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1356:. Jim carries the leg with him in a sack to the pub where Brian is feeling the effects of his drinking at the party. He then goes for a job interview, and another person guesses what sort of leg it is, but gives in to curiosity and looks in the sack. At the pub Councillor Moggs arrives to find Jim and Miss Hockwhistle (a fellow councillor) there, he then demands to know who the culprit was, only to discover it was the drunk Miss Hockwhistle. 27: 492: 1024:
Two children, who have already stolen a wealthy man's coat, burgle Jim's house, when Jim catches them they tell him about the coat and Jim is able to change the children's view. Jim persuades the children to give back the coat inviting the wealthy man round; they say they found it on a bus and Jim
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This series saw a change in the title sequences. The "Morning world..." monologues by Jim have been removed, and the opening video is the video of the closing titles for the previous two series; the closing titles for this series is the opening titles in reverse so instead of zooming into Jim, the
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when Fiona's dad asks. On the green Fiona's dad is paired with Jim and goes mad when he discovers how badly Jim actually plays. Jim is lucky enough to avoid injury and laughs with Brian at the pub at the incident. Finally Brian's friend turns up for the clubs to find a noticeable
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Jim London, his father Ernie London, Arnold Moggs and a lady offering policies are held hostage in Jim's house by a robber with a gun, but he is not very good as his past attempts of robbery have been foiled by ordinary members of the
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Jim allows two Irish friends to stay in his house and they take a coffin with them, meanwhile Jim hopes to take the wife of a jealous criminal on holiday, however they cannot go as the husband finds out and attempts to catch
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Whilst making regular visits to the DHSS (late ones at that), Jim has been doing some odd jobs for friend Lois. He lands himself in trouble, but manages to get one up on Councillor Allnut thanks to a dodgy
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Jim wakes up after a party and finds a woman sleeping in his bath and a bloke with a bag of stuff in his living room. Tosh eventually arrives as Jim tries to piece together the events of the party.
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It's good neighbour week and Jim offers to look after Wanda's bird while she goes to hospital. Problems are caused when Jim's Dad gives the bird to Jim's Mum as a birthday present
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at him. Wanda pops round and she discovers a false leg in Jim's bed, which the two realise belongs to Fred Burrows and Wanda helped him remove it and use it as a
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by councillor Moggs, who comes round to complain about the noise of a party Jim was holding the previous night, he's also angry at the fact one of the guests
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in Jim's house, so Jim must stay out of the house for the day, but he does return to the house with his dad; they find Jim's mother is attending the party.
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Series one was released on DVD in September 2007. The complete series was released on 5 May 2008 and was later re-released by Network on 3 October 2016.
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even though Arnold never returned some money he borrowed back in 1974. Arnold has asked Jim to calm Cheryl's parents down as they're '
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Jim's hopes of a quiet lie in on Sunday morning are dashed thanks to visits from his dad, Wanda and even the Salvation Army!
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who becomes a man of property when a relative dies, leaving him a run-down Victorian property at 17 Railway Terrace in the
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area of south London. He gets into various problems with the police and spends most of his time getting
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When an attractive social worker turns up on his doorstep Jim takes a keen interest in charity.
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and says his friend is very fond of the clubs. While practising at home (with an invisible
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and a £2000 reward is offered for the return of the dog and conviction of the criminals.
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When two military police come calling, Jim sees the perfect way to evict his squatter.
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On the DVD menu this episode is incorrectly titled "Come to the End of the Party"
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On the DVD menu this episode is incorrectly titled "Goodbye Wilkins"
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On the DVD menu this episode is incorrectly titled "A Taxing Term"
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when the DHSS tell him he is to work as a sewer worker in Scotland
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so he can play it with her dad. Brian lends Jim his friend's
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says as they stole it they cannot accept any reward offered.
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