A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

Jean (Virginia McKenna) and Matt (Bill Travers) are a struggling married couple, with Matt trying to scrape out a living as a writer. Out of the blue, they receive a telegram informing them that Matt's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance. However, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it, but things don't quite go as planned.—Col Needham <[email protected]>

Young married couple Jean and Matt Spenser, who are barely surviving financially as aspiring writer Matt works on his novel, believe their money problems are solved when they receive notice that Matt's just passed Great Uncle Simon, who he did not even know existed, has listed him as a beneficiary to his estate. What Uncle Simon has left him is a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Upon arriving in Sloughborough and meeting with lawyer Robin Carter, Jean and Matt are saddened to learn that Matt did not inherit the grand looking Grand Theatre, but rather the decrepit looking Bijou down the road. In addition, they discover with the Bijou, Matt and by association Jean have also inherited its three elderly, eccentric employees, Mrs. Fazackalee who it is rumored was more than a friend to Uncle Simon. Having no idea what it takes to run a cinema let alone not having the desire to do so, what Matt and Jean plan on doing is selling it to Albert Hardcastle, the owner of the Grand who had wanted to buy it from Uncle Simon to tear it down to build a parking lot for the Grand. Unable to come to terms with Hardcastle who tries to low-ball them, especially problematic as Matt and Jean want to share the profits with their employees for who they have grown an affection, Matt and Jean believe they have no other option but to reopen the Bijou themselves leading to a series of misadventures among them, their employees and their patrons.—Huggo