Written by Alan Coren,[1] it stars Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina.
The Losers was made for ITV by ATV and was produced and directed by Joe McGrath.
Sydney Foskett is a wrestling promoter who discovers young new wrestler and part-time footballer, "The Butcher", whose real name is Nigel.
Foskett, realising that the public love a loser, devises ways for "The Butcher" to lose without the dimwitted Nigel to know what is happening.
[1] A region 2 DVD containing restored editions of the surviving episodes was released by Network on 21 January 2013[3]