Credit Where It’s Due

Episode 2.8
27 October 1987


Writer Roy Mitchell
Director Alex Kirby

Ken and Rocky deliver packages containing chemicals to a couple of Irishmen, Norman and Barry, at a farm out in the country. After Rocky sees a warning in the paper about terrorists in Birmingham, he suspects that he is carrying raw materials for making bombs and that the Irishmen are IRA bombers. He calls the bomb squad who blow up one of his panniers (after Rocky has hastily retrieved his bike) and the street is showered with fake credit cards.

Harry has employed an artist, Davida Duff, to paint a picture of the Coaching Inn. Ken thinks there is something fishy about her but Harry won’t listen. When he takes her out to dinner, she borrows his American Express card and forges it. Eventually Norman, Barry and Davida are arrested by the police who are investigating the credit card forgery.

Debbie falls madly in love with a French chef, Maurice, who has started working at the Coaching Inn. He asks her to marry him. However the police arrest him for bigamy with other girls in similar situations. And he isn’t even French: his real name is Billy Clutterbuck and he comes from Wolverhampton!

When Harry unveils Davida’s painting of the Coaching Inn, he is embarrassed to discover that all the people that she has painted at the windows are nude!

Barry Peter Caffrey
Norman Kilian McKenna
Maurice, aka Billy Clutterbuck Jeff Rawle
Davida Duff Pamela Salem
Biker Scott Hammond
Stanley, porter Denzil Pugh
First Waiter Neale McGrath
Second Waiter Stephen Gough
First Boy Robert Malcolm Williams
Second Boy Permjeet Singh
Policeman Reid Jones
Army Captain, Bomb Squad Chris Jenkinson
Army Corporal, Bomb Squad Peter Llewellyn Williams
DS Unger Roderick Smith
DS Beecher Patrick Bergin
Susan, Coaching Inn receptionist Susan Michael