5/10
One of the early, funny ones
27 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
The girls (Liz Fraser, Joan Sims) stand out (cue laugh). Liz gets to model some undies and Joan dolls up to greet guests at a wine-tasting with predictable results. Mainly the cast wander round London of the 60s meeting a lot of eccentrics and chimpanzees. Kenneth Williams shines as usual as a toffee-nosed language expert who is the only one who can understand Unwinese (as gibbered by Stanley Unwin). Of course the jobs get mixed up, Joan Hickson gets to reprise her hospital Sister role and Kenneth Connor gets sent off on a 39 Steps parody where he bumps into rarely-seen radio star Betty Marsden (why wasn't she made a Dame?). The non-plot descends into slapstick when the team are sent to renovate Unwin's country house (which would now be worth millions). And is that German or Yiddish the mismatched couple are speaking?
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