One-Upmanship

7.7IMDb Score
Released:1976-03-10
Genre:Comedy
Duration:30 min
Director:Ray Butt
Actors:Richard Briers, Peter Jones, Frederick Jaeger, Instant Sunshine, Robert East
Production:BBC

Overview:

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".

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