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Albert accidentally brakes Harold’s china cabinet. Scared of the son’s anger Albert decides to pretend that the place was robbed.

Harold wants to win the affections of a woman called Jean who is a great fan of ballroom dancing, but is pessimistic because he has two left feet. He must ask his father for some lessons to keep up with Jean.

Harold is predictably displeased when Albert announces his intention to marry again, but he is shocked when he sees that his prospective stepmother, Daphne, is a woman he went out with himself many years earlier.

During the by-election campaign Albert is informed that Prime Minister Heath is coming to tea with him. Harold is appalled and plans to spoil the moment.

Harold wants to move up in the world, so he and a reluctant Albert go to view a suburban semi-detached house. When the local Residents’ Association gets to hear that two "rag and bone" men are planning to move in they offer them money bribe to change their minds.

Harold buys a huge snooker table, in fact too big for their house, but still he wants to beat his father in a game.

Harold buys cheaply a Regency commode and hopes to make some big money on it. Albert thinks that his son took advantage of old lady and thinks it will bring them bad luck.

Man named Arthur turns up claiming to be Albert’s long-lost elder son and, to Harold’s horror, Albert not believes him, but seems to be very fond of him.