Rent Bless This House: Series 4 (1974)
4.2 of 5 from 5 ratings
4h 11min
- General info
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- All series
- Synopsis:
All six episodes from the fourth series of the classic ITV sitcom, starring Sid James as stationery firm executive Sid Abbott. While Sid just wants a quiet life ogling women, drinking bitter and following his beloved Chelsea FC, his wife and kids are constantly getting in the way. In this series, Sid's family start making plans for spending his bonus, and with their wedding anniversary coming up, Sid starts planning a party for his wife.
1. Money is the Root Of...Someone is trying to track down a "Sidney Abbott, last heard of in Wapping in 1942". Whatever happened in Wapping in 1942, Sid's old friend Gertie Adams (according to Sid "an old lady, bald and bent double") obviously enjoyed it enough to remember Sid in her will.
2. And They Will Come Home...
The trouble starts when Sally and Mike go into business buying and selling old junk. Sid puts up with it until "one big thing" arrives in his garden - then he puts his foot down.
3. Who's Minding the Baby?
When Betty from next door pops in to ask a "little" favour, Sid is not at all keen but Jean insists that they are friends and encourages her.
4. A Beef in His Bonnet
When Mike and Sally bring home something that has "fallen off the back of a lorry", Sid warns them about mixing with villains like "Fingers" Taplock.
5. The Bells are Ringing
Sid's reaction to Mike marrying into a wealthy family is simply "he's cracked it". But when another close tie between the two families is announced, Sid takes a different view. But all's well that ends well - or is it?
6. The First 25 Years are the Worst
Sid discovers the phone is 'missing' but in the Abbott home there is a simple explanation - Sally and Mike have borrowed it. The party that Sid cannot remember is for his Silver Wedding Anniversary. These two facts combine to give Sid plenty of problems.- Actors:
- Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Robin Stewart, Anthony Jackson, Norman Bird, Arthur Brough, Brian Nolan, Patsy Rowlands, Paul Luty, James Appleby, Allan Cuthbertson, Harry Littlewood, Tony Selby, Windsor Davies, Cheryl Hall, Sue Holderness, Maurice Kaufmann, Ric Young, John Caesar
- Directors:
- William G. Stewart
- Studio:
- Network UK
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Sitcoms
