David Jason is the guest star in this episode. He plays 'Wilkins', a British prisoner of war with a unique method of escaping from the Germans. He plans to put on a dog costume and run out through the main gate. The first time he does this, he gets carried away and retrieves the stick another POW ( Royce Mills ) has thrown away. Also in the camp is Emery's gay character 'Clarence', who has made fake German uniforms for the escapees to wear. Clarence has also created a number of devices ( activated by levers ) which fool the Germans into thinking the men are still in their huts. As you might already have guessed, this sketch guys 'The Wooden Horse' and other films of that ilk. John Singer wrote it. There's a truly chilling end to the sketch. Emery ( as the senior officer ) and three other men escape only to be mistaken for real Nazis and dispatched to Hitler's Berlin bunker ( where they will perish ).
The remaining two sketches feature Emery in a department store ( obviously made in the days before the advent of CCTV cameras ) and the classic where the Rev. Chislett takes tea with the man ( Robert Mil ) who is courting his virginal daughter 'Clarissa' ( Rosalind Ayres ). In a wonderful foreshadowing of political correctness, the vicar has decided that certain words such as 'crumpets' are too rude and substituted words like 'dibble ( not realising these new words are far ruder ).
Funniest moment - the vicar being told what these new words mean, and dropping his tea-cup each time.
As was the norm for Dick's shows of the time, out-takes are played before the opening credits. It is good to see David Jason and Dick Emery had a lot of fun making the episode.
The remaining two sketches feature Emery in a department store ( obviously made in the days before the advent of CCTV cameras ) and the classic where the Rev. Chislett takes tea with the man ( Robert Mil ) who is courting his virginal daughter 'Clarissa' ( Rosalind Ayres ). In a wonderful foreshadowing of political correctness, the vicar has decided that certain words such as 'crumpets' are too rude and substituted words like 'dibble ( not realising these new words are far ruder ).
Funniest moment - the vicar being told what these new words mean, and dropping his tea-cup each time.
As was the norm for Dick's shows of the time, out-takes are played before the opening credits. It is good to see David Jason and Dick Emery had a lot of fun making the episode.