About this season
Cowboys is a British sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The show was created by Peter Learmouth whom would go on to create Granada television sitcom Surgical Spirit and starred Lancastrian Character-actor Roy Kinnear as Joe Jones "whose small building firm hardly seems to do anything right at all" with co-stars David Kelly as 'Wobbly' Ron, "Oscar-Winning Writer" Colin Welland as Geyser and James Wardroper with Debbie Linden and Janine Duvitski. The show is based on the British colloquial use of "cowboy" to describe a workman of doubtful professionalism e.g. a "cowboy builder".
Episodes (7)
1. Was It Eddie Croucher?
Aired 20 November 1980 • 26 min
A big painting job arrives just as things look very bleak for Joe Jones Ltd.
2. On Top of Old Smokey
Aired 27 November 1980
3. Bell Book & Candle
Aired 4 December 1980
4. Hurricane Leslie
Aired 11 December 1980
5. Pieces Of Hate
Aired 18 December 1980
6. Operation Douche
Aired 8 December 1981
7. Middle For Diddle
Aired 15 December 1981