| Runtime: | 45–51 mins |
| Creator: | John Godber |
| Producer: | Chris Parr |
| Opentheme: | Puttin' On the Ritz |
| Starring: | Andrew Dunn Julia Ford Kate Layden Richard James Lewis Shona Lindsay Andrew Livingston Cheryl Prime Paul Rider Richard Ridings Mark Addy |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Network: | BBC 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
The Ritz was a six-part BBC television series that aired in 1987.[1] It was a comedy/drama set in a nightclub, where three bouncers—Chike played by Paul Rider, Skodge played by Andrew Dunn and Kenny played by Andrew Livingstone—helped to protect the newly formed Ritz night club from a rival club owner, Mad Mick, played by Richard Ridings.
The series was written and co-directed by John Godber; his co-director was Martin Shardlow and was based on John Godber's stage play 'Bouncers'. The series also spawned a one episode spin-off called The Continental.
Andrew Dunn later starred in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies as Canteen Manager Tony, his fellow Ritz bouncers both made one-off appearances in the series, Paul Rider as the escaped criminal The Blender in the episode "Fog" and Andrew Livingstone played Norman the agoraphobic breadman in one first series episode "Monday".