Overview

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.

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Cast

Terry-Thomas

Major Albert Rayne

Athene Seyler

Dame Beatrice Appleby

Hattie Jacques

Nanette Parry

Billie Whitelaw

Lily

Elspeth Duxbury

Elizabeth "Pinkie" Pinkerton

Jack Hedley

Jim Benham

Raymond Huntley

Inspector Pape

Freddie Frinton

Drunk

Kenneth Williams

Hon. Freddie Warrington

Irene Handl

Madame Spolinski

Penny Morrell

Gertrude

Sydney Tafler

Lionel Spanager