Duty Free - Season 3 (1986)

Neither Amy nor Robert can stand the gormless, accident-prone Neville, so David and Linda decide to use him as a go-between and to keep their spouses at bay while Linda pretends she is teaching him to swim. As inept as a messenger as he is at everything else, Neville innocently leads Amy to the lovers' rendezvous, where she gets a shock and he gets a pleasant surprise that makes it his best holiday ever.

A mix-up lands David with a tartan hold-all identical to his own--except that it contains bundles of bank notes. He gives it to Linda to hide, and when Robert finds it, he assumes that David and Linda are planning to try to elope again. Meanwhile, two sinister men arrive at the Pearces' room: they want their bag back and they aren't above throwing David off the balcony if he doesn't disclose its whereabouts. Fortunately, Amy has done the right thing and handed the bag in to the police, but David has kept some notes back for himself. Suddenly it's raining money.

When David buys a raffle ticket in aid of Conservative funds, Labour supporter Amy is shocked and accuses him of selling out the socialist principles he embraced when they first met. However, after Amy's attempts to support the overworked, underpaid waiters results in Carlos getting sacked, it is not Amy's campaign, surprisingly supported by Linda, to get him reinstated that does the trick but David's stirring appeal to the other guests.

The hotel throws a party where the guests must arrive in costumes and perform on stage. The Germans heckle Robert's monologue; and Amy, dressed as a clown, turns David and Linda's romantic duet into a total farce--though the audience assumes it was meant to be funny. However, it's Amy's return to the stage in a totally different outfit that steals the show and seems to get David hankering after her.

David persuades a reluctant Amy to spend Christmas in Spain, though in a more up-market hotel than the San Remo. When Amy sees the Cochrans, who are the guests of the wealthy Stoneleigh-Jacksons, she regards the trip as more than a coincidence but busies herself getting into the Christmas spirit by putting up decorations, forcing David to play Santa Claus and exchanging the expensive presents he has bought for Linda with cheap rubbish. Unsurprisingly David and Linda attempt to sneak off upstairs for some forbidden moments but, more surprisingly, they are not the ...