The Testing of Eric Olthwaite(1977)

movie - first aired/released 1977-09-22 - 30 min - audience 8.5

Comedy

Directed by Jim Franklin

Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. As a result Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.