Our heroine pilot Lydia Languish (Natalie Simpson) to appear lacking in snobbery uses a peculiar form of half-Cockney rhyming slang to communicate with her maid Lucy (Kerry Howard) who is probably as baffled as we are. Examples are, “ …until the old dog and telephone rings….” And “I’m proper cream exhausted.”
Lydia and Jack Absolute (Laurie Davidson) have had a previous relationship but now Lydia has set her sights on someone more working class, Lucy’s boyfriend, the muscled, moustachioed and tattooed aircraft fitter Dudley Scunthorpe (Kelvin Fletcher).
Another stand out character is the quirky Roy Faulkland (Jordan Metcalfe) who is engaged to Lydia’s friend, and his first cousin, Julia Melville (Helena Wilson) in the ATS and driver to Major General Sir Anthony Absolute (Peter Forbes). Add to the mix an Indian airman who has to be called Tony because they can’t pronounce Bikram (Akshay Sharan) and an Australian Bob ‘Wingnut’ Acres (James Corrigan). In charge of administration is Intelligence Officer Brian Coventry (Tim Steed) whom Mrs Malaprop calls Daventry.
Sir Anthony wants Jack to marry Lydia and Mrs Malaprop wants to be courted by Sir Anthony. In a good subterfuge Jack disguises himself as the Aircraft Fitter which results in Lucy trying to rip off a moustache that isn’t false off her beau Dudley.