Series · Comedy

One-Upmanship (1976)

A quintessentially British comedy-of-manners. Based at the fictional Yeovil College of Lifemanship, Richard Briers plays Stephen Potter and is joined by Peter Jones as the snooty Gatling-Fenn and Frederick Jaeger, complete with monocle, playing Cogg-Willoughby. "The world is divided into two types of people," Potter says, "winners and losers, the one-up and the one-down. He who is not one-up is surely one-down".

Creator

Stephen Potter, Barry Took

Writers

Barry Took, Stephen Potter

Network

BBC One

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

First aired

March 10, 1976

Status

Ended