Terry and June

- Season 5

(1982)

Sir Dennis persuades a reluctant Terry to stand at the local council elections so that the firm can sell more fire extinguishers to the council. However, with Tarquin as his campaign manager, Terry does very badly and loses by one vote to his Labour party rival, who turns out to be the new area salesman.

Despite being a poor golfer, Terry gets roped in for a golfing weekend along with Malcolm and Colonel Culpepper and, whilst he tries to hide in his room, he is eventually forced to play in a foursome. However his cheap golfing equipment falls apart and the Colonel gets so drunk, the game has to be abandoned. June and Beattie on the other hand prove to be expert at the game.

With woodworking as his new hobby, Terry gets Alan to collect a wood-turning lathe for him, but his van breaks down and the contents end up on the Medfords' drive - including a piano, which various people stop to play. Tarquin complains about the noise and Terry and June are also disconcerted to hear somebody playing a drum kit - especially when they find that the noise is coming from Tarquin's house.

Terry breaks into the fund that he and June were saving for a Paris holiday to buy a CB radio for them both. He is so busy talking on his radio whilst driving along that he drives into a removals van and knocks himself out. He subsequently ends up in the police station but June will only come to his rescue after he has promised to sell the radios and take her to Paris.

Anxious to make Tarquin and Melinda envious when they come to dinner Terry decides to buy a goldfish pond for his back garden. He is so clumsy at the centre selling ponds that he has to pay over sixty pounds in breakages in addition to the twelve pounds for the pond itself. When he has finally installed it he finds that Tarquin and Melinda are not coming round after all.

Terry and June stand in for the indisposed Tarquin and Melinda who are due to be giving a talk at the church's social club for the elderly and get roped into the bingo. The vicar believes that the lady doing the calling is cheating and the Medfords keep surveillance on her but it turns out that the cheating is only her way of making sure that some of the disadvantaged old folks are rewarded.

Due to a series of misunderstandings, Sir Dennis, Miss Fennell and Malcolm and Beattie all believe, erroneously, that Terry and June have invited them for Christmas dinner and turn up at the house. Sir Dennis gives a speech, boring everybody with his war stories, Miss Fennell gets tiddly and loses the novelty from her cracker and nobody seems to understand Terry's mimes when they play Charades. All in all the Medfords are glad when the day is over.