Jam & Jerusalem | |
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Also known as | Clatterford |
Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Jennifer Saunders |
Written by |
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Starring |
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Theme music composer | The Kinks |
Opening theme | " The Village Green Preservation Society" by Kate Rusby |
Composers | Kate Rusby John McCusker |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Production | |
Running time | 17x30 minutes 2x40 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 24 November 2006 23 August 2009 | –
Jam & Jerusalem (also known as Clatterford in the United States) is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One from 2006 to 2009. Written by Jennifer Saunders and Abigail Wilson, it starred Sue Johnston, with an ensemble cast including Sally Phillips, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Rosie Cavaliero, Patrick Barlow, Joanna Lumley, Maggie Steed, Pauline McLynn, David Mitchell, Salima Saxton, and Doreen Mantle.
The show centred on a Women's Guild in a fictional small West Country town called Clatterford St. Mary. It first aired on 24 November 2006, and the second series began airing on 1 January 2008 with a 40-minute special, [1] [2] finishing on 1 February 2008. The third series was aired as three one-hour specials, [3] and began its broadcast on BBC One on 9 August 2009. [4]
Jam & Jerusalem is set in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary [4] and is based around Sal, a local practice nurse. The surgery's indiscreet Irish receptionist, Tip, is also her best friend, and both are at the centre of community life. Despite this, Sal is not a member of her local Women's Guild, but after the death of her husband, the local GP, and the loss of her job, she soon joins. [5] Tip is married to a farmer, Colin. The chairwoman of the Women's Guild is Eileen Pike, who always wears her chains of office. Other members include lollipop lady Queenie, elderly church organist Delilah Stagg, and Rosie, a cleaner who has an angry and rude alter ego called Margaret. Delilah is absent from the second series except a brief appearance in the first episode. Wealthy Caroline and Susie are slightly separate from the rest of the Guild. Sal's family consists of James, her son, and his wife, Yasmeen. Sal's daughter, Tash, has a son of her own, Raph, and she has a boyfriend Marcus until the end of the second series. [6] Tash's friend Samuel "Spike" Pike, a postman, is a fellow hippie who becomes her husband in the final episode of Series Two. [6] [7]
The first episode of Jam & Jerusalem was recorded in Autumn 2005 as a pilot (not broadcast at the time) and led to the BBC commissioning the rest of the six-part series and a Christmas special, which were filmed in Autumn 2006. The second series was filmed in Autumn 2007, and the third beginning in April 2009. [8] The show was filmed in North Tawton, Devon, [9] on nearby Dartmoor, and in Staines. The first two series were a co-production of the BBC and Saunders & French Productions in association with BBC America; the third was solely a BBC production. [10]
Saunders, who had moved to Devon in 1999, created the show out of frustration at stereotypical portrayals of Devonians on television, as well as a desire to work with Johnston. Saunders wrote the pilot alone, but co-wrote the rest of the show with her longtime personal assistant, Abigail "Abi" Wilson. [11] Wilson was credited for "additional material" for episodes 2–6, then credited alongside Saunders beginning with the Christmas special. [12]
The programme was one of a group of shows recorded in the then-new High-Definition format for a trial run in November 2006 on the BBC.[ citation needed] The theme tune is a cover of The Kinks' " The Village Green Preservation Society" performed by Kate Rusby, whose songs are also used as incidental music, and who wrote the show's score with her longtime collaborator John McCusker. Jam & Jerusalem has no laugh track and is not recorded before a studio audience. The title phrase has traditionally been associated with the Women's Institute in England and Wales, which is popularly supposed to devote much time to the making of jam, and for whom the hymn " Jerusalem" is an unofficial anthem. [13]
Saunders' real life daughters, Ella, Beattie, and Freya Edmondson, all appear in the show: Ella plays a folk singer, whilst Beattie and Freya appear as the daughters of Saunders' character, Caroline, also respectively named Beattie and Freya.
In November 2009, Pauline McLynn announced on her blog that Jam & Jerusalem would not be returning for a fourth series. She later stated that it was the decision of the BBC and not Jennifer Saunders. [14] Saunders later lamented the show's cancellation despite its improving ratings, noting that the cast had offered to take pay cuts for a fourth series, and attributed the cancellation to "some twat in a meeting". [11]
Actor | Character | Episodes | ||
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Series One | Series Two | Series Three | ||
Sue Johnston | Sal Vine | All episodes
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Dawn French | Rosie Bales | All episodes
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Jennifer Saunders | Caroline Martin | All episodes
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Joanna Lumley | Delilah Stagg | 1–4, Special | 1 | No appearance |
Doreen Mantle | Queenie | All episodes | 1–4, 6 | No appearance |
Patrick Barlow | Reverend Hillary | All episodes | 1, 3-6 | 1-4 |
Maggie Steed | Eileen Pike | All episodes
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Pauline McLynn | Tip Haddem | All episodes | All episodes | 1, 2, 5, 6 |
Sally Phillips | Natasha 'Tash' Vine | 1–4, 6, Special | All episodes | All episodes |
Suzy Aitchison | Susie | All episodes | All episodes | 3-6 |
David Mitchell | Dr. James Vine | 1, 2, 4, Special | 1, 4, 5, 6 | 1, 2, 5, 6 |
Salima Saxton | Yasmeen Vine | 1, 2, 4, 5, Special | 1, 2, 4-6 | 1–3, 5,6 |
Rosie Cavaliero | Kate Bales | All episodes | All episodes | 1, 3-6 |
Menna Trussler | Megan Boyd | 1, 2, 6 | 1, 2, 4, 6 | 5 |
Thomas Assafuah | Raph | 1–4, Special | 6 | 1, 3-6 |
Hazel John | Pauline | All episodes | 1, 3, 4 | All episodes |
Robbie Richardson | Colin Haddem | 2, 3, 6, Special | 1, 2, 4-6 | No appearance |
Nigel Lindsay | Marcus | 2–4, Special | 1-5 | No appearance |
Simon Farnaby | Samuel 'Spike' Pike | 3, 5, 6, Special | All episodes | 1, 2, 5, 6 |
Freya Edmondson | Freya Martin | 1, 3, 5, Special | 1, 2, 4 | No appearance |
Elanor Grimes | Janine | 5, 6, Special | 1, 2, 4-6 | 3, 4 |
Clive Russell | Jock | No appearance | No appearance | All episodes |
Actor | Character | Episodes |
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Hywel Bennett | Dr. Mike Vine | Series One: 1 |
Ella Edmondson | Folk singer | Series One: 3 |
Wendy Hill | Mrs Otterley | Series One: 3; Series Two: 1, 2 |
Miriam Margolyes | Joyce Midge | Series One: 4 |
Natalie Grady | Mary Webb | Series One: 4 |
Marcia Warren | Lady Anne Crump | Series One: 5; Series Two: 3 |
Brian Knight | Elijah Truelove | Series One: 5 |
The Magic Numbers | Themselves | Series Two: 2 |
Beattie Edmondson | Beattie Martin | Series Two: 1, 2 |
Helen Blatch | Ida Helston | Series Two: 1 |
Sue Vincent | Ida's daughter | Series Two: 1 |
Jan Hartley | Veronica | Series Two: 3, 4 |
Adrian McLoughlin | Will, cheese factory supervisor | Series Two: 4 |
Dan Mersh | Community support officer | Series Two: 4 |
Alex Kirk | Policeman | Series Two: 4 |
Alexis Bowater | Newsreader | Series Two: 4 |
Simon Saunders | Landlord | Series Two: 4 |
Chris Stanton | Tim | Series Two: 5 |
Patricia Potter | Amy | Series Two: 6 |
Tish | Series Three: 5 | |
Barbara Horne | Registrar | Series Two: 6 |
Ben Chamberlain | Ben | Series Two: 6 |
Kate Rusby and her band | Themselves | Series Two: 6 |
Tim Vine | Tim, the local MP | Series Three: 2 |
Alex Roe | Chris | Series Three: 3 |
Charles Dance | Himself | Series Three: 6 |
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 6 | 24 November 2006 | 26 December 2006 | |
Special | 30 December 2006 | |||
2 | 6 | 1 January 2008 | 1 February 2008 | |
3 | 6 | 9 August 2009 | 23 August 2009 |
No. overall |
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [15] | |
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1 | 1 | "Sudden Death" | Steve Bendelack |
Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 24 November 2006 | 6.86 [16] | |
Dr Michael Vine ( Hywel Bennett) dies of a heart attack, and at the funeral his son Dr. James announces that his wife will be the new practice nurse, putting his mother Sal out of a job. She then struggles to occupy her time, so joins the local Women's Guild, as does Kate Bales, a bereavement counsellor. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " No Names" | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Tea Room" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 1 December 2006 | 4.25 [17] | |
The women decide they want a coffee room at the local
church so they have somewhere to meet up after the morning's service. To pay for the health and safety standards, they decide to put together a bring-and-buy sale to raise money. Sal finally gets rid of her deceased husband's clothes, donating them to the fundraiser; as her children are unwilling to help, the Guild decide they will. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Beating the Bounds" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders | 8 December 2006 | 5.38 [18] | |
After discovering Eileen was adopted, Sal convinces Tip to use
Genes Reunited to search for her birth family. The women are shocked to immediately find the contact details of a blood relative. Although initially angry, Eileen is happy when she discovers she has a brother. Tash asks Sal to take care of Raph for six months, and Sal refuses. Rosie forgets to order the
pasties for a village picnic, so the Guild have to make them themselves. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Problem Daughter" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 15 December 2006 | 4.00 [19] | |
Delilah gets her car seat stuck. Sal and Tash have a major argument about Tash wanting to do a Circus Skills course, and refusing to get a job. However, they later make up. At the surgery, Tip devises a successful plan to get Sal her old job back, by having James' ex-headmistress Joyce Midge ( Miriam Margolyes) come in for a smear. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " The Lark" | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Holy Potato" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 22 December 2006 | <4.39 | |
Rosie, Eileen and Queenie help the Vicar prepare for the
harvest festival. When Rosie sees the face of
Jesus in a
potato, her alter-ego Margaret comes to the surface after the Vicar tells her the face is not there. Meanwhile, the Vicar tries to get some peace and Caroline injures herself at the
pony trials. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "Inspection" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 26 December 2006 | 4.80 [20] | |
During Kate's "Silver Surfers" group, Eileen comes in and reads a letter saying that Guild inspector Lady Anne Crump ( Marcia Warren) will be at their meeting that evening, which makes Eileen panic thinking they will be closed. Meanwhile, the Guild help an old man called Elijah whose wife recently died, and Rosie goes on a celebrity diet. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " Underneath the Stars" | |||||||
7 | S | "Christmas Panto" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders | 30 December 2006 | 4.50 [21] | |
The Guild are organising Cinderella, the village pantomime, and Tash wants to play the lead role as she always does. However, Eileen thinks that, at 36, Tash is too old. Nevertheless, Sal persuades Eileen to let Tash have the role, while James and the Vicar play the Ugly sisters. On the night, Tip goes to the pub rather than perform as the Wicked Stepmother, while Tash gets on well with Prince Charming. Meanwhile, Sal gets help when she decides how to scatter Mike's ashes. Featured songs: Dawn French – " The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"; Rosie Cavaliero – " Nine Million Bicycles"; Suzy Aitchison and Nigel Lindsay – " If You're Not the One"; Sally Phillips – " All by Myself"; Sally Phillips and Nigel Lindsay – " My Heart Will Go On"; Pantomime cast – " Sailing" |
No. overall |
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [22] | |
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8 | 1 | "Website" | Mandie Fletcher |
Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 1 January 2008 | 2.90 [23] | |
As the first anniversary of Mike's death approaches, Sal tells James how much she misses him. Sal teaches James how to be compassionate with his patients and Tash gets a job in tele-sales. Meanwhile, the Guild launch a website and hold a
Victorian
tea so they can put the some
photos on the website. However, Kate and Eileen argue over who will make the website. Delilah flies off her
bike and is rushed to hospital. | |||||||
9 | 2 | "Festival" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 4 January 2008 | 4.80 [24] | |
Tash and Spike plan to go to
Glastonbury, but a ticketless Tash hopes to get past security by pretending to be a
security guard. Caroline is also at Glastonbury to see her son perform. Meanwhile, Sal wants a quiet weekend to herself, but Susie comes round saying she thinks she is pregnant after having an affair. However, after looking at the medical records Tip soon tells Susie she can not be pregnant as the man she had the affair with has had a
vasectomy. Sal's quiet weekend is then ruined further when Tash and Spike come back from Glastonbury early after Tash failed to get past security. | |||||||
10 | 3 | "Rambling" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 11 January 2008 | 3.00 [25] | |
Lady Anne Crump (
Marcia Warren) visits the Guild to judge their competitions. Sal organises the Guild's
ramble, which to Eileen's dismay has no plan or theme, instead Sal says they should spend the time talking and bonding. During the ramble, they by accident meet the Vicar, who is having a
picnic with a woman called Veronica (
Jan Hartley). The Guild then get stranded in
fog. Also, Sal encourages Spike to ask Tash out, but he gets confused and asks her out instead. Tash meanwhile is protesting with her fellow
druids about the
Army practising on nearby land. | |||||||
11 | 4 | "Skirmish" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 18 January 2008 | 2.80 [26] | |
The annual re-enactment of the 1646 Clatterford Skirmish is cancelled by the Council citing health and safety concerns. The Guild then decide to organise it themselves, and plan many events including a minor battle reenactment, in which James plays Charles I. Meanwhile, after an incident at the factory, Rosie steals from the SPAR and has problems with Margaret, her alter-ego. She is then seen at home by James, who suggests a higher dose of medication, which Sal does not allow. Sal then talks to Margaret and appears to solve the problem, although it is some days before Rosie will leave her house. Featured song: Kylie Minogue – " Can't Get You Out of My Head" | |||||||
12 | 5 | "Match" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 25 January 2008 | 3.20 [27] | |
Yasmeen tries to teach the Guild how to successfully play netball ready for a game against the Guild of a neighbouring village, Hole. However, the Guild lose. The next match is bowls, which they nearly win until Rosie gets Clatterford disqualified for indecent exposure. Meanwhile, Tash plans to move in with Marcus. However, Spike writes her a love note telling her to meet him by a tree at 5pm. She runs away from a house viewing to meet Spike, and she accepts his proposal. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " Sweet Bride" | |||||||
13 | 6 | "Wedding" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 1 February 2008 | 3.40 [25] | |
Tash tries to organise her wedding to Spike, but soon realises that everything is too expensive. She then decides to let Sal and the Guild organise the wedding, which then takes place by a river with a fairy theme, and Tash and Spike write their own vows to say in front of the registrar. The reception takes place on a nearby field and afterwards Spike, Tash and Raph go away in a mobile home. Featured songs: Kate Rusby – " Elfin Knight", " Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" |
No. overall |
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [28] | ||||||||
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14 | 1 | "Easter" | Mandie Fletcher |
Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 9 August 2009 | 4.20 [29] | ||||||||
15 | 2 | "Working from Home" | ||||||||||||
Sal discovers an old planning application to convert the barn in the field behind her house and, despite the fact that it is officially too late to object, she enlists the help of the Guild in an effort to stop the development. However, the Guild's support for her cause disappears when new arrival Jock, who is doing the conversion, lets Rosie believe that the barn will become a residence of Charles Dance. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " Kooks"Sal has been having older members of the community visit her house. Unusual attire and aggressive behaviour lead Jock and Eileen to suspect she is a prostitute. This means another embarrassing conversation for James, although the truth does not please him either. | ||||||||||||||
16 | 3 | "Dinner Party" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 16 August 2009 | 3.45 [30] | ||||||||
17 | 4 | "Missing Persons" | ||||||||||||
When Caroline is planning a dinner party for husband John and his friends from London, her attempts to enlist Rosie to help lead her to mistakenly think she is being invited, resulting in an extremely awkward evening when travel troubles result in Sal, the Vicar and Susie being the only other guests at the party. Meanwhile, Jock's attempt to apologise for an unfortunate remark gives Sal yet another problem. As the ladies of Clatterford stage a fashion show, Sal and Jock begin to enjoy each other's company more. Panic ensues for Eileen and Katie when Margaret turns up to cause trouble, and the Vicar goes AWOL. | ||||||||||||||
18 | 5 | "New Beginnings" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 23 August 2009 | 3.97 [31] | ||||||||
19 | 6 | "Ladies in Lavender" | ||||||||||||
Spike and Tash are finally ready to travel the world in their converted mobile library, but a confusion with the gears leads to a call-out for the emergency services, and Sal's house ends up looking like a war zone. Jock agrees to mend the damage, and the thawing of his previously frosty relationship with Sal continues, much to the amusement of Tip and the disgust of Tash. All bets are off when it is finally revealed that the barn is not being converted for Charles Dance at all – Jock just let Rosie jump to that conclusion to get the Guild off his back. This would be bad enough if Jock hadn't promised the Guild an appearance by Mr Dance as their next (and indeed, first) celebrity speaker. |
The first series of Jam & Jerusalem was broadcast on BBC America in the United States. [32] The first series was screened in Australia, starting in December 2007 on the ABC. [33] [34] In late 2007, the show began to air in Canada on BBC Canada, and in India on BBC Entertainment.
The first series and 2006 Christmas Special of Jam & Jerusalem were released in the United States (Region 1) as Clatterford: Season 1, on 8 May 2007. [35] The first series was released in the United Kingdom (Region 2) on 21 January 2008 [36] and in Australia (Region 4) on 3 January 2008. [37]
The Complete Series 2 was released on DVD in the UK on 3 August 2009, and 1 September 2009 in the US. The Complete Series 3 was released on DVD in the UK on 2 August 2010, alongside the Complete Series 1–3.
Series | No. of discs |
Release date | ||
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Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | ||
Series 1 | 2 | 8 May 2007 [38] | 21 January 2008 [39] | 2 January 2008 [40] |
Series 2 | 1 | 1 September 2009 [41] | 3 August 2009 [42] | 29 June 2010 |
Series 3 | 1 | 7 September 2010 [43] | 23 August 2010 [44] | 7 July 2011 [45] |
Series 1–3 | 4 | TBA | 23 August 2010 [46] | 3 November 2011 [47] |
Jam & Jerusalem | |
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![]() Still frame from the
title sequence of Jam & Jerusalem | |
Also known as | Clatterford |
Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Jennifer Saunders |
Written by |
|
Starring |
|
Theme music composer | The Kinks |
Opening theme | " The Village Green Preservation Society" by Kate Rusby |
Composers | Kate Rusby John McCusker |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Production | |
Running time | 17x30 minutes 2x40 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 24 November 2006 23 August 2009 | –
Jam & Jerusalem (also known as Clatterford in the United States) is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One from 2006 to 2009. Written by Jennifer Saunders and Abigail Wilson, it starred Sue Johnston, with an ensemble cast including Sally Phillips, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Rosie Cavaliero, Patrick Barlow, Joanna Lumley, Maggie Steed, Pauline McLynn, David Mitchell, Salima Saxton, and Doreen Mantle.
The show centred on a Women's Guild in a fictional small West Country town called Clatterford St. Mary. It first aired on 24 November 2006, and the second series began airing on 1 January 2008 with a 40-minute special, [1] [2] finishing on 1 February 2008. The third series was aired as three one-hour specials, [3] and began its broadcast on BBC One on 9 August 2009. [4]
Jam & Jerusalem is set in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary [4] and is based around Sal, a local practice nurse. The surgery's indiscreet Irish receptionist, Tip, is also her best friend, and both are at the centre of community life. Despite this, Sal is not a member of her local Women's Guild, but after the death of her husband, the local GP, and the loss of her job, she soon joins. [5] Tip is married to a farmer, Colin. The chairwoman of the Women's Guild is Eileen Pike, who always wears her chains of office. Other members include lollipop lady Queenie, elderly church organist Delilah Stagg, and Rosie, a cleaner who has an angry and rude alter ego called Margaret. Delilah is absent from the second series except a brief appearance in the first episode. Wealthy Caroline and Susie are slightly separate from the rest of the Guild. Sal's family consists of James, her son, and his wife, Yasmeen. Sal's daughter, Tash, has a son of her own, Raph, and she has a boyfriend Marcus until the end of the second series. [6] Tash's friend Samuel "Spike" Pike, a postman, is a fellow hippie who becomes her husband in the final episode of Series Two. [6] [7]
The first episode of Jam & Jerusalem was recorded in Autumn 2005 as a pilot (not broadcast at the time) and led to the BBC commissioning the rest of the six-part series and a Christmas special, which were filmed in Autumn 2006. The second series was filmed in Autumn 2007, and the third beginning in April 2009. [8] The show was filmed in North Tawton, Devon, [9] on nearby Dartmoor, and in Staines. The first two series were a co-production of the BBC and Saunders & French Productions in association with BBC America; the third was solely a BBC production. [10]
Saunders, who had moved to Devon in 1999, created the show out of frustration at stereotypical portrayals of Devonians on television, as well as a desire to work with Johnston. Saunders wrote the pilot alone, but co-wrote the rest of the show with her longtime personal assistant, Abigail "Abi" Wilson. [11] Wilson was credited for "additional material" for episodes 2–6, then credited alongside Saunders beginning with the Christmas special. [12]
The programme was one of a group of shows recorded in the then-new High-Definition format for a trial run in November 2006 on the BBC.[ citation needed] The theme tune is a cover of The Kinks' " The Village Green Preservation Society" performed by Kate Rusby, whose songs are also used as incidental music, and who wrote the show's score with her longtime collaborator John McCusker. Jam & Jerusalem has no laugh track and is not recorded before a studio audience. The title phrase has traditionally been associated with the Women's Institute in England and Wales, which is popularly supposed to devote much time to the making of jam, and for whom the hymn " Jerusalem" is an unofficial anthem. [13]
Saunders' real life daughters, Ella, Beattie, and Freya Edmondson, all appear in the show: Ella plays a folk singer, whilst Beattie and Freya appear as the daughters of Saunders' character, Caroline, also respectively named Beattie and Freya.
In November 2009, Pauline McLynn announced on her blog that Jam & Jerusalem would not be returning for a fourth series. She later stated that it was the decision of the BBC and not Jennifer Saunders. [14] Saunders later lamented the show's cancellation despite its improving ratings, noting that the cast had offered to take pay cuts for a fourth series, and attributed the cancellation to "some twat in a meeting". [11]
Actor | Character | Episodes | ||
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Series One | Series Two | Series Three | ||
Sue Johnston | Sal Vine | All episodes
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Dawn French | Rosie Bales | All episodes
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Jennifer Saunders | Caroline Martin | All episodes
| ||
Joanna Lumley | Delilah Stagg | 1–4, Special | 1 | No appearance |
Doreen Mantle | Queenie | All episodes | 1–4, 6 | No appearance |
Patrick Barlow | Reverend Hillary | All episodes | 1, 3-6 | 1-4 |
Maggie Steed | Eileen Pike | All episodes
| ||
Pauline McLynn | Tip Haddem | All episodes | All episodes | 1, 2, 5, 6 |
Sally Phillips | Natasha 'Tash' Vine | 1–4, 6, Special | All episodes | All episodes |
Suzy Aitchison | Susie | All episodes | All episodes | 3-6 |
David Mitchell | Dr. James Vine | 1, 2, 4, Special | 1, 4, 5, 6 | 1, 2, 5, 6 |
Salima Saxton | Yasmeen Vine | 1, 2, 4, 5, Special | 1, 2, 4-6 | 1–3, 5,6 |
Rosie Cavaliero | Kate Bales | All episodes | All episodes | 1, 3-6 |
Menna Trussler | Megan Boyd | 1, 2, 6 | 1, 2, 4, 6 | 5 |
Thomas Assafuah | Raph | 1–4, Special | 6 | 1, 3-6 |
Hazel John | Pauline | All episodes | 1, 3, 4 | All episodes |
Robbie Richardson | Colin Haddem | 2, 3, 6, Special | 1, 2, 4-6 | No appearance |
Nigel Lindsay | Marcus | 2–4, Special | 1-5 | No appearance |
Simon Farnaby | Samuel 'Spike' Pike | 3, 5, 6, Special | All episodes | 1, 2, 5, 6 |
Freya Edmondson | Freya Martin | 1, 3, 5, Special | 1, 2, 4 | No appearance |
Elanor Grimes | Janine | 5, 6, Special | 1, 2, 4-6 | 3, 4 |
Clive Russell | Jock | No appearance | No appearance | All episodes |
Actor | Character | Episodes |
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Hywel Bennett | Dr. Mike Vine | Series One: 1 |
Ella Edmondson | Folk singer | Series One: 3 |
Wendy Hill | Mrs Otterley | Series One: 3; Series Two: 1, 2 |
Miriam Margolyes | Joyce Midge | Series One: 4 |
Natalie Grady | Mary Webb | Series One: 4 |
Marcia Warren | Lady Anne Crump | Series One: 5; Series Two: 3 |
Brian Knight | Elijah Truelove | Series One: 5 |
The Magic Numbers | Themselves | Series Two: 2 |
Beattie Edmondson | Beattie Martin | Series Two: 1, 2 |
Helen Blatch | Ida Helston | Series Two: 1 |
Sue Vincent | Ida's daughter | Series Two: 1 |
Jan Hartley | Veronica | Series Two: 3, 4 |
Adrian McLoughlin | Will, cheese factory supervisor | Series Two: 4 |
Dan Mersh | Community support officer | Series Two: 4 |
Alex Kirk | Policeman | Series Two: 4 |
Alexis Bowater | Newsreader | Series Two: 4 |
Simon Saunders | Landlord | Series Two: 4 |
Chris Stanton | Tim | Series Two: 5 |
Patricia Potter | Amy | Series Two: 6 |
Tish | Series Three: 5 | |
Barbara Horne | Registrar | Series Two: 6 |
Ben Chamberlain | Ben | Series Two: 6 |
Kate Rusby and her band | Themselves | Series Two: 6 |
Tim Vine | Tim, the local MP | Series Three: 2 |
Alex Roe | Chris | Series Three: 3 |
Charles Dance | Himself | Series Three: 6 |
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 6 | 24 November 2006 | 26 December 2006 | |
Special | 30 December 2006 | |||
2 | 6 | 1 January 2008 | 1 February 2008 | |
3 | 6 | 9 August 2009 | 23 August 2009 |
No. overall |
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [15] | |
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1 | 1 | "Sudden Death" | Steve Bendelack |
Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 24 November 2006 | 6.86 [16] | |
Dr Michael Vine ( Hywel Bennett) dies of a heart attack, and at the funeral his son Dr. James announces that his wife will be the new practice nurse, putting his mother Sal out of a job. She then struggles to occupy her time, so joins the local Women's Guild, as does Kate Bales, a bereavement counsellor. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " No Names" | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Tea Room" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 1 December 2006 | 4.25 [17] | |
The women decide they want a coffee room at the local
church so they have somewhere to meet up after the morning's service. To pay for the health and safety standards, they decide to put together a bring-and-buy sale to raise money. Sal finally gets rid of her deceased husband's clothes, donating them to the fundraiser; as her children are unwilling to help, the Guild decide they will. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Beating the Bounds" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders | 8 December 2006 | 5.38 [18] | |
After discovering Eileen was adopted, Sal convinces Tip to use
Genes Reunited to search for her birth family. The women are shocked to immediately find the contact details of a blood relative. Although initially angry, Eileen is happy when she discovers she has a brother. Tash asks Sal to take care of Raph for six months, and Sal refuses. Rosie forgets to order the
pasties for a village picnic, so the Guild have to make them themselves. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Problem Daughter" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 15 December 2006 | 4.00 [19] | |
Delilah gets her car seat stuck. Sal and Tash have a major argument about Tash wanting to do a Circus Skills course, and refusing to get a job. However, they later make up. At the surgery, Tip devises a successful plan to get Sal her old job back, by having James' ex-headmistress Joyce Midge ( Miriam Margolyes) come in for a smear. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " The Lark" | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Holy Potato" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 22 December 2006 | <4.39 | |
Rosie, Eileen and Queenie help the Vicar prepare for the
harvest festival. When Rosie sees the face of
Jesus in a
potato, her alter-ego Margaret comes to the surface after the Vicar tells her the face is not there. Meanwhile, the Vicar tries to get some peace and Caroline injures herself at the
pony trials. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "Inspection" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 26 December 2006 | 4.80 [20] | |
During Kate's "Silver Surfers" group, Eileen comes in and reads a letter saying that Guild inspector Lady Anne Crump ( Marcia Warren) will be at their meeting that evening, which makes Eileen panic thinking they will be closed. Meanwhile, the Guild help an old man called Elijah whose wife recently died, and Rosie goes on a celebrity diet. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " Underneath the Stars" | |||||||
7 | S | "Christmas Panto" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders | 30 December 2006 | 4.50 [21] | |
The Guild are organising Cinderella, the village pantomime, and Tash wants to play the lead role as she always does. However, Eileen thinks that, at 36, Tash is too old. Nevertheless, Sal persuades Eileen to let Tash have the role, while James and the Vicar play the Ugly sisters. On the night, Tip goes to the pub rather than perform as the Wicked Stepmother, while Tash gets on well with Prince Charming. Meanwhile, Sal gets help when she decides how to scatter Mike's ashes. Featured songs: Dawn French – " The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"; Rosie Cavaliero – " Nine Million Bicycles"; Suzy Aitchison and Nigel Lindsay – " If You're Not the One"; Sally Phillips – " All by Myself"; Sally Phillips and Nigel Lindsay – " My Heart Will Go On"; Pantomime cast – " Sailing" |
No. overall |
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [22] | |
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8 | 1 | "Website" | Mandie Fletcher |
Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 1 January 2008 | 2.90 [23] | |
As the first anniversary of Mike's death approaches, Sal tells James how much she misses him. Sal teaches James how to be compassionate with his patients and Tash gets a job in tele-sales. Meanwhile, the Guild launch a website and hold a
Victorian
tea so they can put the some
photos on the website. However, Kate and Eileen argue over who will make the website. Delilah flies off her
bike and is rushed to hospital. | |||||||
9 | 2 | "Festival" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 4 January 2008 | 4.80 [24] | |
Tash and Spike plan to go to
Glastonbury, but a ticketless Tash hopes to get past security by pretending to be a
security guard. Caroline is also at Glastonbury to see her son perform. Meanwhile, Sal wants a quiet weekend to herself, but Susie comes round saying she thinks she is pregnant after having an affair. However, after looking at the medical records Tip soon tells Susie she can not be pregnant as the man she had the affair with has had a
vasectomy. Sal's quiet weekend is then ruined further when Tash and Spike come back from Glastonbury early after Tash failed to get past security. | |||||||
10 | 3 | "Rambling" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 11 January 2008 | 3.00 [25] | |
Lady Anne Crump (
Marcia Warren) visits the Guild to judge their competitions. Sal organises the Guild's
ramble, which to Eileen's dismay has no plan or theme, instead Sal says they should spend the time talking and bonding. During the ramble, they by accident meet the Vicar, who is having a
picnic with a woman called Veronica (
Jan Hartley). The Guild then get stranded in
fog. Also, Sal encourages Spike to ask Tash out, but he gets confused and asks her out instead. Tash meanwhile is protesting with her fellow
druids about the
Army practising on nearby land. | |||||||
11 | 4 | "Skirmish" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 18 January 2008 | 2.80 [26] | |
The annual re-enactment of the 1646 Clatterford Skirmish is cancelled by the Council citing health and safety concerns. The Guild then decide to organise it themselves, and plan many events including a minor battle reenactment, in which James plays Charles I. Meanwhile, after an incident at the factory, Rosie steals from the SPAR and has problems with Margaret, her alter-ego. She is then seen at home by James, who suggests a higher dose of medication, which Sal does not allow. Sal then talks to Margaret and appears to solve the problem, although it is some days before Rosie will leave her house. Featured song: Kylie Minogue – " Can't Get You Out of My Head" | |||||||
12 | 5 | "Match" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 25 January 2008 | 3.20 [27] | |
Yasmeen tries to teach the Guild how to successfully play netball ready for a game against the Guild of a neighbouring village, Hole. However, the Guild lose. The next match is bowls, which they nearly win until Rosie gets Clatterford disqualified for indecent exposure. Meanwhile, Tash plans to move in with Marcus. However, Spike writes her a love note telling her to meet him by a tree at 5pm. She runs away from a house viewing to meet Spike, and she accepts his proposal. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " Sweet Bride" | |||||||
13 | 6 | "Wedding" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 1 February 2008 | 3.40 [25] | |
Tash tries to organise her wedding to Spike, but soon realises that everything is too expensive. She then decides to let Sal and the Guild organise the wedding, which then takes place by a river with a fairy theme, and Tash and Spike write their own vows to say in front of the registrar. The reception takes place on a nearby field and afterwards Spike, Tash and Raph go away in a mobile home. Featured songs: Kate Rusby – " Elfin Knight", " Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" |
No. overall |
No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) [28] | ||||||||
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14 | 1 | "Easter" | Mandie Fletcher |
Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 9 August 2009 | 4.20 [29] | ||||||||
15 | 2 | "Working from Home" | ||||||||||||
Sal discovers an old planning application to convert the barn in the field behind her house and, despite the fact that it is officially too late to object, she enlists the help of the Guild in an effort to stop the development. However, the Guild's support for her cause disappears when new arrival Jock, who is doing the conversion, lets Rosie believe that the barn will become a residence of Charles Dance. Featured song: Kate Rusby – " Kooks"Sal has been having older members of the community visit her house. Unusual attire and aggressive behaviour lead Jock and Eileen to suspect she is a prostitute. This means another embarrassing conversation for James, although the truth does not please him either. | ||||||||||||||
16 | 3 | "Dinner Party" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 16 August 2009 | 3.45 [30] | ||||||||
17 | 4 | "Missing Persons" | ||||||||||||
When Caroline is planning a dinner party for husband John and his friends from London, her attempts to enlist Rosie to help lead her to mistakenly think she is being invited, resulting in an extremely awkward evening when travel troubles result in Sal, the Vicar and Susie being the only other guests at the party. Meanwhile, Jock's attempt to apologise for an unfortunate remark gives Sal yet another problem. As the ladies of Clatterford stage a fashion show, Sal and Jock begin to enjoy each other's company more. Panic ensues for Eileen and Katie when Margaret turns up to cause trouble, and the Vicar goes AWOL. | ||||||||||||||
18 | 5 | "New Beginnings" | Mandie Fletcher | Jennifer Saunders, Abigail Wilson | 23 August 2009 | 3.97 [31] | ||||||||
19 | 6 | "Ladies in Lavender" | ||||||||||||
Spike and Tash are finally ready to travel the world in their converted mobile library, but a confusion with the gears leads to a call-out for the emergency services, and Sal's house ends up looking like a war zone. Jock agrees to mend the damage, and the thawing of his previously frosty relationship with Sal continues, much to the amusement of Tip and the disgust of Tash. All bets are off when it is finally revealed that the barn is not being converted for Charles Dance at all – Jock just let Rosie jump to that conclusion to get the Guild off his back. This would be bad enough if Jock hadn't promised the Guild an appearance by Mr Dance as their next (and indeed, first) celebrity speaker. |
The first series of Jam & Jerusalem was broadcast on BBC America in the United States. [32] The first series was screened in Australia, starting in December 2007 on the ABC. [33] [34] In late 2007, the show began to air in Canada on BBC Canada, and in India on BBC Entertainment.
The first series and 2006 Christmas Special of Jam & Jerusalem were released in the United States (Region 1) as Clatterford: Season 1, on 8 May 2007. [35] The first series was released in the United Kingdom (Region 2) on 21 January 2008 [36] and in Australia (Region 4) on 3 January 2008. [37]
The Complete Series 2 was released on DVD in the UK on 3 August 2009, and 1 September 2009 in the US. The Complete Series 3 was released on DVD in the UK on 2 August 2010, alongside the Complete Series 1–3.
Series | No. of discs |
Release date | ||
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Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | ||
Series 1 | 2 | 8 May 2007 [38] | 21 January 2008 [39] | 2 January 2008 [40] |
Series 2 | 1 | 1 September 2009 [41] | 3 August 2009 [42] | 29 June 2010 |
Series 3 | 1 | 7 September 2010 [43] | 23 August 2010 [44] | 7 July 2011 [45] |
Series 1–3 | 4 | TBA | 23 August 2010 [46] | 3 November 2011 [47] |