- 12 hours ago
First broadcast 30th October 1978.
Robin and Vicky are offered the chance to open a restaurant in Brighton.
Richard O'Sullivan - Robin
Tessa Wyatt - Vicky
Tony Britton - James Nicholls
David Kelly - Albert
Betty Alberge - Cynthia Henderson
Keith Marsh - Arthur Henderson
Robin and Vicky are offered the chance to open a restaurant in Brighton.
Richard O'Sullivan - Robin
Tessa Wyatt - Vicky
Tony Britton - James Nicholls
David Kelly - Albert
Betty Alberge - Cynthia Henderson
Keith Marsh - Arthur Henderson
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00:00I don't know.
00:30Right, that's about it for tonight, Albert.
00:43Ed Cain, we all packed you up and went home.
00:45Yes, the accounts can always be finished some other time.
00:47Will you please keep quiet? I'm trying to sort this lot out.
00:50I think you've broken his concentration, sir. That's bad.
00:53Yes, keep your voice down, Albert, otherwise he won't be able to carry on.
00:57He'll have to pack up and then...
00:58We can all have a little drink.
01:01You keep on like this. We shall all be here for the rest of the night.
01:05Where's Victoria?
01:06Well, she's almost finished, too. She's just seeing off the last customers.
01:10There we are.
01:11Oh, thank you. That was an excellent steak. It was really tender.
01:14It was just like cutting soup.
01:16Oh, thank you. Do tell the chef how much we enjoyed it.
01:18I will. Actually, he's my husband.
01:21Oh, isn't that nice?
01:22I wish I'd married a man who could cook like that.
01:25Perhaps you'd like to meet him?
01:27It was such a nice meal, I would.
01:29But he must have had a long and tiring evening.
01:31Oh, that's all right. He copes very well. He'd be delighted.
01:34Excuse me.
01:36Robin!
01:39Robin!
01:41Sorry, madam. The ticket office is closed.
01:43Please pay at your desk, mate.
01:44Stop fooling about. There's a nice couple here. I said you'd come and meet them.
01:48Oh, thank you very much.
01:49So, mention it.
01:50Shall I come just as I am, or shall I put on something more exotic?
01:53Just as you are.
01:54All right, you'll have to take that responsibility.
01:56I haven't got any trousers on.
01:58Oh, come on.
02:00You won't be a second.
02:01We're in the business as well, you know.
02:04We're on a small restaurant in Brighton.
02:05Do you really?
02:06Oh, here he is.
02:07My husband, Robin.
02:08Oh, nice to meet you, lad.
02:09My name's Henderson.
02:11This is my wife, Cynthia.
02:12Hello.
02:12Nice to meet you.
02:13Thank you for coming.
02:14Call again another time.
02:15We're just about to close, actually.
02:16Oh, we just wanted to say what a marvellous meal we've had.
02:19It was champion.
02:21Oh, well, there's no rush.
02:22For coffee?
02:23It really was lovely.
02:24You know, your cooking, young man, is absolutely first class.
02:27Really?
02:27Perhaps you'd prefer a drink.
02:28No, no, no.
02:29Just a coffee.
02:29Look, come and join us.
02:31Why don't you?
02:32Come on.
02:33They own a restaurant in Brighton.
02:34Well, actually, we're in London looking for a flat.
02:37But we're getting on a bit and, well, our daughter and son-in-law, they run our place now.
02:41Well, we think, well, we think we're in the way.
02:45Well, a young man doesn't want his father-in-law looking over his shoulder the whole time.
02:48Oh, how true.
02:49How very very true.
02:50Do you know something?
02:51I like them.
02:52I like them a lot.
02:53Well, actually, my father owns half this business, but he and Robin get on quite well.
02:57Where's the clown got to now?
03:00I've got to check the off somewhere shirky.
03:03Oh, I didn't realize there's someone still here.
03:06These are the Hendersons.
03:07This is my father-in-law, Mr. Mr.
03:10Nichols.
03:11That's it.
03:12He looks over my shoulder.
03:14How do you do?
03:15Please don't get up.
03:16No, all right, then I won't.
03:18I'm just helping with the accounts.
03:20One tries to share the benefit of one's financial expertise if one is to help row the boat.
03:26One sticks one's oar in.
03:28Yeah.
03:29Will you excuse me for a moment?
03:31I am trying to do your VAT returns.
03:35You have to see the Batman on Friday, and you know what that means.
03:39Batman and Robin?
03:42How amusing.
03:44Where have you put the receipts for the input tax?
03:46Ah, yes.
03:47Input, yes.
03:47Well, I input them in the files for the expenses for the output tax.
03:53That is sloppiness, and with that, I will not output.
03:56Yes, actually.
03:58Actually, he's a treasure, really.
04:00Why don't we bury him?
04:01Robin, I don't know why you young people don't get somewhere on your own.
04:06Well, if we didn't have him, we'd have rats or dry rocks.
04:09There are one or two nice little places for sale in Brighton, you know.
04:12We like it here.
04:12We meet some nice people.
04:14Yes.
04:14Hell's bell!
04:15Not all of the time.
04:17Where have you put the output file?
04:19I put them on the seat you were sitting on.
04:21I haven't got eyes in the back of my...
04:22Well, come on.
04:25He's all behind on his VAT.
04:27He's only trying to help.
04:28Yeah, I know.
04:28It's the way he tries to help.
04:29He keeps calling me an idiot with his eyes.
04:33He's happy again.
04:35Tell me a little bit more about these little places in Brighton.
04:38Where?
04:47Well, they're gone.
04:48Oh, Dad, you're not still doing the accounts.
04:51These files are supposed to be in alphabetical order.
04:54I should not be here.
04:55Oh, great.
04:56He's leaving.
04:59Oh, my God.
05:00Would you mind getting rid of the sleeping beauty?
05:03Albert, Albert.
05:04They're not guilty, Your Honor.
05:06Albert, listen, why don't you go home?
05:08We won't need you any more tonight.
05:09You see, I'm waiting to have a ward with Mr. Nichols.
05:11Oh, uh, pardon me.
05:14Pardon me.
05:14Albert would like to have a...
05:15If I get any more interruptions, I am liable to become violent.
05:19I'm sorry, Albert, but he's liable to become violent.
05:23So if you'd just like to leave your name and address, Dr. Jekyll here will speak to you.
05:27Sorry.
05:28I can see you're still right to do your campsite.
05:30Oh, no, I don't believe it.
05:33There's a bill here for cutlery filed under K.
05:36Oh, that was me, sir.
05:37I filed that one.
05:40Cutlery, despite comprehensive education, is still spelt with a C.
05:45Why have you filed it under K?
05:48For knives.
05:53Would it make sense to me?
05:54It would.
05:55No wonder it doesn't make any sense to me.
05:58My God.
06:00What's this?
06:01Ah, yes, I've been meaning to speak to you about that, you see.
06:03It's about the flat upstairs.
06:04Now, as you are the landlord, as it needs one or two things doing to it, that is the estimate.
06:10600 pounds?
06:11That's near enough.
06:12I'll take it.
06:12Thank you very much.
06:13Now, look here.
06:15Out of the goodness of my heart, and because my only daughter has chosen me,
06:19for reasons which entirely escape me,
06:23I have provided you with a roof over your head.
06:25Oh, yeah, that's another thing.
06:26The roof.
06:27What about it?
06:27We'd like one.
06:30It's only a joke, Lacey.
06:31A roof over your head.
06:32It's a joke, a gag, you see.
06:33You're making it worse.
06:34I provide you with accommodation.
06:35I provide you with a business.
06:36I've even provided you with a wife.
06:38Oh, look, Dad, the flat's not that bad, really.
06:40And now he wants to bite the hand that feeds him.
06:41No, he doesn't.
06:42He's very grateful, really.
06:44Tell him.
06:45I do not want to bite your hand.
06:47Don't be ridiculous.
06:49Could I just mention something here about my accommodation?
06:53Go back to sleep, Riddle.
06:54Keep out of this.
06:55Now, if you're not satisfied, I suggest you find something elsewhere.
06:59My daughter and I can manage.
07:00Now you're being ridiculous.
07:02Try to remember that you are here for only one reason.
07:04Because you can't cook.
07:06You are here as a result of my generosity.
07:09If my daughter had to live in the style to which you were accustomed,
07:12I dare say she'd find herself living in a cardboard box.
07:15No, that's what I wanted to speak to you about.
07:17You see, I am living in a cardboard box.
07:19What?
07:20Well, I will be tonight,
07:21unless you could let me have an advance on next week's advance wages.
07:25Listen to that.
07:41Terrible storm.
07:42You're not still sulking, are you?
07:47Me?
07:48Sulking?
07:49You are.
07:50Yes.
07:52Dad didn't really mean it.
07:54And even if he was right,
07:55you'd have found us a very nice cardboard box.
07:57Oh, thank you very much.
07:58And this flat's not that bad.
08:00It just needs redecorating, that's all.
08:02I think you're exaggerated.
08:03Me exaggerate?
08:04Oh, dear.
08:05I mean, it only needs a coat of...
08:07Water.
08:08Lorraine, Robin, the ceiling's leaking.
08:13Oh, you're exaggerating now.
08:14No, I'm not.
08:15Look, there's water coming through the ceiling.
08:16It's dripping on us.
08:17Look.
08:17Yes, all it needs is a little bit of redecoration.
08:20Do something.
08:24It's most probably rising down.
08:26From the ceiling?
08:27All right, it's falling down.
08:28What are we going to do?
08:30Oh, well, you could always drop a line to your father.
08:32He is the landlord, you know.
08:33Oh, very funny.
08:35With any luck, it's probably just a loose tile.
08:38Well, that's what they said about the Titanic.
08:40All right, we've made your point, but we can't just sit here getting wet.
08:44Maybe we should call a builder or a plumber.
08:46Sorry, can't afford it.
08:47Why don't you get the umbrella?
08:48It's cheaper.
08:49Oh, thank you very much, Sir Galahad.
08:52There is water all over the floor as well.
08:54It's coming in through the window.
08:55I think your wellies are in the kitchen.
08:58Oh, no.
08:59Oh, bad luck.
09:00Oh, stupid.
09:02Why don't you get out of bed and do something?
09:04I've already decided what we're going to do.
09:06Remember that couple that were in the restaurant the other night?
09:08I took their telephone number.
09:09I'm going to ring them.
09:10We'll go down to Brighton, and we'll have a look at some of the places that are for sale.
09:14Look, I know Dad was a bit irritable, but there's no need to go that far.
09:17Well, it's only about 40 miles.
09:18Don't be concerned for the business.
09:20All right, we'll sell our half of the business back to him.
09:22Then we can get a place of our own, preferably one that's waterproof.
09:25Oh, that's a bit drastic, isn't it?
09:27Oh, come on.
09:28Don't you want to be independent, just the two of us on our own?
09:30Well, I...
09:31Oh, and another thing.
09:32Hmm?
09:33Get the umbrella, because I really am getting wet.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Right, yes.
09:39Thank you, Mr. Henderson.
09:40Yes, I've got that.
09:41Thank you very much.
09:42Bye.
09:44Right, that's it.
09:46I've got the one with the living-in accommodation.
09:48It's called the Old Mill Restaurant, Medwell Way, Brighton.
09:52Well, I'm not sure, really.
09:54I am, miss.
09:55You'll be much better on your own.
09:56Just the three of us.
09:57Now, Albert, I think you're sort of jumping to conclusions.
10:01See, I was just sort of thinking about the two of us.
10:03You can't leave Mrs. Tripp behind, so she's impressed.
10:07Oh, but we haven't seen the place yet.
10:08They've most probably already got a professional plate smasher on the staff.
10:11Come on, are you ready?
10:12Yeah.
10:12I see.
10:12Ah, well, I'm not one to push myself in where I'm not wanted.
10:15Oh, yes, you are, Albert.
10:16Yes, you are.
10:17We're only going to have a look.
10:18I still think we should have talked this over with Dad first.
10:20No, that's impossible.
10:21He only does monologues.
10:22Come on.
10:23I stay here and twiddle me thumbs.
10:25Yes, yes, you do that, Albert.
10:28See you later.
10:30Right, come on.
10:31Let's go before the jolly green giant gets here.
10:35Good morning.
10:36Oh, too late.
10:36Ho, ho, ho.
10:39I've been thinking about the flat.
10:42If there are one or two minor details that require attention,
10:45well, I'm willing to have a look for my daughter's sake, naturally.
10:48But just a look, mind you.
10:49There's no question of spending that sort of money.
10:51No, we like it now we've got a shower in the bedroom.
10:53Come on, come on, come on.
10:55If Dad says he's willing to help,
10:57then there's no need for us to go and have a look at, look at...
11:00Look at what?
11:01Look at, uh, look at, look at, look at the time.
11:03Come on, we're late, come on.
11:04We'll see you later.
11:05Bye.
11:05Bye, Dad.
11:06Bye.
11:07Where's my daughter gone with young Frankenstein?
11:21I haven't the faintest idea, sir.
11:23I'm only the washer-upper.
11:25Oh, don't give me that riddle.
11:26There is something in the wind.
11:28Oh, that's probably the garbage bin, sir.
11:29I'll bring it out.
11:30Stand still, man.
11:31Now then, what are they going to have a look at, eh?
11:37Answer me, riddle.
11:38That is a direct order.
11:40I can't, sir.
11:41I'm afraid that's a direct refusal.
11:44Riddle, you are beginning to annoy me.
11:47I think you'd better...
11:48Better...
11:49You'd better go and empty that garbage bin.
11:51Is that a direct order, sir?
11:52Yes.
11:53The old mill restaurant, Medwell Way, Brighton.
12:12I have to tidy up now, sir, and it'll take me an hour to tie me apron.
12:16So if you just...
12:17I haven't quite finished with you yet, riddle.
12:19Riddle, and I'd better warn you that I can read men as one might read a book.
12:24Oh, you'll have trouble with me, sir.
12:25Everything's in Gaelic.
12:28You're hiding something, riddle.
12:31Something about that young man and my daughter.
12:35Something about a town on the south coast beginning with the letter B.
12:43The man's a jiffle.
12:46B.
12:47Oh, that'll be Ballymucky, sir, yeah.
12:49The village of me, father's.
12:51I used the word in the plural because there was more than one claimant for the title.
12:56It's Brighton.
12:57It's the second sight.
12:59Ah, yes.
13:01I see...
13:03a restaurant.
13:05I see the...
13:07the old, um...
13:09the old...
13:11mill.
13:12You thought of taking this up professionally, sir.
13:15Now, come on, man, are you going to tell me the rest of it?
13:18Or shall I tell you?
13:20If you mean about Mr. Tripp selling his share of this place back to you
13:23and getting a business of his own down south and your daughter going with them, no.
13:27So that's it!
13:29I mean, that's it, yes.
13:31I'm saying nothing, sir.
13:33Very well, Riddle, we'll see about this.
13:34In the meantime, carry on with your duties and keep your mouth shut.
13:38I shall be back here this evening.
13:41Be the holy amen, he's washed me brain.
13:44Right, well, that's it.
13:49Settled.
13:50I know the kitchen was a bit small.
13:52Small?
13:52We had to back out into the corridor to open the oven door.
13:55All right, then, we'll have sliding oven doors.
13:57We can knock a few walls down.
14:00Come on.
14:00You must admit that the place is really ideal, isn't it?
14:02It's a central position right in the centre of town,
14:05near the theatre, 40 miles away from your father.
14:08When are you going to tell him?
14:09Oh, eventually.
14:10There's no time like the future.
14:11Nope.
14:11You've got to be told.
14:13Then you might as well be told right now.
14:15It's only fair.
14:16There is no point in trying to duck out.
14:18Oh, such a strength of character.
14:20Well, somebody's got to do it.
14:22Hello, Dad.
14:24Robin's got something to tell you.
14:28Oh.
14:29Hello, Dad.
14:31Yes, I said Dad, yes.
14:33Look, I've got something I would like to say to you.
14:37So, if you'd like to pop round next week or next month or something, what?
14:41This afternoon.
14:41Oh, okay, yes.
14:43What?
14:44No, it's just something that I think we ought to talk over, you know, man to man.
14:51Man to man.
14:54Thank you very much.
14:55It's four o'clock.
14:56Okay.
14:56See you this afternoon.
14:57Right, bye.
14:58He's coming round this afternoon.
15:00How are you going to tell him?
15:01Well, I shall be polite but diplomatic, you know.
15:04I shall simply say I'm fed up of you sticking your great big nose in and we're leaving.
15:07Well, don't forget he's got cuts for boxing.
15:10All right, you'll say I'm fed up of you sticking your great big nose in.
15:12Oh, no, you're on your own.
15:13Now, listen, I'm not scared of him.
15:15He doesn't worry me.
15:16I'm sorry about that but that's just the way it is.
15:21I've made up my mind.
15:23Now, Vicky and I, your daughter and me, we've decided that we want to be on our own, independent.
15:30Three is a crowd.
15:32So, what I suggest is you just buy us out and we shall go elsewhere.
15:36I'm not prepared to divulge at this particular moment exactly where they're.
15:39Just don't ask me, okay?
15:41Just sign the cheque.
15:42We'll shake hands on it.
15:43Now, come on, how about it?
15:46The mother.
15:47Well, it's your father, really.
15:48I was sort of just having a little bit of a rehearsal.
15:49All you've got to do is say you agree.
15:51Oh, I will, I will.
15:52But I don't know if you'll hear me.
15:53Why?
15:54I'll be upstairs under the bed.
15:55Oh, come on, Vicky.
15:57Come on, he's your father.
15:58Don't you want to be independent?
16:00After all, I married you.
16:01Not him, you know.
16:02Why?
16:03Well, I didn't fancy him all that much.
16:05You were younger, you know.
16:07You tell him.
16:09I know you can handle it.
16:10He's just trying to get around me, aren't he?
16:12Just be positive and forceful.
16:13You don't need anybody to back you up.
16:15You can do it.
16:16Yeah, yeah.
16:17Just repeat after me.
16:18What?
16:19I will tell him without any help from you.
16:21Great, I was hoping to say that.
16:22Come on, you have that.
16:23I'm under the bed.
16:25All right, it's your idea.
16:26You tell him.
16:28Hi, Dad.
16:29Hello, darling.
16:30Bye, Dad.
16:31You coward.
16:34Coward?
16:35Just a pet name.
16:36Uh, I'll sit down.
16:40Now, what was it you wanted to say to me?
16:45Well, two things, really.
16:47And I've already asked you the first, which was sit down.
16:50And the second one?
16:51Yes.
16:52Now, look, do you want me to go around the houses or just sort of give it to you straight?
16:55Give it to me straight.
16:57Right.
16:58Well, Vicky and I, your daughter and me.
17:03Yes, yes.
17:05The four of you.
17:05Well, you see that, well, we feel that, uh, no, no, no, I've got to be fair here.
17:15It's, it's mainly me who feels it.
17:18She feels it, too.
17:19She doesn't perhaps feel it as much as I do.
17:23That, well, feeling that the way, that, well, you know, that's sort of the way things, well, you, well, you know.
17:32Thank God you're not going around the houses, dear, all night.
17:37Sorry, where was I?
17:38You were feeling things.
17:40Oh, yes, yes.
17:41Now, you see, the thing is, two's company.
17:46I'm sorry, but I'm not with you.
17:48Well, you are, you see, and that is the problem.
17:49See?
17:49Now, you're back from Brighton, sir.
17:51Albert!
17:52Yeah, but it's Mr. Nichols, sir.
17:53He read me like a book.
17:54Oh, that will be all, Riddle.
17:55I didn't want to tell him about it.
17:56Riddle, you are fired.
17:58Get into the kitchen.
17:58You can't fire him just like that.
18:00Oh, that's quite all right, sir.
18:01I'll shortly have a new position in the Brighton area.
18:03Albert, you're fired.
18:04Get in the kitchen.
18:09What's he going on about?
18:11I've no idea.
18:12Neither have I.
18:13Good.
18:14But carry on.
18:17Right.
18:19Just a second.
18:20I'll pour myself a sherry, I think.
18:25Carry on.
18:26No, I think I'll wait till we come back.
18:30Marvellous golden colour, Montalado.
18:32It captures the quality of the sunlight in here.
18:35Yes, yes.
18:36Now, you say?
18:38Well, look.
18:40Not to beat about the bull.
18:42Or to take the bush by the horns.
18:44Exactly.
18:46You see, it's Victoria, Vicky.
18:48She said to me, she said to me,
18:50that she, I was to tell you,
18:52that she felt very strongly about...
18:54I did no such thing.
18:57It was your idea.
18:58You were listening.
18:59I was not.
19:00I just happened to be cleaning the floor of my ears by the keyhole.
19:02Look, before you go any further,
19:05I have an announcement to make.
19:06And so have we.
19:07You see...
19:07So, you see,
19:08I think,
19:10it seems to me,
19:11that I've been interfering around here far too much.
19:14Right, so what we want to do...
19:15I mean, I'm always giving advice,
19:17sticking my oar in it.
19:18Yes, right, so what we want to do...
19:19So, what I've decided to do...
19:21So, what we've decided to do is...
19:22Wait, just a minute.
19:23Dad's trying to tell us what he's decided to do.
19:25Go on.
19:26Thank you, Victoria.
19:27I was just about to be positive and forceful.
19:30Shut up, Dad.
19:32I am going to leave the running of this business
19:34entirely to you two young people.
19:37This is your restaurant, young man.
19:40In future, I shall take a back seat
19:42and leave it all to you.
19:44What?
19:45Well, you don't want an old man
19:47coming round here interfering.
19:49It sounds like his voice,
19:51but the words are mine.
19:53Not old?
19:54Oh, a man in early middle age, then.
19:57I've always seen myself as a mother hen.
19:59Well, a father hen.
20:01But if that's not good enough
20:02by today's shoddy standards,
20:04then I'll step aside.
20:06He's only saying that
20:06so you stop us moving to Brighton.
20:08Moving?
20:10To Brighton?
20:12My baby.
20:14It's not decided yet.
20:16We just had a look at another restaurant.
20:18Another restaurant?
20:20Oh.
20:21Oh, good grief.
20:22I shall be all right in a moment.
20:24The doctor said I might get these spells
20:26if I was upset.
20:27No, no, no, no, Victoria, please.
20:32Don't drag it out on me.
20:35It's just that this Brighton business
20:36came like a boat from the blue.
20:39Oh, no, it didn't, sir.
20:40You tried to do to me this morning.
20:42It was strange, sir.
20:44Ah-ha.
20:45Yes, yes, I probably did.
20:49You see, that's one of the symptoms, amnesia.
20:52You keep losing your memory?
20:53Yes.
20:54And that gives you a cough?
20:56What?
20:56Oh, yes.
20:58I keep forgetting to put my vest on.
21:02Well, I suppose you...
21:05You want me to buy you out?
21:08Hmm?
21:10So that you can go off and abandon me?
21:13Oh, I wouldn't say that.
21:14That's a bit...
21:14Well, yes.
21:17I'm just...
21:18I'm just supposing you really is ill.
21:19Yes, it is sad, isn't it?
21:20Yes, it's trip.
21:21T-R-I-W-T-R.
21:24Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
21:27There you are.
21:29As you see,
21:31I've lifted Black.
21:32You can just fill it in for whatever you want.
21:34Yes, look.
21:36Black check.
21:37You must be ill.
21:38You're not, are you?
21:39Oh, you're right to be suspicious, Ronald.
21:41Robin.
21:42Oh, there it goes again.
21:44Robin.
21:45Oh, look, I wasn't that keen on the old mill.
21:47He's only having a son, aren't you?
21:49Oh, it may seem that way.
21:50but you know, quite frankly, I can't even remember what I'm doing here.
21:53What were we talking about just now? Was it important?
21:56Yes, we were talking about the redecoration of our flat upstairs.
22:01Ah, was that it?
22:02Yes, £600 you agreed to pay.
22:06Shall I fill it in for you?
22:07Oh, thank you.
22:08Are you sure it wasn't £500?
22:10£600.
22:15Brighton.
22:16I seem to recall the word...
22:18Brighton, was somebody going there?
22:21Oh, no, I don't think so.
22:22No, there's no need to know. We've got a redecorated flat. Look at that.
22:24We'll get new curtains.
22:25Yes, £600. We can retile the bathroom.
22:29Just a minute.
22:31You've signed this Kermit the Frog.
22:36Oh, isn't it?
22:38I don't remember.
22:48Pinch punch for the first time.
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