Dads Army High Finance Series 3 Episode 58

we present arthur lowe john lemeshra and clive dunn in dad's army high finance featuring john larry arnold ridley and ian lavender with this week's guests bill patrick frank williams and paul hechner here is the news and this is jon snag reading it by the summer of 1942 hitler's conquered territories now stretched from the frozen wastes of the

Arctic southwards to the burning sands of the sahara and from the rolling atlantic eastwards to the banks of the vulgar in another sort of bank swallows bank at warmington on sea sergeant wilson is in the manager's office stacking sandbags that looks better what i know you're doing wilson i'm just tiring up the sandbags there i don't put them on my desk i'm

Sorry oh dear look winston wants to watch what you're doing you're spinning sand all over the floor i'm sorry sir excuse me mr henry yes what is it you asked me to tell you the moment mr jones arrived well he's in the bank now paying his takings 15 pounds six and four points and he's presented this check for three pounds two and six uh ask him to come in and see me with him

Yeah mr manley well i better go then sir noah's no this is a very delicate matter i want to hear you stay where you are all right sir and stop making that crunching sound well i can't help it it's the sand on the floor we're going to stand somewhere else you just told me to stay where i was oh there's no need to take me so literally mr jones sir morning mr memory morning

Mr wilshere you wanted to see me yes james good morning good morning turns in bye go and get mr jones statement please yes mr mean come on sit down jones oh are you waiting memory this takes me back feel the sand under my foot i remember when we was in the sudan we had a lot of sand out there yes yes please sit down very good you think sir

Now then this check you've just presented for three pounds two and six months ah yes so that's the wages for my staff i know it's a lot of money but if you don't pay your staff well you can't keep them these days yes but i'm afraid i can't cash it jones at all why not insufficient funds i see or can't get you more no no no james no

You have insufficient funds to meet this check well give me back the 15 pound six and four so just pay it in i can't do that as you say you've just paid it in which my money i want it back and the only way we can get it back is write a check all right i'll write a check yes but i i couldn't cash it because you've got insufficient funds i don't understand

Didn't you get a letter from the bank what bank this bank i've got mr jones statement he's cancelled checks mr menvin and i brought the coffee as well oh thank you thank you put them on my desk yes don't crunch about like that boy it's like chalk on a blackboard i can't help crunching it's the sand on the floor we'll sweep it up there's a brush and pen in the cupboard oh me yes you boy

Why should i have to sweep it up can you see the sugar bowl anywhere we'll see well she'll be around here somewheres huh see if you can find it all right now jones are you sure you didn't get the letter well now i've come to think of it i did get a letter from the bank on tuesday yeah it was in my pocket all the time there but you haven't opened it no well i was

Just going to when i got an urgent delivery of offal it drove it clear out my mind so you've got to concentrate when you get an urgent delivery of offer you know i'll just have a look at it [Music] well now didn't bother to read it now i mean i can tell you what's in it well i can't let you do that letter from the bank addressed to me is

Private jones i wrote it oh yeah of course you did excuse me mr jones could you lift your feet up please for a minute while i just sweep this bit of sand out there you are picky thank you here we are that's it you can put your feet down now pike would you not interrupt you told me to

Do it choose that tone of voice to me [Music] the fact is that for several months you've had an overdraft of 50 pounds and it isn't getting any less i'm afraid i can't let it go on any longer well i'm sorry to reiterate myself captain what about the 15 pound six importance i've just paid in well i've got a check here that you paid to united meat supplies it's just been

Presented it's for more or less the same amount so that takes care of that and cloth there i've brushed up all the sand where should i put it i don't know friend oh it's all right i know i'll put it in this little bowl no no no no no no i wouldn't do that that's the trick i found the sugar bowl pass it to me yeah but misspending it's not what will you do is your tone yes mr man means

Thank you ah brown sugar [Music] haven't seen any of that for a long time where was i oh yes so you see jones we have a problem yes sir well this is a nice cup of coffee really thank you oh yes but the germans don't get coffee like