This ITV comedy drama starred Donald Sinden and Peter Egan, the latter seemingly still in the cocky, up-and-coming young man phase of his career we saw him play in Big Breadwinner Hog three years earlier. Bernard Hepton and Anton "Susan died a year ago, Number 6" Rogers are also in it, but despite their characters being considered important enough to make it into the title sequence (and the cover of the DVD set from Good Old Network) they are very much in supporting roles.
The series is set in the Public Relations department of a made-up corporation, the Greatrick 'Organization' of the title, and is about the office politics played, largely, between the regular characters. Sinden plays David Pulman, the Machiavellian head of the department whose scheming ensures he usually (but not always) comes out on top. Egan meanwhile is the 'new boy' Richard Pershore, who therefore serves as our point of view character, at least to begin with, as we meet the other characters for the first time when he is introduced to them in turn.
Have I been WFH for so long (thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, it's been almost a full year now) that I need to get my fix of office politics this way? Nah, I think it's safe to say that this is the sort of series I would have watched anyway - it's not quite in the same league as The Power Game, with a much heavier emphasis on the humourous side, but the quality of the drama is of the same type.
At only seven episodes there is also less time to develop intricate plotlines here, but they are enough to tell a self-contained story as Richard Pershore goes through a character arc over the course of them. While I would happily have watched more, especially of Sinden's character, this leaves the series ending on a satisfying note.
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