Barry Cryer hosts the long-running show, giving a showcase to established comic talent. Nominally a quiz, but in reality just a joke-fest!

Broadcast 19th May 1971

When Bill buys a brand-new car. Joan tries to convince Eddie that they need one, and after Bill's constant bragging Eddie finally buys ones, but he can only afford a little scrap heap.

Murder mystery drama starring Nigel Patrick and Yvonne Mitchell. The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.

Sapphire (1959)
Studio: The Rank Organisation
Director: Basil Dearden
Writer: Janet Green
Cast: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell

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The Grace Bros staff dream of stardom when young Mr Grace gets a bee in his bonnet about making a promotional film to show at local cinemas.

Hogan sneaks out of camp to a local German Hofbrau House to get the details of a nearby German army unit.

⁣Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.

Albert decides to build a bathroom in a very inconvenient place for Harold, who is having a lady friend over for cocktails.

It's Christmas Eve! Eli's full of the Christmas spirit and Nellie has to tell Lily and Walter they can't come for Christmas dinner as they are going out for theirs: "We've booked a table at the Hotel Metrollops".

Answering an appeal from the Princess Melanie de Monsantes to bring her brother Jacques to safety from France, the Pimpernel finds him but he refuses to leave and instead asks the Pimpernel for help in frustrating Chauvelin's latest plan.

COUPLE #1: Ida Taylor, who ran away from a cornfield as a young girl / Charles McLaughlin, a vaguely self-described "entrepeneur"
COUPLE #2: Oney Boren, wife of an oil man / John Granger, whose beard gets in the soup

Ida Taylor is a real hoot, especially during the quiz segment. There's a fantastically funny outtake of her in the "stag reel" for this season (originally released by Shout Factory as a bonus on one of their two great YBYL DVD sets from a decade ago). It starts 5:57 into this video if the link doesn't start where it's supposed to (just make sure you play it to the end-- it's Ida's last line that's the real killer!):

Selwyn Froggitt is a well-read and clumsy buffoon who smashes his way through his sleepy Yorkshire village of Scarsdale. As a council labourer and hapless handyman, he is an all-around public nuisance.

When Mr Grainger's temper becomes extremely short the staff decide he must go, until the real reason for his behaviour is revealed.

Harold pretends to forget Albert's birthday as a joke, but it ends up not being so funny.

The police academy are accepting applications from people who want to join the police force. Friday and Gannon help with the interview process.

Not many people are moving in the countryside so Clarence has to find other work.

Harold gets an offer that would enable him to leave the junkyard forever, but his dad has other ideas and does all he can to keep up the family tradition.

Chauvelin uses the Pimpernel's strong sense of chivalry to bait a trap with the beautiful Cecille as the bait. Informed that Madame la Guillotine awaits her pretty neck, Sir Percy plans a rescue.

Corporal LeBeau pretends to be a visiting French scientist while Hogan smuggles out the real one.

Selwyn's boss tasks him to find the city drains underground. They give him maps and send him out. He travels all around trying to match the map to the scenery and ends up digging out the toilets in the club.

Old Mr Grace decides to put together a brand new magazine for the store, and recruits Mr Humphries to be the editor.