Mr. Grace requests that the staff participate in a ballroom dancing competition, and who better to teach everyone a few dainty moves than Mr. Humphries?
Mr. Rumbold is going away temporarily on a business conference, and out of respect he suggests the staff allow elderly Mr. Grainger to take over in his place - but Mr. Grainger quickly becomes callous and abusive to his friends.
Mr. Grace and Mr. Rumbold try to instill a sense of fire safety in the staff at Grace Brothers, but with the hilarity of a foreign customer, a kiss-of-life medical dummy and Mrs. Slocombe stuck in a fabric tube, it's impossible.
If appearances are to be believed, Captain Peacock may have had an affair with Mr. Rumbold's pretty young secretary - an engaged secretary, no less - but do people have the wrong idea about what happened?
After the removal of Grace Brothers' perverse Santa Claus display models, the store decides to hire one of the staff to dress up as "Father Christmas" to entertain children.