Plot Summary[]
Mr. Lucas has a girl coming to visit him, so he tries to pretend he has a cold to get the day off work. Captain Peacock gets Sister (played by Joy Allen) to check his temperature, which says he is perfectly normal. However, Mrs. Slocombe does have a cold, but refuses to go home. And Miss Brahms, who has an injection to prevent her getting a cold, refuses to work with her. Captain Peacock then decides that the solution is that Mr. Lucas work with Mrs. Slocombe for the day, but he still tries to get sent home sick by falling down the stairs aided by Mr. Mash.
Cast[]
- Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Betty Slocombe
- Trevor Bannister as Mr. Dick Lucas
- Frank Thornton as Captain Stephen Peacock
- John Inman as Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries
- Wendy Richard as Miss Shirley Brahms
- Arthur Brough as Mr. Ernest Grainger
- Nicholas Smith as Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold
- Larry Martyn as Mr. Mash
- Harold Bennett as Young Mr. Grace
- Hilda Fenemore as Daphne Ackroyd
- Bill Martin as Customer with List
- Ann Sidney as The Blue Alteration
- Joy Allen as Sister
- Pamela Cundell as Mr. Lucas' Customer
- Gordon Peters as The Fawn Trousers
- Freddie Wiles as Goddard (uncredited)