Eric the Policeman (Michael Palin) arrests the camera crew, forcing the BBC to show highlights from the following week's episode to fill air time. Meanwhile, we meet a painter without imagination and the urban spaceman.
Television informs events as a lonely man channel hops. While doing so, he discovers sights like John Cooper Clarke performing, the western "A Fistful of Pasta", and a man who only has one thing on his mind.
A drunken journalist provides the story of the Knicker Elastic King, poetry from Ivor Cutler, and Kirk and Spock's disco takeover. Meanwhile, Schubert invents a new form of music known as "rock and roll", but realises it'll never catch on.
Erotica is the subject of the Innes Book of Records as Nick Cabaret sings about his libido, Charlie Chaplin tries to stop illicit photography, and a sailor tells of his irregular love for his mother.
Vivian Stanshall reads poetry, Nick Cabaret performs a beachside concert to a mermaid, there's evolution via animation, jellyfish entering showbusiness, a rock star monk, and a Scottish Frankenstein's monster who just wants to dance.
War is the overriding theme of this final episode, as young men go and return from battle, Laurel and Hardy sing in the foreign legion, and a middle-aged couple make preparations for a nuclear holocaust.
