Screenshot from the ‘Lower the Donkey’ (1986) episode of Girls on Top (1985-86) (13)

Girls on Top (1985โ€“86)

Lower the Donkey

(1986)

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| TV Episode | Colour | 24min
| Stars: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Redfern
| S2 | 11th December, 1986

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Girls on Top (1985โ€“86)
A feminist writer snags herself a Chelsea flat but has to take in flatmates to help pay the bills.

Plot

Lady Carlton has won a new kitchen in a competition, but when her microwave explodes, all the lights go out and Shelley thinks that the world is about to end. She grovels her way into Amandaโ€™s makeshift shelter but finds thereโ€™s no food there so they send out Jennifer to forage.

Episode cast

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Dawn French
Amanda Ripley
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Marsh
Michael Redfern
Delivery Man
Ruby Wax
Shelley DuPont
Arthur Smith
Delivery Man
A new picture of the talented and lovely British actress Joan Greenwood under contract to the J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
Lady Chloe Carlton
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Pictures

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Screenshot from the โ€˜Lower the Donkeyโ€™ (1986) episode of Girls on Top (1985-86) (13)

Production

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Ed Bye
Director
Dawn French
Writer
Jennifer Saunders
Writer

Companies

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Central Independent Television
Production company