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Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd (1997)

Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
Singapore
Length
8 seasons, 167 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a Singaporean sitcom about an eccentric contractor named Phua Chu Kang who runs a construction company with his family and workers. He wears yellow boots and gets into comic situations with his rival.

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What happens

Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd is a Singaporean sitcom that originally aired on Mediacorp Channel 5 from 25 September 1997 to 11 February 2007, starring Gurmit Singh as Phua Chu Kang, an eccentric general contractor who wears yellow boots and is portrayed as an Ah Beng, and his family, portrayed by Irene Ang, Pierre Png, Tan Kheng Hua, Marcus Ng Yi Loong, and Neo Swee Lin. Charlie Tan and Ray Kuan portray Phua's blue-collared worker laborers, whilst Lim Kay Siu portrays Phua's rival general contractor, Frankie Foo. The series was created by Andrea Teo, written and produced by Ong Su Mann and Mediacorp Studios, and ran for eight seasons and 166 episodes. It was Singapore's second English sitcom after Under One Roof and one of the most popular locally produced English television series in Singapore alongside Under One Roof and Growing Up. The series earned Best Comedy Programme at the Asian Television Awards between 1998 and 2003, while Gurmit won the Best Comedy Performance by an Actor thrice for his role. The sitcom also spawned a musical Phua Chu Kang The Musical, a Malaysian sequel, Phua Chu Kang Sdn Bhd and a movie adaptation, Phua Chu Kang The Movie, featuring its characters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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