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01x09 - The Big Order

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.

01x09 - The Big Order

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always

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and i think that's very

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you can always turn

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this afternoon at spotty's wooden

company bertha is making nuts and bolts

as each boat is made nell and flo screw

on a nut

and send them down to tom

who puts them into the dumper truck

roy is putting in the right lengths of

steel rod

which bertha uses to make the nuts and

bolts

uh-huh 20 745

uh-huh a job nearly completed

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in his office mr willmake the manager is

reading the afternoon post

this is an order from springers they

want to know

if we have a machine that can make them

special springs

a new order good

look they've sent a diagram with the

specifications

yes i see bouncy springs

how many do they want us to make uh 365.

we could get bertha to make them what's

she doing at the moment

um she's making nuts and bolts

uh-huh that shouldn't take her very long

mr sprott could reprogram her to make

these special springs

telephone him and see if he's busy yes

sir

in his office mr sprott is designing a

new kind of boat

well now what do you think of that

what's different about this one mr

sprott

this boat would be made out of plastic

is that a good idea a brilliant idea

it wouldn't rust if you left it out in

the wet it wouldn't hurt you if you

accidentally dropped it on your foot

and if you happen to lose it you could

easily find it again

because it is red

hello design office

yes yes plastic boats are a good idea

the manager would like to see you in his

office mr sprott

right i'm off

how many more boats ted

seven

one two six seven

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six seven

right that's the lot all bolts made

and the last nut going on okay then

that's the look roy take them to the

dispatch department

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good afternoon ted i see that you've

finished making the nuts and bolts i

have a very important job for bertha

to make some special springs what sort

of springs mr wilby

i have the order here with a drawing

i have worked out all the calculations

tracy put it on her computer

here is the card to program bertha to

make this sort of spring we'll need

special steel

and i think pangaead has got some in the

dispatch department

good we'll get some and start work uh

how many speeds does bertha have to make

365.

all right mr will make i'll let you know

when to be made

at tom

find roy and go with him to the dispatch

department

he last panjin to let you have some

whippy springy steel

off you go

the young apprentice roy joined the

factory

as a boy a willing pair of hands

whenever time and need demands though he

might be shy

at talking he thinks very hard while

working climbing to success

and he won't be second best

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his favorite little pastime going

through the day

dreaming dreaming time away

his favorite little pastime going

through the day

he likes to think about the time when

promotion

comes online the moment he'll be

boss and then become the driving force

sitting proudly at the big desk on the

main

first floor his name across the

entrance of the manager's door

he's only dreaming

dreaming time away he's thinking of the

time when

fortune smiles and comes his way

dreaming

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for me thank you uh

huh springy steel from panjit

okay come on tom panchid

hey what are you doing up there

ah it is most fortunate that you have

come roy

i'm in a bit of a fix you see i've

raised myself up here but cannot lower

myself

down again would you mind pulling the

lever with the

red knob on top this one

that is most kind of you unfortunately

my ladder is broken and i had to reach

those boxes on the top shelf

so like the clever d*ck i am i pulled

the lever

and went up on the machine but when i

wanted to come down again

i couldn't reach the lever so i was well

stuck up there until you came along

yes that was a silly thing to do i said

that to myself many times while i was

waiting up there

what can i do for you ted has sent us to

fetch some whippy springy steel

bertha's gonna make some springs

ah yes i have some special springy steel

but you'll have to be very careful when

you move it why

because it is very whippy and springy

and very hard to move from one place to

another

come i will show you

is that it this is it

looks all right to me

the punches get hold of the other end

no thank you i've had a bad time with

this steel already

it took me two days to put it where it

is now oh

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see what you mean banjid now how do we

get it back to bertha

you must hold it very gently and walk

very

carefully okay let's try tom

move very slowly

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ready tom steady

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um come come back

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what was that now i don't know

what was that flow i think it was tom

have you seen tom he went that way

being chased by something what's wrong

roy

tom got hold of some of the springy

steel and he can't let go

i better go after him now

wait till he comes around again and then

we can grab him

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what was that here he comes

get ready to grab him is he passes

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oops well tom's all right

he had a bit of a fright that's all

well now that we have the spriggy steel

we can make some springs

feed it into bertha roy

yeah how are you getting along ted this

will be the first one mr sprott

um uh it's not quite right try again ted

square springs most unusual

i must have got my calculations wrong um

do something ted

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rounded i think and a bit thinner

anyone for tea still

not right we need to get better the

actual size and shape of things to make

i think i have the answer look what mrs

tap he's got in her hair

thank you yes i see it

miss it up may i borrow one of your

colors oh

with pleasure it's the same size and

shape of the springs we have to make

but i need it back of course we sit up

as soon as bertha has had a good look at

it

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well done bertha exactly right here you

are missing up

and many thanks you're welcome sir

now that bertha knows what to make we

can get on and make 365 springs

what should we do with these mr sprott

anything you like

i don't think they have much use

i've got an idea i'll take them to pages

are you sure about this roy try handed

jump

my goodness they work thank you

don't thank me thank

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always turn the goods off we can depend

upon you

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you