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12 May 2003 (UK) more
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Cast

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John Henshaw ... Ken (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Rita May ... Jean (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Mark Benton ... Eddie (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Craig Cash ... Joe (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Rodney Litchfield ... Tommy (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Lorraine Cheshire ... Joan (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Phil Mealey ... Duffy (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
James Quinn ... Phil (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Peter Wight ... Nige (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Christine Bottomley ... Melanie (11 episodes, 2003-2004)
Susan Cookson ... Tanya (11 episodes, 2003-2004)
Joan Kempson ... Winnie (9 episodes, 2003-2004)
Lisa Millett ... Debbie (9 episodes, 2003-2004)
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30 min
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Eddie: Ken, Ken er, Ken?
Joan: Hello, Ken, notice anything different?
Ken: Hello, Joan, Eddie. Bloody hell you two look smart, what's the occasion?
Tanya: It's their wedding anniversary, Ken.
Ken: Is it? Well, congratulations.
Joan: 19 years today.
Eddie: The great trainrobbers didn't get that eh, Ken eh?
[laughs]
Ken: Has Oscar Wilde come in?
Eddie: Ey, are you having that, Tommy? 19 years we've being together, the great trainrobbers didn't get that, eh?
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Ken is the King, 20 September 2004
10/10
Author: lamps from Oldham, UK

This show is just about as good as TV gets. To watch it and suddenly realize 30 minutes have elapsed invariably surprises me. It is just about the most relaxing TV I have ever seen.

The Grapes is typical of the back street pub close to extinction in the north west of England. Especially one that serves cask conditioned beer. It's a celebration of it's gentle goings on and a sad obituary to their passing.

The latest series has just started and Ken realises the men in suits from the PubCo are round the corner, waiting to do what men in suits are consistently good at. Close the pub.

In the second episode, Ken soldiers on stoically, he has a cold, his bone idle fat arsed mother asks how the kettle works, the degenerate bobby's Phil and Nige are passing the dutchie in the back room and in the front room, the sparse customers expose their lives unashamedly because that's what you do in The Grapes.

After an episode packed with one liners, Ken finds himself propositioned by his barmaid. I only hope we don't have a storyline coming on. God forbid it. Early Doors is The Grapes not The Rovers Return.

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