You Rang M'Lord

Lord Meldrum decrees that his brother will go to work in the family business to keep his mind off servant girls.

With Lord Meldrum, busy dealing with yet another problem caused by the Honourable Teddy, it is not the best time for the Prime Minister to call. Stanley Baldwin has an open invitation to visit following an encounter with Meldrum in the Turkish baths. When he arrives, the flustered below stairs team must cope until the correct social order is restored.

Lord George wants to put Lady Lavender's money in the bank but when she hears an organ-grinder in the street below, she throws it out of the window. Staff and family are told they will be grounded until it is all recovered and the money is all returned - apparently. Alf has taken some for himself and hidden it in one of a set of three vases the Meldrums have given the Bishop for his charity auction.

Teddy resigns himself to his forced engagement to Madge Cartwright whilst the girls start to suspect their father's dalliance with Agatha. Alf pretends to woo Mrs. Lipton so she will lend him fifteen pounds to bid for the vases at the charity auction. He successfully buys them but, due to other bidders, has to pay more than he expected.

Ralph confronts Lord George with his suspicions of Agatha's infidelity but Alf puts him off the scent by claiming that his employer is impotent due to a war wound. George meanwhile believes Agatha is seeing somebody else. James uses Ivy as an excuse to get out of a compromising situation with Poppy but, seeing that he has hurt her, takes her to the pictures - as a friend. Alf stalls Mrs. Lipton by claiming that his wife refuses to divorce him.

James' rough diamond of a father arrives in the middle of the night, on the run from an armed gang for whom he refused to shoot a gun and the police. Despite their differences Alf will not see James disgraced and, as the other staff members discover about the fugitive, he arranges to send him on a banana boat to South America next evening. Helped by the socially-aware Cissy the staff manage to get their passenger on board in time, despite the presence of Lady Lavender, who tags along in the belief that she is eloping with Captain Dalby.

James kisses Poppy, who this time does not protest but Mrs. Lipton's cooking is under fire, following the discovery of an earwig, so outside caterers are hired for a banquet to entertain the impoverished ex-king and queen of Dalmatia, its central attraction being a sugar swan - whose head falls off. Noel Coward also shows up but prefers to spend the evening with Lady Lavender drinking champagne in her room.