Trouble brews when Smith is mugged and ends up in hospital, where both of his addresses surface, causing both the Streatham and Wimbledon police to investigate the case.
His careful schedule upset, Smith becomes hopelessly entangled in his attempts to explain himself to his two wives and two suspicious police officers, with help from his lazy layabout neighbour upstairs in Wimbledon.
[5] The first Polish production of Run for Your Wife opened in Warsaw's Teatr Kwadrat in 1992 under the title Mayday, directed by Marcin Sławiński, and starring Wojciech Pokora.
[6] It has since had a successful run in other theatres across the country (for example in Koszalin's Baltic Dramatic Theater [Bałtycki Teatr Dramatyczny] in 2019[7]), with several more productions directed by Pokora himself.
[12] A film adaptation of Run for Your Wife, co-directed by Ray Cooney and John Luton, was released on 14 February 2013, with both Briers and Cribbins appearing in cameo roles.