Keep It in the Family: 4x5

Piano Blues

Duncan gets a new secretary; a rangy young woman named Wilma. He’s due to depart on the 7 p.m. flight to Hamburg to attend a conference of comic book editors, but first he has to collect a page of artwork from the Rush house. Dudley – who hasn’t even started on it – decides some delaying tactics are called for and telephones Duncan’s office using a phoney German tongue, telling him to stay put. Jacqui and Susan, meanwhile, have decided to go punk and form a rock group with their upper class friend Hugo; ‘Hugo and the Harlots’. They borrow a piano from Anne, a friend of Susan’s, to rehearse with. It’s delivered by Fred and Ron Cash – an apt surname, since they demand £20 as compensation for industrial injuries received in the process – and Dudley promptly hurts his drawing hand in it. Hugo arrives with his latest composition, and the girls fantasize about making it to number one on “”Top of the Pops””;