Comedy adventure in which dodgy businessman Arthur Daly (George Cole) gets his minder Terry (Dennis Waterman) into all sorts of scrapes as he tries to live the capitalist dream on the mean streets of London.

Crime often didn't pay for Daly, but he always got away with it. Harassed Scotland Yard detectives Chisholm and Rycot usually arrived just a second too late to nick him with a van load of stolen goods.