A season of Britain's great laughter-makers.
This week: Law and Disorder
Starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley
with Ronald Squire, George Coulouris, Lionel Jeffries, Joan Hickson, Elizabeth Sellars.
Percy Brand, to his growing son Colin, is a clergyman. But his real vocation is as a confidence trickster and his frequent spells inside have to be explained away as missionary trips abroad.
When Colin studies law and eventually becomes a Judge's Marshal, Percy feels bound to retire to a fishing village on the south coast. Here he becomes involved with the local squire in brandy smuggling and is arrested while impersonating a customs official.
Now Percy's former cronies rally round to make his case too late for hearing at the current assizes where his son, Colin, will be in court...