Mr Whittaker, at the Labour Exchange, is at his wits end with Charlie when he returns to sign on. His excuse this time is that he lost his last job when he ruptured himself clocking on!
Charlie is sent to work for a self-help agency after narrowly escaping from a serial bath tap toe-stuffer!
An international incident is narrowly averted when Charlie turns up to see Mr Whittaker in a tight gold lame trousers - to keep him out of mischief he is put on piecework.
It's ironic that Charlie should get sacked for working during his tea-break as he has spent most of the last 20 years dole money on union dues!
Charlie finds himself topping the bill at the London Palladium after mistakenly going through the wrong door at a talent agency ...
Mr Whittaker has retired and Charlie is in shock but, for a joke, the Labour Exchange send him to work in Mr Whittaker's new shop as an assistant!
Charlie turns up for work at his next job as Merry Mouse the Cheese Man ...
Mr Pugh needs all the help of Zen meditation when Charlie pursues the eight and thrupence he desperately needs ...
Having lost another job, Charlie tries to deflect Mr Pugh's anger by spinning him the tale of 'Little Tom' which involves lost parents and murderous intentions!
Charlie is on a losing streak with the horses, so when he gets a job as a cleaner at a betting shop he thinks it may turn his luck ...
After searching for a father figure and finding Mr Pugh sadly wanting, Charlie reflects back to the day he was born ...
Charlie is enthused about the new Harold Pinter play and tries to engage Mr Pugh but all he does is manage to confuse the matter ...
Mr Pugh has finally flipped and resorted to violence and it is Charlie who has pushed him over the edge!
It's been four years since he last plagued Mr Pugh but he returns to haunt him as if it was yesterday ...
The Labour Exchange is visited by two very official-looking characters who interrogate Mr Pugh about the whereabouts of a certain Mr. Drake!
Mr Pugh has been annoyed by a charity collector and so he decides to take his anger out on Charlie by asking him to adopt a duck!
Charlie has managed to get a temporary Government post and it's all because of the strength and dexterity of his left leg!
There's a party at Charlie's and an expectant Mr Pugh has been invited - but when he arrives he finds it's a party for two!
Charlie decides not to turn himself into a lady when he gets a rejection to his marriage proposal - from Mr Pugh!
Having had his dream of marrying into the aristocracy cruelly thwarted by Mr Pugh, Charlie is sent to be a chimney sweep instead.
Charlie enters into a world of compulsion after searching for enough loose change to buy a packet of cigarettes in order to enter a Golden Voucher competition.
Mr Pugh is in an unusually good mood but all that changes when Charlie arrives - with an Extra-Terrestrial Being!
There's a short-lived celebration for Mr Pugh when Charlie gets a job and loses it in the same day. Mr Pugh decides to have nothing else to do with him ...
Charlie's desire to become a fisherman comes to the fore when he relates dodgy limericks and fishing stories in an attempt to divert Mr Pugh's attention.
On entering the Labour Exchange, Charlie is shocked to find Mr Pugh slightly damaged and in some distress ...
It's been four years since he last plagued Mr Pugh but he returns to haunt him as if it was yesterday ... Though originally made in colour by ATV, series three and four only now exist in their finished state as black and white telerecordings. One episode, however, still exists in colour as an ATV-badged pre-broadcast version which doesn't feature end credits. This particular episode, especially, is fortunate to exist as the colour palette gives full flow to the psychedelic goings-on inside Charlies mind.
