ChuckleVision

- Season 12

(1999)

The Chuckle Brothers are to perform a conjuring set in a hotel where no pets are allowed but their rabbit is missing and appears to have been replaced by a rhinoceros which is in the bath-tub having a bath. The brothers manage to lure it out of the building and in to a safari park, but, on their return, the landlady drops the bomb-shell.

Barry and Paul are working as milk delivery men on the early morning run. However, they get caught up with a different type of delivery altogether when they have to assist Dr. Smith.

Whilst on holiday in the country, Barry and Paul see a flying saucer land, and, when they arrive at the hotel, all the other guests claim to be from Venus. In the event they are at the hotel for a convention of the Venus Mattress and Duvet Company and the flying saucer is a gimmick, but the brothers think they are aliens poised to take over the planet and take appropriate action.

The Chuckle Brothers buy a suit each from a second hand shop in order to smarten up their image and find something highly unusual about Barry's suit.It is impossible to stain - any marks on it just wipe off. Paul decides to claim it as his invention, naming it Pauloline, and takes it to garment manufacturer Harold Stone, to sell to him. However, it becomes clear that Stone wants all the credit for himself and wants to cut the brothers out of the deal.

The Chuckle Brothers are working in a bread shop for Mr. Bunn the baker, who inexplicably, has entrusted them with the care of a watch which is a family heirloom. When they run out of bread the Chuckles go to a wind-mill to make some more. Here Barry drops the watch into a flour bin and it gets baked into a loaf destined for the corner shop, where the brothers create havoc trying to retrieve it.

The brothers are house-sitting for Auntie Hilda while she is in Spain and Barry leaves a coffee cup ring on the mantelpiece, so, to cover it,he and Paul go to buy an ornament in an antique shop. They are mistaken for secret agents and given the Maltby Falcon, which contains the Jewel of Boris. When Comrade Ivanov and the shop-keeper realise their mistake, they come after the siblings but fortunately Auntie Hilda returns to save them.

The Chuckle Brothers are working for the Mayor when a civic ceremony is brought forward at short notice. Paul uses too much polish on the mayoral chain - which breaks - and Barry burns a hole whilst ironing the mayor's robes. However, they get back into the mayor's good books when they learn that his deputy has purposely engaged them to discredit him, so they, in turn, sabotage the deputy's inaugural speech.

Whilst taking wheelchair-bound Mrs. Pringle out in the park Paul and Barry meet No Slacking, with his auntie Doris, also in a wheelchair. The two old ladies decide to play a joke on the men, first by swapping places and then by running off, so that Barry is called upon to impersonate Auntie Hilda, to stop No Slacking finding out. All is ultimately resolved, in the hair salon, where Barry ends up with a blue rinse.

Barry and Paul are in Transylvania where they hope to enter the garlic gathering competition and win a Golden Globe. Paul, daft as ever, ignores warnings not to stay at Castle Vlad, where the more sensible Barry is concerned that their host, the Count, may well be a vampire and hangs garlic round his neck. The Count may not be a vampire but somebody is. . .

Paul and Barry are running the White Elephant Stall at the vicar's fete and they quickly fall foul of snooty Sir James Hartley Worthington, who accuses them of selling tat in competition with his supposed antique stall. He makes efforts to sabotage them, which backfire on him, whilst the vicar wins a coconut and Barry wins the Guess How Many Gob-stoppers competition.

The Chuckle Brothers go to a film studio, where Paul hopes to impress movie mogul Hiram J. Cugalschriber with his show-reel, but Barry gets mobbed, as he is mistaken for leading man Flint Steele, his exact double. He is called upon to act in a film epic, which he sabotages, and, following a chase around the studio ending in his coming face to face with the real Flint Steele, he is at least given a job. . .as Steele's decoy.

Whilst erecting an aerial mast for Dan the Van, Paul and Barry meet Mr. Macaw, a bird-watcher out to secure the very rare egg of the fast disappearing macaw-hawk, which is nesting at the top of the aerial. Barry is determined to stop him from stealing the egg and goes to very great lengths to give the impression that the macaw-hawk is not rare after all.

The Chuckle Brothers are in the wastes of the Sahara, where they are running a cake stall. They get involved in hostilities between the warring local tribesmen and the Legionnaires in the nearby fort - but end up getting their just deserts.

Paul and Barry Chuckle go to the museum to see a grand unveiling by Dan the Van, only to find that the suave and plausible stranger on stage is not their old school-mate but an impostor. He explains that he is a professional decoy employed to keep Dan safe from 'two hooligans' who keep plaguing him. Paul and Barry are too stupid to realise that the description is of them, but they do end up on display in the museum.

The Chuckle Brothers go to visit a resort which simulates an old Wild Western town. They find themselves entangled with a mean outlaw known as Big Jake, whom Barry has to fight in an old-style cowboy shoot-out. Will he survive to tell the tale?