
Thieves Like Us
2007 · BBC Three · 30 min · 1 season
S01E06 · The Office Job
Mon, 26 Feb, 11:00 pm
Bex and Ollie have job interviews with a telesales firm. Mel tries to find out why Weasel is searching for them.
About
Thieves Like Us is a six-part sitcom featuring a classic comic double act - Bex and Ollie, a couple of jobbing burglars. The lads make a living out of lifting stuff from factories, warehouses, offices and shops, and take work wherever they can find it.
Episodes
- E01
The Warehouse Job
Mon, 22 Jan· 30 minBex and Ollie have a lucrative job lined up - a warehouse full of widescreen televisions and an eager buyer with cash on the hip. The only problem is that Mel's on the warpath. Bex doesn't know what he's done, only what will happen to him and his lucrative deal if Mel ever catches up with him.
- E02
The Alarm Job
Mon, 29 Jan· 30 minMel has an important meeting in the morning but she can't get to sleep. A neighbour's burglar alarm is ringing across the road and no one's home to turn it off. The police don't care and her earplugs are useless. Perhaps her good-for-nothing burglar boyfriend is good for something after all.
- E03
The Teapot Job
Mon, 5 Feb· 30 minElectric's house has been turned over and among the items nicked is a precious antique teapot. Electric wants it back and he isn't kidding. Bex and Ollie must help him recover his property or find another buyer for their gear.
- E04
The Jackets Job
Mon, 12 Feb· 30 minBex and Ollie are banged up in the cells and they've got Norris and Roland for neighbours. Weasel's confident he finally has the lot of them at last, but then again he hasn't reckoned on the lengths to which their brief will go to get his clients off and earn his fee.
- E05
The Footballer Job
Mon, 19 Feb· 30 minMel's 13-year-old cousin, Wayne, has his bike thrown in the river by Premiership bad boy, Claude Delacroix, for allegedly scratching his sports car. Mel wants an apology, and Bex and Ollie are the guys to get it.
- E06
The Office Job
Mon, 26 Feb· 30 minBex and Ollie have job interviews with a telesales firm. Mel tries to find out why Weasel is searching for them.
Cast

Andrew Buckley
Roland

Chereen Buckley
Belinda

David Bradley
Electric

Fraser Ayres
Ollie