Series 2, Episode 1
Originally broadcast 19 Feb. 1979
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Basil bets on a horse, which is forbidden by Sybil, and wins 75 pounds. Whilst Basil tries to cover this up, the intermittently deaf Mrs Richards claims someone in the hotel stole her money. When both sets of money turn up at the same time, Basil has some explaining to do. |
Guest Appearances:
Mr Yardley ...... Marvyn Pascoe
Mr Thursdon ...... Robert Lankesheer
Mrs Richards ...... Joan Sanderson
Mr Firkins ...... Johnny Shannon
Mr Mackintosh ...... Bill Bradley
Mr Kerr ...... George Lee
George Lee, who plays Mr Kerr in this episode (arriving at the end to deliver Mrs Richard's vase and the lost money), also appears in The Builders. In that episode he again played a delivery man, arriving to deliverer a garden gnome.
Memorable Moments:
Basil: There's your bath.
Mrs Richards: You call that a bath? It's not big enough to drown a mouse, it's disgraceful!
Basil: [muttering] I wish you were a mouse. I'd show you.
Basil: Is this a piece of your brain?
Mrs Richards: I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil: You can see the sea! It's over there between the land and the sky.
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[Mrs Richards comes downstairs to complain about not having any lavatory paper]
Mrs Richards: There's no paper in my room. Why don't you check these things? That's what you're being paid for isn't it?
Polly: Well we don't put it in the rooms.
Mrs Richards: What?
Polly: We keep it in the lounge.
Mrs Richards: In the lounge?
Polly: I'll get you some. Do you want plain ones or ones with our address on it?
Mrs Richards: Address on it?
Polly: How many sheets?
[Mrs Richards looks shocked]
Polly: Well how many are you going to use?
[Basil wins money on a horse and is trying to hide the fact from Sybil]
Sybil: You look happy to me Basil
Basil: No I'm not dear
Sybil: All that dancing about, singing and rubbing your hands.
Basil: No, just my way of getting through the day dear. The Samaritans were engaged.