- Charlie Roper, George's long-lost brother, comes to visit. He is a charmer who once dated Mildred and he gives George a thirty-year-old letter which seems to state that George is still liable to be called up for military service, as he ignored the letter at the time. George wants to hide in the attic and sends away a man who has come to sell Mildred a car thinking he is a policeman before the mistake is rectified.—don @ minifie-1
- George Roper (Brian Murphy) does a magazine love test, and the audience realises he's terrible. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce) has a 150 pound cheque to buy a second-hand car. George's brother Charlie (Peter Birrel) visits them with a 30-yeared-old letter for G. Roper, telling him to enlist. During the short meeting, we realise that Mildred and Charlie used to be lovers, although George doesn't know it. Charlie never settled down, and was unfaithful to all her girlfriends.
Their neighbour Jeffrey Fourmile (Norman Eshley) is worried about criminality rates. At the pub, with his friend Roland Finch, he blames the nearby estate dwellers. His son Tristam (Nicholas Bond-Owen) has been stealing apples from Mirs Bolsover's garden, and Jeffrey makes a big deal out of it.
George starts panicking: he even wants to move to the attic and wears Mildred's sunglasses at home. He also scares Turner away, the man who was going to sell Mildred a car, so Mildred gets really angry. Jeffrey suggests she buy a car from Roland, who is a car dealer.
Mildred and George go to the enlisting office, and there they find that it was Gloria, George's brother, who had been called to the army, as she had voluntaried. Later, when Mildred is about to buy the car which Roland offers, a police officer appears telling her that the car was reported to have been stolen.
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