Overview
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Cast
- Ian Carmichael as Jim Dixon
- Terry-Thomas as Bertrand Welch
- Hugh Griffith as Professor Welch
- Sharon Acker as Christine Callaghan
- Jean Anderson as Mrs. Welch
- Maureen Connell as Margaret Peel
- Clive Morton as Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
- John Welsh as The Principal (as John Welch)
- Reginald Beckwith as University Porter
- Kenneth Griffith as Cyril Johns