The Bounder - Season 1 (1982)

In order to get money to impress Laura Howard tells bank manager Scrimshaw that ,if he advances him a thousand pounds,he will cut him in on ownership of a diamond mine he discovered in Africa. Howard uses Laura's house,claiming it as his own,to show Scrimshaw phoney diamonds and a pretend map but they are interrupted by the window cleaners and then by Mary,who throws the map on the fire and causes the 'diamonds' to melt into nothing.

In his continuing attempts to woo Laura Howard buys an expensive bracelet on approval,hoping that she will be charmed by the gesture but refuse to take it. However she accepts. With the jewellers wanting the bracelet's return next day Howard ropes Trevor into a burglary which fails and ultimately,in order to get the bracelet back,must resort to insults - which rather defeats the object.

Howard and Trevor are shopping in a department store when they see 'Greasy',Howard's old cell-mate, shop-lifting. Trvor agrees not to tell anybody if Greasy returns the items but Greasy puts them in Trevor's bag and Trevor gets arrested by the store detective. Howard has to impersonate a police officer claiming that Trevor is a very important person framed by Greasy in order to secure an escape for all concerned.

When Laura starts dating handsome Italian Count Monefiore Howard gets jealous and sets out to expose him as a fraud,a ploy which goes disastrously wrong in an Italian restaurant. He persuades Trevor to employ a private investigator but unfortunately he investigates Howard by mistake and reveals to Laura that he was the fraudster who swindled her out of her money.