Ambrosine Phillpotts

After the war, a young social climber juggles his affections toward the daughter of a local industrial magnate and an older married woman.

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls the aristocratic Broadbents are intent on giving their American educated 17 year old daughter Jane the right entry into society and a proper upper class beau. One complication: Mabel Claremont is eager to match that same beau with her daughter. Jane, has her own ideas about these matters and an eye for a guy who's a drummer in the dance band.

Noel Langley's drawing-room comedy is brought to the big screen with Heather Thatcher as Lady Buckering, a financially embarrassed, upper-class widow who is exasperated by her four adult daughters and their various romantic difficulties. While Doreen (Diane Hart) and her husband, Dougall (Richard Attenborough), await the birth of their first child, Dr. Drew (George Thorpe) urges Lady Buckering to marry him and a pilfering servant is apprehended.