First broadcast 18th May 1980.

Thackeray is to be the best man at the wedding of a friend of his father, elderly Henry Russell who is marrying a woman nearly fifty years his junior.

Alan Dobie ... Sergeant Cribb
William Simons ... Constable Thackeray
Charlotte Mitchell ... Mrs. Winter
Sally Osborne ... Daphne Winter (as Sally Osborn)
Alison Glennie ... Denise Winter
Geoffrey Bayldon ... Uncle Ezra Winter
Ivor Salter ... Sexton
Arthur Hewlett ... Henry Russell
George Waring ... Dr. Burden
William Abney ... Vicar
Marjorie Sudell ... Woman in Train