- Back to the Floor (UK TV series)
"Back to the Floor" was a series on
BBC2 in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in whichCEO s of large companies would go "back to the floor". It won "Best Feature" at theBritish Academy Television Awards 1999 .eries 1
Episode 1 (Broadcast 28/10/1997)- Working holiday. Terry Brown of
Unijet spends a week as a rep inTenerife .Episode 2 (Broadcast 04/11/1997)- A class apart. Headmistress Gillian DuCharme teaches in a comprehensive.
Episode 3 (Broadcast 11/11/1997)- Running water. Bob Baty of
South West Water returns to the frontline.Episode 4 (Broadcast 18/11/1997)- Drop in rank. General Sir Hew Pike becomes a junior officer in the
Army .Episode 5 (Broadcast 25/11/1997)- Crawling about. Peter Cottee of Terminex works as a pest controller in
London .Episode 6 (Broadcast 02/12/1997)- Pillow talk. Ann Lloyd becomes an auxiliary nurse.
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Episode 1 (Broadcast 10/11/1998)- Seeing red. Tony Marshall, MD of
Butlins samples life as aredcoat .Episode 2 (Broadcast 17/11/1998)- Back on site. Tony Pidgley works as a site manager on his own muti-million pound development.
Episode 3 (Broadcast 24/11/1998)- Home truths. Heather Rabatts, Chief Exectutive of
Lambeth Council , becomes a housing trainee.Episode 4 (Broadcast 01/12/1998)- Top dog. Peter Davies, DG of the
RSPCA , works as an inspector inLeeds .Episode 5 (Broadcast 08/12/1998)- A copper's lot. Police chief Paul Whitehouse goes back on the beat.
Episode 6 (Broadcast 15/12/1998)- Man on the move. Grant Whitaker becomes a mover for
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Episode 1 (Broadcast 28/10/1999)- Supermarket swap.
Sainsbury's Chief Executive Dino Adriano works as an Assistant Floor Manager.Episode 2 (Broadcast 04/11/1999)- Down to earth. Roger Cato becomes a Customer Service Duty Manager at
Heathrow airport .Episode 3 (Broadcast 11/11/1999)- On the rails. The Chief Executive of West Anglian
Great Northern Line works as a platform supervisor.Episode 4 (Broadcast 18/11/1999)- Fast food. David Ford of
Gardner Marchant trains as a catering Manager.Episode 5(Broadcast 25/11/1999)- The write stuff. David Sullivan of the
Daily Sport hustles as a reporter.Episode 6 (Broadcast 02/12/1999)- Child's play. The head of PGL looks after 24 children for a week.
Episode 7 (Broadcast 09/12/1999)- Breaking the mould.
Wedgewood 's Brian Patterson works on the production line.Episode 8 (Broadcast 16/12/1999)- No place like home. David Batts cleans and washes for his own
Radisson -Edwardian hotel chain.eries 4
Episode 1 (Broadcast 01/11/2000)- 400 weddings and a...
Sandals boss, Steve Garley, spends a week as a wedding co-ordinator in theCaribbean .Episode 2 (Broadcast 08/11/2000)- Behind bars. Prison Service Director General,
Martin Narey , turns 'screw' at Parkhurst.Episode 3 (Broadcast 15/11/2000)- Binman. Tom Riall, MD of the country's biggest waste disposal company,
Onyx , spends a week on the bins.Episode 4 (Broadcast 22/11/2000)- Musseling in.
Belgo boss,Luke Johnson , dishes out the mussels and the frites.Episode 5 (Broadcast 29/11/2000)- Working girl.
Ann Summers head,Jacqueline Gold , stitches bras and demonstrates sex products.Episode 6 (Broadcast 06/12/2000) Changing homes. Head of
Carillion , Britain's biggest building company, Sir Neville Simms spends a week knocking down walls.Episode 7 (Broadcast 13/12/2000)- Into the Lion's den. Chairman of
Millwall football club ,Theo Paphitis , spends a week on the staff at The Den.Episode 8 (Broadcast 20/12/2000)- What's in store.
House of Fraser group boss, John Coleman, becomes a sales assistant for a week.eries 5
Episode 1 (Broadcast 30/10/2001)- Cruising. American multi millionaire Bob Dickinson, president of
Carnival Cruise Lines , goes back to work on one of his own liners.Episode 2 (Broadcast 06/11/2001)- Burger king. French business man Eric Bonnot, head of the
Burger King fast-food chain in the UK, swaps the boardroom for a week's work behind the counter at the Liverpool branch.Episode 3 (Broadcast 13/11/2001)- Hovis. Peter Baker, MD of British Bakeries, swaps the boardroom for a week of putting crosses on hot-cross buns, scooping up litres of garlic butter with his hands, and chanting business Mantras in his
Newcastle upon Tyne bakery.Episode 4 (Broadcast 20/11/2001)- Central park. Just ten days after the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center , Dr Regina Perrugi, president of theNew York Central Park Conservancy , leaves herFifth Avenue office to work as a gardener in Central Park, where duties include cleaning dog mess and cleaning up after drug addicts.Episode 5 (Broadcast 27/11/2001)- Ambulance. Adrian Lucas, Chief Executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service, returns to the streets of Glasgow as a member of the ambulance crew.
Episode 6 (Broadcast 04/12/2001)- Women's prison USA. John Ferguson, head of the world's largest private prison firm, heads for
New Mexico as he works for a week a guard at one of his organisation's own women's prisons.Episode 7 (Broadcast 18/12/2001)- Dating agency. As head of the UK's largest dating agency, Louise Hansen's job is to make profits from lonely hearts.
Episode 8 (Broadcast 19/04/2002)- Hoover. Despite making the world's most famous vacuum cleaners, the Hoover factory near
Glasgow is fighting for its future.
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