Series 2

Season 2 · 1970 · 6 episodes

Episodes

1Episode 1A husband returns from holiday with an interesting gift; Bernard sings his 1962 hit single, Hole in the Ground; a Window Dresser performs a striptease with a clothes dummy; a guardsman loses his trousers; a Traffic Warden is mistaken for a spy; an angler makes an unusual catch; a Guttenberg Bibel is found on a street market; and a director feels the performance of Henry V isn't funny enough.
2Episode 2A ventriloquist has a cheeky secret; a son takes a rather officious line with his father; Adrian Bogworthy recites another poem; a coal miner is late for a ballroom dancing competition; Bernard sings I'd Rather Go Fishing and there is a peculiar military discharge ceremony.
3Episode 3An unusual approach to a chess match; Bernard sings the song Verily; a pregnancy is announced to a husband with hiccups; a burglar is mistaken for Peter Pan; there's an unusual TV discussion; a man chases a fly, and Adrian Bogworthy returns with another recital from the works of Thespian Mungo.
4Episode 4A husband celebrates the anniversary of his wife leaving him; a swarm of bees take up an inconvenient residence; Bernard sings Gossip Calypso; a butler loses his temper; a husband is chosen to be the first Englishman to land on the Moon; a couple of Totters discuss their findings; a female Traffic Warden knows how to deal with male parking offenders; Adrian Bogworthy attempts to read another of Thespian Mungo's poems, and old military ranks re emerge outside a Park Lane hotel.
5Episode 5A bank clerk reveals his true identity; there are strange goings on in a mens' sauna; a prospector leaves his gold mine to his sweetheart; Bernard sings a Folk Song; a cross channel swim attempt takes place; Adrian Bogworthy once again reads from the works of Thespian Mungo, and a housewife takes in a lodger without telling her husband.
6Episode 6Police search for an escaped prisoner at a convent; a man traces his lineage; Bernard sings his hit from 1962, Right Said Fred; a murder scene in a play goes wrong; a husband explains why he was seen with another woman; Adrian Bogworthy gives his final performance; a Scotsman causes trouble in a pub, and a plumber fixes a problem in a Harem.