The final episode from producer Ronnie Baxter and also the last to be co-written by Harry Driver, who died on 25th November 1973, aged 42.
With Joan and Barbie in hospital, Eddie and Bill struggle to look after themselves. As you would expect, the former is by far the worst at it, simultaneously shaving while attempting to prepare breakfast. The result - burnt toast and cuts galore.
The wives look forward to a visit from their husbands but instead get Arthur and Jacko, both of whom have told the ward sister they are Bill and Eddie. When the real ones show up, there is confusion a-plenty.
As Joan goes into labour, her husband is paralytic down at the Jubilee Social Club, so Nobby and Arthur try as best as possible to sober him up...
This would have made a good finale to the series. Joan and Barbie give birth to boys, and Bill and Eddie seem friends at last, united by the common cause of fatherhood. But, with audiences of 14 million tuning in regularly each week, Thames was not about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. It commissioned further episodes, with Powell writing alone. The show's popularity remained intact.
Introducing a repeat of the first episode of 'George & The Dragon' as part of Channel 4's 'T.V. Heaven' series in 1992, the late Frank Muir said that Powell and Driver 'never reached any great heights, but came up with good comedy ideas, and knew how to make them work.". I would not compare them to say Galton and Simpson or Clement and La Frenais, but their shows gave pleasure to millions, and continue to do so. At best, they made us laugh, and at worst, gave alternative comedy something to be an alternative to. There was nothing pretentious about them or their work.
Funniest moment - Eddie and Bill showing off their new sons - Mark and Terry - at the Club. Both identically resemble their dads!
With Joan and Barbie in hospital, Eddie and Bill struggle to look after themselves. As you would expect, the former is by far the worst at it, simultaneously shaving while attempting to prepare breakfast. The result - burnt toast and cuts galore.
The wives look forward to a visit from their husbands but instead get Arthur and Jacko, both of whom have told the ward sister they are Bill and Eddie. When the real ones show up, there is confusion a-plenty.
As Joan goes into labour, her husband is paralytic down at the Jubilee Social Club, so Nobby and Arthur try as best as possible to sober him up...
This would have made a good finale to the series. Joan and Barbie give birth to boys, and Bill and Eddie seem friends at last, united by the common cause of fatherhood. But, with audiences of 14 million tuning in regularly each week, Thames was not about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. It commissioned further episodes, with Powell writing alone. The show's popularity remained intact.
Introducing a repeat of the first episode of 'George & The Dragon' as part of Channel 4's 'T.V. Heaven' series in 1992, the late Frank Muir said that Powell and Driver 'never reached any great heights, but came up with good comedy ideas, and knew how to make them work.". I would not compare them to say Galton and Simpson or Clement and La Frenais, but their shows gave pleasure to millions, and continue to do so. At best, they made us laugh, and at worst, gave alternative comedy something to be an alternative to. There was nothing pretentious about them or their work.
Funniest moment - Eddie and Bill showing off their new sons - Mark and Terry - at the Club. Both identically resemble their dads!
