Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Ian Carmichael
as Jim Dixon
Terry-Thomas
as Bertrand Welch
Hugh Griffith
as Professor Welch
Sharon Acker
as Christine Callaghan
Jean Anderson
as Mrs. Welch
Maureen Connell
as Margaret Peel
Clive Morton
as Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
John Welsh
as The Principal (as John Welch)
Reginald Beckwith
as University Porter
Kenneth Griffith
as Cyril Johns
Jeremy Hawk
as Bill Atkinson
Ronald Cardew
as Registrar
