Love Thy Neighbour

- Season 7

(1975)

Barbie invites Joan and Eddie to dinner and sends Bill down to the club to get Eddie. When Bill gets there, Jacko is showing off the handcuffs worn by Dr. Crippen, the famous murderer. He puts them on Bill and Eddie and they are stuck without a key. While Jacko goes to find keys, Eddie and Bill go home to dinner. They break into the factory to find something to cut them off when Jacko arrives.

The club is having a Lady and the Tramp theme night: the men are to be tramps, and the ladies to be ladies. Not so simple for Jacko, who comes as the lady; his mother is the tramp. Unfortunately, the police crash the party because the club's liquor license has expired; Eddie forgot to renew it.

Bill decides to leave the social club and go to the Caribbean Club. When Jacko, Eddie and Arthur hear there is a stripper over there, they go over too. When Bill sees them, he refuses to sign Eddie in. Eddie calls the race relation board and Bill is investigated and given a warning. When Eddie goes back to the club, Bill throws Eddie's pint of beer on the floor and they are both barred.

Eddie wants to take an opinion poll at the club: "Are you for more blacks coming into this country"? The problem is, there are only 10 people and it is a tie. The next one to walk in the door will decide, but he happens to be a vicar and won't vote. He suggests they have it out in a boxing ring to decide who will win.

Bill and Eddie are looking forward to going to the FA Cup Replay between West Ham and Manchester United so much that they both pretend to be injured so that they can take a day off work to go to the match. However their wives have other ideas!

Eddie is sure he will get voted as president of the club for 10 years running; then Bill throws his hat in the ring. No one told Bill that the annual trip to the conference would mean Doris, a frisky lady who chases Bill all over the place, would be there. The night of the elections, a surprise candidate wins the election and a trip to the TUC conference with Doris.