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.

• Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
• John Cleese
• Alison Steadman
• Penelope Wilton
• Stephen Moore
• Geoffrey Palmer
• Benjamin Whitrow
• Jonathan Bowater
• Tony Haygarth