And the Same to You

Brian Rix - Dickie Dreadnought
William Hartnell - Wally Burton
Leo Franklyn - Rev. Sydney Mullett
Tommy Cooper - Horace
Vera Day - Cynthia
Sid James - Sammy Gatt
Miles Malleson - Bishop
Arthur Mullard - Tubby
Renee Houston - Mildred
Dick Bentley - George Nibbs
John Robinson - Pomphret
Terry Scott - Police Constable
Shirley Anne Field - Iris
Ronald Adam - Trout
Tony Wright - Percy Gibbons

Based on A.P. Dearsley stage farce The Chigwell Chicken, a prudish reverend joins forces with a crooked boxing promoter to save both themselves and a village hall in this weak comedy. And the Same to You was co-written by John Paddy Carstairs, writer-director of many of the Norman Wisdom comedies.

Reverend Sydney Mullett (Leo Franklyn) is desperately suspicious of the boxing promoter Wally Burton (William Hartnell) who uses the Church’s village hall as a boxing gym. When Wally makes it known the roof is falling in and that it will cost thousands to repair the pair conjure up a scheme for Sydney’s gormless nephew Dickie (Brian Rix) to become a boxer himself and fight under the name of Dickie Dreadnought. Everything seems certain until the Archdeacon decides to make a surprise visit the village hall. To trick the Archdeacon into believing the hall is used as a youth club, Hartnell poses as a man of the cloth whilst his assistant Horace (Tommy Cooper) masquerades as a Scout Leader. The night end in chaos as Wally’s crooked shenanigan’s backfire, Dickie falls in love with the gym secretary and the Archdeacon’s wife admits to being a compulsive gambler.