| Time, Gentlemen | |
| Series 03, Episode 11 | |
| Air Date | 3 December 1999 |
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| Next | Another Time |
Time, Gentlemen is the eleventh episode of series three of the original series of Bernard's Watch Television program.
Summary[]
Bernard helps his grandad in a darts competition and he manages to reach the final, however when Bernard is distracted to get a drink, his grandad makes the final shot, can his grandad win, without Bernard's aid?
Plot[]
Bernard tries to help his mother's friend Patty raise money for the Greenwoods Pet Sanctuary but is not very successful. His grandfather comes along and offers advice. Grandad advises running sponsorship event like a darts tournament he organised for a regimental Christmas party nearly 50 years ago. Bernard asks him to organise a similar tournament for the sanctuary but he is reluctant because he had not played darts for years but after some coaxing, and after Bernard had already told Patty, he agrees as long as Bernard does the organising while he practices.
Bernard then hands out sponsorship forms around the neighbourhood, using his watch to stop time while walking between houses to speed up his task. Grandad practices his darts but is unsuccessful. Bernard tries to help by suggesting he stands closer to the board and uses his glasses.
At the Lady Bay pub, which had been booked for the event, Grandad forgot his glasses so Bernard went to his house to get them in frozen time and found three darts in the bullseye. Grandad told Bernard that he put them there by hand to cheer him up. At the start of the game, Grandad's first dart flies around the bar and lands in a cuckoo clock. After this, Bernard uses his watch to put the darts in the bullseye after Grandad throws them. After getting twenty bullseyes in a row, Grandad attempts his party trick in which he throws three darts at once. Before Bernard can stop him, all three darts land in the bullseye.
At the sanctuary, Patty asks Grandad if he can do it again next year and he replies "Do, please". An Alsatian ex-police dog called Ted who gets aggressive when the police are mentioned, mishears "please" as "police" chases after Grandad and Bernard stops time while he thinks of how to save him but he thinks it will take a bit of time.
Trivia[]
- The Lady Bay pub is in West Bridgford which is just across the River Trent from Nottingham.
- Grandad's successful party trick after calming his nerves might be a reference to Karen being successful in the tennis tournament in Games Time when she she knew she could do it. This might also be referenced in creator Andrew Norriss' 2009 novel Ctrl-Z in which the protagonist Alex's friend Callum makes fewer mistakes when he is less afraid of making them.