Never
Mind The Quality, Feel The Width
 For 15 years, Irish-catholic trouser maker Patrick Michael
Kevin Aloysius Brendan Kelly has been working for Emanuelle
(Manny) Cohen, a Jewish jacket maker, in their back-street
workroom in Whitechapel in the East End of London.
Then the two decide to combine forced and form a partnership,
recognising that each needs the others skill.
More than ever before they become the most argumentative of
sparring partners, needling each other as well as the cloth, each
being incapable of understanding the other's religious beliefs.
Rabbi Levy and Father Ryan often visit to separate the quarrelling
pair (and while they're at it, order new suits).
The series originated from a 1967 Armchair Theatre
production (which starred John Bluthal and Frank Finlay). Its
potential was recognised and a series commissioned.
 During
its four year run a number of guests appeared in single episodes
of NMTQ, among them Dennis Price, David Kossoff (who
appeared as himself) and Chelsea footballer, Peter Osgood.
The tailors were also reunited for a 1972 full-length feature
film which also starred Yootha Joyce and Bill Maynard.
Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width was once heralded
by the World Council of Churches as an example of inter-religious
unity. The final episode (And A Yarmulke To Match) has
never been aired.
John Bluthal had previously supplied the voice for Commander
Zero in the Gerry Anderson puppet series, Fireball XL5.
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