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- Howard feels sorry for former prison friend,alcoholic forger Softly Simpson when he sees him trying to sell his copies of paintings so he persuades Trevor that Softly is a famous artist and Trevor has Softly paint his portrait,with which he is thrilled - though everybody else sees it is actually a portrait of the Duke of Wellington. Laura sets a trap to expose the fraud which eventually ends up with Howard literally being framed.
- Mary has left Trevor but his efforts to conceal the fact from Howard and Laura are not very successful. Because he is useless at housework Trevor employs the younger Doreen as a cleaning lady but Howard wrongly believes that she is the woman with whom Trevor has been having an affair and causing Mary's departure so he scares her away. When Trevor produces Mary's luggage trunk Howard expects to find her corpse inside,forcing Trevor to admit that Mary has left as she is fed up with the both of them.
- On Mary and Trevor's wedding anniversary Howard plans to give them a night at the Majestic hotel - for free. He starts by gate-crashing a rugby club private party to steal drinks and then poses as a high-up from hotel management and a waiter in order to appropriate their food. Unfortunately when he steals the rugby club's salmon and waltzes off to dance with Mary Trevor pays the price with his trousers.
- Following her burglary Laura buys an Alsatian dog called Sabre but he growls at Howard every time he goes near Laura. Howard decides to train Sabre but,to Trvor's amusement,fails miserably so he gives the dog to a man he meets in the pub,lying to Laura that he has returned him to his original,blind,owner. When Sabre leads the man back to Laura's house she and Trevor are amazed at how able he is for an alleged blind man and when Howard comes in he has a lot of explaining to do.
- Howard sets up a dating agency but it is not very successful and two dissatisfied - and mismatched - clients prim,middle-class Celia and rough diamond Bert arrive at the house to complain. Howard manages to get Celia cosy with Trevor when they both get drunk but Laura is outraged when Howard suggests that she is the sort of swinger Bert is seeking. However Howard does manage to appease Celia with a night at the opera.
- A jewel thief nicknamed Raffles is burgling houses in the locality and Laura is the latest victim. The police are called and Howard,with his past record and lack of an alibi,is the immediate suspect. However,having set a trap, Howard and Trevor discover Howard's old cell mate Greasy breaking into their house with Laura 's jewels. The police arrive but they are fooled into believing that Greasy is a passing motorist whose car broke down on his way home from the opera and he escapes.
- In order to get money to impress Laura Howard tells bank manager Scrimshaw that ,if he advances him a thousand pounds,he will cut him in on ownership of a diamond mine he discovered in Africa. Howard uses Laura's house,claiming it as his own,to show Scrimshaw phoney diamonds and a pretend map but they are interrupted by the window cleaners and then by Mary,who throws the map on the fire and causes the 'diamonds' to melt into nothing.
- Howard and Trevor are shopping in a department store when they see 'Greasy',Howard's old cell-mate, shop-lifting. Trvor agrees not to tell anybody if Greasy returns the items but Greasy puts them in Trevor's bag and Trevor gets arrested by the store detective. Howard has to impersonate a police officer claiming that Trevor is a very important person framed by Greasy in order to secure an escape for all concerned.
- When Laura starts dating handsome Italian Count Monefiore Howard gets jealous and sets out to expose him as a fraud,a ploy which goes disastrously wrong in an Italian restaurant. He persuades Trevor to employ a private investigator but unfortunately he investigates Howard by mistake and reveals to Laura that he was the fraudster who swindled her out of her money.
- When Trevor learns that Mary has been seen with the younger,better-looking insurance salesman Reggie Thorne,he suspects they are having an affair so Laura goes out with Reggie and discovers the connection was quite innocent. Howeverit is now Howard who gets jealous as Laura begins to date Reggie and he poses as a gangster to frighten him away - very successfully in the event.
- Learning that Mary wants a divorce and that Laura is escorting Trevor to important functions Howard sets out to sabotage the relationship by persuading Trevor's secretary Gloria that her boss is in love with her. As a result Trevor takes Gloria to the firm 's dinner but falls foul of her jealous boyfriend who is acting as a waiter there. The resultant scandal gets in the papers but also sees Mary possibly returning to Trevor and Laura actually kissing Howard.
- Plausible fraudster Howard Booth is released from a two year prison sentence and,feigning a limp, calls on gullible sister Mary,who is married to estate agent Trevor Mountjoy. Mary is keen for Howard to stay but Trevor will only consent - and then reluctantly - if Howard pretends he has spent the last two years in Zimbabwe. Howard falls for Laura,a widow from next door,but dares not tell her that he is responsible for her losing her savings. He does however suddenly get the full use of his leg back,apparently through acupuncture.
- In his continuing attempts to woo Laura Howard buys an expensive bracelet on approval,hoping that she will be charmed by the gesture but refuse to take it. However she accepts. With the jewellers wanting the bracelet's return next day Howard ropes Trevor into a burglary which fails and ultimately,in order to get the bracelet back,must resort to insults - which rather defeats the object.
- Howard is trying to write a romantic novel but Mary and Trevor are unimpressed. Learning that Laura from next door is a very wealthy widow Howard proposes to her and is turned down. He then passes himself off as Quincey Brown,the famous crime novelist but is rumbled when the picture on the dust jacket of Quincey's book shows that she was a woman who died a decade earlier. And Howard's claim to have written a poem by Byron also exposes him as a fraud.