The Bait
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 6, 1975
Realising she needs a hand around the house, Dorothy advertises for domestic help. Robert applies...
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 6, 1975
Realising she needs a hand around the house, Dorothy advertises for domestic help. Robert applies...
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 13, 1975
Dorothy has a typical American attitude when it comes to money and refuses to give Robert any more money when he asks for an increase in the housekeeping.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1975
When it comes to tradesmen Robert knows best, but Dorothy ignores him and learns to pay the price...
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1975
Dorothy wants the best medical attention for butler Robert. That is, providing it doesn't cost too much...
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1975
Dorothy falls for a wolf in knight's clothing. It is up to her butler, Robert, to see fair play - but he is more interested in watching the cricket on television.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1975
Dorothy cannot understand why Robert does not approve of his mother being invited to stay the night.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1976
Dorothy must make a trip to New York, and wishes Robert to accompany her. Unfortunately she doesn't want to spend a week aboard the QEII, and he's scared of flying!
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1976
Returning home from a routine shopping trip, Robert and Dorothy find that the house has been burgled, along with another three doors down the road. But having forgotten his credit card and popped home to collect it, Robert worries that he'll have been seen and suspected of the crime...
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1976
When the bin men refuse to empty Dorothy's rubbish without payment, all hell breaks loose. With house's drains blocked, Dorothy calls an official from the council to come and sort the matter. But his interference merely serves to bring the two parties closer together - against him!
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1976
Dorothy enlists Robert's help in bringing a young but already estranged married couple back together.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1976
In a bloodless war with her next door neighbour, Dorothy has Robert escalate the volume of his favourite cathedral music record, a composition by Bach. The neighbour chooses to respond by taking her to court over the matter...
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1976
Robert gets a silent religious order, staying at the house on Dorothy's invitation, to help with some much-needed work around the property.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1976
Robert's driven away Dorothy's fifth cleaning lady, and so the hunt for a sixth must begin. A brash, rude Australian and a giggly English girl arrive for the job within minutes of each other, but will either meet Robert's exacting requirements?
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1978
Robert and Dorothy return to London after a Scottish holiday to find an invitation to lunch at Buckingham Palace on the mat; cue a mad rush to get the American into a suitably English state of dress and manner!
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1978
A product of the nation that gave the world the "baked bean", Robert considers freezers to be the sign of a lazy cook, destroying the individual. Unfortunately, Dorothy's already ordered one. It's just a matter of who holds the stronger will...
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1978
Dorothy has her heart set on getting a dog. As ever, Robert does not share her enthusiasm, and with a particularly highly strung woman selling the bitch, it looks like he may get his way.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1978
Dorothy's chauffeur, Vincent, and his wife make a bid for Robert's job in the McNab household. Robert's happy to call their bluff. Dorothy is a little less enthusiastic...
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1978
Both Robert and Dorothy are struck down with a mystery illness. Bed-ridden, neither have anyone to look after them, and tensions rise to breaking point when a market researcher comes to the door!
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1978
A mystery critic, 'Humilitas', has picked up a prize tearing into Dorothy's work in The Telegraph. She's definitely not at all bothered by it, and delighted to be attending a local literary circle meeting later the same day!
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1978
It is Dorothy's birthday, and she decides that she wants a picnic in the beautiful English countryside. Much to Robert's dismay, she soon invites two loud American friends, and things immediately start going awry...
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1978
Dorothy invites two MP friends to the house to discuss an idea she's had. With one of them Conservative and one a socialist, there's bound to be tension - but from and towards whom?
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1979
Having fought over control of the thermostat, Dorothy bets Robert that she can sneak her way into his strictly gentlemen-only club and stay for 3 hours undetected. Predictably, neither party are likely to play fair. The game's afoot.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1979
After promising an unloved dressing table to the Vicar's Scout group, Dorothy is alarmed to discover it's actually an antique worth at least £300, and they merely intend it for firewood! Soon the Vicar, Priest and Baptist Minister are knocking at the door.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1979
A salesman calls at the McNab residence hoping to offload a set of encyclopaedia volumes. It quickly becomes apparent that he has the most peculiar manner of any salesman either Dorothy or Robert have ever encountered!
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1979
Doroth's accountant, a Mr. Campbell, pays his yearly visit. It's invariably a stressful occasion for all concerned, but this time she and Robert are adamant that the books are in order. It's just at that point that some distant Scottish relatives arrive uninvited...
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1979
Having disagreed in strong terms about new tiling for the kitchen in Robert's flat, Dorothy and he both engage in the silent treatment. However, with his duties as a butler still to perform, and her due to host a reception later that evening, it's not long before they're struggling to maintain a frosty distance.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1979
With a potentially lucrative television deal in sight, Robert and Mrs McNab unite over their shared desire for a Rolls Royce.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1979
Dorothy and Robert find themselves in an escalating web of high-stakes deception after accepting a seemingly charming invitation to stay at a country house for the weekend.
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 25, 1976
Both Robert and Dorothy tell the other that they are going away for Christmas, whilst really planning to romance a partner at the house. And then a surprise visitor turns up on the door step...