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 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Series 1, Episode 3: Love Thy
Neighbour
First Aired: 01-03-1973
Written by:
Raymond Allen
The third episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
is called Love Thy Neighbour and
at the beginning Frank and Betty have been enjoying and evening in front
of the telly. Frank is very relaxed. In fact, he's asleep and it isn't
long after he wakes up that the telly looses its sound, so Frank gives it
a slap and it looses the picture as well. To make matters worse they have
not had the telly very long, Frank blew the last one up on Tuesday and the
Spencers have been blacklisted by three television companies
already.
It's getting late and Frank has to go to the Labour
Exchange in the morning so Betty suggests that he should go to bed. Before
he manages to get up the stairs though, there is a knock at the back door.
It's Betty's mother and she has a suitcase with her. She has left her
husband because he's brought a pet python home with him from his last
trip.
Betty's mum has barely sat down when she has a funny turn and
Betty wants Frank to phone for a doctor. But they don't have a phone and
Frank has already broken the one in the phone box, so Betty tells Frank
that he will have to use a neighbour's phone; a writer, Mr Faraday, has
just moved into the street and he's bound to be still at it. Frank looks a
little uncomfortable about disturbing
 anyone who is
'at it' but he goes across the street anyway and takes a little Spencer
chaos along with him. Frank has to go across the street a few times, in
fact and, needless to say it is not very long before Faraday is a nervous
wreck.
Towards the end of Love Thy Neighbour, there is a scene
where Frank has got locked out of the house and, not wanting to wake
Betty, he has borrowed Faraday's ladder is trying to climb in through a
window. It is not long before he is clinging to the falling ladder and he
ends up dangling from the branch of a tree. Due to the heights involved
this is probably one of the most dangerous stunts in the series so far and
Michael Crawford did not use a stuntman,
remember.
CAST
Frank
Spencer ~~~
Michael Crawford
Betty
Spencer ~~~
Michele Dotrice
Betty's
Mother ~~~
Jane Hylton
Mark Faraday
~~~
Norman Chappell
Peter Osborne
~~~
Geoffrey Whitehead
Dr. Smedley
~~~
Anthony Woodruff
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