The Squirrels is a British television sitcom

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

, written by Eric Chappell

Eric Chappell

Eric Chappell is an English comedy writer who wrote and co-wrote a number of the UK's biggest sitcom hits during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s...

, who went on to then later create to write Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 sitcoms Rising Damp

Rising Damp

Rising Damp is a television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, first broadcast from 1974 to 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play, The Banana Box The series was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom on the 100 Best Sitcoms poll run in...

and Only When I Laugh

Only When I Laugh (TV series)

Only When I Laugh is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV between 29 October 1979 and 16 December 1982. It was set in the ward of an NHS hospital. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?"...

. It ran for 3 series and 28 episodes and was made and broadcast from 1974 to 1977 on the ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 network, by ATV

Associated TeleVision

Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...

. Phil Redmond

Phil Redmond

Phil Redmond CBE is an English television producer and screenwriter.He is well-known for creating several popular television series such as Grange Hill , Brookside and Hollyoaks...

, the creator of now defunct Soap-Opera Brookside

Brookside

Brookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...

, was also a writer for the series.

Plot

The theme was office politics in the accounts department of a fictitious TV rental company. Little work was seen to be done as the staff were usually skiving or engaging in office romances. Bernard Hepton

Bernard Hepton

Bernard Hepton is a British actor of stage, film and television.Hepton is known as a particularly versatile character actor. He trained at Bradford Civic Theatre school under Esme Church along with actors such as Robert Stephens...

 played Mr Fletcher, the authoritarian boss who also saw himself as a 'ladies man' and Ken Jones

Ken Jones (actor)

Ken Jones is an English actor. Jones was born in Liverpool, England and after working as a signwriter and amateur acting, he trained at RADA and joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop...

 played Rex, an unassertive subordinate.

Cast list

• Bernard Hepton
  Bernard Hepton
  Bernard Hepton is a British actor of stage, film and television.Hepton is known as a particularly versatile character actor. He trained at Bradford Civic Theatre school under Esme Church along with actors such as Robert Stephens...
  
   - Mr Fletcher
• Ken Jones
  Ken Jones (actor)
  Ken Jones is an English actor. Jones was born in Liverpool, England and after working as a signwriter and amateur acting, he trained at RADA and joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop...
  
   - Rex
• Patsy Rowlands
  Patsy Rowlands
  Patsy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.-Early years:She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a...
  
   - Susan
• Alan David
  Alan David
  Alan David is a Welsh television actor. Living in London, he is married with two sons.David was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He has had many television credits ranging from Coronation Street in 1973 to Virtual Murder , Honey for Tea and "The Unquiet Dead", an episode of Doctor Who in 2005...
  
  - Harry
• Ellis Jones - Burke
• Karin MacCarthy - Carol

Series 1 (1975)

• We Don't Want To Lose You (18 Jul 75)
• Men Without Women (25 Jul 75)
• Man Most Likely To (1 Aug 75)
• The Yes Man (8 Aug 75)
• The Fiddle (15 Aug 75)
• The Favourite (22 Aug 75)
• The Whizz Kid (29 Aug 75)

Series 2 (1976)

• Ashes To Ashes (9 Jul 76)
• Fluffy-Bun (16 Jul 76)
• Burke In Clover (23 Jul 76)
• The New Broom (30 Jul 76)
• On The Carpet (6 Aug 76)
• The Renaissance (13 Aug 76)
• The X Factor (20 Aug 76)
• The Weaker Sex (27 Aug 76)

Series 3 (1976-1977)

• The Snatch (25 Nov 76)
• Leap Frog (2 Dec 76)
• The Cruise (9 Dec 76)
• The Bonus Scheme (16 Dec 76)
• The Long Hot Summer (23 Dec 76)
• The Argument (30 Dec 76)
• What A Way To Go (6 Jan 77)
• Shoulder To Shoulder (13 Jan 77)
• The Game's The Thing (20 Jan 77)
• The Cover Up (27 Jan 77)
• The Break-In (3 Feb 77)
• Men Of Straw (10 Feb 77)

External links