Both Ends Meet is a 1972 British TV sitcom for London Weekend Television set around women workers in a sausage factory. It featured veteran actress Dora Bryan as Dora Page a working class widow raising her son alone. The first series of seven episodes went to air as Both Ends Meet, but the second series was titled simply Dora. The supporting cast included Deddie Davies and newcomer Wendy Richard Series cast Dora Bryan, as Dora Page Ivor Dean, as factory owner Julius Cannon Wendy Richard, as Maudie Pat Ashton, as Glad Deddie Davies, as Flo Timothy Bateson, George Rogers Fanny Carby Hilda Rogers Meadows White, Mr. Page Paddy Ward, Fred Joan Benham, Mrs. Templeton-Smythe John Lyons Harry David Howe, Ronnie Patricia Hamilton, Miss Cornelius (guest appearances by the British actress, in real life wife of lead actor Ivor Dean) Episodes Firm Foundations Random Sample The Lamp Still Burns Party Piece The Spring Collection Come Fly with Me Fancy Meeting You Here Conversation Piece - Series 2 "Dora" Episode 1 Dear Little Agatha Jane Dinner at Eight Get Me to the Pub on Time A Man About the House The Jet Setters References 1972 British television series debuts ITV sitcoms