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01x03 - Episode 3

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Adventures of Portland Bill". Aired: 4 October 1983 – 25 June 1986.*
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Set in a fictional lighthouse on the Guillemot Rock, just off the coast from the fictional village of McGuillycuddy.

01x03 - Episode 3

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oh come with me to the rolling sea while

the weather's calm and still

and we'll have some fun and laughter

with the adventures of portland bill

it was a lovely sunny seaside day and

duggar and i were going to the mainland

to enjoy it

it was our day

off enjoy your rest call boss hi have

fun shouted comedy

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ah this is the life

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when i reached the mainland i tied up my

boat the puffin and bumped into fastnet

oh hi there fastnet hello bill

just in time have you got a minute he

asked i'm just off on a fishing trip and

i gotta get these supplies on board can

you give me an hand of course i can i

said i've got all the time in the world

it's my day off

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oh that was hard work

i could do with a nice cooper after that

hello eddie

that's your nice cup of tea

i don't think he heard me for all the

banging he was doing

oh dear that's not right he said oh and

it doesn't go there either

no

hello bill oh i am in trouble

my bike's broken down and i've got to

make my deliveries this morning

don't worry i said i'll give you an hand

i'm having a daze holiday and i've got

nothing in particular to do

in no time at all i'd mended eddie's

bike and with a wave he set off on his

rounds

boy

well eddie had just got out of sight

when i noticed mrs lundy's milk he'd

left it behind

come on dogger we'd better deliver it

morning mrs lundy here's your milk

oh thank you bill i made this a nice cup

of tea

ah just what i need i said

tell you what put the kettle on and i'll

hang up the washing

well i nearly finished when suddenly

eddie rushed in

bill uh bill boom bill bill

finished their sheep have escaped again

they're blocking the lane and they won't

let me pass

oh could you help me move them please

hmm

i began to wonder if i was ever going to

get my cup of tape

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[Applause]

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i think we've caught them all now well

mates

time i went back to the lighthouse

oh what a day gasp daddy

we'd never have managed without all your

help billy i died

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as i rolled back to the lighthouse i

felt i'd never worked so hard in my life

and i was glad to see that the lads had

a potted tea

ready and waiting

well said crumb at ease he poured the

tea

did you have a nice day

it's all right for some said ross as he

tucked into his teeth we've been working

jolly hard today

oh have you i said

and bless me if i didn't nod off

i never did get my cup of tea

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what's happening at the lighthouse

they're singing a song

when the wind blows in of the salty sea

come dance a jig to a sea shanty it

feels so right it feels so free to be a

lighthouse keeper

yo h* h* see the big ships go across the

rolling street

sunshine or wind or rain or fog write it

down in a daily log with a cup of tea

it's warm and snug to be a lighthouse

keeper

yoho h* see the big ships go across

did you hear the joke about the seagull

on top of the lighthouse oh no never

mind it was above your head anyway

see the big ships go across the rolling

sea

and way up here where the lamp burns

bright on top of the world by day you're

a night with a telescope you feel just

right when you're a lighthouse keeper

i can't wait to tell you my next story

after tea in the lighthouse on the

guillemot rock we all like to sit around

relax and tell stories one particular

stormy night i told lost comedy a story

about a sea

monster

and they do say that the sea serpent

slipped back into his cave

and has only been seen on stormy nights

just

like tonight

ross makes you think you know ah spark

comedy don't believe in beasties myself

whisper in whirlpools i said i'm off to

bed

it's your turn for the night watch

comedy

good night

aye aye sir replied

and he continued his knitting

i hate the night watch shimmer grass

well i'm on my own and the wind blows i

imagine all sorts of weird things are

outside ah sea monsters beasties

absolutely rubbish said comedy as he

bundled up his knitting

but what about the old fisherman's tails

said ross

it's all fooly

rush you'd believe anything

whereas i always think in a clear and

logical way

is that why you wear on socks laugh ross

don't be cheeky and stop talking about

sea monsters and the like said comedy

between you and me i think he was

getting a little nervous

oh

don't creep up on me like that

what's that noise

it's the monster

ah

be sensible ross they don't exist

i'm sure they don't

they can't

i know say gravity put it on a brave

face

let's have a nice cup of tea

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what was that

the there's something up in the service

room started vomiting

i suppose we better go and have a look

said ross

when they got to the service room they

were relieved to find that it was only

the wind blowing some papers about

through an open window oh

it's creepy whispered comedy let's go

back downstairs

wait for me i'm not staying here on my

own

come on comedy don't just stand there

but he was too scared to move

luke stuttered comedy it's the sea

monster

show ross

it must

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that's when they rushed upstairs to wake

me

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up

if she monsters downstairs

it's as big as a boat and it's looking

for its supper

he's right as big as a boat agreed

comedy

wow

everyone knows there's no such thing as

a sea monster

but i knew the lads wouldn't let me get

my beauty sleep if i didn't go

downstairs and have a look

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there's your sea monster i said

it's comedy's knitting on top of ross's

toolbox

oh i yes of course uh i knew it all

along bluff comedy it was ross who was

scared

fancy all that fuss over a lump of

netting scoffdraws

you couldn't frighten me with a ball of

knittin

oh come with me to the rolling sea while

the weather's calm and still

and we'll have some fun and laughter

with the adventures of portland bill

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