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01x10 - The Burglars

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Bertha". Aired: 1 April 1985 – 18 June 1986.*
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Series is set in an industrial estate occupied by the Spottiswood & Company factory, a small manufacturing plant producing a wide range of goods ranging from cuckoo clocks to windmill money boxes.

01x10 - The Burglars

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you are a lovely machine

and anyone who works with you

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always

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and i think that's very

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you can always turn the goods out always

turn the goods out

we can defend upon you

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today at spotty's wooden company bertha

is making jumping kangaroos

roy puts a battery inside each one

before passing it to tom

nell is packing them into their kangaroo

boxes

flo is stacking them ready for pangead

to take them to the dispatch department

thank you flor

should you be testing the roy

i tested one earlier they're really good

i had to stop it jumping too high

how did he switch on

you lift up the tail but

like this whoops

catch it roy catch it tom

look out now oh

what was that

it comes cut it misty

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where's he gone now uh down there

watch out flo oh

my goodness

what are those boxes doing mr clackady

they seem to be jumping up and down sir

what was that what is all that noise mr

sprott

uh noise what nice

uh what's going on

uh-huh i've got it someone must be

testing my kangaroos

they're working quite well don't you

think

what should we do ted

we'll have to wait until the batteries

run down

t's up oh

my trolly stop it someone

what do you make of this mr spot

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rather splendid don't you think sir

those leaping kangaroos are working

awfully well won't eh

but how do you stop them mr sprott

you just turn them also

but how do you catch them to turn them

off

oh uh i don't really know

so it's back to the drawing board eh

mr sprott huh great so sir

i think they're running down ted

at about time too

well i never what a mess

we'll have to open all these boxes and

replace the batteries

shall i put a new one in this fella ted

yes but be careful we don't want to set

it off again

i believe these belong to you

i phoned them over the other side of the

factory

thank you mr duncan

yes well be more careful in the future

ah dude that's me a way home

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cow alright time to go over

[Applause]

you two dollar flow leave all that

delivery

night ted goodbye tom see you in the

[Applause]

morning

it is night in the factory everything is

still

and quiet

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so

tom can't wait for the new day to start

and he can begin work again

tom has heard something unusual

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someone is trying to force open the big

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of doors it's a place

well where's the safe then

it's up in the office

what office up there

see couple we must make a mess

leave everything tidy okay yeah

leave everything tidy uh

why so no one will know we've been here

oh

you go first you said you knew where the

safe was

oh yeah come on

bill what was that

what was what oh i thought i heard

someone

down there is your imagination

there ain't nobody down

it's probably nice come on

yeah let's see nope nope

that's no good

we'll be here all night i better use

this

listen what's that noise

it's me trying to open a safe

no no not that that

listen it sounds like someone

sweeping go and have a look then

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i don't like this i don't like it a

little bit

is there anyone down there

200 300 uh

uh uh 400.

there is somebody down there i heard

them

come on let's get out of here

all right i'm nearly finished okay

let's go

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what was that just listen oh

for me

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a burglar has slipped on the oil and

started bertha

come on bill let's get out of here

come back i'll drop the bang

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when mr will make the manager arrived at

work the next morning

he found the safe open and the money

gone

oh dear all the money for the wages has

gone

this is awful miss mcluckity

you had better telephone for the police

very well sir

mr duncan you had better tell everybody

the bad news

there's no money to pay the wages this

week i said

i will do that

i can't understand it roy i'm sure i

switched bertha off before i went home

it's funny isn't it and where's tom

here he comes oh

thank you tom i wonder what went on here

last night

i can tell you that ted someone broke

into the factory last night and stole

all the money from the safe

oh no

what all the money yes the lot

so mr willmake has asked me to tell you

that he's very sorry

but there'll be no money to pay the

wages this week

but bertha knows what really happened

hey what's this

it's full of valley

hi so it is

it must be the money stolen from the

safe

the money from the safe you found the

money

that's wonderful

it seems to be all there well done

everybody

we didn't do anything mr will like it's

a mystery

bertha did it all and tom

goodness me well well thank you bertha

and thank you tom now we can all be paid

this week

good good uh well

thank you bether you're

not such a bad machine after all

sometimes i think you're a dream but

when we work

out what you have to do you can always

turn the goods out

always turn the goods out we can depend

upon you

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