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The phrase "nearest and dearest" often evokes a sense of warmth, family, and close relationships. It's a term that brings to mind the people we hold closest to our hearts—our family, friends, and loved ones. However, in the context of British television, "Nearest and Dearest" takes on a different meaning, referring to a classic sitcom that captured the hearts of many.
"Nearest and Dearest" was a British television sitcom that aired from 1968 to 1973. The show starred Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as Nellie and Eli Pledge, siblings who inherit their father's pickle business in Colne, Lancashire. The series was known for its humor derived from the characters' squabbles, malapropisms, and the unique dynamics of a family-run business.
The premise of the show was simple yet effective: Nellie, a hard-working spinster, and Eli, a womanizing slacker, must run the family business together to inherit their father's fortune. This setup led to comedic situations and memorable catchphrases that are still recognized by fans of classic British comedy.
Despite the on-screen chemistry between Baker and Jewel, it was widely reported that the two did not get along off-screen, adding a layer of intrigue to the show's history. Their tumultuous relationship is often cited as one of the most toxic in British sitcom history.
"Nearest and Dearest" also serves as a cultural touchstone, reflecting the era's social norms and the changing landscape of British comedy. It's a show that, while rooted in the 1960s and 70s, continues to find new audiences who appreciate its wit and charm.
For those who grew up watching "Nearest and Dearest," the show remains a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era of television. And for newcomers, it offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of British humor and the timeless appeal of family dynamics in storytelling.
Whether you're revisiting the series or discovering it for the first time, "Nearest and Dearest" stands as a testament to the enduring nature of well-crafted comedy and the universal themes of family and ambition. It's a piece of television history that continues to be nearest and dearest to many viewers' hearts.
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"Nearest and Dearest" was a British television sitcom that aired from 1968 to 1973. The show starred Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as Nellie and Eli Pledge, siblings who inherit their father's pickle business in Colne, Lancashire. The series was known for its humor derived from the characters' squabbles, malapropisms, and the unique dynamics of a family-run business.
The premise of the show was simple yet effective: Nellie, a hard-working spinster, and Eli, a womanizing slacker, must run the family business together to inherit their father's fortune. This setup led to comedic situations and memorable catchphrases that are still recognized by fans of classic British comedy.
Despite the on-screen chemistry between Baker and Jewel, it was widely reported that the two did not get along off-screen, adding a layer of intrigue to the show's history. Their tumultuous relationship is often cited as one of the most toxic in British sitcom history.
"Nearest and Dearest" also serves as a cultural touchstone, reflecting the era's social norms and the changing landscape of British comedy. It's a show that, while rooted in the 1960s and 70s, continues to find new audiences who appreciate its wit and charm.
For those who grew up watching "Nearest and Dearest," the show remains a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era of television. And for newcomers, it offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of British humor and the timeless appeal of family dynamics in storytelling.
Whether you're revisiting the series or discovering it for the first time, "Nearest and Dearest" stands as a testament to the enduring nature of well-crafted comedy and the universal themes of family and ambition. It's a piece of television history that continues to be nearest and dearest to many viewers' hearts.
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00:00Nearest and Dearest, P-584-10, Part 1.
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00:48Have another dinky pie, Mrs. Clegg.
01:01Mrs. Melody.
01:02Are they your own?
01:03Yes.
01:04Oh, you mean the...
01:05Yes.
01:06Would you like the recipe?
01:07Thank you very much.
01:08Well, as I was saying, Miss Clegg, we're a very select group and we have to take great
01:17care in choosing members for the Town Businesswomen's Club.
01:20Oh, yes.
01:21You can't have any Tom Dickerary in there, can you?
01:23Of course.
01:24We just opened our lovely new premises.
01:26Oh.
01:27Have you ever been in the club?
01:28Oh, no.
01:29I'm not married.
01:30Not the club, club.
01:31No, the club.
01:32No, thank you, Miss Clegg.
01:33We're going to the round table dinner tonight, so I'd better leave a bit of room.
01:42Oh, yes.
01:43I think they always, always face you at those dues, you know.
01:45My late father, he was an odd fellow, you know.
01:48He always used to bring home a big bag of bits for the cat.
01:52Really?
01:53He was a manx, you know.
01:55Your father?
01:56No, the cat.
01:57No, er, me dad came from Aslingdon.
02:00I'm glad you mentioned your family.
02:02You know, we do like to know the full background of all our prospective members.
02:06Yes.
02:07I take it you don't mind being carefully vetted?
02:09Oh, no.
02:10He'll be here tomorrow morning to have a look at the horse.
02:13I'll get a reference then.
02:14Hello, Lily.
02:15Oh, bloody hell.
02:16Come in, Lily.
02:17This is my cousin, Lily, and her husband, Walter.
02:26Mrs Clegg and Mrs Mildew.
02:28Mellowdew.
02:29I mean, Mellowdew, yes.
02:32Mrs Clegg and Mrs Mellowdew, just, I've just been telling them I've never been in the club
02:36and so they're going to try and put me into it.
02:38Haven't we met somewhere before?
02:39Your face seems terribly familiar from somewhere.
02:40I'll tell you where it might be.
02:41You know, opposite the town hall, there's a big statue of a fella stood standing there
02:51with a sword in one hand and a book in the other.
02:53Well, that isn't a statue of him, is it?
02:56Oh, no.
02:57He stands underneath that every Saturday selling football finals.
03:02I don't recall seeing much of you at the social functions in the town, Miss Clegg.
03:06Oh, well, it's not because of the want of invites, you know.
03:09But our Eli, that's my brother, you know, Mr Pledge, he's very shy.
03:12He's something of a recluse?
03:14Well, he would be, only he's never at home.
03:17Oh, dear old pals.
03:20Joy, old pals.
03:22Hello together.
03:24He's a lovely boy.
03:27Who's a lovely boy he is?
03:33You're a star and a gentleman.
03:37Give us a kiss.
03:40Oh, we'll meet again.
03:43Somewhere, somewhere.
03:46Little thing you used to do.
03:48You remember, go on, go on, go on.
03:50I'm so lonely.
03:52Let me wind the cleaner, I'll kill him.
03:54Lonely.
03:55Miss Mary.
03:56Shut up.
03:57Hey, hey.
03:58Come on.
03:59Hey, you and Eli's come back.
04:01And I think he's had one or two.
04:03Hey, don't let him come in.
04:04Keep him out there.
04:05At all costs.
04:06Would you mind playing bless this house?
04:11Look as though you mean it.
04:13Get off, get off, get off.
04:15Hey, what's up with him, Stan?
04:17He's gone mad, he's gone mad.
04:18Oh, Eli, pledge.
04:19What's the idea?
04:20Coming in, acting as though you're drunk.
04:22Hey, hey.
04:23Oh, hey.
04:24Are we having a little sing song, are we?
04:26I'll sing you a little song.
04:28Please don't burn our lavatory down.
04:31Mother has promised to pay.
04:34Father's away on the ocean blue.
04:37The cat's in the family way.
04:40Hey, hey, hey, it's the bloody chimps' tea party.
04:45Have you had some sort of an accident?
04:47I don't think so, no.
04:48Well, you will have.
04:49I thought I'd never get home, I nearly.
04:51Why didn't you go to that football match?
04:53They threw me off shore.
04:54I said I were a bloody nuisance.
04:56I had to get a taxi all the way from Bolton, all the way from Bolton.
05:00Lily, Lily, what have you stopped playing for?
05:02Play that other thing.
05:03I only know who Nirvana are.
05:05Let me tell my love story.
05:07Hey, hey, hey, do you think it's gone off, did it?
05:10Bloody hell, it's Marianne Fether and Mick Jagger.
05:15Have you had a sip, have you?
05:17Hey, hey, you're having an orgy with that little Eli, aren't you?
05:21That's what you do, you're having an orgy.
05:22I think we'd better go.
05:24Hey, don't, you're not going.
05:25Now, I've come, have you?
05:26Blimey, you're a right little sexpot, you are.
05:29You are, you're all women.
05:31Don't you talk to me like that.
05:32You are, you're lovely.
05:33My love, you know my husband is chairman of the Waterworks Committee.
05:36I don't care if he waits on in a Chinese chip shop.
05:39Hey, hey, give us a kiss, give us a kiss.
05:41No!
05:42I thought you, I thought you said he was shy.
05:45Well, he is, it's just his way of covering up.
05:49Well, I'm drunk.
05:50I'll see if you can't fight, wear a big hat.
05:52Pull him up, go on, pull him up.
05:54I hope this won't stop me from joining your organism.
05:59I think we'd better leave that for the moment.
06:02Well, what he does is nothing to do with me, it's no increment.
06:05Well, the committee will be discussing it.
06:07Perhaps we could call again and see you sometime.
06:10Hey, hey, Candy, come here, come here.
06:12Go on, go on, get rid of your pal.
06:14Hey, does she strip? Is she a stripper?
06:16Hey, where have they gone, where have they gone, where have they gone?
06:19Oh, they've gone.
06:20They've gone, they've gone.
06:22Now, look, now, look, you've done something to offend them, haven't you?
06:28Give me those bloody balloons and get to bed.
06:31No, don't take my balloons off me, I'll fall down.
06:34Don't touch them.
06:36Bloody stupid, give me the balloons and get to bed.
06:39I warned you, didn't I?
06:49Er...
06:52Oh!
06:53Oh!
06:56Judy, Judy, come on, Judy, Judy.
06:59Come on, Judy, time for breakfast.
07:02Judy, Judy.
07:04Come on, have a bite and then I'll muck you out after.
07:07Oh!
07:12Oh, hello, you, have you woke up?
07:15Hey, you're not lying on my Lloyd George, are you?
07:20What the hell's your Lloyd George?
07:22My tortoise.
07:25Oh, here he is.
07:28Is that a tortoise?
07:30I've used that twice during the night.
07:40Hey, I keep him up here.
07:42I'm giving him his breakfast.
07:44Never mind his breakfast, give me that bottle.
07:47Oh, oh, oh.
07:49Oh, I needed that.
07:51Hey, you shouldn't have drank that, Eli.
07:53Why?
07:54I use that for polishing his shelf.
07:59He'll not need that lettuce.
08:01He's had all my bedclothes.
08:03What's he doing in my room?
08:05This isn't your room.
08:07You wouldn't stop in your room.
08:09You said it was revolving too fast.
08:12This is the attic.
08:13Attic?
08:14Yeah, you said you wanted to be as close to God as you could get.
08:21How did you get me up them steep stairs?
08:23We didn't do.
08:25Hey, me and Miss Nellie got a block and tackle and hoisted you up to the window.
08:32You left me here all on my own all night?
08:34I might have died.
08:36Then you'd be sorry, wouldn't you?
08:38Hey, you and Nellie wouldn't.
08:41Don't shake the bed, Stan.
08:52No use going out now. They're not open yet.
08:57Oh, good morning, darling.
08:59I looked out at wind. It was such a beautiful day.
09:02Thought I'd go for a bit of a walk.
09:04Go for a walk?
09:05You've never been for a walk before opening time yet.
09:08Don't come it.
09:09Oh, shut up.
09:10And stop rattling them cornflakes.
09:13I'll rattle your ear all for you in a minute.
09:16I'll never forgive you for coming in drunk
09:18I'll rattle your ear all for you in a minute.
09:20I'll never forgive you for coming in drunk and making a beast of yourself.
09:23I wasn't drunk.
09:24Wasn't drunk?
09:25You'd so much drink in you, if I put a tap in your belly button and turned it on,
09:30you'd be up to your neck in it.
09:34God!
09:37Blood and stomach fills. Get on! Stan!
09:39Is that yours, young Eli?
09:41Where did you get it?
09:42A chap on the Sharabang brought it.
09:44What Sharabang?
09:46The one you got thrown off yesterday.
09:48Hey, and driver says if you don't pay for all the windows you broke,
09:52he's going to come in here and stuff that rattle down your throat.
09:56Bring him in, Stan, and I'll make him a cup of tea.
10:00Where is it? Where is it?
10:02He's going to shove it down me throat.
10:04Here you are. You shove it down and I'll turn it round.
10:08Hang on, hang on. Hang on, hang on.
10:10Now, look.
10:11Hey, is that a scar you've got down your face?
10:14Hey, if I broke your windows, it's only right that I pay for them.
10:17What's the damage?
10:18Seven windows at £4 each. That's 28 quid.
10:21That's a bit steep, innit?
10:23And then there's the matter of the sliding roof.
10:25Just a minute. Your chariot ain't got a sliding roof.
10:28It bloody well has now.
10:30Hey, well, how much is all that?
10:33Another tenner. That's £38, two and six, you owe me.
10:36What the hell's the two and six for?
10:38That's for the whip round.
10:40We always have a whip round for the driver.
10:42Oh, yeah. Hey, he's right, Eli.
10:44You always have a whip round for the driver.
10:46Oh, shut up. So are you going to pay up or are you going to get thumped?
10:49Make him pay up first and then thump him.
10:51No, no. No, I can't pay.
10:53You've got a bit of money saved up. Make it me Christmas present.
10:56Go on. Hey, I'll never touch another drink.
10:58Never touch another drink?
10:59No, I swear off it for life.
11:00Are you sure?
11:01Yes.
11:02All right, then. I'll give you another chance.
11:04Right.
11:05Here you are, then.
11:06Just write this down.
11:08What?
11:09I, Eli, pledge...
11:12Hereby swear to give up the demon drink
11:15and never to taste another drink in my life.
11:18So hereby do I become a teetalker.
11:22Right.
11:23Now, you sign that or else I'll hold you while he thumps you.
11:27All right, all right.
11:29It's a far, far better thing I do now than I have ever done before.
11:33You can say that again.
11:34It's a far, far better thing...
11:35Shut up!
11:38History has been made in this house.
11:40You have signed the pledge.
11:42This is a momentous occasion.
11:47I think you're quite right, Alan.
11:49Yes.
11:50I think it calls for a drink.
12:10How long is it now, then, Eli?
12:20How long's what?
12:21Since you turned teetotal.
12:23Seven days, six hours, 35 minutes.
12:27Hear that?
12:28You see, before he signed the pledge, he didn't know what day it was.
12:32Of course, our Walter hasn't touched it, you know, for over ten years.
12:36Touched it? I bet he can't even find it.
12:41That's enough of that. You're not in a tap room now, you know.
12:44I wish I was.
12:45Wish you were.
12:46Well, you've got a nice home.
12:48A lovely home.
12:49Yes. You've got your health.
12:50Your health's everything.
12:51What more do you want?
12:52A bloody drink!
12:56You are acting very strange, Eli Pledge.
12:59Only yesterday I caught him putting antifreeze in his tea.
13:04And while we're on that subject,
13:06you've been messing about with my shaving tackle again, haven't you?
13:09Only to make sure it was all there.
13:11She made a mark on me aftershave bottle.
13:13Thought I'd been drinking it.
13:15You haven't been drinking aftershave, have you, Eli?
13:18Of course I haven't.
13:20It burns all the blebs off your tongue.
13:23You're weak, Eli Pledge.
13:25She's right, you know, Eli. You're your own worst enemy.
13:28Not while I'm about, he's not.
13:30I've got you on the straight and narrow and I'm going to keep you on it.
13:37How long have we had these curtains?
13:41See, everything seems new to him since he signed the pledge.
13:44He's rediscovering the simple things.
13:47Only this morning, he tied his own shoelaces.
13:52I've got crackers in a minute!
13:54Let's have a game of cards.
13:55Walter's not playing cards. I owned enough of him last time.
13:58He had me up all night.
14:00Did he?
14:01Kept saying he wanted to go abundance
14:03and if he couldn't go abundance, he might manage a solo.
14:10What?
14:11How could you?
14:13That's what I want to know, how could he?
14:18Why don't, er...
14:20Why don't you get your stamp collection out and have a look at it?
14:23I don't want to.
14:25Well, why don't you finish that jigsaw puzzle, you know?
14:28Where the Mauritania's docking at Fleetwood.
14:31I can't do it. I won't.
14:33Well, do something. Get yourself going.
14:36I suppose I could always take the dog for a walk.
14:39Well, I'm going to dog.
14:40Well, there must be somewhere we could hire one.
14:43Let's make our own enjoyment, eh?
14:45Let's have a game, eh?
14:47Now, let's see.
14:48You think of a name of a fish, you see.
14:52Like eel, cod or place or something like that, you see.
14:57Now, I've got to think of the name of a song
15:00with the name of that fish in it.
15:02You've got that? Now, think of a name of a fish.
15:05Salmon.
15:13Salm-enchanted-y.
15:22It's bloody pathetic.
15:25You see, we haven't had a drink and we're enjoying ourselves.
15:30I could have had more fun having all my teeth out.
15:35Teeth? Walter, come on.
15:37We've got to collect them from vendors at half-past five.
15:39Hey, what's he going to have done to his teeth?
15:41He's having a new silencer fitted.
15:43Come on, love.
15:45Oh.
15:48You know, you're not all that upset about that pub, are you?
15:52They love me at that pub.
15:54Love you?
15:55They only like you when you put your hand in your pocket.
15:58That's if they don't like you for yourself.
16:00What about that time when you knocked that pile of pennies over?
16:03They made you put them all back, didn't they?
16:07Nobody helped you.
16:09Meet some very interesting people through drinking.
16:12Yes, I think the most interesting was that coal man you brought home.
16:17The one that sat on the cat.
16:20You're interfering with my private life with your drinking.
16:23You know, those two women that came today.
16:25I mean, that's another door you've slammed in me face
16:28and they wanted me to join their club.
16:30They won't want to know anything about me now.
16:33Anyway, you're quite right about the drink.
16:36Well, it doesn't apply now, does it?
16:39Drinking.
16:41I mean, I feel, feel, feel...
16:45Much better since I gave it up.
16:48Drinking.
16:51Good.
16:58I think I'll just, er...
17:01No, I won't.
17:05I might as well.
17:08No, it doesn't matter. I've got them here.
17:10Oh.
17:14It's a very nice day, isn't it?
17:18I think I'll just, er...
17:22What are you doing?
17:24Nothing. Can't I stand at me own doorway?
17:27You don't want to come with me, do you? I might be going to...
17:30Well, anyway.
17:32Are you? No.
17:41What the hell's up with you?
17:44Hey, you've been stuck to me like a bread bolt this whole week, haven't you?
17:50You think I'm one of them secret drinkers, don't you?
17:52You think I'm one of them drinkers
17:54that hides a bottle of whisky in the lavatory system.
17:56No, I don't think you're one of those.
17:58I think you're one of those that has half a bottle of whisky
18:01and ties a piece of string round it,
18:03puts it down the lavatory into the U-bend.
18:06Where are you going?
18:08We don't want it blocking the drains, don't do it!
18:12You don't want it blocking your brains up either, do we?
18:17My, the cringe, it's Eli.
18:19Hello, Eli. We thought you were dead.
18:21Not dead. Just starting to live, really, Arthur.
18:24Eh? You look as though they've just dug you up.
18:26My, I trade for minutes like this last week.
18:28What are you having? Something else?
18:30Not drinking, Arthur.
18:32No selling.
18:34A good pub always has a jar of pickled onions on the counter.
18:37Makes the customers drink more.
18:41All right, then, Eli. Come on, what are you going to have?
18:44Not for me. What?
18:46No, I've lost all taste for it. You what?
18:48Yes, I've given up drinking, Arthur.
18:50It was wrecking me private life.
18:52Eh? Drinking is your private life.
18:54What's come over you?
18:56Ah, do not tempt me, brother. I have seen the light.
18:59Look at that.
19:01What steaming hill's that?
19:03That is a drunkard's liver.
19:05That is what it looked like when they opened him up.
19:08Drink did that.
19:10Where did you get it?
19:12Our Nelly gave it to me.
19:14Said it would remind me of what drink does to you.
19:16I'm on the water now.
19:18Do you know what temperance actually means?
19:20Yes. Not drinking and doing what our Nelly tells me.
19:23Temperance, Eli, is when you don't have too much,
19:25but you don't have too little either.
19:27But you don't have too little either.
19:29You have just enough to get drunk.
19:31Is that what it means?
19:33A double shot's coming up.
19:35Give us it.
19:37Hang on, hang on, hang on.
19:39No.
19:41I nearly didn't smell that on me breath.
19:43Well, you want to drink vodka then?
19:45Vodka?
19:47No taste, no smell. You stick to that and she'll never know.
19:49Right, give us it then.
19:51I'll make up a bottle to take home.
19:53A little bit of lime and lemon
19:55and a lot of vodka.
19:57Tastes like a soft drink,
19:59it smells like a soft drink,
20:01but, by hell, it's hard underneath.
20:03Well, I thank you very much and I'll take two bottles.
20:05Whatever you do, don't shake it up.
20:07I lost a customer that way.
20:09How?
20:11Blew his leg off running home.
20:13Well, I'll tell you what.
20:15You stick on with them pickles.
20:17I'd better be getting off. She'll get suspicious.
20:19Now, where the hell's me drunkard's liver?
20:21Bloody hell!
20:23I've just eaten it.
20:31Hang on, hang on.
20:35I haven't touched a drop.
20:37You haven't? You've been in that pub.
20:39Yes, but I haven't been drinking. I've been selling.
20:41Ah, pickles.
20:43And I bought you a packet of crisps, your favourite flavour,
20:45kippers and onions.
20:47Let me smell your breath.
20:49Yeah, I believe you, thousands wouldn't.
20:51What's that?
20:53Limeade, love.
20:55Limeade? That's never limeade.
20:57Oh, no. Well, good, have a sup then, have a sup.
20:59Yeah.
21:01Well, very nice.
21:05Not bad at all, not bad at all.
21:07Something new just come out.
21:11Well, save us a drop.
21:13I'm sorry, I really am.
21:15Yes, you have a drink as well, love.
21:17Now, don't let's drink it out of the bottle.
21:19You see,
21:21you don't need alcohol, you see,
21:23to drink, you see, to make you happy, do you?
21:25No.
21:27I mean, a touch of lime and a touch of lemon
21:29and some aerated water
21:31and it's lovely.
21:33Cheers.
21:35Cheers, love.
21:37Cheers, love, cheers.
21:47I say...
21:49What, what, what?
21:51What's white and what's green and what's white
21:53and jumps about?
21:55A frog butty.
21:57You've earned it.
22:01Hey, hey, hey, hey, what you laughing at, what you laughing at?
22:03Oh, nothing.
22:05What, love, what?
22:07No, I mean, I'm very pleased with you.
22:09Are you? Yes.
22:11You've got more in you than I thought you had.
22:15That's very true, that.
22:17No, I mean,
22:19underneath it all,
22:21you're a lovely-natured lad.
22:25You're not such a bad old pig yourself, you know.
22:29That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
22:31Go on.
22:33I don't know why you can't get some nice,
22:35lovely woman
22:37who doesn't snap you up
22:39because you're a little
22:41belter.
22:47And it's lovely.
22:49It's nice. Not only does it refresh you,
22:51but it prolapses you
22:53as well.
22:55True.
22:57Yeah, Nellie,
22:59you know that drunkard's liver you gave me?
23:01Yes.
23:03I was only doing it to frighten you.
23:05A chappy
23:07poor batty.
23:13A ratty.
23:15Frank Buttersby.
23:19Frank Buttersby?
23:21Yes.
23:23It were his dance.
23:29APPLAUSE
23:33Hey, Nellie.
23:35It wasn't, was it?
23:37No.
23:39Oh.
23:41I only did it to frighten you.
23:43It was only some beetroot
23:45I put in a pickle jar.
23:49It won't do him any harm, he'll be all right.
23:51Yes.
23:53It had gone off, though.
23:55No, no, no.
23:57You stay where you are.
24:01If it's the insurance man,
24:03tell him I've changed my mind
24:05about putting that other shilling on you.
24:09Oh, it's you again.
24:11Yes.
24:13Is your sister in?
24:15Yes. Who wants her?
24:17Mrs Clegg?
24:19You don't even remember me, do you?
24:21Are you like this every day?
24:23Yes.
24:25Have you come about the job?
24:27Hey, we only have the best pickles here, you know.
24:29I'd be grateful if you'd tell your sister
24:31that the committee has decided to accept her after all
24:33as a member of the TBW club.
24:35Club, club, club, club.
24:37Hey, do they have drinking after hours?
24:39We don't want to penalise her
24:41for the behaviour of the rest of her family.
24:43She can't be blamed for that.
24:45Every family has a black sheep.
24:47I had a cat once.
24:49A pal of mine.
24:51Is that your sister in there?
24:53Who shall I tell has gone?
24:55Oh, Miss Clegg.
24:57Having another musical evening?
24:59Yes.
25:01I passed by your window
25:03in the cool of the night.
25:05Suck it to me, kid.
25:07Darling, you were watching
25:09so still and so quiet.
25:11Swing it, baby.
25:13I passed by your window
25:15this morning at three.
25:17Please tell me
25:19that you emptied all.
25:21LAUGHTER
25:23APPLAUSE
25:49APPLAUSE
26:19APPLAUSE
26:25Nearest and Dearest
26:27P584-10
26:29Part 1
26:3315 seconds
26:49MUSIC
27:19Have another dinky pie,
27:21Mrs Clegg.
27:25Are they your own?
27:27Yes.
27:29Oh, you mean the...
27:31Yes.
27:33Would you like the recipe?
27:35Thank you very much.
27:37Well, as I was saying, Miss Clegg,
27:39we're a very select group
27:41and we have to take great care
27:43in choosing members
27:45for the town business women's club.
27:47And, of course, we just opened
27:49our lovely new premises.
27:51Have you ever been in the club?
27:53Oh, no, I'm not married.
27:55LAUGHTER
27:57Not the club club,
27:59no, the club.
28:01No, thank you, Miss Clegg.
28:03We're going to the round table dinner tonight
28:05so I'd better leave a bit of room.
28:07Oh, yes, I think they always always face you
28:09at those dues, you know.
28:11My late father, he was an odd fellow, you know.
28:13He always used to bring home
28:15the cat.
28:17He was a manx, you know.
28:19Your father?
28:21No, the cat.
28:23No, my dad came from Aslingdon.
28:25I'm glad you mentioned your family.
28:27You know, we do like to know the full background
28:29of all our prospective members.
28:31I take it you don't mind being carefully vetted?
28:33Oh, no.
28:35He'll be here tomorrow morning
28:37to have a look at the horse.
28:39I'll get a reference then.
28:41Hello, Nellie.
28:43Come in, Nellie.
28:45This is my cousin Lily
28:47and her husband Walter.
28:49Mrs Clegg
28:51and Mrs Mildew.
28:53I mean Mellowdew, yes.
28:55Mrs Clegg and Mrs Mellowdew
28:57I've just been telling them
28:59I've never been in the club
29:01so they're going to try and put me in tonight.
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