Terry and June Series 1 Episode 5 Writing on the Wall 1979

Terry and June is a BBC television sitcom, broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987. The show was largely a reworking of Happy Ever After, and starred Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a middle-aged, middle-class suburban couple, Terry and June Medford, who live in Purley. S01E05 "Writing On the Wall" 21 November 1979 Terry is outraged when he sees some vandalism written on a nearby wall, and believes that not enough people take an interest in children these days. When Tina then brings Magnus (Wayne Norman) her 12-year-old nephew round, and asks Terry to help him make a costume for the Church Fancy Dress Parade, June forces Terry to accept. Magnus wants to go as a pirate, but Terry insists on building a model of the Starship Enterprise that Magnus can get into. On the day of the Parade, Magnus has a rash and Terry decides to get in the model himself, but accidentally gets towed away by a van. It soon turns out that Magnus' rash is in fact red paint, as he is the child responsible for the recent vandalism. (John Warner and Barry Howard also appear in this episode.)