Kate Robbins as Babs in Victoria Wood’s ‘dinnerladies’ BBC1

Thelma Barlow and Kay Adshead in Dinner Ladies by Victoria Wood.

Kay Adshead as Christine, and Ann Reid as Jean, in Dinner Ladies by Victoria Wood.

Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Francis Lee, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Julie Walters, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie, Maxine Peake, Anne Reid, Julie Walters, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Shobna Gulati, Maxine Peake, Anne Reid, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Shobna Gulati, Duncan Preston, Julie Walters, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Shobna Gulati, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Dora Bryan, Andrew Dunn, Thora Hird, Anne Reid, Eric Sykes, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Kay Adshead and Thelma Barlow in dinnerladies (1998)

Kay Adshead, Andrew Dunn, and Anne Reid in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Celia Imrie and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie, Anne Reid, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Duncan Preston and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Kay Adshead, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Katharine Page, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Julie Walters, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Julie Walters and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)

Shobna Gulati and Maxine Peake in dinnerladies (1998)

Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Duncan Preston, and Victoria Wood in dinnerladies (1998)