[1] It was an adaptation of the television series George and Mildred, with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy reprising their roles as the two title characters.

Brian Murphy's snivelling, runtish Roper drives a beat-up Morris Minor, guzzles brown ale and sports woollen underwear; Yootha Joyce (an icily accomplished comedienne) matches the tone with a caricature that trades on loud costumes, cheap accessories and ambitions way beyond her means.

They behave here exactly as they would in the half-hour TV sit-com, but by nature of the expanded format are forced into more socially embarrassing confrontations than the characterisations can cope with.

Hence the hasty wrapping-up of the absurdly exotic gangster plot, and the cop-out solution of the closing car chase (in which Stratford Johns finally loses one of several hairpieces he has essayed in the course of the film).

"[6] The Guardian stated that the film's failure marked "the death knell" for the 1970s British practice of producing motion picture spinoffs based on sitcoms.