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Only Fools and Horses S00E07 — The Frogs Legacy
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- 00:00(upbeat theme music)
- 00:03♫ Stick a pony in me pocket
- 00:06♫ I'll fetch the suitcase from the van
- 00:10♫ Cause if you want the best ones
- 00:13♫ But you don't ask questions
- 00:14♫ Then brother, I'm your man
- 00:18♫ Cause where it all comes from is a mystery
- 00:22♫ It's like the changing of the seasons
- 00:24♫ And the tides of the sea
- 00:26♫ But here's the one that's driving me berserk
- 00:29♫ Why do only fools and horses work
- 00:33♫ La la la la
- 00:35♫ La la la la
- 00:36♫ La la la la
- 00:38♫ La la la la
- 00:41-[Del] Michael, Michael.
- 00:44Mike.
- 00:44- What is it now?
- 00:45-[Del] Here, here, here.
- 00:48This is your lucky night.
- 00:50Now how's that for a portable computer, eh?
- 00:53Look at that.
- 00:54It's got 64K.
- 00:56It's got UHF output.
- 00:58It's got a megabyte disc drive.
- 01:00It's got ROM.
- 01:01It's got RAM.
- 01:01It's got them little red and green lights.
- 01:03It's got everything.
- 01:05- What do I want with a computer, Del?
- 01:06- What does he want with a computer?
- 01:08Everyone's got a computer these days.
- 01:10- Have you got one?
- 01:11- Have I got one?
- 01:12- He's got 25.
- 01:16- Yes, thank you, Rodney.
- 01:17Thank you very much.
- 01:19Listen, listen to me.
- 01:21This particular model
- 01:22normally retails at 399 pounds on the realm.
- 01:28I'm giving it to you at 150.
- 01:30And I'm going to throw in a free joystick.
- 01:33This thing, it processes all your data.
- 01:36- Oh yeah yeah,
- 01:36and what exactly does that mean?
- 01:37- What exactly does that mean?
- 01:39What do you mean what does it--
- 01:40Are you dim or something?
- 01:41Tell him what it means Rodney.
- 01:44You see he did a course in this
- 01:45and he came top of the class, didn't he?
- 01:46Go on, tell him.
- 01:50- Well it's in layman's terms, right?
- 01:54(music playing in background)
- 01:56You can record all your business deals on it.
- 01:59- Oh great.
- 02:00I spend half me life trying to hide me business deals.
- 02:02The last thing I need is to have them all recorded
- 02:04on a floppy blood disc.
- 02:06I'm not interested.
- 02:07Why don't you ask Trigger, okay?
- 02:08- Trigger, with a computer?
- 02:11Do me a favor.
- 02:12He's still struggling with light switches.
- 02:19- Hey try that Albert.
- 02:23- Last time I tasted something like that
- 02:25was when I was in Egypt.
- 02:27- Yeah, what was it?
- 02:28A local brew?
- 02:29- No, I fell in the Nile.
- 02:31- Hey, Mike, I ordered beer.
- 02:34- Don't try to be funny with me, Trig.
- 02:36I'll tell you this much.
- 02:36I've had certificates for my beer.
- 02:38- Yeah I've had a few days off work with it and all.
- 02:43- I don't know these bloody computers.
- 02:46I bought 30 of them and I've only sold five.
- 02:48- Oh that's not too bad, Del.
- 02:49- Not too bad?
- 02:50Not too bad?
- 02:51I've had them a year and a half.
- 02:53- Our sales campaign suffered badly
- 02:55when the local officer of fair trading announced
- 02:57to the press that they don't work.
- 02:59- They do work, Rodney.
- 03:01They just need a bit of fiddling about with.
- 03:02That's all.
- 03:03- They don't work properly.
- 03:05- Do you know about this sort of thing then, Dave?
- 03:07- Well, yes, as it happens I do.
- 03:09Recently I took a computer course
- 03:11at the adult education center.
- 03:13- And failed.
- 03:14- I did not fail.
- 03:15- What, you passed?
- 03:17- I didn't strictly pass either.
- 03:20The man in charge right, he said not in so many words,
- 03:22that I should concentrate more on the theoretical side
- 03:25rather than the actual keyboard area.
- 03:27- What he actually said was
- 03:28keep your bloody hands off my machine.
- 03:31- Thank you for being so encouraging, Del.
- 03:34But I tell you, if I could pass that course
- 03:35and get my diploma, I might be able to get a real job,
- 03:38working as a real company employee.
- 03:40Instead of hanging around with the deadly duo.
- 03:42You and that suitcase.
- 03:44- Oy, just watch it.
- 03:45- You know what he's had me doing today?
- 03:47Look, this is one of those infrared massages, right.
- 03:50Cures rheumatics and all that sort of game.
- 03:52He's had me hobbling through the market
- 03:53like I've got bad lumbago, right?
- 03:56And then he hangs trotter, spots me,
- 03:59and cures me in front of all the punters.
- 04:02He used to be a cowboy.
- 04:03Now he's a medicine man.
- 04:06- Oh shut up, you tart.
- 04:08You're just knocked because you had a hole in your vest.
- 04:11Listen I can't hang about here.
- 04:14Do you remember that chop suey that's down by the station.
- 04:15The one we decorated?
- 04:16- Yeah.
- 04:17- It's gone bust.
- 04:18And they're auctioning all their gear tonight
- 04:20so I'm going to have a sniff around, alright?
- 04:21See you later.
- 04:22- Yeah, alright.
- 04:24- Oh my god.
- 04:25- Mr. Trotter.
- 04:27- Oh, Mr. Jahan, what a pleasant surprise.
- 04:30What brings you in?
- 04:31- That computer you sold me last month is still not working.
- 04:34(Mike laughing)
- 04:36- There must be some simple explanation.
- 04:38Why don't we sit down and discuss it over a drink.
- 04:40Now listen, what can I get you?
- 04:42- Okay, something non-alcoholic.
- 04:44- Non-alcoholic.
- 04:45Michael, pint of your best bitter please.
- 04:50- I have a business to run, Mr. Trotter.
- 04:52When I bought the computer at your suggestion
- 04:55in order to streamline my business.
- 04:57So far your computer has managed to destroy my accounts,
- 05:01my stock records, and set fire to my curtains.
- 05:05- You must be pressing the wrong button, Mr. Jahan.
- 05:08We are talking outer limits high tech here.
- 05:11I mean that computer was used in the American space shuttle.
- 05:14- But it blew up.
- 05:18- I don't mean it was the same computer.
- 05:21Although that would explain why it isn't working too well.
- 05:24No no no no, just trust me, Mr. Jahan.
- 05:27Give it a bit of time and I guarantee to you
- 05:28that in a few days time,
- 05:29you'll wonder how you ever managed without it.
- 05:32- Alright, I'll give it one week.
- 05:33Then I'll be back to see you.
- 05:34- That's the spirit, Mr. Jahan.
- 05:36You know it makes sense.
- 05:37Ah, thank you, Michael.
- 05:39I'll see you later.
- 05:41Anyway, I thought that young fellow you had working for you
- 05:43was a bit of a computer boffit.
- 05:45- Oh he has resigned.
- 05:47Said the work did not agree with him.
- 05:49- Oh I don't know.
- 05:50Half of them they don't know they're born these days,
- 05:51do they?
- 05:52- I have placed ads in the local paper and at the job center
- 05:55but all to no avail.
- 05:57It's not a difficult job and I pay good wages.
- 06:04- Yeah, that's going to be difficult for you, Mr. Jahan.
- 06:07I mean you're looking for a young man
- 06:08with drive and enthusiasm, aren't you?
- 06:10- No, not really.
- 06:13- I mean a couple of GCE's wouldn't a mistake, would they?
- 06:15- Ah there's no necessity for all this.
- 06:17All what I'm looking for is somebody who can walk.
- 06:21- So I mean you're talking top notch.
- 06:24Most people of that caliber have gone off
- 06:25with the brain drain.
- 06:27No no, it's going to be a difficult one.
- 06:28And that Mr. Jahan, I can tell you--
- 06:30But wait a minute, oh pot pourri.
- 06:32Pot pourri, of course.
- 06:36This must be your lucky night, Mr. Jahan.
- 06:38I may have the very person you're looking for.
- 06:40- Really, who?
- 06:41- Only my younger brother.
- 06:43No, he's enthusiastic and he's got GCE's in maths and art.
- 06:48Well since he came back from Cambridge,
- 06:50he's been wheeling and dealing in the commodities market.
- 06:53And all the headhunters have been after him you know.
- 06:55Right from the Bank of England, right down to ICI.
- 06:58But he fancies something a bit more local.
- 07:00- Can he walk?
- 07:01- Walk, yes, he dashes about all over the place.
- 07:03- Can he discuss it with me then?
- 07:05- No no, I'll discuss it with you.
- 07:06How much are you offering?
- 07:07- A hundred.
- 07:08- Del boy's got something going over there.
- 07:11- Oh, that means somebody's going to suffer.
- 07:16- Talking of suffering,
- 07:17my niece is getting married next Saturday.
- 07:21Well you remember little Lisa, don't you?
- 07:22She came up last year.
- 07:24She was the one who arranged
- 07:25for Del boy to have a go on a hanglider.
- 07:28- Oh yeah.
- 07:31I liked her.
- 07:35- Well she's invited you all
- 07:36down to Hampshire for the wedding.
- 07:38- Well that's very nice of her, Trig.
- 07:39You tell her I'll be delighted.
- 07:40- You two are coming.
- 07:41Del's accepted for you.
- 07:43- He's accepted?
- 07:44He's something else, isn't he, eh?
- 07:46Hold on, I thought Lisa was getting married last year.
- 07:49- Yeah she was.
- 07:50And then she found out that she wasn't.
- 07:55- Oh.
- 08:01- What?
- 08:04- Got pinched with a bit of paper, mate.
- 08:07- Oh.
- 08:09- Well now she's found out she is again.
- 08:12Should be good though.
- 08:13Day down by the coast.
- 08:14Nice little drink afterwards.
- 08:16Talking of drinks, I'll get these in.
- 08:21- Rodney, this must be your lucky night.
- 08:24I've only been and got you a job.
- 08:25- I don't want it.
- 08:27- What do you mean you don't want it?
- 08:29You've only just said you'd like to get a job.
- 08:30- Yeah and not from him.
- 08:32I've had some of his little jobs in the past.
- 08:34And I'm here to tell you, he is not Brook Street bureau.
- 08:37- Oh that's charming that, innit?
- 08:39It's charming.
- 08:41That is all the thanks I get
- 08:43after all the work and effort I've done.
- 08:45That is the thanks I get.
- 08:46Well, anyway, it wasn't just a job.
- 08:48It was a career move.
- 08:50- Well I haven't got a career.
- 08:51- No but you would have had one
- 08:52and it would have been moving.
- 08:54Besides that would have had some wages coming in the flat.
- 08:56We're brastic at the moment.
- 08:58- Well I notice some of your money saving devices
- 09:00are in evidence again.
- 09:03So what's this job then?
- 09:04- You're not interested, Rodney, are you?
- 09:05So it's purely academic innit, eh?
- 09:10- What sort of job was it, Del?
- 09:12- He would have been a trainee computer programmer,
- 09:16eventually.
- 09:19And it was mentioned that the successful candidate
- 09:21would with endeavor attain executive status.
- 09:27- Oh hold on, I thought it was going to be,
- 09:30you know dumping boxes around, stuff like that.
- 09:32I didn't know I was going to be a trainee executive.
- 09:34- No no no, he mentioned your CV.
- 09:38How bad is that eh?
- 09:39Nice little Citroen.
- 09:45- He might have been referring to my curriculum vitae.
- 09:49- Oh that's no problem.
- 09:50There's no heavy lifting involved.
- 09:54- I mean you'd have to start at the bottom though.
- 09:56- Of course but doing what?
- 09:58- Well it's sort of delivering.
- 10:00Delivering, yeah, basically.
- 10:01Just to start with.
- 10:02And it's 90 quid cash in hand, no tax, no nonsense.
- 10:06- No, hold on, if I'm working cash in hand
- 10:07I'm not a real employee.
- 10:09- Yes you will be because that's only temporary.
- 10:11That it.
- 10:13What do you say?
- 10:13Come on.
- 10:14- But where would I be working?
- 10:17- Well you know that big new office block
- 10:18down in Wilmont Road?
- 10:19The one with the smoke glass and the leery cars.
- 10:21- Where all them young birds come out of at lunch time?
- 10:24- Yeah, that's the one.
- 10:26- I know it.
- 10:27- Well right opposite it is an alley.
- 10:32- An alley?
- 10:32- Yes, between the undertakers
- 10:34and the Light of Nepal restaurant.
- 10:37So you go down that alley, right,
- 10:38and then you find a yard.
- 10:39Now you pop your head in there on Monday morning
- 10:41and you ask for a Mr. Jahan.
- 10:43He will give you your duties and your uniform.
- 10:45And good lord, is that the time?
- 10:46I've got to get down to Jinkies.
- 10:47I'll see you later.
- 10:50Thanks for all the drinks, good night.
- 10:52- Why would a trainee computer programmer need a uniform?
- 10:56- Dunno.
- 10:57(laughing)
- 11:01- I don't know what you're laughing.
- 11:03You see what this means?
- 11:05You've just been promoted to the geezer in the market
- 11:07with the bad back.
- 11:08(Rodney laughing)
- 11:11(bottle popping)
- 11:13(soft classical music)
- 11:19- Hello.
- 11:21- Congratulations, Lisa.
- 11:22- Thanks.
- 11:23- And to you too, Andrew.
- 11:24My very best wishes for many years of happiness.
- 11:27And who knows a year or two from now,
- 11:28we could be back in the church
- 11:29celebrating the christening of your first born.
- 11:33- Actually my mother wants to have a word with you
- 11:35about that.
- 11:36- Oh?
- 11:37Oh.
- 11:39Yes, I see.
- 11:43- Oh excuse me.
- 11:44Vicar, Vic.
- 11:45Vic.
- 11:47- Ah, Mr. Trotter, how nice.
- 11:49Thank you once again for your lift.
- 11:50- Oh bane Marie, bane Marie.
- 11:52It was the least that I could do.
- 11:54Sorry that it was a bit bumpy
- 11:55but at least we didn't have far to go, did we?
- 11:57Oh that reminds me, you know the computer
- 12:00that I was talking about?
- 12:01I left it for you in your vestry.
- 12:03- You left it in my vestry?
- 12:04- Yes, it's alright.
- 12:05I had to take it out the back of the van anyways
- 12:07to get you in, didn't I?
- 12:09Listen, just in case the old bishop asks,
- 12:13now they normally retail at 399
- 12:16but you can have it at one and half.
- 12:18And a pony off for cash.
- 12:20- A pony?
- 12:21- Oh alright then, 30 quid.
- 12:24I can't say fairer than that.
- 12:26I'll let you have it on two weeks approval.
- 12:29I mean if I can't trust you, who can I trust, eh?
- 12:32I mean ask and it shall be given.
- 12:34You know that is my motto.
- 12:36Oh excuse me.
- 12:38Here, here, darling.
- 12:39You're one of the bridesmaids, aren't you?
- 12:45- Oh thanks, Rodney.
- 12:47- What are you doing over here on your own then?
- 12:50- Oh I was just reminiscing.
- 12:52This used to be my old stamping ground.
- 12:55Portsmouth's just a couple of miles up the road there.
- 12:59- Bet you had some laughs around here, eh?
- 13:01- Not half!
- 13:03The warning used to go out,
- 13:04'Lock up your daughters, Trotters back in port!'
- 13:09- Congratulations, darling.
- 13:11You remember Mike, don't you?
- 13:12He's the water-diviner from the Nag's Head.
- 13:15- Of course I do.
- 13:17Hello, Mike, it's lovely to see you again.
- 13:19This is Andy, my husband.
- 13:21- Congratulations, son.
- 13:22You will never regret what you did today.
- 13:24I should know, I've been married 18 years.
- 13:27- Thanks a lot.
- 13:28Is your wife here?
- 13:29- No, we broke up back in '73.
- 13:34- Finally the skipper said,
- 13:35'I know, we'll try and hide in one of the fjords.'
- 13:41- I think I might have heard this story before.
- 13:44Did you sink?
- 13:47- Yeah.
- 13:48- I've heard it!
- 13:54- Why do you bother to listen to him?
- 13:56- I don't know, a moment of weakness I suppose.
- 14:01- It's a bit up-market, innit, Del?
- 14:04- I was surprised to see you here.
- 14:07- I am at home in any walk of life.
- 14:08How are you, sweetheart?
- 14:13- I don't believe it!
- 14:14Will you behave yourselves!
- 14:16We're only an hyphen or two away from a society wedding
- 14:20and you're behaving as if you're on a charabang trip
- 14:22to the lights.
- 14:23- Oh shut up you snobby git!
- 14:27- I am merely trying to conduct myself
- 14:30with a little decorum!
- 14:34Oh Del, I assume this 'bundle' is from you?
- 14:38- That's our present, yes.
- 14:41- Good God, it looks like the bomb squad
- 14:43have had a go at it!
- 14:45And what have you bought the unlucky couple?
- 14:48- A 13 piece dinner service!
- 14:51- But we've bought 'em a dinner service as well!
- 14:54- I shouldn't worry, Marlene, they'll be no comparison.
- 14:59We got ours from Royal Doulton,
- 15:01they most probably got theirs from Dalton's Weekly.
- 15:07- He's good, ain't he?
- 15:09He's got more front than Southend.
- 15:12- No, but it is a lovely dinner service, Del.
- 15:15It's got a hand-painted pattern
- 15:18depicting the changing seasons of the English countryside.
- 15:22- He's most probably given 'em
- 15:24that old crockery he bought at the Chinese auction.
- 15:26- How dare you!
- 15:28What sort of bloke d'you think I am?
- 15:31- Well I wouldn't put it past you.
- 15:33Come along Marlene.
- 15:34Shall we circulate?
- 15:37- Bloody 'ell, Boycie, we've been round
- 15:39more times than a break dancer!
- 15:43- Did our dinner service come from the bankrupt Chinkies?
- 15:46- No it did not, I swear on my life!
- 15:50- Well them plates had an awful lot of Pandas
- 15:52and Pagodas on em!
- 15:54- They did come from the Chinese take-away.
- 15:56Look, we've been really strapped for money recently!
- 15:59Anyway, I thought they looked rather nice Pagodas.
- 16:03- No they're not, they look more like prisoner-of-war camp!
- 16:07I mean how is it gonna make us look?
- 16:09Boycie and Marlene's service depicts the changing seasons
- 16:12and ours contains scenes from Tenko!
- 16:17- Yeah, I suppose you're right.
- 16:24Hang about a minute.
- 16:25Here, hold on to this.
- 16:44He who dares wins.
- 16:59- Aunt Reen, d'you wanna drink.
- 17:02- I'll have a port and lemon.
- 17:05Better make it a small one,
- 17:07I've had orders from young Lisa,
- 17:08that I mustn't get Oliver Twist in front of 'his' family.
- 17:11I don't know who she thinks they are,
- 17:14big hats and no drawers most of 'em!
- 17:18- Here's a face from the past.
- 17:21- Albert Trotter, I don't believe it!
- 17:24- Hello, Reeny girl, how you going?
- 17:26- I thought you went down with the Lusitania!
- 17:29- Fiver says he did!
- 17:31- No, they tried but they couldn't get me.
- 17:33How long you been living out this way?
- 17:35- I moved from Peckham in 1965.
- 17:38I couldn't stand that estate any longer.
- 17:41It's nice and peaceful out here
- 17:42and I don't have to save up to get to the seaside.
- 17:45You must be retired now.
- 17:49- Yeah, I'm living back with the family, Joannie's kids.
- 17:52- Del Boy's not here is he?
- 17:54- He's in there having a dance.
- 17:56He'll be out soon, he ain't had a drink for four minutes.
- 18:00And little Rodney's here as well!
- 18:02- Oh no!
- 18:03- Rodney's here?
- 18:05Oh the little love!
- 18:08- That's him there.
- 18:11- The last time I saw you you was in your pram.
- 18:18- Who the bloody hell is this woman?
- 18:22- No, no.
- 18:22I'm Rodney.
- 18:25- You're little Rodney?
- 18:28Ain't you got big?
- 18:31You don't remember me, do you, darling?
- 18:35- No.
- 18:36- This is Trigger's Aunt Reeny.
- 18:37She used to be your mum's best friend.
- 18:41- Oh yeah, me and Joannie, the terrible twins.
- 18:46D'you remember when your mum had that cleaning job
- 18:48down at the town hall?
- 18:50- No.
- 18:51- I used to look after you while she was at work,
- 18:55bath you and everything.
- 19:00Remember when I took you shopping that day in Woolworths?
- 19:04- No.
- 19:05- As I was pushing you round you were picking things up
- 19:08off the counter and I didn't know!
- 19:10When I got home and took you out the pram
- 19:12I found three bottles of scent,
- 19:14a packet of Weights and a Helen Shapiro record!
- 19:19So the next day I took you up Selfridges!
- 19:28I reckon the rumors were right.
- 19:30Joannie was never a hundred percent sure,
- 19:32but you can see the likeness, can't you?
- 19:37- D'you fancy a dance, Reen?
- 19:39I can still cut a rug with the best of 'em.
- 19:41- Keep your hands to yourself though.
- 19:44See you later, love.
- 19:50- What was that all about?
- 19:51- Gawd knows.
- 19:52- I remember her from years ago,
- 19:54she's never been the full 10 bob.
- 19:56- Oi, that's my Auntie you're talking about!
- 19:58- It must be a family trait then!
- 20:05(upbeat pop music)
- 20:12- Albert, don't go in there.
- 20:14Marlene is pulling all the blokes' shirt tails out.
- 20:20No, Reeny, Reeny Turpin!
- 20:27- Remember me, do you?
- 20:29- Remember you, I'm still having nightmares about you!
- 20:35How are you, sweetheart?
- 20:35Are you keeping well?
- 20:36- I'm smashing, Del.
- 20:39I say you're looking very prosperous.
- 20:42- Well, life's been pretty good to us, innit Albert?
- 20:46- Non-stop Mardi Gras.
- 20:49- You look great, you really do.
- 20:51Let's go and sit down.
- 20:52I'm feeling a bit cream-crackered after that dance.
- 20:58- She used to be a right little raver in her younger days.
- 21:02They reckon during the war
- 21:04she had more yanks than Eisenhower.
- 21:08I heard the Normandy landings started from her scullery.
- 21:15- Who you talking about?
- 21:16- Trigger's Auntie.
- 21:26- When was it the last time I saw you?
- 21:29- I moved from Peckham in '65, so that's nearly 23 years!
- 21:35You promised you'd come and see me.
- 21:38- Oh yeah yeah, well.
- 21:40I've got a bit tied-up, with business and what have you.
- 21:44- He seems a nice kid, young Rodney.
- 21:48- Oh yeah.
- 21:49He's got a diamond where other blokes have got a heart.
- 21:53Clever kid an all, he's got GCE's.
- 21:56- But he's had you behind him to guide him, Del.
- 21:58He wouldn't be in the position he's in today
- 22:00if it hadn't been for you.
- 22:02- I'm doing my best by him.
- 22:06Kept my promise to mum.
- 22:08- She'd have been so proud of you two boys.
- 22:16I reckon that's why I moved down here.
- 22:19The old place changed when your mum went.
- 22:22I lost the best friend I ever had.
- 22:25- Yeah, she was a lovely lady, wasn't she?
- 22:28- If things had worked out a bit better
- 22:31you and Rodney could have been millionaires by now.
- 22:35I remember going to visit her in the hospital
- 22:38and her saying to me,
- 22:41'If only I knew where he'd hidden it, Reen.
- 22:43'My boys would be set for life!'
- 22:49- Hidden?
- 22:51Hidden what?
- 22:53- Well, the gold!
- 22:57- Gold?
- 22:58What gold?
- 23:00- 'His' gold!
- 23:01- His, he, who's 'he'?
- 23:03- Freddy the Frog!
- 23:04- Freddy the Frog?
- 23:05Who's Freddy the Frog?
- 23:07- You mean your mum never told you?
- 23:08- No, no.
- 23:10- Oh my Gawd, me and my mouth!
- 23:12Forget I said anything Del.
- 23:14- How can I forget it?
- 23:16Come on, come on, you gotta tell me now, come on.
- 23:19Otherwise I'll get it out of someone else.
- 23:23- It all happened a long time ago.
- 23:27She met him in about 1959.
- 23:31- Met who?
- 23:32- Freddy Robdul.
- 23:35- Who's Freddy Robdul?
- 23:37- That was Freddy the Frog's real name.
- 23:42He was a villain from Rotherhyde,
- 23:44Not a nasty one, no guns or violence.
- 23:47He was a gentleman thief.
- 23:51Bit of a dandy was Freddy.
- 23:53He used to love French wine
- 23:55and paintings and what have you.
- 23:58He had a little holiday chalet down this way.
- 24:01They reckon when the police broke in
- 24:05the walls was covered with Monets and other originals.
- 24:12- What's this got to do with my mum?
- 24:14- Well, she, sort of 'befriended' him.
- 24:20- Yeah, well, she was a friendly lady.
- 24:24She'd help anyone out.
- 24:26- Yes.
- 24:28Well, she used to help Freddy the Frog.
- 24:33Anyway, one day in August 1963
- 24:39Freddy and a little gang
- 24:42broke into the vaults of a bank up in the city.
- 24:47They got away with over a quarter
- 24:50of a million pounds in gold bullion.
- 24:56The rest of the gang got caught but Freddy,
- 25:00and the gold, got away.
- 25:03Well, a short time afterwards, Freddy,
- 25:08while still on the run,
- 25:10was tragically killed in a freak accident.
- 25:14When they opened his will he'd left everything
- 25:19he owned to your mum.
- 25:22- What do you mean?
- 25:23All the Monets and originals and all that?
- 25:26- Oh no, they had to be returned to the original owners.
- 25:32The same went for the gold except of course,
- 25:35that nobody knew where Freddy had hidden it.
- 25:39Then your mum left all her worldly possessions to you
- 25:43including the lost gold.
- 25:49- If that gold was worth a quarter of a million in 1963,
- 25:55must be wort a million now, or maybe two!
- 26:00And it's mine!
- 26:02- Yours and Rodney's.
- 26:04- Same thing.
- 26:07I'm a millionaire.
- 26:09- I know.
- 26:11Bloody shame no one knows where it's hidden.
- 26:15- Yeah, it's a bit of a choker.
- 26:20I'll get us a re-fill.
- 26:30Rodney, I know you may find this hard to believe
- 26:36and it may even come as a bit of a shock to you.
- 26:41We are millionaires!
- 26:46- Oh good, perhaps we can take the magnet
- 26:48off the electric meter now.
- 26:59- Now listen to me, you remember in the past
- 27:01when you had trouble with your Cilla, the old Cilla Black,
- 27:04what did you do?
- 27:05You used to stagger down to the quack's, didn't you?
- 27:07You paid £2.50 for a prescription
- 27:10you popped that into the chemist
- 27:12and he'd give you a three bob tube of Algipan.
- 27:14Well thank goodness, those days are over
- 27:16thanks to this revolutionary new device.
- 27:19The inframax deep-penetration massager.
- 27:25You two, you two girls, you're miles off.
- 27:29I'm warning you.
- 27:31This is an osteopeadic device which emits infra-red rays
- 27:36that penetrate deep into the muscles soothing the pain away
- 27:39giving you permanent and instant relief.
- 27:42Seriously, listen to me.
- 27:43How much would you expect to pay
- 27:46if you went on Harley Street?
- 27:47How much would you expect to pay for that.
- 27:48Don't touch it, I'm warning you.
- 27:50You'd expect to pay 70 to 80 pounds for one of these,
- 27:53absolutely straight, but thank goodness,
- 27:55thanks to bulk buying free-enterprise,
- 27:57and a mate of mine who does a bit of smuggling,
- 28:00I can let you have one of these for a mere 15 pounds.
- 28:03That's a lot, what do you mean?
- 28:04I'll let you have this for the same amount of money
- 28:06that I paid for it, and that is 14 pounds.
- 28:09Come on.
- 28:11Snatch it off me, come on.
- 28:12You won't get a better--
- 28:14D'you mind moving on sir,
- 28:15cause I'm trying to do a bit of business here sir.
- 28:17- Sorry, son.
- 28:18- That's alright.
- 28:18Now slisten, I don't care whether you've got ear-ache,
- 28:21neck-ache, back-ache or even any other sort of ache,
- 28:25this little device will cure it.
- 28:28- Try it on him then.
- 28:29- Try it on the old fella.
- 28:31- No, no, I don't wanna do the batteries up.
- 28:36Anyway, that's probably not backache.
- 28:37That's body-language.
- 28:39I think he's trying to tell you something darling.
- 28:41- No, it's rheumatics, son.
- 28:43Suffered with it for years.
- 28:45- Try your massager on him.
- 28:50- Alright, alright I will.
- 28:57- That soppy little thing won't do me no good.
- 28:59My back's been under experts!
- 29:01Confounded the medical world, my back has.
- 29:04- Well, at least let me try.
- 29:06It can't do any harm, can it sir?
- 29:07Let me try, come on, slip your coat off.
- 29:09Just slip your coat off then.
- 29:10That's it.
- 29:11Oh, I see you're a naval war hero, sir.
- 29:13- 40 years before the mast fighting for King and country.
- 29:20- Groan, groan!
- 29:21- Oh Gawd, my back!
- 29:23- That's it sir, remember, no sudden movements.
- 29:26Not until I have applied the healing rays
- 29:29of the Inframax deep-penetration massager.
- 29:32Alright, here we go.
- 29:33Here it is.
- 29:34Can you feel that sir?
- 29:36Can you feel the relaxing warmth soothing the pain
- 29:38and tension away in your lumbar region?
- 29:42- Yeah, that's very therapeutic that is.
- 29:45I've never had this done to me before.
- 29:48- Coming from an old sailor
- 29:49that's saying something, innit?
- 29:53- Oh, that's lovely.
- 29:54My back feels better already.
- 29:56- There you are.
- 29:57- Look at that, I can stand up straight!
- 30:01I haven't been able to stand up straight for years!
- 30:13(cheering and clapping)
- 30:16- I don't believe him!
- 30:18What is he doing to me?
- 30:20- He's just a stooge!
- 30:21- He's part of the act!
- 30:23- No he ain't!
- 30:26We've never met before, have we, sir?
- 30:28- No Del, we haven't.
- 30:39You told me to 'get better' in front of the crowd.
- 30:41- Yes I know that.
- 30:42But I didn't ask you to do the third act
- 30:43from 'Singing in the Rain', did I?
- 30:46You came round that corner looking like Old Father Time.
- 30:49One rub of me massager and you turned into Wayne Sleep!
- 30:52- Well, I'm not used to all this market spieling.
- 30:55Why didn't you get Rodney to do it?
- 30:57- Because Rodney started his new job today.
- 30:59He can't be in two places at the same time.
- 31:03Come on, clear this all up will you?
- 31:05- Innit bloody fair, eh?
- 31:07I fought a war for the younger generation.
- 31:09- Yeah, but whose side were you on?
- 31:12- Del Boy, Albert.
- 31:16Good wedding weren't it?
- 31:18- Yeah, mustard.
- 31:19- Lisa and Andy were double pleased
- 31:21with that dinner service you bought 'em.
- 31:22Must have cost a fortune?
- 31:24- That's alright Trig.
- 31:25Anything for the young couple.
- 31:28Here comes Money!
- 31:29- D'you see the crappy present he bought 'em?
- 31:33- No, no I didn't catch that, Trigger.
- 31:36- Load of cheap old plates.
- 31:37Sort of thing you'd get in a bad Chinese restaurant.
- 31:43- That's typical though, eh?
- 31:44That's why he's so rich, for being so tight.
- 31:47- Yeah, he's tight, ain't he?
- 31:50- He's the sort of bloke who buys a tin of baked beans
- 31:53on Tuesday so he can have a bubble bath on Wednesday.
- 31:59- Good morning, gentlemen.
- 32:03Another fine day in Gotham City.
- 32:07Well, Trigger, the wedding seemed to go very well,
- 32:09all things considered.
- 32:11- Yeah it was alright, weren't it?
- 32:12- Did Lisa and what's his name find time
- 32:15to look at my present?
- 32:17- Yeah they looked at it, not for long though.
- 32:22- And what about 'his' little gift?
- 32:24- They put Del's present straight in their display cabinet.
- 32:29- Peasants!
- 32:31- That reminds me, talking of the wedding,
- 32:33there's something I wanted to ask you two.
- 32:35Think back to the early '60s.
- 32:37Do you remember Freddy the Frog?
- 32:40- Freddy the Frog?
- 32:42No, don't ring a bell.
- 32:44I remember Torchy the Battery Boy.
- 32:48- Yeah, and what about Twizzle?
- 32:50- I don't believe you two.
- 32:52I just don't believe you.
- 32:55- Hang up, hats off.
- 32:58Your mini-cab's arrived, Albert.
- 33:08- Is that Dave?
- 33:13- Yeah.
- 33:23You git!
- 33:26You rotten git!
- 33:29You didn't tell me my new job was a chief mourner!
- 33:32- Rodney, show some respect.
- 33:37- What's he doing?
- 33:38- Just you wait, Del!
- 33:40Just you wait.
- 33:56- Why are you taking us down there, Rodney?
- 33:59It's a no-entry!
- 34:00- Yes, sorry, Mr Jahan,
- 34:02I was talking to my brother and I--
- 34:05Sorry!
- 34:09Could you just back up a little bit, please.
- 34:15Would you mind backing up a little bit, please?
- 34:20What's the trouble?
- 34:24- I can't stand it any more.
- 34:27What a plonker!
- 34:30Excuse me, out of the way.
- 34:33- Yes, I'm finding this rather upsetting too.
- 34:37- D'you know the bloke in the hearse then?
- 34:38- No, but I know the bloke in the Cortina,
- 34:41I sold it to him last week.
- 34:45-[Rodney] You're a liar, Del!
- 34:46-[Del] I swear to you Rodney,
- 34:48I didn't know what your duties would be,
- 34:50Mr Jahan never told me!
- 34:51-[Rodney] Didn't know, my arse!
- 34:53You just set me up for that job
- 34:54so that I could bring some money into the flat.
- 34:56- Well every little helps, Rodney, every little helps.
- 34:59Anyway, I thought that black suit looked really good on you.
- 35:03- No it didn't!
- 35:04I saw my reflection in a shop window.
- 35:06I looked like a wand!
- 35:10You told me I'd be a trainee computer programmer!
- 35:14- And are you not programming his computer?
- 35:17- Oh yeah, I'm programming his computer.
- 35:20I'm also an apprentice pall-bearer,
- 35:22a fully-fledged chief mourner
- 35:24and I have to go and get the sandwiches!
- 35:27- Long as you've got job-satisfaction,
- 35:28that's the main thing.
- 35:29- No, I have not got job-satisfaction, actually!
- 35:32As a matter of fact, I'm thinking of resigning!
- 35:35- Well, you'd better hurry up before he sacks you!
- 35:37- That big traffic jam was not my fault!
- 35:39Alright, you name one person who blamed me!
- 35:42- Mr Jahad did.
- 35:43- The grieving relatives did.
- 35:45- The Flying Eye did.
- 35:50- It wasn't my fault the differential
- 35:51on that Cortina seized up!
- 35:53I had to call the RAC, and they had to call for a tow truck,
- 35:56but couldn't get through.
- 35:57- Why?
- 35:57- 'Cos of the big traffic jam.
- 36:01Anyway it all went off alright in the end.
- 36:03- Yeah, it all went off alright in the end.
- 36:04I mean you could have started a trend.
- 36:06Floodlit funerals could be all the rage!
- 36:11Anyway, I don't want to talk no more about it,
- 36:13I've got far more important things on my mind.
- 36:16- Oh, we're not going back to Freddy
- 36:17the bleedin' Frog again, are we?
- 36:19- Yes, we are.
- 36:22There's a million quids worth of gold bullion out there,
- 36:24and it's mine, ours!
- 36:26- You're something else, you are.
- 36:28A drunken old woman spins you some cock 'n' bull story
- 36:31and you fall for it.
- 36:33- Now listen, Rodney.
- 36:34Just because Reenee was a good time girl
- 36:36who liked the occasional Tizer,
- 36:38that was alright, she was never a liar.
- 36:40Anyway, I've been out and seen a few faces this afternoon
- 36:43I got some information and they've confirmed it.
- 36:47About the robbery,
- 36:47the gold bullion never being found, the lot.
- 36:52- But how can you be certain it ain't been found?
- 36:54I mean over the past few years, every policeman
- 36:56and underworld figure in the country
- 36:58must have been looking for that gold.
- 37:00- And what would they have done with it?
- 37:02They'd either have put it through a fence,
- 37:03which meant it becomes public knowledge,
- 37:07or they smelled it down themselves.
- 37:09If they do that
- 37:10and that amount of gold coming on the market causes ripples,
- 37:14the sort of ripples that'd be remembered for a long time!
- 37:18- And what if the police found it?
- 37:20- I'm talking about the police!
- 37:25The chaps never found it either.
- 37:27I had a chat with the Driscoll brothers.
- 37:31- You went and saw the Driscoll brothers?
- 37:33- Why what they like?
- 37:34- Smashing blokes, Unc.
- 37:36It's like bumping into the two Ronnies, Biggs and Kray!
- 37:41They sussed out why you were asking questions?
- 37:43- No, you know what they're like.
- 37:49A couple of years ago some Guru
- 37:52reckoned the world would end within a month.
- 37:55Danny Driscoll bet a grand that it would.
- 38:02And he's the brains of the outfit.
- 38:06The only trouble was,
- 38:08I kept on having to refer to him as Freddy the Frog,
- 38:10I couldn't remember his surname.
- 38:11It was Robson or something.
- 38:14- Robdul.
- 38:15- Robdul, that's what it was!
- 38:18I've been trying to think of that all afternoon.
- 38:27Did you know him?
- 38:29- Vaguely!
- 38:31- Why didn't you say?
- 38:34- Well, the first time I met him he was just a kid,
- 38:3618, 19, a different age group from me.
- 38:40Then over the years I used to bump into him every so often,
- 38:43usually in one of the pubs down the docks.
- 38:47He were a likeable bloke, very generous.
- 38:51He was very tall and handsome.
- 38:54Everyone liked him, specially the women.
- 38:56Used to fall over them-selves for him.
- 38:58- Yes, yes, yes, but what about the gold bullion?
- 39:02- Well he robbed a bank in the city.
- 39:04- We know all that, don't we?
- 39:06What happened after the robbery?
- 39:10- About a week after, Freddy and an explosive expert
- 39:14called Jelly Kelly, broke into a post office in Plumstead.
- 39:20Yeah that's right.
- 39:22And then apparently they set wires
- 39:24and the explosives all right, everything going well,
- 39:27when nobody knew why Freddy the Frog sat on the detonator.
- 39:35They found him up on the roof of a building across the road.
- 39:42- Alright, what happened to the other mush, Kelly the Jelly?
- 39:46- Well, he was holding the nitroglycerine
- 39:48when Freddy sat down.
- 39:51- So he didn't survive either.
- 39:53- Well, if he did he'd be no good in a Mexican wave.
- 40:04- I don't know.
- 40:06Wherever I go it's the same story.
- 40:09Freddy the Frog took the secret with him.
- 40:11- Maybe he shipped the gold abroad.
- 40:14- There wouldn't be time.
- 40:15There was only a week between him doing the job
- 40:17and hitting the snooze-button.
- 40:21- There's another thing that's confusing me and all.
- 40:24If that Freddy was going out
- 40:26with a married woman on this estate,
- 40:28why did he leave all his money to our mum?
- 40:35- It's a mystery, innit?
- 40:38- I'll make some tea.
- 40:41- And there's another thing.
- 40:42I was talking to one of the Driscoll heavies.
- 40:44And he reckoned that Freddy had a son by that woman.
- 40:51- It's just a rumor, Del.
- 40:52I'd take no notice of rumors.
- 40:53- No, but if it was true
- 40:55the boy would be in his mid-20s by now.
- 41:01Still, the thing is, he don't know who his dad was
- 41:04so he can't make a claim on the fortune, can he?
- 41:10Look at this Rod.
- 41:11Oh there you are.
- 41:12Look at this Rodney.
- 41:13Here we are, millionaires,
- 41:15and we're getting threatening letters from the milkman!
- 41:19- This Freddy the Frog.
- 41:21Did he have any hobbies or pastimes?
- 41:23- Did he have any hobbies or pastimes?
- 41:26We're looking for his gold, not his tennis racket!
- 41:30- No, I just thought the more you find out about him
- 41:32the more you'll know how his mind works.
- 41:35- Yes, good thinking, Rodney.
- 41:39He was a bit of an artist weren't he, Albert?
- 41:42- Yeah, good artist.
- 41:44They reckon if he hadn't been a tea-leaf
- 41:46he could have made a very good forger.
- 41:50- Well that's got us a lot closer.
- 41:52Problem solved, that's it.
- 41:55I think I'm gonna go to bed.
- 41:56I say goodnight to you two, goodnight.
- 41:58- Goodnight.
- 42:03Albert.
- 42:04- They're rumors, Rodney.
- 42:06That's all.
- 42:09Rumors.
- 42:11Goodnight son.
- 42:19- Rodney.
- 42:20Don't forget, you've gotta be down the morgue by half nine.
- 42:25Alright, come on.
- 42:27We'll just finish this then we'll pop down the market
- 42:29and do a bit with the massagers.
- 42:31And this time, when I've finished operating on you,
- 42:33no tap-dancing!
- 42:35Just straighten up slowly like it's a miracle.
- 42:38- Del, got it!
- 42:40- What's that about?
- 42:41- Dunno, it looked like 'peace in our time!'
- 42:46- This morning Mr Jahan asked me
- 42:47to transfer all his old paper files onto computer.
- 42:50- What, my computer?
- 42:51- Yeah.
- 42:52Have a read of that.
- 42:53- No, no!
- 42:54What is it, a summons?
- 42:57- It's one of Mr Jahan's order forms from July 1963.
- 43:02Now look who ordered a coffin to be specially made.
- 43:05One Frederick Robdul.
- 43:09It was ordered five weeks before he did the robbery,
- 43:12six weeks before he blew himself up.
- 43:14D'you see what it means?
- 43:16- He had a premonition.
- 43:20- You berk!
- 43:25- No, wait a minute, wait a minute.
- 43:27This casket here was ordered by Mr Frederick Robdul,
- 43:31and paid for it,
- 43:31but it was made for a Mr Alfred Broderick.
- 43:35Who is Alfred Broderick?
- 43:37- No, look at the two names closely.
- 43:41It's an anagram.
- 43:44- Oh yeah, yeah, I can see that.
- 43:47But who was he?
- 43:50- No bloody 'ell, look.
- 43:54If you transpose all the letters--
- 43:57Mix up all the letters in Frederick Robdul,
- 44:01it becomes Alfred Broderick.
- 44:03In other words Broderick never existed,
- 44:05it's just one of Freddies' aliases.
- 44:08- He's right an' all.
- 44:11- What you're saying is that he put.
- 44:15- The bullion.
- 44:16- Into the coffin
- 44:18and then got the Co-op to hide it for him
- 44:20or in this case, Mr Jahan.
- 44:22- That's right, it was all legal above board.
- 44:24It was most probably paraded through them streets.
- 44:26- I'll bet the old Bill held up the traffic for it.
- 44:30- Then it was buried with all the usual honors.
- 44:33All Freddy had to do was bide his time,
- 44:35then come back for it.
- 44:37- You two seem to be forgetting something.
- 44:38This isn't a family pet we're talking about.
- 44:41If what you're suggesting is right
- 44:43he'd have needed permission from the authorities,
- 44:45he'd have needed official documentation,
- 44:48and lots and lots of it!
- 44:49So where's he get all that?
- 44:54- He always has to spoil things, don't he?
- 44:58- Wait a minute, wait a minute, I think I've cracked it.
- 45:04Way back in the early sixties when you was a nipper,
- 45:07Mum got herself a job down the town hall as a secretary.
- 45:11- A secretary?
- 45:12- Yeah, one of her duties was hoovering out
- 45:15the Registrar's department.
- 45:19She could get her hands on all the documents he needed
- 45:22and mark 'em with the official stamp!
- 45:27- What are you doing here?
- 45:29I thought you were supposed to be helping me
- 45:30with the embalming.
- 45:31- Yeah, sorry, Mr Jahan.
- 45:32I just took an early lunch.
- 45:33- Just please come and sit down for a minute, will ya?
- 45:38I'd just like to have a little chat with you.
- 45:40Rodney found this in your files.
- 45:43- But this is confidential material.
- 45:45- It just shows you how keen he is though.
- 45:47He's bringing his homework to lunch with him.
- 45:49Do you remember this man, Mr Frederick Robdul?
- 45:54- Yes I remember him very well, a most charming man.
- 45:58My father had just bought the business
- 45:59and Mr Robdul was one of our first clients.
- 46:03The other reason it sticks out in my mind is
- 46:05because Mr Robdul ordered an extra-large casket to be made.
- 46:12- And I expect his mate, Mr Broderick,
- 46:15was an extra-large chap, wasn't he?
- 46:19- I wouldn't know, we didn't handle the funeral.
- 46:21- What?
- 46:24- We simply supplied the casket.
- 46:26Mr Robdul came and collected it in a van one night.
- 46:28- You mean it was a take-away?
- 46:32- Mr Robdul told us it was to be a very private affair.
- 46:35We didn't question his decision,
- 46:37we didn't want to intrude upon his grief
- 46:39and we needed the business.
- 46:41- Wait a minute, wait a minnute.
- 46:42Does that mean you don't know where it's buried?
- 46:46- As I say, I don't know.
- 46:47It was a private affair.
- 46:48I must go now.
- 46:50Rodney, how long will you be?
- 46:51- Back soon, Mr Jahan.
- 46:52- We have a lot of work.
- 46:57- Well, that's the end of that.
- 46:58- You'll never find it now, son.
- 46:59- Yes we will!
- 47:00- Del, the gold has been missing for 24 years.
- 47:04The last thing anyone saw of Freddy the Frog
- 47:06was on a radar screen, so what chance have we got?
- 47:12- Listen to me.
- 47:14He would have buried it somewhere local.
- 47:16He would have stuck to an area that he knew well.
- 47:19So listen, this is what we're gonna do.
- 47:21I'm gonna see the flower man down the market
- 47:23and get us a codgel of tulips on sale or return.
- 47:26You're gonna visit every graveyard
- 47:28and cemetery in the district
- 47:30and you're gonna read every name on every headstone.
- 47:32And when you leave, you'll leave a flower
- 47:34as if you're one of the relatives.
- 47:35- But there's thousands of 'em!
- 47:37- If anyone asks you say you come from a big family!
- 47:41Rodney, I want you to do the same in your travels.
- 47:44Bit like a busman's holiday for you.
- 47:47In the meantime I'm gonna check the records
- 47:49down at the town hall, stonemason's,
- 47:51churches, that sort of thing.
- 47:53Don't worry brother, don't worry.
- 47:55We'll find it, we'll find it!
- 47:57- Del, I don't want to be the prophet of doom or nothing,
- 48:00but I do get the feeling we're wasting our time.
- 48:03That is time that could be spent in more productively
- 48:05in earning some money and paying some bills.
- 48:08We owe two months rent,
- 48:09we're drinking tea with no milk in it
- 48:11and the electricity board keep calling round to see
- 48:13why their meter is going backwards.
- 48:16- There's food in the cupboard, isn't there?
- 48:18- Yeah, thanks to my pension and Rodney's wages.
- 48:21It wouldn't be a bad idea for you
- 48:23to drive down to Hampshire
- 48:24and pick up that computer money off the vicar.
- 48:28- Leave it out.
- 48:29That gold must be here hidden somewhere.
- 48:32It can't have disappeared,
- 48:33this is Peckham not the Bermuda Triangle.
- 48:37And as me going all the way down to Hampshire
- 48:39to pick up a piddling 120 quid
- 48:41that's like admitting defeat.
- 48:43A sign that I'd give up all hope
- 48:45of ever finding my birthright.
- 48:48And that is not my style.
- 48:52When Del Trotter says he's gonna do something,
- 48:55Del Trotter does it!
- 48:59- You see what I mean Mr Trotter,
- 49:01I've tried everything and it simply refuses to work.
- 49:07- Has it received a whack of any kind?
- 49:08- Oh no, I can assure you.
- 49:12- There you are, that's all it needed.
- 49:16- Yes!
- 49:16Of course, I'm not technically minded like you, Mr Trotter.
- 49:19- Some of these hi-tech advancements
- 49:21need a bit of encouragement.
- 49:22So, if you'll just give me my money, I'll bid you farewell.
- 49:25- I'm afraid I shan't be needing the computer, Mr Trotter.
- 49:29- What?
- 49:29- As I said to you at the wedding,
- 49:31I couldn't honestly see what part a computer
- 49:33could play in the daily running
- 49:34of a small parish such as this.
- 49:36And my words have been borne out.
- 49:39- But if it had been working properly
- 49:40you would have seen the benefits.
- 49:42- I'm terribly sorry, Mr Trotter,
- 49:44and I'm awfully grateful to you
- 49:45for giving me it for two weeks on approval
- 49:47but I simply have no need of it.
- 49:52- I can't take it back now, it's been used.
- 49:56- Well, of course it's been used!
- 49:57You told me to use it!
- 49:58- Yes I know
- 49:59but you've taken it out of its protective wrapping.
- 50:02And look at that, look, it's had a whack there.
- 50:05- But you just did that!
- 50:06- Yes I know that
- 50:08but I'm not a technician, am I?
- 50:10I'm merely a salesman, that's all.
- 50:12What am I gonna tell my govner?
- 50:14I'm gonna have to go and tell him one or two things,
- 50:17that you took it out of the protective wrapping,
- 50:20you messed about with it,
- 50:21you let an unqualified wally repair it
- 50:23and now you wanna elbow it!
- 50:25No no, I'm sorry, no.
- 50:27That machine was in perfect condition
- 50:29when I loaned it to you,
- 50:30and look at it now, it's second hand, innit?
- 50:35As you are a man of the cloth
- 50:36and seeing that you are the one who naused it up
- 50:39I'll tell you what I'm gonna do,
- 50:40I'm gonna let you have that for the second hand price.
- 50:43You give me 100 notes and we'll say no more, alright?
- 50:45- I don't want the computer!
- 50:47- But this computer is top of the range,
- 50:49this is the Silver Cloud of computers.
- 50:51There are thousands of people pouring out of London
- 50:55into the housing estates in your Parish.
- 50:57Your flock is increasing.
- 50:59You're gonna need one of these to keep a check on 'em all!
- 51:01- I only wish that were true.
- 51:03Unfortunately few people seem to require the services
- 51:05of a church such as this.
- 51:07It's seems a pity to me that there aren't more people
- 51:10like our mutual friend Mr Robdul.
- 51:15- What?
- 51:16- I do apologize, I couldn't help overhearing you
- 51:19and Mrs Turpin discussing Mr Robdul at the wedding.
- 51:22- You mean to say that you knew Freddy the Frog?
- 51:25- I'm sorry?
- 51:26- You knew Frederick Robdul?
- 51:29- Many years ago when I came to St Mary's first.
- 51:32He had a holiday home just a few miles from here.
- 51:35He always used to call in when he was down this way.
- 51:37A charming and very generous man.
- 51:40He donated the stained-glass windows.
- 51:42In fact he loved this church so much
- 51:44his parents are buried here.
- 51:47- Did you ever meet his friend?
- 51:49Mr Broderick.
- 51:50- Alfred Broderick?
- 51:51- That's him.
- 51:52- Well, yes.
- 51:53Not to say 'meet' in the conventional sense.
- 51:55I had the sad duty of laying the poor man to rest.
- 51:59He must have been rather a large man.
- 52:00It took eight of us to carry him from the hearse.
- 52:04- Yeah, he was an anagram!
- 52:08Could you tell me where you buried it, buried him?
- 52:11I'd like to pay my last respects.
- 52:12- Oh, yes, it would be here in the records.
- 52:16He must have been very close to Mr Robdal.
- 52:18I've never forgotten the way he kept patting the coffin
- 52:22and contained his grief behind a smile.
- 52:25- Yeah, we were all a bit choked, you know?
- 52:27- Oh, yes, here we are.
- 52:31Now about the computer?
- 52:33- Don't worry about that.
- 52:34Give it to the jumble sale,
- 52:35it's only a load of rubbish anyway!
- 52:40- What do you put in that thing?
- 52:41- It's me own recipe.
- 52:43Dutch tobacco.
- 52:44Navy shag and a spoonful of rum to keep it moist.
- 52:51Smell the salt, Rodney?
- 52:53- You put condiments in it as well?
- 52:56- I'm talking about the ozone in the air.
- 52:59Takes me back.
- 53:02Funny how a smell can start the mind turning.
- 53:07- Not to mention the stomach.
- 53:15- Rodney, I know where it's buried!
- 53:24- What?
- 53:26You mean here?
- 53:29- Here, come on.
- 53:31Albert, bring that shovel!
- 53:37- Del, you can't go digging up a grave in broad daylight!
- 53:42I mean, I know there's nothing actually in it,
- 53:44except for gold bullion,
- 53:45but if anyone saw us doing it they might not understand!
- 53:50- Come on, over here.
- 53:58This is it.
- 53:59This is where he buried it!
- 54:01- Where?
- 54:03- There!
- 54:07- A burial at sea?
- 54:10Why?
- 54:11How did he ever hope to get the gold back?
- 54:15- There are one or two things our dear Uncle
- 54:17forgot to inform us of, Rodney.
- 54:19He told us he met Freddy the Frog
- 54:21but he didn't say where and how.
- 54:24- I met him when he was doing
- 54:25his national service in the navy.
- 54:27- Yes, he was a sailor!
- 54:29He also omitted to tell us
- 54:31how he got the nickname of Freddy the Frog.
- 54:34We assumed it was because of his love of all things French.
- 54:38- No, it was 'cos he was a frogman.
- 54:40- Yes it was because he was a frogman.
- 54:43I know that now, I just got the full SP off the vicar.
- 54:46- Why didn't you tell us?
- 54:48- Well, you know me.
- 54:49I never talk about my days at sea.
- 54:54- We knew that Freddy had a chalet down here at the coast.
- 54:57If we'd have also known he was an ex-sailor
- 55:00and a deep sea diver
- 55:01we may have been able to put two and two together.
- 55:04- Yes and you would have saved us a fortnight
- 55:07of creeping round every cemetery
- 55:08and churchyard in South London!
- 55:10- Well, if you knew he was buried at sea
- 55:12why'd you ask me to bring this shovel?
- 55:15- So I can whack you on the bloody head with it!
- 55:17- Del, take it easy!
- 55:21- Well, he gives me the 'ump, Rodney.
- 55:23He's been a right steaming 'ump!
- 55:30It was beautiful.
- 55:32Really beautiful.
- 55:34He got all the offended paperwork,
- 55:36a pukka ceremony, a vicar.
- 55:40He even got two off-duty policemen
- 55:41to help carry the coffin to the boat!
- 55:45- All he had to do was wait for the dust to settle,
- 55:47then come back with a frogman gear
- 55:49and dive down and get it.
- 55:52He must have known these waters well,
- 55:54probably been diving here for years.
- 55:56- It's out there, Rodney, it's out there.
- 56:01Our legacy!
- 56:03- Nothing you can do about it now, Del.
- 56:07- I'm not leaving it there!
- 56:10The sea shall not have it!
- 56:13I shall bring it back to the surface!
- 56:16We can do it!
- 56:19I have faith in you, Rodney!
- 56:22- Me?
- 56:24What d'you men you've got faith in me?
- 56:26- I'm gonna get you all the flippers, the goggles.
- 56:29You're the only one in the family who can swim.
- 56:31- All I ever got was a 50 yard certificate at school.
- 56:34- You only need to swim 50 yards down!
- 56:38- On your bike!
- 56:41- Where you gonna start searching?
- 56:42You're looking at 500 square miles of ocean!
- 56:46It took 'em 70 years to find the Titanic
- 56:49so what chance we got with an outsize coffin?
- 56:53- Gotta do something!
- 56:56He who dares wins!
- 57:00There's a million quids worth of gold out there, Rodney.
- 57:04Our gold!
- 57:06We can't just say Bonjour to it!
- 57:15- Do I look like him?
- 57:18- It was just a rumor, son.
- 57:21- Do I look like him?
- 57:24- Bit.
- 57:26- I always felt as if I was a bit different
- 57:28from the rest of the family.
- 57:31A bit of a cuckoo.
- 57:32- It was just a rumor!
- 57:36- Freddy the Frog!
- 57:39Killed himself by sitting on someone else's detonator!
- 57:45What a plonker!
- 58:04Come on, let's talk about it over a pint.
- 58:10- Yeah, I expect you're right bruv.
- 58:15But in the words of General MacArthur,
- 58:18'I will be back soon!'
- 58:22I am not leaving our birthright down there
- 58:24in Davey Smith's locker.
- 58:26No way, I tell you Rodders.
- 58:30This time next year we will be millionaires.
- 58:41♫ We've got some half priced cracked ice
- 58:43♫ And miles and miles of carpet tiles
- 58:44♫ TV's, deep freeze and David Bowie LP's
- 58:47♫ Pool games, gold chains, wosnames
- 58:50♫ And at a push
- 58:51♫ Some Trevor Francis track-suites
- 58:52♫ From a mush in Shepherds Bush, Bush, Bush,
- 58:54♫ Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush
- 58:57♫ No income tax, no VAT
- 59:00♫ No money back, no guarantee
- 59:03♫ Black or white, rich or broke
- 59:06♫ We'll cut prices at a stroke
- 59:11♫ God bless Hooky Street
- 59:13♫ Viva Hooky Street
- 59:17♫ Long live Hooky Street
- 59:19♫ C'est magnifique Hooky Street
- 59:23♫ Magnifique Hooky Street
- 59:27♫ Hooky Street