Throughout his career, Hayter had shown a flair for character work, and this served him well when Croft went shopping for a new senior assistant of Gentlemen's Ready-Made. As indeed Mr. Hayter was. So exit the bumbling, somnambulent, sentimental Ernest Grainger, and enter the stoic, fastidious, mischievous Percival Tebbs. Oh, and eighteen months in Soft Furnishings. Enter Percival Tebbs, new senior assistant.
Big things take care of themselves.
Once the decision is made to go ahead, however, he insists no one be admitted without their club tie. And he threatens to resign if a jukebox is installed. But when the muck starts to fly, we see that, even for the upstanding Mr. Tebbs, dignity can yield to lechery when the opportunity presents itself. Ping-pong, according to Tebbs. And we see in this episode that only Mr. Grainger made more noise at lunch.