Plot
Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings at the poshest part of the town and starts to make his mark on local society.
Cast
Matthew McNulty
as Joe Lampton
Tom Brooke
as Charles
Jenna Coleman
as Susan Brown
Maxine Peake
as Alice Aisgill
Kate O'Flynn
as Beryl
Paul Hilton
as Bob Storr
Eithne Browne
as Esther
Zoe Telford
as Eva Storr
Daniel Flynn
as George Aisgill
Theo James
as Jack Wales