Pardon the Expression
Episode number	1
Episode	The First Day
ITV broadcast date	2nd June 1965 (Wednesday)
Writer	Harry Driver and Jack Rosenthal
Director	Walter Butler
Designer	Denis Parkin
Previous episode	None
Next episode	The Headmistress

PlotEdit

Leonard Swindley starts his new job as Assistant Manager at Dobson and Hawks Department Store. He soon becomes attached to his job in more ways than one when store boss Ernest Parbold sends him to the bank to deposit his specimen signature and collect some change. However when he reaches the bank he realises that he has lost the key to the handcuffs for the money bag he is carrying. The staff back at the store, who have instantly taken to the new man, try to protect him from the wrath of Parbold who, they will feel sure, will sack Swindley for displaying such incompetence on his first day. The situation is solved when Swindley finds that the key has dropped through a hole in his pocket and into the lining of his jacket. He completes his transaction at the bank and makes it back for a meeting with Parbold just in time.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Leonard Swindley - Arthur Lowe
• Ernest Parbold - Paul Dawkins
• Miss Sinclair - Joy Stewart
• Mrs Edgeley - Betty Driver

Guest castEdit

• Pam Plummer - Barbara Young
• Josie Jackson - Yvonne Antrobus
• Workman - Ivor Salter
• Mavis Foster - Holly Doone
• 1st Teller - Roy Maxwell

NotesEdit

• This episode was transmitted at 9.10pm on 2nd June by both Tyne Tees Television and Grampian Television and on Thursday 17th June at 7.00pm by both Scottish Television and Border Television. Along with the rest of the series, the episode was not transmitted by Westward Television, Channel Television or the Teledu Cymru service of Television Wales and the West.

Commercial releasesEdit

This episode was included in Network DVD collection Pardon the Expression - The Complete First Series, released on 4th May, 2009.