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All episodes written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft

All episodes written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft

Directed by DAVID CROFT / ROY GOULD
Theme song composed by JIMMY PERRY & ROY MOORE
Performed by BOB MONKHOUSE and PAUL SHANE
NB Dates give are original BBC 1 broadcast dates
All episodes are 50 minutes duration unless indicated

Regular cast:
PAUL SHANE (Alf Stokes) 
JEFFREY HOLLAND (James Twelvetrees)
SU POLLARD (Ivy Teasdale) 
DONALD HEWLETT (Lord George Meldrum)
MICHAEL KNOWLES (Hon. Teddy Meldrum) BRENDA COWLING (Mrs. Blanche Lipton) BARBARA NEW (Mabel Wheeler) 
PERRY BENSON (Henry Livingstone) 
BILL PERTWEE (Constable Wilson)
SUSIE BRANN (Miss Poppy) 
CATHERINE RABETT (Miss Cissy)
MAVIS PUGH (Lady Lavender Southwick) 
FRANK WILLIAMS (Charles - The Bishop) ANGELA SCOULAR (Lady Agatha Shawcross)
JOHN HORSLEY (Sir Ralph Shawcross) 
YVONNE MARSH (Madge Cartwright)
 
PILOT EPISODE  
1. YOU RANG M’LORD ?  (29/12/88 REPEATED 7/1/90)
one hour episode

Guest cast: 
SARAH MORTIMER (Sister) 
KEN MORLEY (Mr. Challon)
ALF PEARSON (Call boy) 
KAREN WESTWOOD (Maggie)
CAMERON STEWART (Squiffy) 
BOB APPLEBY (Chauffeur)
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry)
 

London 1927:  Alf Stokes and his daughter Ivy are given the boot from their jobs on the music halls, Alf decides that he has no option but to go back into service as a butler. When he arrives at the residence of Lord Meldrum some familiar faces await him...
SERIES ONE  
2. THE PHANTOM SIGN WRITER (14/1/90)

Guest cast: 
FELIX BOWNESS (Mr. Pearson)

Alf and Ivy are settled into their new jobs but thing’s soon start to hot up when Sir Ralph suspects that his wife is having an affair. Lord Meldrum’s car is vandalised - someone has daubed the word “fornicator” on the side which causes panic when the Bishop wants to use the vehicle...
3. A DEED OF GIFT  (21/1/90)

Guest cast: 
JOHN CLEGG (Mr. Franklyn)

Lady Lavender sends for her solicitor, she instructs that her sharesin the Union Jack Rubber Company be given to Ivy. James is tortured by thoughts of Poppy after she asks to feel his muscles, then Lavender sends for her solicitor again...
4. LOVE AND MONEY  (28/1/90)

Guest cast: 
FELIX BOWNESS (Mr. Pearson) 
JOHN CLEGG (Mr. Franklyn) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope Barrington-Blake)
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry)

Lord Meldrum thinks that Lady Lavender has gone too far and wants her declared mentally unstable, whilst Teddy is determined to pay Ivy a visit in her room no matter how dangerous the route. A party thrown for Miss Cissy’s birthday brings a few surprises...
5.  FAIR SHARES  (4/2/90)

Guest cast: 
IAIN MITCHELL (Mr. Fisher)

Lady Lavender has promised Stokes her shares in the Union Jack Rubber Company and he sees this as a chance to set himself up for life. Meanwhile Ivy is in trouble for telling Sir Ralph about his wife’s indiscretions with Lord Meldrum...
 6. BEG, BORROW OR STEAL  (11/2/90)

Guest cast: 
MIKE CARNELL (Goblin man) 
IAIN MITCHELL (Mr. Fisher) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope) 
AIMEE DELAMAIN (Aunt Maud) 
STUART HARRISON (Aubrey Wilmsloe) 
HARRIET EASTSCOTT (Francesca Dyke-Hardy) PHILIP FOX (Hamish Kintyre)
ELUNED HAWKINS (Lucille Penhaligon) 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
JACKIE D. BROAD (Emma)

Alf is being blackmailed by the local pawn broker into letting him burgle the house. Lord Meldrum allows Cissy and Poppy to hold an evening of progressive poetry in the dining room. At last the
relationship between Alf and Ivy is revealed to James...
   
SERIES TWO  
7. LABOUR OR LOVE  (11/11/90)

Guest cast: 
KENNETH CONNOR (Prof. Heinrich Van Manheim)
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose) 
MICHAEL LEES (Mr. Foster)
STUART McGUGAN (Jock) 
IVOR ROBERTS (Mr. Barnes) 
DON SMOOTHEY, PATRICK BURKE, 
NICHOLAS PICKARD (Factory workers)

Lord Meldrum gives Teddy an ultimatum - marry Madge Cartwright or be sent to work in his factory.   Teddy thinks it’s a bluff but finds that his brother means every word. Alf discovers that Lady Lavender has got money stashed under her bed and schemes to relieve her of the burden.
8. TROUBLE AT MILL (18/11/90)

Guest cast: 
PATRICK BLACKWELL (Stanley Baldwin) MICHAEL LEES (Mr. Foster) 
STUART McGUGAN (Jock) 
BEN ARIS (Special Branch policeman) 
EVE BLAND (Factory girl) 
PETER SIMMO, BECCY BOOTH, 
NICHOLAS PICKARD (Factory workers)

The Prime Minister is coming to dinner but Alf’s thoughts are consumed by Lady Lavender’s money. At the factory Teddy’s flirtations with the girls causes a mass walk out...
9.  MONEY TALKS  (25/11/90)

Guest cast: 
ROBBIE BARNETT (Robin) 
PADDY JOYCE (Organ grinder) 
HARRY JONES (Offensive man) 
JANE GOODALL, JAE JEMAIN (Fighting women)

Lavender throws her money out of the window and into the street, naturally some of the money goes astray when Alf gets his hands on it...
10. THE MELDRUM VASES (2/12/90)

Guest cast: 
ROBBIE BARNETT (Robin) 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope)

Alf has hidden some money in one of his Lordship’s antique vases, unfortunately Lord Meldrum has donated three identical vases to the Bishop’s charity auction for Distressed Gentlewomen. James and Ivy are in a race to stop Alf retrieving the money.
11. THE WOUNDS OF WAR  (9//12/90)

Guest cast: 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose) 
PETER FONTAINE (Barker) 
BROGDEN MILLER (Man)

To protect his employer, Alf tells Sir Ralph that Meldrum was wounded in the Artilley. Ivy is over the moon when James agrees to take her to the pictures. Mrs. Lipton is convinced that Alf’s divorce is being held up by his wife...
12. STRANGER IN THE NIGHT  (16/12/90)

Guest cast: 
MICHAEL ROBBINS (Dad Twelvetrees) 
HARRY LANDIS (Sea Captain) 
BUSTER WAELAND (Seaman)

James is embarrassed when his father arrives at the house on the run from the police. The servants decide to hide him until they can arrange for him to flee the country.
13. ROYAL FLUSH   (23/12/90)

Guest cast: 
DAVY KAYE (King Boris) 
DEDDIE DAVIES (Queen) 
GUY SINER (Noel Coward) 
GEOFFREY HUGHES (Fred Kendal) 
HILDA BRAID (Flo Kendal) 
BARRY HOWARD (Count Zarkhov) 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope) 
ROBBIE BARNETT (Robin)

Excitement runs through the household when it is announced that the King and Queen of Dalmatia are coming to dinner although Mrs. Lipton is upset to when she finds out she will not be doing the catering. In addition Noel Coward is expected to join them after the opening night of his new play.
   
SERIES THREE  
14. PLEASE LOOK AFTER THE ORPHANS  (10/11/91)

Guest cast: 
BARBARA WINDSOR (Myrtle) 
FELIX BOWNESS (Mr. Pearson) 
JUDITH FELLOWS (Miss Potter) 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose) 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope)
BROGDEN MILLER (Man)

Alf is being pestered by Mrs. Lipton to finalise his divorce so he gets an old music hall friend to agree to pose as Mrs. Stokes. Meanwhile he has a brain wave to make some money by fooling Mrs Lipton into baking some cakes which she thinks are destined for the local orphanage.
15. CURRENT AFFAIRS  (17/11/91)

Guest cast: 
BARBARA WINDSOR (Myrtle) 
JUDITH FELLOWS (Miss Potter) 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope)
KAREN SALT, JOSEPH SWASH (Children)

Alf continues to supply the Sunshine Pantry with Mrs Lipton’s cakes. Myrtle pays a visit to the house posing as Mrs. Stokes, but can she convince Mrs. Lipton ?
16. MRS. LIPTON’S NASTY TURN  (24/11/91)

Guest cast: 
JUDITH FELLOWS (Miss Potter) 
ROBIN LERMITTE (Dickie Metcalfe) 
NORMAN BACON (Man in Sunshine Pantry)

Having discovered Alf’s deception and broken his Lordship's crockery in a fit of anger, Mrs. Lipton is left wondering if she still has a job. On a visit to the Sunshine Pantry, Ivy discovers the truth about Miss Potter’s cherry cake...
17. MEET THE WORKERS  (1/12/91)

Guest cast: 
IVOR ROBERTS (Mr. Barnes) 
STUART MCGUGAN (Jock) 
MICHAEL LEES (Mr. Foster) 
ROBIN LERMITTE (Dickie Metcalfe)

Miss Poppy announces her engagement to Dickie Metcalfe but Alf smells a rat! Lord Meldrum is convinced that he must learn more about the lower classes before he can join the Board of Governors at the BBC, so he invites his factory workers to dinner and serves them with fish and chips...
18. GRETNA GREEN OR BUST  (8/12/91)

Guest cast: 
FELIX BOWNESS (Mr. Pearson) 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose) 
PETER SIMMO (Petrol pump attendant) 
ROBIN LERMITTE (Dickie Metcalfe) 
BRYAN BURDON (Publican) 
PETER WHITBREAD (Socialist) 
ANGELA EASTERLING (Hortence Anstruther)

Miss Poppy and Dickie Metcalfe decide to marry in secret and elope to Gretna Green, the rest of the house hold set off in hot pursuit to try and stop them...
19. THE NIGHT OF RECKONING  (15/12/91)

Guest cast: 
MAURICE DENHAM (Captain Dolby) 
YOLANDE PALFREY (Maid) 
ANGELA EASTERLING (Hortence Anstruther)
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry)

Twelvetrees gets an offer to be butler for Sir Ralph and Mabel is on the verge of being evicted from her home. Meanwhile Alf comes up with a drastic solution to Teddy’s problem.
20. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY  (22/12/91)

Guest cast: 
HUGH LLOYD (Selfridge)

Lord Meldrum decides he is going to treat the servants to a picnic in the country, when they arrive at Peabody Hall they find that Sir Ralph and Lady Agatha are there with their staff too. What a coincidence, or is it ?
   
SERIES FOUR  
21. YES SIR, THAT’S MY BABY  (20/3/93)

Guest cast: 
ANGELA EASTERLING (Hortence Anstruther)
PETER WHITBREAD (Socialist)

Miss Cissy leads the house into helping out at the local soup kitchen for the poor. Teddy is still trying to escape the romantic clutches of Madge Cartwright, this time Alf thinks he has the perfect solution. He traces all of Teddy’s illegitimate children and brings them to the house to face Madge.
22. REQUIEM FOR A PARROT  (27/3/93)

Guest cast: 
RICHARD VERNON (Earl of Swaffham)
FELIX BOWNESS (Mr. Pearson) 
ELI WOODS (Rupert)
RICHARD GARDINER (Mr. Dobson) 
SOREL JOHNSON (Penelope)
CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE (Dudley)
NICOLA VAN DAM (Lady Marigold)
 

Lord Meldrum is intent on sending Teddy to his rubber plantation in Malaya, however the death of Lady Lavender’s parrot leads to some bizarre funeral arrangements.
23. COME TO THE BALL  (3/4/93)

Guest cast: 
HUGH LLOYD (Selfridge) 
GILLIAN TOMPKINS (Maid)
NORMAN MITCHELL (Perkins) 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose)

Lord Meldrum decides to inspect the servants quarters and Mabel has found a purse containing five pounds. Then the staff are invited to a luxurious Ball where the employers have to wait upon their servants.
24. THE TRUTH REVEALED  (10/4/93)

Guest cast: 
HUGH LLOYD (Selfridge) 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose)

Sir Ralph sacks Selfridge, his butler, who in turn tells him of his wife’s long standing affair with George Meldrum. Sir Ralph sets out for revenge and the staff have to ensure that a mysterious “accident” doesn’t befall their master.
25. FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MELDRUM (17/4/93)

Guest cast: 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose)
IVOR ROBERTS (Mr. Barnes) 
STUART McGUGAN (Jock)
MICHAEL LEES (Mr. Foster) 
FRED BRYANT (Bishop’s secretary)
ROBIN BARNETT (Robin)

Meldrum is convinced that Ralph has put a curse on him, the rubber plantation in Malaya has been ravaged by the Bang Go Khan beetle. The family face financial ruin!
26. WELL, THERE YOU ARE THEN...!   (24/4/93)

Guest cast: 
JOHN D. COLLINS (Jerry) 
AMANDA BELLAMY (Rose)
IVOR ROBERTS (Mr. Barnes) 
MICHAEL LEES (Mr. Foster)
STUART McGUGAN (Jock) 
GORDON PETERS (Man)
SUZY COOPER (Agnes) 
ROY MOORE,  THE WEBB TWINS,
SARAH JONES-PARRY (The Jolly Follies)

Things look bleak for the Meldrum’s with most of their money lost on the stock market crash and the effects of the Bang Go Khan beetle. Cissy and Lavender try to save the situation but the servants have little choice but to look elsewhere for their futures...

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