Slinger's Day
Slinger's Day is a British sitcom that aired for two series from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of "Tripper's Day", which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter's death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff. Like "Tripper's Day , it was created by Brian Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and Sorry!" creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. "Slinger's Day" represented Forsyth's only ever situation comedy acting role, and he remained more associated with stand-up routines and gameshows. Plot. Cecil Slinger (played by Forsyth) is designated by the Supafare supermarket chain as the new manager in  the branch that had previously been run by Norman Tripper. Like his predecessor, Slinger is forced to manage a supermarket branch that employs possibly the worst supermarket staff in the world: Mr. Christian (played by Clarkson), the cheerful but naïve assistant manager; Fred (played by Kelly), a lazy, alcoholic and inept security guard; Hardie (played by Bird), the union shop steward; as well as Higgins, Hardie's assistant of sorts (played by Paul), secretary Sylvia (played by Crowther) and the pop tart-like checkout cashier Dottie (played by Licorish). Fred replaced Alf (played in "Tripper's" by Gordon Gostelow), and  in the second series Sylvia was replaced by Miss Foster (played by Church) and Dottie was replaced by Shirley (played by de Paza). Cast. The three main actors credited in the opening credits of "Tripper's Day" (Leonard Rossiter, Pat Ashton and Gordon Gostelow) did not reprise their roles for "Slinger's Day", with the Rossiter and Gostelow roles replaced respectively by Bruce Forsyth and David Kelly. Many of the supporting cast of "Tripper's Day" did reprise their roles for the series, however only Philip Bird and Paul Clarkson appeared in both series. Home release. The complete series of  Slinger's Day was released on 23 April 2012.