Episode #2.2
Sid and Vic have a big heavy minus in there bank, so they invite the bank manager for tea to try and come to some kind of settlement, but to get a good settlement, they try to get the bank manager drunk.
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"The bank manager wants to clamp down on customers with a huge overdraft. Vic and Sid are on the list where further credit will not be extended to them. They decide to invite the bank manager over for dinner where they hope to wine and dine him, soften him up. Instead Vic and Sid think they have poisoned him with some homemade wine they brought from the policeman. Someone important coming round for dinner is a standard sitcom staple. It was parodied in the recent Disney series Wandavision. You do wonder if Sid has actually ever cooked before...."
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With some minor tweaks to the script to fit the characters, this plot would be used again over twenty years later by Vince Powell when he wrote the script for S11 E5, Two Fools and Their Money (1991) of Never the Twain (1981). The scene involving the mislabelled bottle would be trimmed down for use in 1985 in S2 E6, TV or Not TV (1985) of Mixed Doubles (1985).
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Sid and Vic have a big heavy minus in there bank, so they invite the bank manager for tea to try and come to some kind of settlement, but to get a good settlement, they try to get the bank manager drunk.