Weddings can be a fraught affair at the best of times but when Ted Simcock (David Jason)
- the father of the groom & the bride's mother Liz Rodenhurst (Nicola Pagett
- Upstairs Downstairs) make it a day to remember for all the wrong reasons it sparks a chain of events that changes the lives of the snobbish Rodenhursts & working-class Simcocks forever. Adapted for the screen from his own novels by David Nobbs (The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin) A Bit of a Do is a sharply-written comedy drama which won David Jason the Best Actor Award at the 1990 British Comedy Awards. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast that
Includes:: Paul Chapman (As Time Goes By) as snooty dentist & father of the bride laurence Rodenhurst Gwen Taylor (Duty free) as scorned wife Rita Simcock & Stephanie Cole (Waiting for God) & Tim Wylton (My Hero) as family friends Betty & Rodney Sillitoe A Bit of a Do sees the changing lives & fortunes of the group through various social occasions including five weddings a christening & a funeral.