When Maya hits Kev in a car accident, he finds himself suffering from epileptic fits, and is no longer able to drive or operate machinery. M
  4. S04E04Colin's StoryMarch 23, 2003Colin attacks the nurse who has been bullying his mentally ill brother Mark at the care home where he lives, but the police think Mark is to
  5. S04E05Grace & Faz's StoryMarch 30, 2003Grace is attracted to Faz, one of the few Asians in the area. But Faz's father does not approve of his son mixing with his white co-workers,
  6. S04E06Freda & Pat's StoryApril 6, 2003Freda has recently been promoted to supervisor and found love with builder Kenny, but when she feels slighted by Pat, she starts a malicious

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

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