Have A Nice Day

Harry is having a new lighting system installed at the Plaza Suite, in preparation for an Australian Night organised by Ross Townsend of the Australian Tourist Board. He employs two lads, Roger and John, from a cowboy firm of electricians. They end up blowing the main fuse and Roger receives an electric shock. Harry’s first-aid training as a fireman saves Roger’s life. But the Plaza Suite is now without electricity.

Rocky is trying to deliver a package to Alan Clark on a windsurfing stand at a sailing exhibition at the NEC. However Cathy, the temporary dispatcher at Texas Rangers, has forgotten to ask which stand he is on. Rocky and Ken chase round in circles and eventually find him in another exhibition hall. After Harry’s lights fuse, Alan Clark agrees to help Harry by bringing loads of portable camping lights to the Australian Night in exchange for being able to demonstrate his sailboards there and so publicise his company.

Ken and Margaret are approached by Anita Wilberforce, the wife of a video shop owner, Ray Wilberforce, who has just withdrawn all the money from their joint bank and building society accounts before leaving for a conference in Cannes. Anita wants Ken and Margaret to find Ray. Because she has no money, Ken offers to charge by results; this does not go down well with Margaret who thinks that Ken has only made this offer because Anita is pretty. Knowing Ken, this may well be true!

Alan Chambers, Ray’s business partner at the video shop, confides that the Wilberforces’ marriage is very shaky and that Ray is probably having an affair. He also suspects that Ray is stealing money from the firm. Ken and Margaret show the shop’s customer database software to Brian, a computer expert that they know. He discovers that the software has been modified to allow some transactions to go unrecorded – straight into Wilberforce’s pocket. When Anita discovers a duplicate set of till rolls which add up to a different total, the fraud is confirmed.

Ironically, Ray Wilberforce turns up at the Australian night and tells Ken and Rocky that he is planning to emigrate to Australia with his new girlfriend, Mandy. Unfortunately they have never seen a photograph of him so they don’t recognise him.

One minor character was not credited: the barman in the bar where Janie works.

Notes and episode list © Martin Underwood, 1999

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