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02x08 - Episode 8

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Adventures of Portland Bill". Aired: 4 October 1983 – 25 June 1986.*
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Set in a fictional lighthouse on the Guillemot Rock, just off the coast from the fictional village of McGuillycuddy.

02x08 - Episode 8

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[Music]

oh come with me to the rolling sea while

the weather's calm and still

and we'll have some fun and laughter

with the adventures of portland build

this is the only shop in the village of

mcgillicuddy

and what a shop it is

it sells everything from washing lines

to paint boxes

spanner

oil

chalky biscuits

nutty biscuits and a big bowl of string

and was there anything else comedy

no thanks eddie

wait a minute

what are these oh they're oil paints i

keep a supply in for miss shannon the

potter she paints lovely pictures

ugh so do i oh yes

landscapes portraits

joining up the numbers hmm

i could have taken it up you know they

used to call me the uh

morning edit

i've brought another painting for you to

sell to the tourists

huh

sell

sell

for money

oh yes the tourists can't get enough of

them well i could sell twice as many if

miss shannon could paint them oh you're

too kind i do hope but they're very good

okay

do you think the tourists would buy my

paintings they're very good too

i'm sure that they would tell you what

you can show me some this afternoon

portland bill has invited me to the

guillemot rock to paint the lighthouse

bye

bye bye print the lighthouse here

um

do you want anything else comedy

oh yes

no let's see i'll have a canvas a big

one a big frame a brush a pallet paints

lots of paints a smock and uh how to

paint lighthouses

i'll be famous

don't just stand there ross help me to

set up my studio

before our mission arrives i'm going to

hit the lighthouse

and sell the pictures to the

tourists i'll be rich and i'll be famous

but michelle is already here and she

already here look well quickly you set

up the easel while i go and change but

chromatin there's something i've got to

tell you ah quite ros i haven't either

time now i must get ready but chromity

it's not what you think oh what's he use

he never listens to anything i say

[Music]

[Applause]

do a loop ready to paint my masterpiece

you look a proper picture

perhaps

[Music]

oh yes it certainly needs another

character paint to keep out the winter

storms

[Music]

[Applause]

oh no again oh

[Music]

oh no

i thought miss shannon was coming to

paint a picture of the letters not the

decorator

never mind chromity my this is a good

painting

oh

it is

yes

it's the most promising piece of

abstract painting that i've seen this

year

what are you going to call it call it

why not call it the lighthouse trip

lighthouse

oh

no

[Music]

not again

[Music]

Edward Stones Emporium

edward stone's emporium

what's that time for a song

a box of nails for finished air a bolt

of tartan two

some chicken wine a pair of pliers now

which one would he choose there's

letters and there's parcels lots of

groceries

today's the day that eddie stone makes

his deliveries

[Music]

two jaws of homemade honey three pounds

of china tea

some tent pegs and some tennis ba*ls a

slice of cheddar cheese

there's letters and there's parcels lots

of groceries

today's the day that eddie stone makes

his deliveries

[Music]

what sits at the bottom of the sea and

shakes

i don't know

a nervous wreck

[Music]

do

A Royal Visit

[Applause]

edward stone's emporium what's that time

for a story oh good

this is the village of mcgilly cuddy

it's a small place and of course

everybody knows everybody else's

business

but sometimes what they hear is not what

it really turns out to be

the other day i was talking on the

telephone to eddie

oh yes

she's rather pretty

well that's a fine bill

i'll pick her up from the lighthouse

then

and yes she can stay for a week

of course i have to get some special

food for her i couldn't offer her

ordinary food hmm and i'm sure that she

loved talking to all the villagers

goodbye now uh i've got to go i've got

some customers waiting

yes yes goodbye

ah and can i help you finish there

yes said thanks eddie i'll have an

earthy cake please oh jolly good i think

grandma tyree has just made a new batch

this morning i'll just pop around and

get them won't be a

minute did you hear what eddie was

saying he's expecting a visitor

she must be very important

he's getting in some special food and

she's very pretty

oh that she's a princess

didn't he say that she would be talking

to the villagers uh yes

we'd better form our royal welcoming

committee we'd better tell everyone to

be at the keysight at half past three

what was that uh i said i'd i'd have an

ooty cake for my tea

oh

[Music]

it wasn't long before the word got round

and he's picking her up from the

lighthouse this afternoon

blistering barnacles

[Music]

um

[Music]

here's your mail bill is my guest ready

i'll just go and fetch her

mind the step now

be comfortable good

we won't be long now

[Music]

hey

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uh thank you thank you everyone

but but why all the flags and and what's

this wonderful greeting for

well there's a rumor going around the

village that you are expecting a special

guest

well a princess actually

so we put two and two together and we

all thought we'd come to meet her and

give her a proper welcome

oh how kind well i just get it

come along then

boy it's comedy's cousin's parrot

yes it's valencia i'm looking after her

for a few days

where's the princess we thought okay

we put two and two together and made

five

it just goes to show that you shouldn't

listen to too much gossip

we formed a welcome committee and put up

all these flags

well all your efforts weren't really

wasted

after all valencia is quite an important

old girl

[Music]

oh come with me to the rolling sea while

the weather's calm and still

and we'll have some fun and laughter

with the adventures of portland

[Music]

you