Keep It in the Family S01E06 · A Friend in Need

Overview

Whilst Susan pigs out on food and frets about premarital sex, Muriel arranges to travel to Bournemouth by train for the weekend to celebrate her sister Sarah's birthday. An old divorced friend of Dudley's, insurance salesman Dick Mitchell, telephones to say he has come down from Birmingham for a few days, and arranges for them to get together for dinner that evening at The White Cockatoo in town, on his expense account. Dudley arrives at the fashionable restaurant to discover that Dick has booked the company of two attractive escort service girls, Mimi and Barbara, who transpire to be big fans of Barney the Bionic Bulldog. Muriel is about to leave for the station when her sister telephones to say one of her children has developed mumps; since Muriel has never had the infectious virus, she postpones her visit and plays a game of Monopoly with Susan and Jacqui before retiring to bed with a Harold Robbins' novel. Dick, meanwhile, insists on taking Mimi and Barbara back to Dudley's place f

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2. 2 2. One of Those Days1980-01-14 · 30mThe girls move into their flat, and Dudley helps them get an old black and white television set down from the loft, picking up a glove puppet and a guitar in the process; the latte
3. 3 3. All Through the Night1980-01-21 · 30mWhilst Dudley decides to learn Japanese, the company which prints The Wowser decides to go on strike, so Duncan arrives at the Rush house to ask Dudley to rush through three pages
4. 4 4. The Non-Mechanical Man1980-01-28 · 30mThe ""ever-present pooh bird of fate"" seems to be permanently circling the Rush household, dumping on them from a great height. The car requires open-bonnet surgery to the tune of
5. 5 5. Some Enchanted Evening1980-02-04 · 30mMuriel's scheme to encourage her husband to mow the back lawn backfires. Meanwhile, Dudley attempts to recapture lost romance by booking a table for them at The Candlelight Room fo
6. 6 6. A Friend in Need1980-02-11 · 30mWhilst Susan pigs out on food and frets about premarital sex, Muriel arranges to travel to Bournemouth by train for the weekend to celebrate her sister Sarah's birthday. An old div