Margaret John Timewasting" and played Mrs Stone, the school secretary, in the original ten series of "King Street Junior" from 1985 to 1998. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, she appeared in such television programmes as: "Coronation Street", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Z-Cars", "Doctor Who", "Little Britain", "Emmerdale", "Last of the Summer Wine", "Crossroads", "Gavin & Stacey" and "The Mighty Boosh". In the early 1980s, she enjoyed a long run on ITV's daily soap opera "Crossroads" as doctors' receptionist Marian Owen. Between 2007 and 2010, she portrayed Doris in "Gavin & Stacey". At the 18th BAFTA Cymru Film, Television
Ruth Jones in "A Child's Christmases In Wales". In 2010 she starred in the BBC Four comedy "The Great Outdoors" alongside Mark Heap, and in December presented the first of four chat shows on BBC Two, "Ruth Jones' Christmas Cracker". In January 2011 she starred as Carry On actor Hattie Jacques in the BBC Four drama "Hattie", which tells the story of Jacques' affair with her young driver John Schofield while she was married to "Dad's Army" actor John Le Mesurier. In 2008, Jones co-founded Tidy Productions with producer David Peet. The company produced the series Jones presented on BBC Radio Wales