For his employer's benefit he invents a wife and child and for his fellow lodgers he lies about his past, background and job.

[6] It was based on a TV play by John Mortimer which had been performed in England in 1958.

David Mitchell has been in both those productions as well, along with Who Killed Kovali?, Shadow of Heroes and The Astronauts.

[1] The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic said the production "had the lightness of heart and the deftness of touch so necessary to such a whimsical part-comedy, part-sentimental drama.

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