George & Mildred

- Season 4

(1978)

The ever work-shy George is apprehensive when called for a job interview but the resultant, successful post suits him down to the ground. He is now a traffic warden and inevitably loves the power that this gives him. Others are less enamoured so that when he turns up in his uniform,with Mildred,for Tristram's school prize-giving, someone has tipped a bag of cement all over him.

George is surprised and then delighted when young Bill Albright, son of the recently deceased Rosie, approaches him with evidence that he is George's long-lost son, conceived on V.E. Night 1945. There is even a ready-made daughter-in-law and grand-daughter into the bargain. However on further investigation the real father turns out to be George's old friend Ernie.

Mildred wants a new bathroom shower but the professionals' quotes are too pricey for penny-pinching George,so he gets his dodgy friend Jerry the ice-cream man to do the installation. Unfortunately Jerry connects the shower to the Fourmiles' plumbing system so that the Ropers end up stealing their neighbours' water.

Due to complaints about his over-zealous attitude George rows with his superior, Arnold Higson, and resigns his job as a traffic warden. He is scared to tell Mildred, who finds out from Mr. Higson with whom she flirts to get George his job back. Jeffrey has a new sports car and Mildred says he can use the Ropers' garage, unaware that George's useless friend Jerry is storing bags of cement in it.

When the Fourmiles must attend a funeral, Mildred is happy to mind their new baby Tarquin for the day. But their car breaks down on the way home, making them late, and Mildred has her clay-modeling class. George is left holding the baby and when the last-minute call comes from the British Legion to say that they need him for the darts team, his only option is to take Tarquin along. Will he get him home before Mildred finds out? Will he even get him home?

With Truffles,Mildred's dog,in season, the Ropers mate her with Ethel's dog in order to produce pedigree puppies that they can sell but find that another dog has been with Truffles already who is decidedly non-pedigree. George gets a surprise when he buys a little friend for his goldfish, Moby, and Jeffrey suffers when he gives up smoking.

Having had an extremely boring and non-eventful Christmas Day, George and Mildred spend next day with the Fourmiles where George and Jeffrey become addicted to Tristram's present, a video game, which sees George losing money. Ethel and Humphrey arrive for an exchange of presents but George and Mildred don't have any presents for them.