John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Penelope Wilton, Stephen Moore, Geoffrey Palmer, Benjamin Whitrow, Jonathan Bowater, Tony Haygarth, Philip Voss, Joan Hickson, Nicholas Le Prevost, Patrick Godfrey, John Rowe, Sharon Maiden, Penny Leatherbarrow
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. With no one else to turn to, he asks young former student Laura Wisely for a ride. Laura, upset over a break-up, agrees to drive him in her parents' car - which alarms her mother and father, who worry that she has run away with a married man and subsequently alert the police.