Potter (Starring Robin Bailey) - Series 3 - Episode 3

Potter (Starring Robin Bailey) - Series 3 - Episode 3. Broadcast: July 31st, 1983. For many a long year, Redvers Potter has been head of the family firm - Pottermints (the hotter mints!). A man used to being obeyed, he is authoritative and decisive. At 58, he has decided to sell the business. Mrs Potter, who has had the dubious honour of holding her position for some thirty years, has taken to vodka at the prospect of having her husband at home all day. She has long dreaded his retirement and is learning to cope with the extra time he now has to ignore her - or alternatively to advise her how to do things he should be doing himself. Not unnaturally, with time now on his hands, he tends to interfere with other people's lives: "I'll help people. That's what I'll do. They are usually simple creatures; bloody idiots most of them," or rather, as his neighbours see it, "probe his nose into other people's business!" Potter's enthusiasm for 'helping others' though is equalled only by his ineptitude in so doing! In 1982 after two hilarious series, Arthur Lowe sadly passed away - just as a third series of POTTER was in pre-production. Too advanced to be cancelled, Robin Bailey (Rumpole of the Bailey) stepped into the role for a further seven episodes. SERIES 3 - EPISODE 3 Once again, Potter has decided to help his neighbour, Tolly and, once again, nothing turns out the way he wanted it to - but, of course, it's not his fault! Cast: Robin Bailey - Redvers Potter Noel Dyson - Aileen Potter John Barron - The Vicar John Warner - 'Tolly' Tolliver Honor Shepherd - Diana Tolliver Brenda Cowling – Jane Patrick Westwood - Angry motorist Charles Pemberton - Motorist Terry Duggan - Motorist Written by Roy Clarke