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3 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
29 mins
Rebellious recently widowed Brighton pensioner Henry Palmer reluctantly visits his doctor, breaking her computer and storming out when she suggests that he is suffering from depression. At his local charity shop, run by their friend Margaret, Henry and best mate Charles see a thief rob the till and Henry gives chase, hitting him with a teddy bear. This leads to his being arrested for assault by dumb P.C. Burns and a string of protests as Henry destroys a cash machine, a font and a shop window,. Eventually he is brought to court in front of his old school-fellow Judge 'Scabby' Pawson, and a childhood dispute over the ownership of some marbles which reignites in the court room spares Henry jail and sets him free to celebrate by vandalizing sea-front deckchairs with Charles.
Episode 2
30 mins
Wearing a tag and subject to a curfew following his brush with the law Henry is baffled that Charles seems to have disappeared and suspicious when a man wearing Charles' hat explains that he bought it in a new charity shop called Virtuous . On investigation Henry and Margaret find Charles has been brain-washed into helping this bogus charity which steals donations for other charity shops to sell to Lithuania. However Henry has to outwit his daughter, who wants to put him in a home, dopey PC Burns, out to punish him for breaking his curfew and get Charles on side as he leads a pensioners' revolt to expose and put an end to Virtuous.
Episode 3
30 mins
Minding the shop for Margaret Charles is tricked by London gallery owner Harriet Cusp into selling a glass urine bottle which has great sentimental value to Margaret and which is identified as being by Marcel Duchamp. Bluffing his way into the gallery Henry meets co-owner Seb Koote, who plans to sell the bottle at Sebastian Cholmondley's auction house - though Seb and Sebastian would seem to be the same person. Henry and his friends enter the auction and use a painting by son-in-law Jeremy's pet rat and a bluff on Margaret's part to reclaim the bottle.