- 5 months ago
First broadcast 8th January 1974.
Back from honeymoon Thelma is far from pleased to learn that Terry is seeing Susan, who has a boyfriend Peter back in Canada.
James Bolam - Terry Collier
Rodney Bewes - Bob Ferris
Brigit Forsyth - Thelma
Anita Carey - Susan Chambers
Noel Dyson - Mrs. Chambers (as Noël Dyson)
Norman Mitchell - Jack
Pamela Conway - Gloria (as Lorna Wilde)
Back from honeymoon Thelma is far from pleased to learn that Terry is seeing Susan, who has a boyfriend Peter back in Canada.
James Bolam - Terry Collier
Rodney Bewes - Bob Ferris
Brigit Forsyth - Thelma
Anita Carey - Susan Chambers
Noel Dyson - Mrs. Chambers (as Noël Dyson)
Norman Mitchell - Jack
Pamela Conway - Gloria (as Lorna Wilde)
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00:00Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me, and what became of the people we used to be?
00:16Tomorrow's almost over, the day went by so fast, it's the only thing to look forward to, the past.
00:30Oh, hello, Terry.
00:40Jack, you're here. Just half, please.
00:42Where have you been hiding yourself, Pet?
00:44Been around.
00:45You haven't been around here, we're getting worried.
00:47Looking in the book and wondering if we get holiday this year.
00:50There are other things in life, Jack, than drinking every night.
00:53Oh, just a half, eh?
00:56Hiya, Bob's back.
00:57Yeah, he'll be in in a minute.
00:58Did he have a nice honeymoon?
01:00Apparently.
01:01He was skiing, didn't he?
01:07Apparently.
01:08Hello, Bob. Nice time, was it?
01:12I did not do this skiing.
01:16They won't ask you how you did it, then, eh?
01:19I did it on the aeroplane steps.
01:21Going out there or coming back?
01:24It was coming back.
01:26I felt a bit giddy from the turbulence.
01:29The honeymoon itself was perfect.
01:31I'll have a pint, please, Jack.
01:32Terry?
01:33No, I'm all right.
01:34Oh, what's the matter with him?
01:36I'll be glad to see you back anyway.
01:38So are the shareholders of the brewery.
01:40He hasn't been in much.
01:42Has he not?
01:43Have you not been well, Petal?
01:44Well, maybe he's in love.
01:46I do not spend all my life in pubs.
01:48You do, when they're open.
01:51That lovely.
01:52Get yourself one, will you?
01:53And you, Laurie.
01:54Oh, thanks, Bob.
01:55Welcome back.
01:56Have you been to the hospital, have you?
01:59Yep.
02:00I've got to keep it on another week.
02:02Is it hurt?
02:03No, not really.
02:03It's just a bit itchy.
02:04What's that written on it?
02:06Oh, one of the secretaries at work did that.
02:07She said she was writing me a footnote.
02:11I'll make out what it says.
02:13No, it's in short foot.
02:14Oh, God, they're pulling that down.
02:17Actually, do you know, I think she fancies me.
02:19Who?
02:20Wendy, this secretary at work.
02:21Just because she's written a message on your foot.
02:23You should read the message.
02:24She's a sexy little thing.
02:26She's only 18, you know, but every time she comes in my office,
02:29she always sits on the corner of my desk.
02:31And she always leans right across me
02:33so that my right arm is in contact
02:35with the firm swell of her left breast.
02:37All right, all right, all right.
02:39Just wait till the office party.
02:40Just wait till the office party.
02:42Look, Bob, I'm...
02:43There's another girl appeared since I've been away,
02:45an invoice clerk.
02:45She's a naughty little thing.
02:47Oh, she is naughty.
02:49Naughty little mouth.
02:50What's she written on your plaster?
02:52Meet me in the stationary cupboard
02:53when the rest have gone to lunch.
02:54You didn't.
02:55No, I didn't.
02:56I should think not either.
02:57You're a married man now.
02:59Somebody had locked it.
03:00I couldn't find a key.
03:01I said you're a married man now.
03:04No, but it's true, you know.
03:05It's true what they say about married men
03:07being more attracted to women.
03:09Take April on the switchboard.
03:11Oh, my God.
03:12Now, April's always been very aloof with me.
03:14You know, polite but offhand.
03:17Today she was giving off these very warm vibrations.
03:20Maybe she'd been sitting on the radiator.
03:23Listen, man, listen.
03:23She comes into me office and she's all, er...
03:26smiling and pouting, you know.
03:29Don't do that, Bob.
03:30Please.
03:30Not really sitting with me.
03:32She told me how pleased she was to see me back.
03:35I showed her your back, did you?
03:36Listen, man, I'm trying to tell you
03:38how attractive you are once you're a married man.
03:41She said she'd miss me.
03:42She thanked me for me postcard,
03:43asked me how me leg was,
03:44and when I said it was itchy,
03:46she offered to shove a knitting needle down me plaster.
03:50Oh, that's amazing, isn't it?
03:52Overnight, you've become a typical married man.
03:54You've only just got back from your honeymoon.
03:56Oh, the spare in that hotel.
03:58What hotel?
03:59On the honeymoon, man.
04:01If I hadn't been married, ho-ho.
04:03If you hadn't have been married,
04:04you wouldn't have been on your honeymoon, ho-ho.
04:07There was one.
04:08There was one in particular.
04:09Thelma got quite jealous.
04:10She was called Morag,
04:11domestic science teacher from Dumfries.
04:15Here's your change, Pet.
04:16Thank you, love.
04:17Oh, you do suit that tan, Bob.
04:19Thank you, Pet.
04:20Did you see that?
04:21Did you see that?
04:22See what?
04:23Look, she gave me just what I've been saying.
04:26Oh, rubbish.
04:27You go away as Robert Furris
04:28and you come back thinking you're Robert Redford.
04:31More Burt Reynolds, actually.
04:33That's what Maureen said.
04:35Who on earth is Maureen?
04:37New girl at the filling station.
04:39Do you know, I didn't get four gallons,
04:41but she still gave me quad stamps.
04:44You'd have liked her greasy white overall.
04:46What's that supposed to mean?
04:48Well, you've always had a thing
04:49about women in uniform, haven't you?
04:51Oh, yeah, I suppose so.
04:53Except the Salvation Army.
04:56Even then, some young tambourine players
04:57have given me the shakes.
05:00You should have seen a stewardess
05:01on the plane coming back.
05:02Oh, don't, man, don't.
05:04Stewardesses, oh.
05:05I love it when they wear them shiny stockings
05:07that sort of rustle
05:08when they rub their legs together.
05:10She fancied me.
05:12Oh, come on, not again.
05:14It's true, Maureen, it's true.
05:15There's no denying it.
05:16There's no denying it.
05:18She gave me two dinners.
05:20And then shoved it down the airplane steps.
05:23Let's get down the fattocks
05:24and we've got the wheat sheath.
05:25There's music down the wheat sheath tonight.
05:27Be a lot of naughty there.
05:28Look, look, look.
05:29Control yourself, will you?
05:30Just control yourself.
05:32Why couldn't you behave like this
05:33before you were married?
05:34Why?
05:35Why now when it's too late
05:36you start acting like the sort of mate
05:38I needed when I got back from the army?
05:40Was I, uh...
05:41Was I very boring as a fiancée?
05:43North-eastern champion.
05:45Sorry.
05:46Yeah, well, it can't be helped.
05:48One of life's bitter ironies.
05:50Still, we'll make up for it tonight, though, but...
05:52Uh, no, uh...
05:53No, I can't tonight, Maude.
05:54Pardon?
05:54Well, I've, uh...
05:57I've got something on.
05:58Got something on?
05:58Got what on?
05:59Put it off.
06:00Well, I can't.
06:01But you knew I was coming out tonight.
06:03I told you this was lads' night out.
06:06I told you Thelma had her needlepoint.
06:08Well, I'm very sorry, Bob,
06:09but I can't always fit in with your plans
06:11that Thelma's so encircled.
06:13I'm meeting somebody, that's all.
06:15Who?
06:16Just a girl.
06:16Pardon?
06:16Just a girl.
06:17Well, who?
06:18Well, just somebody I know.
06:20Do I know?
06:21Yes.
06:21Pardon?
06:22Yes!
06:24Well, who?
06:25Just someone.
06:27Don't you think I've got a right to know?
06:28Don't you think I've got a right to know
06:29who you've put above me and the fat ox?
06:31Well, God knows you've done enough to me
06:33in the past few months.
06:34How many solitary bars have you left me standing at
06:36while you went back to wallpaper Thelma?
06:39Oh.
06:41Own back, own back.
06:42How childish.
06:43That's as may be.
06:46You're leaving me, in other words.
06:47In other words, yes.
06:51Of course you don't have to tell me who you're seeing.
06:52All right, I won't.
06:53None of my business.
06:55Your affair.
06:58I'm just a bloke who asked you to be my best man.
07:00I'm just...
07:00Look, I must go.
07:01Well, who is she?
07:05Susan.
07:06Susan?
07:07Thelma's sister, Susan.
07:09Well, where are you seeing her?
07:11Her place.
07:12You can't go there.
07:13Her mother hates the sight of you.
07:14Well, her mother happens to be at Weight Watchers tonight.
07:17Any other questions?
07:19Yes.
07:20What am I going to do?
07:21There should be no problem with all your admirers.
07:23You've mentioned half a dozen since you've been sat there.
07:25Ring them up or show glory of your tan.
07:28You can always go around to Weight Watchers.
07:29You've been eating too many airline dinners.
07:36Are those ski instructors all they're cracked up to be, then?
07:40One was rather dishy.
07:41Bob got quite jealous, especially as he was floundering about on the nursery slopes while
07:46Sven and I...
07:46That was his name, Sven.
07:48Sven?
07:48While we were doing things on the slalom.
07:51Doing what things?
07:52Going in and out of sticks.
07:56Do you remember when we went to Alassio together?
07:59Because you'd just finished with Bob forever.
08:02Those Italians.
08:03You couldn't walk down the street.
08:05We so wanted to be swept off our feet by continental lovers.
08:09Well, I did meet Giorgio.
08:10The waiter from Blackburn.
08:13His father was from Italy.
08:15Hey, lass.
08:16Shall we have another carafino?
08:18Alan, that was yours.
08:21Alan.
08:22Poor Alan.
08:24He said it was bad for his health because I wouldn't let him.
08:31Giorgio said it was bad for his image.
08:35But on the last night, it was warm and starry and he told me he'd love me forever.
08:40Didn't seem to do his health much good.
08:42He was full of cold the next day.
08:43Listen, what mischief did you get up to while we were away?
08:49Thelma, you sounded like an older sister.
08:51Well, you are engaged, you know, Susan, to Peter.
08:54Peter's in Canada.
08:55Oh, I see.
08:56Out of sight, out of mind.
08:57Oh, shut up.
08:59Look, I must go.
09:00What?
09:01Well, I've got to get the car back to Mum.
09:03She's going to Weight Watchers.
09:04Come on, who is he?
09:06Somebody I like very much.
09:08Oh, you don't have to tell me.
09:09Well, I'm not going to.
09:10Well, look, I thought we were going to have a nice natter.
09:13Bob won't be back till late.
09:14No, I can't.
09:15I'm seeing him.
09:17I'll ring you tomorrow.
09:18All right.
09:19Oh, not another evening of Sasha Distel.
09:40Hello, darling.
09:42Hello.
09:43What are you doing home?
09:45Well, it is my home, isn't it?
09:46I do live here, don't I?
09:47Of course you do.
09:49I thought you'd be pleased to see me.
09:50Well, I am, I am.
09:51It's just a surprise.
09:52I thought you were having a boys' night out.
09:54No, no, no, just a swift half.
09:56No, no, no.
09:57I just didn't want to leave you alone.
09:59Oh, you are sweet.
10:01But, you know, I've got nothing in to eat except a tin of ravioli.
10:04Shall we go out, if you like?
10:05Have a curry?
10:06No, I want an evening in, don't I?
10:08What's on the box?
10:10Sasha Distel.
10:11Let's have a curry.
10:13Well, if that's what being in the common market means,
10:15the television full of boring continentals,
10:17French singers and Dutch jugglers and German comedians.
10:22No, you couldn't have a German comedian.
10:25Bob, what's wrong, pet?
10:27Why are you in such an awful mood?
10:29Oh, it's just me foot.
10:30Oh, what did they say at the hospital?
10:31They said I might have to keep it on, indefinitely.
10:35Oh, I'm glad you're home.
10:37Though I had thought I was going to have an evening with Susan,
10:39but she's got a date.
10:41Yes, and you know who with, don't you?
10:43She didn't say.
10:44I'm not surprised.
10:46She's seeing Terry.
10:49Well, how long has this been going on?
10:52It's obvious, isn't it?
10:53While we were on honeymoon.
10:54While they were supposedly getting our house together,
10:56they were busy getting themselves together.
10:59Probably in this room.
11:00Probably on that sofa.
11:05But listen, it's serious.
11:06When she went, she said,
11:07it's someone I like very much.
11:10It is possible to like Terry very much.
11:12I used to like him very much.
11:14Do you like him going out with my sister?
11:15I couldn't give a rat.
11:16Don't worry me.
11:18Go out with your mother as far as I'm concerned.
11:20It doesn't matter to you that Susan's engaged
11:24and Terry's married.
11:25Terry's separated.
11:26If he wants to...
11:27It's his business if he wants to go out with Susan.
11:30Instead of with you, is that it?
11:33Pardon?
11:36That's why you're home early.
11:38Terry stood you up.
11:39Look, are we having that curry or not?
11:42That's why you're in such a foul mood.
11:44I am in a foul mood because of my leg.
11:46How would you like to carry around that thing all day?
11:48What's that written on your foot?
11:50Oh, oh, nothing.
11:51Nothing.
11:51Just someone at work.
11:52That's disgusting.
11:53And who's Wendy?
11:55Wendy?
12:20I'm sorry if I woke you up.
12:31That's all right, that's all right.
12:32Come in, come in.
12:33I'll put some heat on.
12:36Uh, where have you been?
12:37Around Susan's.
12:41How'd you get here?
12:42Well, I walked.
12:43It's more than three miles.
12:44Yeah, I know, but I just fancied a walk and have a think, you know.
12:49Oh.
12:51Uh, do you want a drink or anything?
12:52No, no thanks, mate.
12:55How was the wee, Chief?
12:56Oh, we didn't go.
12:57Where have we been eaten?
12:59Sorry, as bad as that, is it?
13:01It would destroy all known germs.
13:06We went for a curry.
13:08Look, are you sure you want to have a drink or something?
13:10Because I fancy one.
13:11Now, go on.
13:12Good lad.
13:13I've got some scotch.
13:27Here we are.
13:31Duty free.
13:33I'm sorry if I woke you up, kiddo.
13:35That's all right.
13:37We weren't asleep.
13:38You weren't, uh...
13:39No, no, no.
13:42Not on top of curry.
13:48It's all right.
13:53So you've cleaned your plaster up?
13:55Oh, that.
13:56Yeah.
13:58Do you want anything in it?
13:59No, no, kid.
13:59No.
14:05Cheers.
14:05All right.
14:06Cheers.
14:06Cheers.
14:12Didn't it turn chilly tonight, right?
14:17Yes, yes, yes.
14:18That wind goes right through here.
14:20Still as sunny to be expected.
14:22We can't complain, really, though.
14:24It has been incredibly mild.
14:26Oh, yes, yes.
14:32You went to the Star of India.
14:34You're very reasonable there.
14:36Yeah, yeah, I know.
14:41I had chicken biryani.
14:49Thelma had lamb vindaloo.
14:50You know, while you were away, um, Susan and I went there once.
14:57Oh.
15:06What did you have?
15:10Steak and chips are constant, Kerry.
15:12How is Susan?
15:18Well, look, that's the reason I called round, uh, Susan.
15:21I just wanted to have a talk.
15:22Well, I mean, sometimes you've got to, haven't you?
15:24You know, uh, have a talk.
15:26Sure, sure.
15:28I mean, you know me, Bob.
15:30I'm not the sort of person who gets involved or gets serious, but, uh...
15:34Well, while you were away, Susan and me were round here a lot, and...
15:38She'd be hanging up curtains, and...
15:41I'd be putting up your new light fittings.
15:43Oh, it fell off.
15:44What?
15:48The new light fitting that you put up.
15:52It fell off.
15:54Has that any relevance to what I'm trying to say?
15:57No, no, no.
15:58I'm sorry.
15:58I'm sorry.
15:59Please go on.
16:00I'm sorry.
16:01Well, it's just that...
16:04Well, I was beginning to enjoy being the new couple at number eight, and...
16:08Well, you see, when I can't make me mind up about...
16:11...is whether it's because of Susan or the house, but...
16:15Well, I feel at this stage in my life I'm missing out on something.
16:19How does Susan feel?
16:20Well, she doesn't know either.
16:21She's just as confused as me.
16:25She goes back on Sunday, doesn't she?
16:27Yeah, that's the whole point.
16:29And she's engaged.
16:30I know that.
16:31I know that.
16:32That's another thing.
16:33I mean, she says that, well, maybe it's just through me that she's discovering her real feelings about him.
16:40I can see that.
16:42Oh, Bob, please.
16:43Do you mind being...
16:43Sorry.
16:46Sorry.
16:47I can see that, but...
16:48Well, perhaps this feeling, I mean, what you're on about...
16:51Perhaps it's because Thelma and I have got all this.
16:55Well, I know that, Bob, you see, but...
16:58You see, everything that you've got, your house and your marriage and your job and your car and your neighbours and your membership at the badminton club...
17:06I despise all that.
17:08I hate it.
17:10Only these last few days, I've been hating it less.
17:12And that worries me, Bob.
17:13That worries me.
17:15I can see that.
17:18I can see...
17:20It's ironic, isn't it?
17:23What a turnaround a night's been.
17:25Here's me wanting to talk about domesticity and all you want to do is rave off down the wee chief looking for naughty.
17:32Keep your voice down, will you?
17:33Oh, I'm sorry.
17:36She came on an excursion ticket, you know.
17:40Who?
17:42Susan, from Canada.
17:45What about it?
17:46Well, if she doesn't go back on Sunday, she'll lose it.
17:49She'll have to pay the extra.
17:52Why do you go on about these boring irrelevancies?
17:55What's the price of an air ticket got to do with my...
17:58My turmoil?
18:00Are you in a turmoil?
18:02Well, of course I am.
18:03I haven't eaten a thing all day, except a packet of crisps.
18:08Would you like a tin of ravioli?
18:10No, thank you, Bob.
18:13That is not the answer.
18:14Has it helped?
18:15Our little talk.
18:17Do you feel better?
18:17Oh, you've been a tower of strength.
18:19Oh, well, I'm sorry.
18:21Oh, kid, it's not your fault.
18:23I mean, you've got to make your own mind up about these things.
18:25But, well, I just wanted to talk.
18:28I'd better go.
18:29No, don't.
18:30Stay the night.
18:30Stay here.
18:32No, I must go.
18:33Well, I'll get Thelma to run you home.
18:35No, thanks, Bob.
18:36I'd rather walk.
18:43Well, thanks for being so, er...
18:47Well, thanks.
18:53Well, would you believe it?
18:54Thelma, you have no idea.
18:56The things you told me...
18:57What's this about naughty down the week, Chief?
19:03Anyone for more trifle?
19:05Oh, I couldn't, Mrs. Chambers, but I must say this.
19:08It was lovely.
19:09Oh.
19:09I, er...
19:10I might find room for a little bit of cheese, though, but...
19:12I thought you were cutting down this week.
19:14I am.
19:15I am starting tomorrow.
19:16You can't die on a Sunday lunchtime.
19:18Especially as someone's been to a lot of trouble.
19:21Nobody else?
19:23No, thanks.
19:24No, thanks, Mum.
19:25Oh, you've hardly touched a thing, Susan.
19:27Oh, it was lovely, Mum.
19:27I'm honest.
19:28I'm not a big eater.
19:29Well, you used to be.
19:32I hope you're getting the right sort of food in Canada.
19:34You know, it's essential to get the proper vitamins.
19:38There's tons of vitamins in Canada.
19:39What's that supposed to mean?
19:41Well, Canada's a very fertile and productive country.
19:44It's very rich in resources and opportunities.
19:48The prairies, the great lakes, the snow-capped Rockies.
19:51They say you haven't lived unless you've seen the Rockies at dawn.
19:54Oh, that must be a wonderful spectacle, Robert.
19:57I've always had a desire to see the great outdoors.
20:01A yearning to see those frozen wastes.
20:04You should try Hartley Pool in February.
20:07Has he been rude?
20:08Oh, come on, Mum.
20:10When have you ever wanted to see the great outdoors?
20:13All my life.
20:14It's your father that's held me back.
20:16Hard enough to get him to Scarborough on a day trip.
20:21Saskatchewan.
20:24What about Saskatchewan?
20:26That's in Canada.
20:27Ah, well, Susan reckons Canada isn't all that marvellous.
20:30Much the same as here, except with Central Eating.
20:33How can it be the same as here?
20:35A land stretching from the icy wastes of the Arctic
20:38to the very borders of the United States.
20:40You can't judge a place on its size.
20:43Man, I mean, most of it's snow and ice and Eskimos and things.
20:47Nonsense.
20:47Canada is a vastly diversified land,
20:50rich in minerals, forests, water power and fertile plains.
20:53Did you get old level geography?
20:55Aye, under prize at speech day.
20:58Did you really poppy?
21:00Yes, I did, Mrs. Chambers.
21:02It was presented by the Lord Provost,
21:04Harmsworth's Atlas of the World.
21:06Which he has quoted pirate fashion ever since.
21:09Anyway, Susan reckons that the cities are boring.
21:12Oh, Quebec's quite nice.
21:13Ah, yes, Quebec.
21:14The northern half of Quebec has very severe winters.
21:17Bob!
21:17The southern half of Quebec has less severe winters.
21:19We're short.
21:20We're short.
21:21Anyway, your father and I will see Canada for ourselves
21:24when you're married.
21:25When we come and visit you when you're married.
21:27Well, maybe I won't be there.
21:29And what do you mean by that?
21:30I mean, I've been there five years.
21:33Maybe that's enough.
21:34But you've loved it.
21:36You've always said in your letters.
21:38Besides, it's a land of opportunity, like Bob says.
21:41Rich in...
21:42Minerals.
21:43Minerals, forests and water power.
21:44Exactly.
21:46And that's where your fiancé is.
21:47Or have you forgotten about Peter?
21:50He's the one whose picture's by your bedside.
21:52He's the one who's worked and struggled
21:54to qualify as an accountant
21:56so he can give you a rich future
21:58in this brave new world.
22:00Oh, all right, Mum.
22:01Let's forget it, shall we?
22:03Very well.
22:04I'm going to wash up.
22:05And I suggest you go upstairs and get packed.
22:08I'm not going till tomorrow afternoon.
22:10Oh, do you fancy a walk, Susan?
22:11A breath of air?
22:12Yeah, yeah.
22:12What a good idea.
22:14A walk?
22:14A walk?
22:15I'm just going to stretch the legs,
22:16work off some of the trifle.
22:17You hardly touch the trifle, either of you.
22:19Bob, they want to go for a walk.
22:21Football's on in five minutes.
22:22You're not telling me you're going for a walk
22:24with a football on.
22:25Bob, they want to go for a walk.
22:28Who's going for a walk?
22:29It's starting to rain.
22:30You should be doing your packing
22:32and I've just got the kettle on.
22:33Are you coming, then?
22:34Yeah, we won't be long.
22:35Oh, I get it.
22:39I get it.
22:41We have a flash.
22:44You know, there's something going on between those two
22:46and you've done nothing to stop it.
22:47Me?
22:48Bob, what is wrong with you to death?
22:51You're driving us all mad.
22:53What have I said now?
22:55What have I said now?
22:56You know what your sister's like.
22:59You remember the trouble we used to have with her?
23:01All that mummy on the boarding school education,
23:04she comes home from the holidays
23:05and runs off with that boy
23:07who looks after the donkeys on Whitley Bay Sands.
23:10Well, she was only 13 then
23:12and you know how much she liked riding.
23:15And what about that other one?
23:17That one in the pop group, the drummer,
23:19him with the dirty fingernails.
23:21Even your father noticed that one.
23:23Wouldn't have him round the house.
23:24Look, Mum, I did much worse things than Susan at that age.
23:27Yes, but you always knew when to say no, Thelma.
23:31That's true.
23:35Mum, Susan is a grown woman.
23:37It's her life.
23:38Let her get on with it.
23:39All right.
23:40But if she says things like
23:42leaving Canada in five years is enough,
23:44what's one supposed to think?
23:46Well, she probably meant her and Peter moving on,
23:48you know, to America.
23:49She said Peter's often talked about going to California.
23:52Ah, yes, California.
23:53The grandeur of its mountains, canyons,
23:55deserts and valleys.
23:57Stretching from the blue...
23:58Shh!
23:58Shh!
23:59Shh!
23:59Shh!
23:59Shh!
23:59Shh!
24:00Shh!
24:00Shh!
24:01Shh!
24:01Shh!
24:02Shh!
24:02Shh!
24:03Shh!
24:03Shh!
24:04Shh!
24:04Shh!
24:05Shh!
24:05Shh!
24:06Shh!
24:09Well, things have to be said.
24:13Yes?
24:15Things we can hardly say in front of your mother.
24:19You've got her worried.
24:20Still, she's right about some things.
24:22She's right about Canada.
24:23I mean, there's nothing over here to compare with that, is there?
24:26You look at the time first thing in the morning,
24:28it must help you appreciate the Rockies at dawn.
24:31That's a land of opportunities,
24:33as we've heard from Ferris, the human atlas.
24:35Are you encouraging me to go back?
24:38I'm just stating facts.
24:40Depends what you think your future is.
24:43There'll hardly be a glowing golden one here, will it?
24:51I am going back.
24:56You're the one that made going away a problem.
24:59You're the one that clouded the issue.
25:02The issue's clear now, is it?
25:05I think so.
25:08I've had a lovely two weeks.
25:10Honestly.
25:13But I'm going back.
25:16What are you smiling at?
25:19I suppose that's what you'd call being let off the hook.
25:22I've had a lovely two weeks and all.
25:24And I'm glad you're going back.
25:28I'm so relieved.
25:30That you don't think I'm right for you.
25:32I'm sorry, Lee, that you don't think I'm right for you.
25:36We'd better get home and tell your mother the good news.
25:40We might not make it that easy for her.
25:44Come on.
25:44The back.
25:47The back.
25:49Oh, she looks happy enough.
25:52Well, it's her decision.
25:53If she wants to lose that excursion, she won't get a refund.
25:57She won't get a refund.
25:58Now, Mother, please keep calm.
26:01I'm perfectly calm.
26:03Oh.
26:04Just in time for tea.
26:06Thelma.
26:08Mother.
26:09Mrs. Chambers.
26:09You have probably been aware that Susan and I have been, well, for the last two weeks, we've had...
26:17Yes, you've made that perfectly clear.
26:19Yes.
26:20We've had a serious talk about it and we have come to a mutual decision.
26:25Susan's going back to Canada tomorrow.
26:27Back to Peter.
26:28Oh, dear.
26:29Well, it's all for the best, kid.
26:30I'm sure it's okay.
26:31I'm sure you've made the right decision, dear.
26:33But only on one condition.
26:36Only if Peter agrees to bring up Terry's baby as his own.
26:49Oh, you got him in.
26:51Good laugh.
26:51I thought you'd have had that off by now.
26:53Right.
26:53Tomorrow.
26:54It's coming off tomorrow.
26:55See that?
26:57That was the girl that comes to clean the telephones.
27:00Oh, she's got a charming turn of phrase, hasn't she?
27:03I'll have to wipe it off before I go home.
27:06Oh, Thelma had a postcard from Susan today.
27:10Oh, I.
27:10A picture of a Mountie.
27:13Said she had a pleasant flight.
27:15Said she hoped her mother had recovered from that joke.
27:18Oh, why, just recovered myself?
27:23It'll hurt for a while, but that's only to be expected.
27:26Well, keep your weight off it for a few days.
27:30Pardon?
27:32If it hurts, keep your weight off it for a few days.
27:35Oh.
27:37I was, er...
27:38I was referring to your hurts.
27:40You know, Susan.
27:41I'm not hurt over Susan, you sentimental...
27:44Not at all.
27:45Well, I must admit that saying goodbye wasn't easy.
27:48And at the airport, we were both a bit choked.
27:49But as I walked away through that departure lounge,
27:52I knew I'd got to pick myself up.
27:54Got to get her out of me system.
27:56Time's a great healer.
27:57Didn't take long in my case.
27:58I pulled the stewardess at the check-in counter.
28:01Yeah, did her?
28:02I did.
28:03Electric stockings and all.
28:04He was young.
28:06And Susan not even airborne.
28:08Well, I had to bounce back, man,
28:09like a trapeze artist who falls off his wire.
28:11I had to get back up there.
28:14A stewardess.
28:15Yeah.
28:16I'm seeing her in about ten minutes, so I can't stop.
28:18What do you mean you're seeing her?
28:19This was our night out.
28:21Well, I can't pass up a chance like this, can I?
28:23I shall be on over tomorrow.
28:25You're leaving me, in other words.
28:26In other words, yes.
28:28God, you're a selfish little so-and-so, you are.
28:31You know how I look forward to our night's house.
28:33This is the second time in two weeks.
28:36What am I going to do?
28:37A man of your sexual magnetism with half the office drooling over you?
28:41Ring up Maureen or Wendy.
28:42Or go around and see April and get your legs scratched.
28:47Or you could just go home to your wife.
28:50Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me?
29:02What became of the people we used to be?
29:09Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me?
29:15What became of the people we used to be?
29:23Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me?
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