8.7/1078 votes#1 - The Managing Director
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1999
Roy Mallard travels to Nottingham to spend a day with Peter Wilson, Managing Director of Zenotech, a company fighting to keep afloat in the stimulating environment of Surface Mount Technology. In other words, it manufactures Thick Film Hybrids for the computer industry. Zenotec is a typical example of the high tech infrastructure that has sprung up in the last 30 years all over Nottingham. Managing director Peter Wilson gives Roy an insight into his inept management skills when he is forced to fire delivery driver Dean Trussler in the face of a new corporate strategy to radically simplify the transport system—by not having one. Roy reports: ""Being cruel in order to be kind is never easy. As Peter is not doing this to be kind, his task of being cruel is even more of a challenge."" But not everything goes to plan and Roy ends up with less of a fly-on-the-wall presence than he'd like. The rest of the staff seem just as incapable as Peter. The sales director, who has a background in oil rig
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- 8.8/1079 votes
#2 - The Estate Agent
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1999
Roy Mallard spends a day with Levick's Estate Agents-a small family firm in Lewes, Sussex. ""It's no surprise that estate agents are so often compared to synchronized swimmers. A glimpse beneath the surface of the underwater lipstick, however, can reveal a different story,"" says Roy.
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- 8.6/1074 votes
#3 - The Police Officer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1999
PC Dave Knight's routine day is transformed into a tense roof-top drama when an insurance company employee threatens to commit suicide. And Roy suffers from vertigo sickness.
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- 8.6/1073 votes
#4 - The Solicitor
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1999
Roy interviews the partners of Chesire solicitors, Broadbent & Broadbent, a firm specialising in matrimonial cases, but it transpires that Nicola and Graham Broadbent have a matrimonial case of their own.
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- 8.6/1081 votes
#5 - The Photographer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1999
Will Rushmore is a Winchester-based freelance photographer. He has given up a safe job in town planning to devote himself to his art. It's a struggle and today could be make or break when he goes for an interview at a smart London art gallery. Could this at last be the start of something big?
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- 8.9/1077 votes
#6 - The Head Teacher
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1999
In the course of a day spent with Stuart Symonds, the Headteacher at King Edward VII Comprehensive, Roy almost discovers the difference between pupil-centred teaching and teacher-centred learning.
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The Best Episodes of People Like Us Season 1
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Network:BBC Two
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Managing Director" is the best rated episode of "People Like Us" season 1. It scored 8.7/10 based on 78 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/20/1999. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Estate Agent".