The Goods install the first chickens in their chicken coop, but they prove slow to lay their first eggs. Incensed by the condescension of the Leadbetters when they are invited to dinner together with Tom's former boss & his wife, the Goods decide to sacrifice one of the chickens to make a show of their not being as poor as the Leadbetters think.

• Esmonde and Larbey
• Bob Larbey
• John Esmonde

• Philip Madoc
• Richard Briers
• Penelope Keith