An Old-Fashioned Christmas Mystery

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0:00:22 > 0:00:24APPLAUSE

0:01:24 > 0:01:26Good evening, how nice to see you.

0:01:28 > 0:01:29Hello, good evening.

0:01:29 > 0:01:34- Good evening to you. - Good evening, how are you?

0:01:34 > 0:01:36Oh, hello, good evening.

0:01:36 > 0:01:40How nice of you to look in. Welcome and a very merry Christmas to you.

0:01:40 > 0:01:44- Yes, come on in. We've been wondering where you got to.- Quite.

0:01:44 > 0:01:48Still, you're here now. I'm afraid we can't introduce you to the others, but the house is

0:01:48 > 0:01:53- so crowded you'll soon get to know everybody.- Intimately I should think. We're playing sardines later on.

0:01:53 > 0:01:55- Are we really? ..I'm rather good at that.- Oh, really?

0:01:55 > 0:01:59- Yes, well, very few people can get into those tins, you know!- Oh...

0:01:59 > 0:02:04- Oh, I'm sorry. Please, come on. - Do go through. They're having a bit of a dance at the moment.

0:02:04 > 0:02:06Ah, reverend, how nice to see you...

0:04:58 > 0:05:01Ah, there you are. That was pretty damn good, wasn't it?

0:05:01 > 0:05:04I hope you joined in, did you? That's the idea.

0:05:04 > 0:05:05Have a drink, old chap.

0:05:05 > 0:05:08- By Jove, I need it. - You were dancing, weren't you?

0:05:08 > 0:05:13- Yes, I was out there with the rest of them.- Yes, I thought I couldn't see you.

0:05:13 > 0:05:16I've been looking for you. Were you on the floor?

0:05:16 > 0:05:18Several times, yes. HE LAUGHS

0:05:18 > 0:05:21By Jove, it was hell out there.

0:05:21 > 0:05:23Mind you, of course, I was dancing with Mrs Bull.

0:05:23 > 0:05:25Mrs Bull, I don't think I know the woman.

0:05:25 > 0:05:29Yes, you do. Six foot tall, built like the side of a house.

0:05:29 > 0:05:33With an enormous veranda and welcome on the mat.

0:05:33 > 0:05:35Oh, very low-cut lace curtains?

0:05:35 > 0:05:39Always hanging out of the window trying to catch your eye.

0:05:39 > 0:05:40Yes, I know the woman.

0:05:40 > 0:05:44- Husband's got a smallholding. - Has he?- Yes.

0:05:45 > 0:05:50Yes, on the estate. She must have been damned difficult to cope with.

0:05:50 > 0:05:51Well, she was, what with her size.

0:05:51 > 0:05:55I didn't know where to look for the best.

0:05:55 > 0:06:00Somebody suddenly pushed me in the back, I thought I'd gone deaf for a moment.

0:06:00 > 0:06:03Yes, I get the picture. How did you manage to get rid of her, old chap?

0:06:03 > 0:06:07Well, fortunately, she went in search of refreshment.

0:06:07 > 0:06:12She said, if I joined her later, she would have a nice blancmange waiting for me.

0:06:12 > 0:06:14I think you'll be safer here, old chap.

0:06:14 > 0:06:20Talking of nice blancmanges, I'd like to introduce the Lady on my left, Ethel, my nearest and dearest,

0:06:20 > 0:06:25the dear girl who has been my helpmate and comforter and who, since the death of my horse,

0:06:25 > 0:06:28has been the sole object of my love and affection.

0:06:28 > 0:06:33She's stuck to me through thick and thin. Lately, I fear mostly thick.

0:06:33 > 0:06:39But the man who marries late in life needs a girl of Ethel's qualities to support him in his declining years.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42I drink to Ethel, a girl in a million.

0:06:47 > 0:06:53- The wife's knocking about somewhere here as well, I don't know where. - I'll look for her on your behalf.

0:06:53 > 0:06:57What's the point, old man? You wouldn't know what to do with her when you found her.

0:06:57 > 0:07:01She's not much good for anything, except for frightening sheep.

0:07:01 > 0:07:03Excuse me, what's going on? Just a minute.

0:07:04 > 0:07:06What do you want, my dear old thing?

0:07:08 > 0:07:12What? Someone's what? Someone's pinched your what?

0:07:12 > 0:07:14In the where?

0:07:14 > 0:07:18Are you sure it wasn't just an ordinary goose, old thing?

0:07:18 > 0:07:21Well, I suppose you'd know, yes, big girl like you.

0:07:21 > 0:07:24Well, I say, this is damn serious, isn't it?

0:07:24 > 0:07:29- Don't tell the chef whatever you do. - What's occurred?- Well, I...

0:07:29 > 0:07:32Excuse us a moment, would you? ..Come over here.

0:07:34 > 0:07:36What?!

0:07:36 > 0:07:38Someone has pinched her what?

0:07:38 > 0:07:41In the what?

0:07:41 > 0:07:44Are you sure it's just not an ordinary goose?

0:07:44 > 0:07:47- She ought to know. In fact, I know she knows.- How d'you know?

0:07:47 > 0:07:52She boils my eggs for me. This is damn serious. Ought we to tell the others?

0:07:52 > 0:07:56I think we jolly well better, yes. I'm, er...

0:07:56 > 0:07:59I'm afraid we've had a bit of bad news.

0:07:59 > 0:08:02Someone has pinched the turkey.

0:08:02 > 0:08:05Tomorrow's dinner up the spout. Down the drain. Out the window.

0:08:05 > 0:08:11Now, all this may sound rather trivial, but the point is it was no ordinary Turkey. It was enormous.

0:08:11 > 0:08:16- It weighed nearly a hundredweight. - Especially bred on this very estate

0:08:16 > 0:08:18in honour of these very Christmas festivities.

0:08:18 > 0:08:21More meat on it than any bird you've ever seen.

0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Except that woman I was dancing with.- Yes!

0:08:24 > 0:08:27Yes, excluding her, naturally. A fearsome creature.

0:08:27 > 0:08:29- Yes, she was. Boom-boom. - No, the turkey, the turkey!

0:08:29 > 0:08:33- Where, where?- The chef was waiting to stuff it.- Oh, the turkey?- Yes.

0:08:34 > 0:08:38Just in time, yes. Bred especially to feed 50 people.

0:08:38 > 0:08:41Think of those people all sitting down to Christmas dinner tomorrow.

0:08:41 > 0:08:43Everyone wanting a leg.

0:08:43 > 0:08:50Yes, and no turkey. Think of those six kitchen maids especially brought over from Paris for the occasion.

0:08:50 > 0:08:52- Think of the chef.- What?

0:08:52 > 0:08:57- Think of the chef.- Sorry, I was still thinking of the kitchen maids. But that chef, he'll go mad.

0:08:57 > 0:09:03- Mind you, he is mad.- Yes, I know, but he'll be down in the kitchen at this moment happy as a sand boy.

0:09:03 > 0:09:05Having got tonight's little repast out of the way,

0:09:05 > 0:09:09he's beginning to get into serious training for the main event tomorrow.

0:09:09 > 0:09:13He's probably downstairs at this moment juggling with some little trifle or other.

0:09:37 > 0:09:40APPLAUSE

0:09:59 > 0:10:03APPLAUSE

0:10:37 > 0:10:40APPLAUSE

0:11:01 > 0:11:04APPLAUSE

0:11:27 > 0:11:30APPLAUSE

0:11:51 > 0:11:53Oh, there you are.

0:11:53 > 0:11:55Lucky you sneaked out, old chap.

0:11:55 > 0:12:00That blancmange woman has passed here twice asking where she could get hold of you.

0:12:00 > 0:12:04Yes. I, er... I told her to try everywhere.

0:12:06 > 0:12:09She already did that during the last dance.

0:12:09 > 0:12:15I wasn't actually hiding, but I've been making arrangements to solve the turkey mystery.

0:12:15 > 0:12:19- On your behalf, I've sent a telegram to London.- Whatever for?

0:12:19 > 0:12:23To engage the services of a certain detective and his assistant.

0:12:23 > 0:12:29A man who, though almost unknown, will one day become world famous, a household name throughout Britain.

0:12:29 > 0:12:33It isn't that chap I've been reading about lately in the Strand Magazine, is it?

0:12:33 > 0:12:35Not that what's his name, Warlock?

0:12:35 > 0:12:38Shylock. Shylock something or other. Shylock Houses.

0:12:40 > 0:12:43You mean Sherlock Holmes.

0:12:43 > 0:12:44ALL: Sherlock Holmes?

0:12:44 > 0:12:49No, not Sherlock Holmes. No, no, you see.

0:12:49 > 0:12:53Piggy Malone. Piggy Malone.

0:12:53 > 0:12:56Yes, thank you.

0:13:02 > 0:13:06And his assistant Charley Farley. ALL: Ooh!

0:13:10 > 0:13:13Who, did I hear you say? Who?

0:13:13 > 0:13:16Well, you may not have heard of them as yet,

0:13:16 > 0:13:20but I'm told they're behind very many lurid criminal cases.

0:13:30 > 0:13:34SNORING

0:13:34 > 0:13:36Chief.

0:13:36 > 0:13:38Chief!

0:13:40 > 0:13:42Just put it on the bed.

0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Oh, it's you, Charley, what do you want?- Are you busy?

0:13:50 > 0:13:52Yeah, trying to get some sleep.

0:13:54 > 0:13:57Oh, I didn't get a wink of sleep all day yesterday, you know?

0:13:57 > 0:13:59You slept all night, though.

0:13:59 > 0:14:02- It's not the same, is it? - Yes, well.

0:14:02 > 0:14:04What's that? A telegram?

0:14:04 > 0:14:08- A telegram.- Where is it from? - From the Post Office.

0:14:08 > 0:14:11- Oh, really.- They need our help. - What have they done? Lost a stamp?

0:14:11 > 0:14:17No, it's Hampton Grange. They've asked the post office to see if they can get in touch with us.

0:14:17 > 0:14:20- It's clever, isn't it? - Didn't you know about telegrams?

0:14:20 > 0:14:23No, whatever will they think of next?

0:14:23 > 0:14:28- Putting the price up probably. Read it out.- All right, all right.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31"Prize fat Turkey stolen.

0:14:31 > 0:14:33"Nothing to feed 50 guests on for Christmas dinner.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36"How about you coming down?"

0:14:37 > 0:14:40I don't think that's very funny.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42Are you sure you read that out right?

0:14:42 > 0:14:46"If you solve the mystery, we'll pay you well

0:14:46 > 0:14:50"and your assistant can spend the night with Lady Hampton."

0:14:50 > 0:14:52Eh?

0:14:52 > 0:14:55"My best wishes, Sir Giles Stop."

0:14:55 > 0:14:57Sir Giles who?

0:14:57 > 0:15:00- Sir Giles Stop.- Give it here.

0:15:01 > 0:15:07"If you solve the mystery, we'll pay you well and your assistant stop.

0:15:07 > 0:15:10"Can spend the night stop.

0:15:10 > 0:15:15"With Lady Hampton and my best wishes, Sir Giles stop."

0:15:18 > 0:15:22It's worth going, isn't it? Better than spending Christmas at Edna's.

0:15:22 > 0:15:27Two shrivelled up mince pies and lucky to see any custard.

0:15:27 > 0:15:31- Well, she's your sister. - No, she's not.

0:15:32 > 0:15:36- Eh? - I thought she was YOUR sister.

0:15:38 > 0:15:40She's not my sister.

0:15:41 > 0:15:44Oh, well, that settles it, then, off to the country, eh?

0:15:44 > 0:15:49Lovely big country house, all the trimmings. This, that and the other.

0:15:49 > 0:15:52- What d'you mean?- A bite of this, a drink of that, plenty of...

0:15:52 > 0:15:58I don't want you letting it go. Remember what I promised your mum.

0:15:58 > 0:16:00Anyway, we can't go.

0:16:00 > 0:16:04- Why not?- I've got to stay and look after Harry's pigeons. - Next door, you mean?

0:16:04 > 0:16:08Yes, he's gone away for Christmas and he wants me to let them out.

0:16:08 > 0:16:10Let them out, then shut the cage.

0:16:10 > 0:16:12They'll be all right.

0:16:12 > 0:16:15Come on, this lovely, rich country house.

0:16:15 > 0:16:20Think of all the beautiful woman that must be there with the low-cut dresses and their eyes a-shining.

0:16:20 > 0:16:24- No, we're not going.- Think of all the drink and the fat cigars.

0:16:24 > 0:16:27I said we're not going.

0:16:27 > 0:16:28Think of all the food!

0:16:31 > 0:16:36- Come on, then. - I'll sling a few things in the bag.

0:16:36 > 0:16:41- Send a reply to let them know we're coming. We must leave at once.- Right.

0:16:53 > 0:16:55Ooh!

0:16:55 > 0:16:59Good evening, good evening. I'm not stealing these birds.

0:16:59 > 0:17:03I'm, er... I'm just looking after them for a friend.

0:17:03 > 0:17:06He asked me to keep them shut in and to let them out every day.

0:17:06 > 0:17:09During the night.

0:17:09 > 0:17:12I'm an international detective, P G Malone.

0:17:12 > 0:17:16- It's me, chief.- Eh?! - You didn't know that, did you?

0:17:16 > 0:17:20It's very good, that. Where did you get that?

0:17:20 > 0:17:22From a joke shop. It's a disguise set.

0:17:22 > 0:17:25Just what we need for our trip to the country.

0:17:25 > 0:17:29- Have you got one for me an' all? - There was only one beard, but I've got something just as good.

0:17:29 > 0:17:31Come on, wait until you get into the cab. Come on!

0:17:36 > 0:17:38That suits you, chief.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42Do you think so?

0:17:43 > 0:17:46No one will know you at Hampton Grange.

0:17:48 > 0:17:50Nobody knows me anyway.

0:18:03 > 0:18:05- Excuse me.- Yes? Oh...

0:18:05 > 0:18:08- I think...- No, no!

0:18:08 > 0:18:10- They're coming.- Who? - The detectives.

0:18:10 > 0:18:14- They're on their way here by cab and should be here in three hours. - That's marvellous!

0:18:14 > 0:18:17The detectives are on their way! That's marvellous, isn't it?

0:18:17 > 0:18:21Until then, I suggest we forget all about it. It's only a damn Turkey.

0:18:21 > 0:18:25- Right.- I wonder who the swine was who pinched it.

0:18:25 > 0:18:28- You said you were going to forget all about it.- So I did.

0:18:28 > 0:18:32- Anyway, I'm just about to announce a little entertainment.- Lovely!

0:18:33 > 0:18:36Ladies and gentlemen... ladies and gentlemen,

0:18:36 > 0:18:41we're honoured to have in our midst tonight a charming and talented actress,

0:18:41 > 0:18:44that darling of the music hall - Miss Cheryl Kennedy.

0:18:52 > 0:18:56She has... She has agreed to give us her famous portrayal

0:18:56 > 0:19:03of a young urchin boy of the London streets in a monologue entitled Christmas Bells.

0:19:12 > 0:19:15'Ear the bells a-ringing, Bill?

0:19:15 > 0:19:17That's cos it's Christmas Eve.

0:19:17 > 0:19:20But it ain't for you and me there's a ringing.

0:19:20 > 0:19:25When we is cold and hungry, Bill, it's hard to make believe

0:19:25 > 0:19:28as we can hear the happy angels singing.

0:19:28 > 0:19:32If we had a bed to sleep in, and could get a bit to eat,

0:19:32 > 0:19:36then bells of angels voices might remind us,

0:19:36 > 0:19:40but not when you're a doss, Bill, in the cold and cruel street,

0:19:40 > 0:19:44where the bobbies are nearly always sure to find us.

0:19:44 > 0:19:49It's dreadful hard on you, Bill, cos you're such a little kid.

0:19:49 > 0:19:51What didn't or know a bit of sorrow,

0:19:51 > 0:19:54and wouldn't if them Christian folks'd do as they would bid.

0:19:54 > 0:19:58My old man's birthday's gonna be tomorrow.

0:19:58 > 0:20:01But it was him what said, "Let little children come to me."

0:20:01 > 0:20:05And meaning just such little coves as you, Bill.

0:20:05 > 0:20:10But I ain't got no chance, cos I'm 14, you see.

0:20:10 > 0:20:14And I tell you, as I knows a thing or two, Bill.

0:20:14 > 0:20:17You can't sell evening papers so to get a bit to eat,

0:20:17 > 0:20:20like I've done since the time I was seven,

0:20:20 > 0:20:24without picking up enough of badness in this street

0:20:24 > 0:20:26to leave no earthly chance to get to heaven.

0:20:26 > 0:20:31Them coves that comes around with tracks, sum me up a treat.

0:20:31 > 0:20:37I'm an outcast, poor, lost sinner.

0:20:37 > 0:20:40Perhaps they'd be the same if they'd been brought up in the street

0:20:40 > 0:20:43and hardly ever had no proper dinner.

0:20:43 > 0:20:46But, Bill, when you and me is dead,

0:20:46 > 0:20:50I'll come along with you and you shall introduce me as your brother.

0:20:50 > 0:20:55And 'im who knows what sorrow is is sure to let me through.

0:20:55 > 0:20:59Because why, we've been such pals to one another.

0:20:59 > 0:21:00Ain't we, Bill?

0:21:02 > 0:21:05APPLAUSE

0:21:26 > 0:21:28Come in.

0:21:30 > 0:21:33They you are, Ronald dear.

0:21:33 > 0:21:35Hello, Mrs Featherstone.

0:21:35 > 0:21:40This is my niece, Emma from Shropshire. Do you remember her?

0:21:40 > 0:21:44You used to love playing with her toys when you were a lad.

0:21:46 > 0:21:49- Really?- You must remember?

0:21:49 > 0:21:52Yes, I remember her toys.

0:21:52 > 0:21:54How lovely to see you again, Emma.

0:21:54 > 0:21:58Thank you, Ronald, what a charming house.

0:21:58 > 0:22:03I'll leave you two alone together, I know you've got lots to discuss.

0:22:03 > 0:22:04Thank you.

0:22:12 > 0:22:15- Do sit down, Emma. - Oh, thank you.

0:22:27 > 0:22:31You've got a much bigger girl since I saw you last.

0:22:31 > 0:22:34- Yes.- A beautiful dress you are wearing,

0:22:34 > 0:22:37it's a delightful corsage, you are not cold, are you?

0:22:37 > 0:22:39No, no, no.

0:22:39 > 0:22:42You're not too hot, are you?

0:22:42 > 0:22:46- No, I'm quite comfortable, thank you.- Oh, good.

0:22:54 > 0:22:57Would you prefer to go and sit in the other room?

0:22:57 > 0:23:00- Er, no.- You're sure?- Yes.

0:23:06 > 0:23:10- Would you like to sit here?- No.

0:23:10 > 0:23:12Good. You would say?

0:23:12 > 0:23:15I'm quite happy here, I don't want to move.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17Oh, good.

0:23:20 > 0:23:24I know, I could move this chair over to here,

0:23:24 > 0:23:27- then we could sit side by side.- Good.

0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Or...- Or what?

0:23:29 > 0:23:34Or I could move that chair over here and then you could either sit there,

0:23:34 > 0:23:37or there, or where you are now and it would not matter to me.

0:23:37 > 0:23:41- Shall I?- Er, no.- Now you're angry. - No, I'm not.

0:23:41 > 0:23:44- Yes, you are.- I am not.- Honestly?

0:23:44 > 0:23:48- Honestly.- Yes, you are. - I am not!- You're sure I'm not fussing you to much?

0:23:48 > 0:23:52- Yes, quite sure.- Good, perhaps you would like a nice drink?

0:23:52 > 0:23:54Well, that would be most welcome.

0:23:54 > 0:23:57- A glass of sherry?- Yes, please.

0:23:57 > 0:24:00They're serving a delicious port.

0:24:00 > 0:24:02- Well then, I'll have the port. - Right.

0:24:02 > 0:24:06- Have the sherry if you'd rather? - No, I'll have the port.

0:24:06 > 0:24:12- Perhaps you'd just prefer something to eat?- No, just the port.- Silly to drink port on an empty stomach.

0:24:12 > 0:24:14- I'll have the sherry, then. - The port's better.

0:24:14 > 0:24:17- Oh...- Now you are angry. - No, I'm not.

0:24:17 > 0:24:22- Would you like to go and sit back with your aunt?- No. - Shall I sit with her?- No!

0:24:22 > 0:24:26- Well, should either of us both go, separately or together or not? It's up to you.- Oh!

0:24:26 > 0:24:28- Now you are angry.- No. - Would you like a seat?- No!

0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Shall I get another chair?- No. - A glass of sherry?- No.

0:24:31 > 0:24:35- A glass of port?- No! - Am I fussing you too much?- Yes!

0:24:35 > 0:24:37God, I thought she'd never go!

0:24:54 > 0:24:55My friends,

0:24:55 > 0:24:58or may I call you ladies and gentlemen?

0:24:58 > 0:25:05I have been asked to make a speech, but before I do, I'd like to say a few words.

0:25:05 > 0:25:09Before I do that, I tell I must feel you that I've had a few.

0:25:10 > 0:25:16Drinks, that is. Not words. Mind you, quite a few words have passed my lips in my time,

0:25:16 > 0:25:21and of course that's what life is all about, isn't it? Communication, the spoken word.

0:25:21 > 0:25:27It is essential we know that what's going on and indeed what isn't going on that should be.

0:25:27 > 0:25:33We must communicate with each other and also with anyone else we happen to meet, because everyone,

0:25:33 > 0:25:40and by everyone I mean everybody, can and in fact does, or if they don't at present

0:25:40 > 0:25:45they very soon will, because to be honest, everyone has to eventually.

0:25:45 > 0:25:51Or as we all know, and those who have had the experience will bear me out.

0:25:51 > 0:25:53And the sooner, the better.

0:25:53 > 0:25:57In other words, we must try to regard the nation as a whole

0:25:57 > 0:26:01and those who think it is one should get out and make room for the others.

0:26:01 > 0:26:07There's no room here for shirkers, this country has a great future behind it.

0:26:07 > 0:26:10I mean, have you ever...?

0:26:10 > 0:26:14Have you ever wondered what we shall all be like in 100 years from now?

0:26:14 > 0:26:17Well, we'll be dead.

0:26:18 > 0:26:21Yes, we'll be dead, thank you, little Disraeli.

0:26:24 > 0:26:29We will be dead, but this land of ours will be a Garden of Eden, take my word for it.

0:26:29 > 0:26:34Today for instance, we have the penny post, but then they will have two posts.

0:26:34 > 0:26:38Oh, yes. The first class post that doesn't get there the next day,

0:26:38 > 0:26:43and the second class post that doesn't get there the day after.

0:26:47 > 0:26:50Transport, you see, will be quite different.

0:26:50 > 0:26:52We shall have 30 horsepower omnibuses.

0:26:52 > 0:26:58Worked by only two men, one to drive and the other to clean up after the 30 horses.

0:27:06 > 0:27:10I predict that many minority groups will seek the vote.

0:27:10 > 0:27:12Dogs, horses.

0:27:12 > 0:27:13Even women!

0:27:13 > 0:27:16And I think horses will probably get it.

0:27:16 > 0:27:19As to women, that could lead to trouble.

0:27:19 > 0:27:22Mind you, I'm not denying some women have a perfect right,

0:27:22 > 0:27:26but on the other hand, they got an equally good left.

0:27:26 > 0:27:30Where do women get these ideas about wanting to wear the trousers?

0:27:30 > 0:27:33In my opinion, they should drop them completely...

0:27:33 > 0:27:38and assume their rightful position, bent over the sink. I mean...

0:27:38 > 0:27:44If that isn't proof of the pudding, if proof were needed, then I don't know who has.

0:27:44 > 0:27:48To sum up, you may drink to the girl with a face that's divine.

0:27:48 > 0:27:50To the girl with a figure that's wavy.

0:27:50 > 0:27:56You may drink to the girl from blue-blooded stock, you may drink below-stairs with the slavey.

0:27:56 > 0:28:01You may drink to the girl who is one of the boys, who goes out with the Army and Navy.

0:28:01 > 0:28:05But here's to the girl who was both rich and old,

0:28:05 > 0:28:08to the girl with one foot in the gravy.

0:28:15 > 0:28:18Ladies and gentlemen...

0:28:20 > 0:28:24Ladies and gentlemen... absent friends.

0:28:33 > 0:28:35Well? Did you find out why we've stopped?

0:28:35 > 0:28:37The cab driver's lost a leg.

0:28:37 > 0:28:39I know that, I noticed when we first got in.

0:28:39 > 0:28:42Wooden leg straight out in front of him.

0:28:42 > 0:28:45I thought you had to catch hold of it when you got in the cab.

0:28:45 > 0:28:48- You didn't? - I did as a matter of fact.

0:28:48 > 0:28:50- What did he say?- Nothing.

0:28:50 > 0:28:53Just overbalanced and fell in the gutter.

0:28:54 > 0:28:58I still don't see why we stopped. He's only just sitting up there!

0:28:58 > 0:29:03- It shouldn't matter if he has got a wooden leg. - No, he hasn't got one, he's lost it.

0:29:03 > 0:29:07- Eh?- He's lost it. The wooden leg!

0:29:07 > 0:29:09Oh!

0:29:09 > 0:29:13Said he was feeling a bit tired and he dropped off.

0:29:13 > 0:29:17So did his wooden leg. Wants us to go back and look for it. It can only be down the road.

0:29:17 > 0:29:22I'm not crawling about in the dark feeling for cab driver's legs!

0:29:22 > 0:29:28Come on, chief, otherwise we'll never get get there! He said he's not going another step without his leg.

0:29:30 > 0:29:33I've a good mind to go back to Edna's.

0:29:33 > 0:29:39Come on, think of all those people standing about the Grange, all looking miserable.

0:29:39 > 0:29:41Poor souls.

0:29:51 > 0:29:54I must say this is all going with a swing.

0:29:54 > 0:29:58It certainly is, what about these French maids, they are pretty hot stuff!

0:29:58 > 0:30:01How would you like one of those for Christmas?

0:30:01 > 0:30:04- I bet they make pretty good stocking fillers!- I bet they do.

0:32:43 > 0:32:46APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

0:32:56 > 0:32:59MUSIC PLAYS

0:33:16 > 0:33:19COCKEREL CROWS

0:33:29 > 0:33:31SNORING

0:33:38 > 0:33:41SNORING CONTINUES

0:33:55 > 0:33:57GROANING

0:34:04 > 0:34:07You'd never believe there were so many things

0:34:07 > 0:34:11you could pick up in the dark that would feel like the cab driver's wooden leg.

0:34:11 > 0:34:14Still we never found it.

0:34:14 > 0:34:18It was pitch dark out there, chief, we should do better now that it's daylight.

0:34:20 > 0:34:23No, it's gone, that has. It's gone, someone's had that.

0:34:23 > 0:34:29Some great peasant woman was warming her knees around a blazing wooden leg last night.

0:34:29 > 0:34:31Don't mind that, I'll have another look.

0:34:34 > 0:34:37- Chief, another surprise for you. - Eh?

0:34:37 > 0:34:39- Remember Harry's homing pigeons? - Yeah.

0:34:39 > 0:34:42- They're not at home. - What?- Look up there.

0:34:45 > 0:34:51- They've followed us here. - They're very loyal, aren't they?

0:34:53 > 0:34:57- All I did was let them out. - Well, they're waiting to be let in again now.

0:34:57 > 0:34:59They've a damn long wait coming, that's all I can say.

0:34:59 > 0:35:04- Talking about long waits, have you seen anything of the cab driver this morning, or heard him?- No.

0:35:08 > 0:35:12Cabbie? Cabbie?

0:35:12 > 0:35:14Cabbie?

0:35:14 > 0:35:16Cabbie?!

0:35:17 > 0:35:20Cabbie? Cabbie!

0:35:23 > 0:35:26Nowhere in sight, vanished.

0:35:26 > 0:35:28He can't of gone far, he hasn't got his leg.

0:35:30 > 0:35:33Well, leg or no leg, he's disappeared.

0:35:34 > 0:35:37- You know what he's done, don't you?- What?

0:35:37 > 0:35:39He's hopped it!

0:35:49 > 0:35:51- Good morning.- Good morning.

0:35:51 > 0:35:56- Feeling better are you? - It was a bit of a rough night, wasn't it?- Oh, yes.

0:35:56 > 0:36:00There is nothing to bring you round like a nice cup of coffee and a peep at the morning paper.

0:36:00 > 0:36:04- Exactly, what have you got there? - I've got the Berkshire Bugle here.

0:36:04 > 0:36:07That's damn good, I've got the Hertfordshire Herald.

0:36:07 > 0:36:09I love these local papers, don't you?

0:36:09 > 0:36:13- Yes, much more...much more interesting, aren't they?- Yes.

0:36:13 > 0:36:14Listen to this.

0:36:14 > 0:36:19"Lonely lady, 43, with little dog, seeks post."

0:36:22 > 0:36:24Yes, yes.

0:36:24 > 0:36:27I've got one here. "The Southern Railway Company announced today

0:36:27 > 0:36:32- they are to name their great London terminus after Britain's most beloved Queen."- Really?

0:36:32 > 0:36:36Yes, it is to be called the Oscar Wilde Central.

0:36:44 > 0:36:45Listen to this.

0:36:45 > 0:36:51"An Irishman was found wandering in East London, late last night

0:36:51 > 0:36:54"with his Wellingtons full of water.

0:36:54 > 0:36:58"This is the first recorded case of brainwashing!"

0:37:04 > 0:37:09There's a good one here. "Sir Thomas Inglenook, Governor of Australia,

0:37:09 > 0:37:11"died yesterday from eating kangaroo meat.

0:37:11 > 0:37:14"He was buried this morning at Westminster Abbey

0:37:14 > 0:37:16"and again at midday and this afternoon..."

0:37:18 > 0:37:20What a bounder!

0:37:25 > 0:37:29"From the North-west Frontier,

0:37:29 > 0:37:34"we hear General Woosley has successfully stopped an Indian rising.

0:37:34 > 0:37:36"He hid his alarm clock."

0:37:39 > 0:37:44"At Lewes Assizes today, Mrs Sarah Dalrymple admitted murdering her husband,

0:37:44 > 0:37:48"but she asked for mercy on the grounds that she was a widow."

0:37:53 > 0:37:57"In Beaconsfield, a woman who got carried away last April

0:37:57 > 0:38:01"during a game of Postman's Knock has just had a special delivery."

0:38:06 > 0:38:10Talking of Postman's Knock, weren't you going to find that book on party games in the library?

0:38:10 > 0:38:13Oh yes, for tonight, I was.

0:38:13 > 0:38:16- I wonder if it's got Postman's 20 Questions in it.- What's that one?

0:38:16 > 0:38:21The gentleman takes a lady of his choice to a secluded part of the house and asks her 20 questions.

0:38:21 > 0:38:26- Oh, yes?- If the answer to the first one is yes, he doesn't have to bother with the other 19.

0:38:28 > 0:38:30It sounds fun.

0:38:30 > 0:38:34We might play the whisky game later on, do you know that one?

0:38:34 > 0:38:38The whisky game? Everybody sits around and drinks a bottle of whisky each,

0:38:38 > 0:38:41and then someone goes out of the room and you have to try and guess who it is.

0:38:45 > 0:38:51Then you all drink another bottle of whisky each and you have to try and guess who you are.

0:38:51 > 0:38:54You will excuse me, won't you? You carry on having your breakfast,

0:38:54 > 0:38:57I'm going to go down and see the chef. Heaven knows what we're going

0:38:57 > 0:39:00to give the guests for Christmas dinner.

0:39:00 > 0:39:04When you've finished, why not join Ronnie in the library? I shan't be long.

0:39:12 > 0:39:17Now, for a little peace and quiet.

0:39:17 > 0:39:22Or as they say, I've got a little piece and I hope she keeps quiet!

0:39:22 > 0:39:25I bet in 50 years' time, they'll think that's hysterical.

0:39:25 > 0:39:30People these days are just not ready for sophisticated humour.

0:39:30 > 0:39:35Now, I've just had the servants in for their Christmas presents.

0:39:35 > 0:39:38And this year, I've given them all the latest little novelty

0:39:38 > 0:39:42to while away a few moments at the end of the day's work.

0:39:42 > 0:39:44It's called a timesheet.

0:39:46 > 0:39:50Anyway, I thought I'd take this opportunity

0:39:50 > 0:39:55of wishing you a personal, very happy Christmas.

0:39:57 > 0:39:59I have to be a bit careful, you know.

0:39:59 > 0:40:03If I have three glasses of wine, the third one goes straight to my head.

0:40:03 > 0:40:05Let's face it, there's nowhere else for it to go.

0:40:09 > 0:40:10Thank you.

0:40:15 > 0:40:18This wine was actually made by my grandfather

0:40:18 > 0:40:23from an old Russian recipe, given to him by an old Russian

0:40:23 > 0:40:26who'd copied it out of the Ladies' Weekly Journal.

0:40:26 > 0:40:30My grandfather was quite a character when he was alive.

0:40:30 > 0:40:34After he died, he got a bit run-of-the-mill.

0:40:34 > 0:40:40During his lifetime, he fought with General Wolfe, Kitchener,

0:40:40 > 0:40:43Clive of India, Wellington...

0:40:43 > 0:40:46He just couldn't seem to get along with anybody.

0:40:46 > 0:40:49Eventually...

0:40:49 > 0:40:55Eventually, he met an untimely end when he became the first man ever

0:40:55 > 0:40:58to slide down Mount Everest on a tin tray.

0:41:00 > 0:41:04And we buried him where he came to rest,

0:41:04 > 0:41:06just outside Watford.

0:41:08 > 0:41:13Now we come to the exciting bit, and not a moment too soon.

0:41:13 > 0:41:20One night, about a week after the old gentleman shuffled off this mortal coil and snuffed it,

0:41:20 > 0:41:26I was sitting here getting a cheap thrill out of some of the more erotic chapters of Little Women...

0:41:29 > 0:41:32God, we're a simple lot!

0:41:32 > 0:41:36When I heard this burst of high pitched, unnatural laughter.

0:41:36 > 0:41:40It gave me a turn. Suddenly, over in the far corner,

0:41:40 > 0:41:47between the volume, I Was Queen Victoria's Batman, and a book on Formula Two sedan-chair racing...

0:41:49 > 0:41:52I saw...

0:41:52 > 0:41:55I saw an operation... Sorry. I saw...

0:41:56 > 0:41:58I saw an apparition.

0:42:04 > 0:42:10It was the ghost of my grandfather. The new see-through model.

0:42:10 > 0:42:14He said, "Ron, I'm now your fairy grandfather."

0:42:14 > 0:42:16Quite.

0:42:20 > 0:42:23I suppose he meant it in the nicest possible way.

0:42:23 > 0:42:26You never can tell, can you?

0:42:26 > 0:42:33He said, "I'm now your fairy grandfather, I've come to grant you one wishes."

0:42:35 > 0:42:37I said, "I thought it was always three wishes."

0:42:37 > 0:42:40He said, "Don't push me, I'm a beginner."

0:42:40 > 0:42:41He said, "Something simple."

0:42:41 > 0:42:45I said, "What about a very funny joke I can tell at the Christmas party?"

0:42:45 > 0:42:47He said, "Listen to this.

0:42:47 > 0:42:51"Imagine if you will," he said, leaning back like that, "Imagine if you will..."

0:42:51 > 0:42:55I don't know why he did it, because it doesn't make any difference.

0:42:55 > 0:42:59But he felt like leaning back. "Imagine if you will," he said, "a Roman galley

0:42:59 > 0:43:05"and the rows of Christian slaves down below are all rowing away,

0:43:05 > 0:43:08"saying, "Woe is me!" and, "Dear, oh dear!"

0:43:08 > 0:43:10"And "Oy vay!""

0:43:12 > 0:43:15A stowaway! Anyway...

0:43:17 > 0:43:19"Oy vay!" - a stowaway.

0:43:20 > 0:43:23Anyway, the big... It wasn't an inaccuracy, anyway.

0:43:23 > 0:43:26Or an apparition, it was a stowaway.

0:43:26 > 0:43:30The big Roman centurion is marching up and down the aisle, lashing them

0:43:30 > 0:43:35and shouting, "No singing!" and, "You broke your mother's heart, but you won't break mine."

0:43:35 > 0:43:38"You play ball with me and I'll play ball with you."

0:43:38 > 0:43:41I was in the army with this fellow.

0:43:41 > 0:43:44He's called away for a few minutes, the big centurion,

0:43:44 > 0:43:46and the Irish escape committee are just getting on

0:43:46 > 0:43:50with their plan to tunnel through the bottom of the boat.

0:44:01 > 0:44:06When he comes back and says, "Slaves..." and he leaned back a bit as well, actually.

0:44:06 > 0:44:11He said, "Slaves, stop rowing, undo your shackles and come up on deck

0:44:11 > 0:44:13"and have a couple of hours' kip in the sunshine."

0:44:13 > 0:44:17So they're all lying about on the decks, sunbathing themselves.

0:44:17 > 0:44:22One of the slaves goes up to him and says, "Sir, on behalf of the lads and myself,

0:44:22 > 0:44:26"I'd like to say how much we appreciate this break

0:44:26 > 0:44:30"from our unremitting, back-breaking toil.

0:44:30 > 0:44:32"This is doing us a power of good."

0:44:32 > 0:44:36So the big centurion says, "I hope so, because as soon as you get back to work,

0:44:36 > 0:44:39"the skipper wants to start water-skiing."

0:44:52 > 0:44:55Yes, that's the house all right.

0:44:55 > 0:44:58I hope this plan of yours works.

0:44:58 > 0:45:00Oh, it's bound to, chief.

0:45:00 > 0:45:03All you've got to do is dump me inside the scullery door

0:45:03 > 0:45:07and I'll be able to listen to what all the kitchen staff are talking about.

0:45:07 > 0:45:10The culprit had a knowledge of cooking, that's why he had the sense

0:45:10 > 0:45:13to steal the turkey before it was stuffed.

0:45:13 > 0:45:15Thus making it lighter to carry.

0:45:15 > 0:45:18Exactly. It can always be stuffed later.

0:45:18 > 0:45:21You reckon it's an inside job, do you?

0:45:21 > 0:45:23Stuffing the turkey? Oh, yes.

0:45:25 > 0:45:28The crime.

0:45:28 > 0:45:34Oh, the crime! As soon as you dump me on the scullery floor, I shall be able to get my ear to the ground.

0:45:34 > 0:45:36Right.

0:45:36 > 0:45:39One other thing - why am I wearing a false beard now?

0:45:40 > 0:45:43Well, one of us wants to wear a disguise, it's too risky.

0:45:43 > 0:45:46But you've been wearing it up to now, haven't you?

0:45:46 > 0:45:48It's a waste, me wearing it, I'm inside a sack!

0:45:49 > 0:45:52Oh, no.

0:45:52 > 0:45:54Right, which way do we go, then?

0:45:54 > 0:45:56That way.

0:45:56 > 0:45:58Did you cut that hole in the sack?

0:45:58 > 0:46:00Yes, I cut two holes in the feet an' all.

0:46:00 > 0:46:06Pity, I was hoping to shut these blasted pigeons in it when we finish. Go on home!

0:46:12 > 0:46:14Look at that fellow, is it anyone we know?

0:46:16 > 0:46:19No, I've never seen him before in my life.

0:46:19 > 0:46:22He's a nasty looking customer, what?

0:46:25 > 0:46:27- I say, you know who it is?- Who?

0:46:27 > 0:46:31Look at the sack. Your turkey thief, caught red-handed.

0:46:31 > 0:46:33Moving the loot.

0:46:33 > 0:46:35The damn swine!

0:46:35 > 0:46:37I'll soon get him.

0:46:42 > 0:46:45I only hope to God this damn thing is loaded.

0:46:49 > 0:46:50GUNSHOT

0:47:01 > 0:47:02Chief! chief!

0:47:13 > 0:47:16Chief! Chief!

0:47:53 > 0:47:56Oh, what a novel idea!

0:47:56 > 0:47:58Much nicer than turkey.

0:47:58 > 0:48:00I say, it was a damn lucky shot, that, wasn't it?

0:48:00 > 0:48:03Nonsense, I could see you were aiming at them.

0:48:03 > 0:48:06You certainly saved the day there.

0:48:06 > 0:48:09Watch out for rusty nails. That blunderbuss was full of them!

0:48:09 > 0:48:11That looks nice, don't it?

0:48:11 > 0:48:13I wonder where they got these from?

0:48:13 > 0:48:15Do you mind if I just have an omelette?

0:48:19 > 0:48:21The gentlemen with the music are here.

0:48:21 > 0:48:22Ask them to come in.

0:48:22 > 0:48:26- Gentlemen with what music, old chap? - Those two friends of Uncle Richard's

0:48:26 > 0:48:29have written us some songs and I said we'd try them out on the guests.

0:48:29 > 0:48:31Oh, yes, get them in.

0:48:38 > 0:48:43I'm sorry we're late. Arthur hadn't quite finished the music.

0:48:43 > 0:48:46Ladies and gentlemen, in order to round off the evening,

0:48:46 > 0:48:48my good friend and myself would like, if we may,

0:48:48 > 0:48:52to entertain you with a few little ditties, which we hope you'll find amusing,

0:48:52 > 0:48:58written by the two young gentlemen over there, who I'm sure have a great future ahead of them.

0:48:58 > 0:49:02Mr, er...and Mr, er...

0:49:04 > 0:49:08Ladies and gentlemen, the songs of Sullivan and Gilbert.

0:49:12 > 0:49:14# Hello, how do you do?

0:49:14 > 0:49:15# We are bringing you

0:49:15 > 0:49:17# Songs by Sullivan and Gilbert

0:49:17 > 0:49:19# Hope they're going to fill the bill, but

0:49:19 > 0:49:20# Let us not waste time

0:49:20 > 0:49:22# Let us start the rhyme

0:49:22 > 0:49:27# We won't sing anything that is glum

0:49:27 > 0:49:29# For this is the season that gives us a reason

0:49:29 > 0:49:31# For drinking and filling our tum

0:49:31 > 0:49:34# I must say, it's all right for some

0:49:34 > 0:49:36# I eat what I like and don't put on a pound

0:49:36 > 0:49:39# I like what I eat, that is why I'm so round

0:49:39 > 0:49:41# Just keep off the starches

0:49:41 > 0:49:43# I've got fallen arches

0:49:43 > 0:49:44# With carrying this lot around

0:49:50 > 0:49:52# The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la

0:49:52 > 0:49:54# Are blooming all over the place

0:49:54 > 0:49:56# The girls in the chorus that sing, tra-la

0:49:56 > 0:49:58# Each one is a beautiful thing, tra-la

0:49:58 > 0:50:00# A flower, a feminine grace

0:50:00 > 0:50:02# A flower, a feminine grace

0:50:02 > 0:50:05# There's Lily and Iris and Daisy and Rose

0:50:05 > 0:50:10# There's also sweet William, but he's one of those

0:50:10 > 0:50:14# But our favourite flower, she blooms by the hour

0:50:14 > 0:50:17# At 26 Bloomsbury Place. #

0:50:19 > 0:50:22# Take a pair of bloodshot eyes

0:50:22 > 0:50:24# And a nose that's round and red

0:50:24 > 0:50:26# And a set of loose false teeth

0:50:27 > 0:50:29# Picture two gigantic thighs

0:50:29 > 0:50:32# And a pair of knobbly knees

0:50:32 > 0:50:33# With enormous boots beneath

0:50:35 > 0:50:37# Some men have pretty women

0:50:37 > 0:50:39# To go riding with, or swimming

0:50:39 > 0:50:41# Or parading round the park

0:50:41 > 0:50:43# Not for me, those smiles or dimples

0:50:43 > 0:50:46# It's just bandy legs and pimples

0:50:46 > 0:50:48# So, if I fancy a saunter

0:50:48 > 0:50:49# I go after dark

0:50:49 > 0:50:52# Take a pair of rubber lips

0:50:52 > 0:50:54# And a pair of lumpy hips

0:50:54 > 0:50:58# And a voice just like a knife, like a knife

0:50:58 > 0:51:00# A complexion green as grass

0:51:00 > 0:51:02# It's a farce, yet alas

0:51:02 > 0:51:04# That's what I see every day

0:51:05 > 0:51:10# In my looking-glass. #

0:51:10 > 0:51:12APPLAUSE

0:51:14 > 0:51:16# Three little maids one night I met

0:51:16 > 0:51:18# Each one a perfect little pet

0:51:18 > 0:51:20# I popped in the pub for something wet

0:51:20 > 0:51:22# Three little maids came too

0:51:22 > 0:51:25# Three lemonades I ordered first

0:51:25 > 0:51:27# That didn't satisfy their thirst

0:51:27 > 0:51:29# Then I realised the worst

0:51:29 > 0:51:31# Three lemonades won't do

0:51:31 > 0:51:33# They said, "Let us try champagne"

0:51:33 > 0:51:36# Then they tried it once again

0:51:36 > 0:51:38# "Now we'll try the beer," they said

0:51:38 > 0:51:42# "Then we must be off to bed"

0:51:42 > 0:51:44# Well, 14 pints and six gins later

0:51:44 > 0:51:47# Went upstairs for a baked potater

0:51:47 > 0:51:49# I woke up with the hotel waiter

0:51:52 > 0:51:55# The three little chicks had strayed

0:51:55 > 0:51:58# Three little maids unmade. #

0:51:58 > 0:52:00APPLAUSE

0:52:06 > 0:52:08# Dear little buttercup

0:52:08 > 0:52:10# Sweet little buttercup

0:52:10 > 0:52:14# Nonsense, of course you're not fat

0:52:14 > 0:52:16# But, dear little buttercup

0:52:16 > 0:52:18# Lift your left buttock up

0:52:18 > 0:52:20# You're sitting on my hat. #

0:52:29 > 0:52:32# A shy samurai went to London to buy

0:52:32 > 0:52:36# Two blankets, two sheets and a pillow

0:52:36 > 0:52:40# And he married a maiden who first caught his eye

0:52:40 > 0:52:43# At that firm run by Waring and Gillow

0:52:43 > 0:52:46# There was never a subject they quarrelled about

0:52:46 > 0:52:49# Of their love for each other, there wasn't a doubt

0:52:49 > 0:52:53# Till she wore a low neckline, twas then they fell out

0:52:53 > 0:52:58# They will-oh, they will-oh, they will-oh. #

0:53:04 > 0:53:08# There's a sailor lying drunk and feeling peaky

0:53:08 > 0:53:09# Feeling peaky

0:53:09 > 0:53:12# In the gutter where the pavement curb he grips

0:53:12 > 0:53:13# Kirby grips

0:53:13 > 0:53:17# And he cries, "My boat, the Pinafore is leaky"

0:53:17 > 0:53:18# For is leaky

0:53:18 > 0:53:21# What the Navy needs is more efficient ships

0:53:21 > 0:53:23# Fish and chips

0:53:26 > 0:53:29# When Lord Nelson lay a-dying at Trafalgar

0:53:29 > 0:53:30# At Trafalgar

0:53:30 > 0:53:33# What did the gallant Captain Hardy do?

0:53:33 > 0:53:35# Howdy do

0:53:39 > 0:53:42# He kissed his leader sadly on the poop deck

0:53:46 > 0:53:47# On the poop deck

0:53:47 > 0:53:51# There has never been a fond caress so blue

0:53:51 > 0:53:52# Esso Blue. #

0:53:52 > 0:53:54APPLAUSE

0:54:04 > 0:54:07# Now it's Christmas once again

0:54:07 > 0:54:11# Peace on earth, goodwill to men

0:54:11 > 0:54:14# And of course, to ladies too

0:54:14 > 0:54:17# They're the ones that see us through

0:54:18 > 0:54:20# When the relatives all come

0:54:20 > 0:54:23# Aunts and uncles, dads and mums

0:54:23 > 0:54:25# And the air begins to hum

0:54:25 > 0:54:30# And it's very merry Christmas and the same to you

0:54:30 > 0:54:32# What a very pretty bonnet and it looks brand new

0:54:32 > 0:54:34# Are you comfortable, Daddy? Will you take a glass of sherry?

0:54:34 > 0:54:36# It's so nice to see you merry, sit down, please do. #

0:54:43 > 0:54:44# You awake at five o'clock

0:54:44 > 0:54:47# With a belt around the head

0:54:47 > 0:54:48# From an orange in a sock

0:54:48 > 0:54:51# And you wish that you were dead

0:54:51 > 0:54:52# Then the children all appear

0:54:52 > 0:54:54# What an awful night you've had

0:54:54 > 0:54:56# Blow a trumpet in your ear

0:54:56 > 0:54:58# Till they nearly drive you mad

0:54:58 > 0:55:00# But no matter what you say

0:55:00 > 0:55:02# You'll remember Christmas Day

0:55:02 > 0:55:05# In a sentimental way

0:55:05 > 0:55:09# Oh, they really did it nicely as it should be done

0:55:09 > 0:55:12# There was such a lot of presents and we all got one

0:55:12 > 0:55:14# Such seasonable weather, it was nice to be together

0:55:14 > 0:55:16# Such a very merry Christmas, oh, we did have fun

0:55:16 > 0:55:20# Such a very merry Christmas and we did have fun. #

0:55:23 > 0:55:25APPLAUSE

0:55:25 > 0:55:29# And now, pray, let us sing

0:55:29 > 0:55:32# Of that patriotic thing

0:55:32 > 0:55:36# That we call an Englishman

0:55:36 > 0:55:40# A true blue Englishman

0:55:40 > 0:55:44# Though beset by income taxes

0:55:44 > 0:55:47# They clutch their Union Jacksies

0:55:47 > 0:55:51# And they wave them where they can

0:55:51 > 0:55:55# From the Khyber to the Congo

0:55:55 > 0:55:59# You will find a Pete or Pongo

0:55:59 > 0:56:02# That intrepid Englishman

0:56:02 > 0:56:10# That ill-fated, celebrated, underrated, dear old Englishman. #

0:56:16 > 0:56:18APPLAUSE

0:56:31 > 0:56:33And it's a Happy New Year from me.

0:56:33 > 0:56:35And it's a Happy New Year from him.

0:56:35 > 0:56:37- Happy New Year!- Happy New Year!

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