A Bit of a Do is a quintessentially British show, involving eccentricity, family squabbles, snobbery, ignorance, and prejudice.
With a brilliant ensemble of characters, personified by a veritable who's who of British actors.
A 'Do' is a colloquial term for a Celebration, that is held by a Club, or Society, to commemorate a local event.
The show is effectively a series of plays, revolving around conflicting local families, the Simcock's of Ted and Rita, with their sons Elvis and Paul.
Ted prides himself as a self made man, rising above his surroundings, to run his own business manufacturing, cast iron household novelties.
The class conflict of sorts comes courtesy, of the Rodenhurst's, of Laurence and Liz, daughter Jenny, and son Simon.
Laurence considers himself, as a pillar of local society, as the proprietor of a dental surgery.
Another couple of local characters, are the Sillitoe's, of Betty and Rodney, who is the proprietor, of a thriving local business, Cock A'Doodle Chickens.
An extra important character comes in the shape, of a local solicitor Neville Badger, who one way or another is a friend, or business associate of the aforementioned families.
It's the frankly incestuous relationships, between these families, that provide the dynamics that drive the show, indeed they are positively tempestuous, involving serial infidelity and wife swapping.
