Meet Howard Booth (Peter Bowles - To the Manor Born, The Irish R.M.), a suave black sheep in white kid gloves with an uncanny ability to sweet talk his way out of any sticky situation. Women cannot resist him - even when he's making off with their last quid! The one person immune to Howard's outrageous charm is his stuffy brother-in-law, Trevor (George Cole - Minder, Root Into Europe), whose pleasantly dull life has gone topsy-turvy - because this debonair con man has moved in!
Howard manages to trump Trevor with scandalous schemes involving forgery, fraud and theft. Bubbling along in a comical battle of wits, Trevor seems doomed to be outmatched, outmaneuvered and out of luck!