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Summary

Arcady Hall, East Anglia, is a stately home owned by Lord Flamborough (Leslie Phillips). It's also the site of a long-forgotten research institution, The Department of Output Statistics. This was created to analyse material from foreign publications, but it doesn't actually seemed to have generated any worthwhile results.

Civil Servant Jasper Pye (Michael Maloney) is sent to the hall to compile a report on the activities of the institute. Within days of arriving, he's become amorously entangled with all three of Lord Flamborough's daughters - Matilda (Charlotte Williams), Belinda (Abigail Cruttenden) and Chloe (Cathryn Harrison).

Pye also encounters the research staff, Professor Pollux (Graham Crowden), Quirk (Stephen Moore) and Miss Mounsey (Amanda Root).

Cast List

  Michael Maloney as Jasper Pye
  Leslie Phillips as Lord Flamborough
  Maria Aitken as Lady Flamborough
  Graham Crowden as Professor Pollux
  Charlotte Williams as Matilda Flamborough
  Abigail Cruttenden as Belinda Flamborough
  David Haig as Lionel Virley
  Joe Melia as Jones
  Stephen Moore as Quirk
  Cathryn Harrison as Chloe Virley
  Gillian Raine as Miss Tidy
  Amanda Root as Miss Mounsey

Production Details

Created by:
John Hadfield

Written by:
David Nobbs

Directed by:
Martyn Friend

Produced by:
Jacqueline Davis

Executive Producer(s):
John Reynolds, Alan Strachan

1 series, 4 episodes

Transmitted: 1994

BBC Television
Theatre of Comedy
D L Taffner UK
New Penny Productions