Fed up at being unemployed, Hedges takes a job at an escort agency. His first client is the lovely Elinor, wife of German businessman Ernst. Tired of being ignored, Elinor wishes to make her husband jealous, hence she pretends to flirt with the ex-schoolteacher.
At a posh restaurant, they get better acquainted. Ernst arrives in an angry mood. To complicate matters further still, Penny is there too...
An unusual episode this; not one 'Gang' member appears, instead John Esmonde and Bob Larbey's script focuses entirely on Bernard and Penny Hedges. Nothing wrong with that, but the plot is an inversion of 'Leave It To Me, Darling'. Instead of Bernard suspecting his wife of going on the game, Penny thinks that of her husband. The almost total absence of humour leads one to suspect the script of an entirely different series has somehow strayed into the wrong show.
The lovely Wanda Ventham had recently been seen as 'Colonel Virginia Lake' in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's cult sci-fi show 'U.F.O'.
One wonders whether this episode, and the earlier 'Fenn Streets' to feature Hedges were intended as a try-out for a proposed second spin-off, one in which he landed a new job each week, rather like Charlie Drake in 'The Worker'. In the final event, this was to be the last time John Alderton played him, making this a dismal exit for the character. He deserved a better send-off.
At a posh restaurant, they get better acquainted. Ernst arrives in an angry mood. To complicate matters further still, Penny is there too...
An unusual episode this; not one 'Gang' member appears, instead John Esmonde and Bob Larbey's script focuses entirely on Bernard and Penny Hedges. Nothing wrong with that, but the plot is an inversion of 'Leave It To Me, Darling'. Instead of Bernard suspecting his wife of going on the game, Penny thinks that of her husband. The almost total absence of humour leads one to suspect the script of an entirely different series has somehow strayed into the wrong show.
The lovely Wanda Ventham had recently been seen as 'Colonel Virginia Lake' in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's cult sci-fi show 'U.F.O'.
One wonders whether this episode, and the earlier 'Fenn Streets' to feature Hedges were intended as a try-out for a proposed second spin-off, one in which he landed a new job each week, rather like Charlie Drake in 'The Worker'. In the final event, this was to be the last time John Alderton played him, making this a dismal exit for the character. He deserved a better send-off.