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Harpers West One

1961–1963 · 2 seasons

A stately, talky slice of early-sixties backstage retail life, all boardroom manoeuvring and shop-floor gossip, watched with mild curiosity rather than urgency.

Genres
Drama
Tagline
Shopping With The Lid Off!
Overview
Harpers West One is an ATV television drama series created by John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman about a fictional department store, Harpers, in the West 1 district of London. The show ran in one-hour episodes from 1961 to 1963. It was introduced by ATV while Probation Officer, was being rested but became an immediate success. Press releases described it as "shopping with the lid off". A combination of drama and soap opera, it has also been described as presaging corporate dramas such as The Brothers for its depiction of power struggles at board level.

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • work
    • power
    • ambition
    • class
    Places
    • workplace
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism7
    Romance3
    Tension4
    Darkness3
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight4

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    Genres
    drama
    Created by
    Geoffrey Bellman, John Whitney
    Starring
    Vivian Pickles, Natalie Kent, Jan Holden, Jane Muir, Philip Latham, Bernard Horsfall, Arthur Hewlett, Graham Crowden
    Length
    2 seasons, 32 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    ITV1
    Country
    United Kingdom
    Languages
    English

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