Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
| Directing | John Boulting | Director |
| Writing | Patrick Campbell | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kingsley Amis | Novel |
| Art | Reg Bream | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Elliot Scott | Set Designer |
| Crew | Jeffrey Dell | Additional Writing |
| Production | Henry Passmore | Production Supervisor |
| Editing | Max Benedict | Editor |
| Directing | Philip Shipway | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ray Sturgess | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Beryl Booth | Continuity |
| Sound | Sid Wiles | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | J.B. Smith | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Jim Shields | Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eric Aylott | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Polly Young | Hairdresser |
| Sound | John Addison | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | John Addison | Music Director |
| Camera | Max Greene | Director of Photography |
| Production | Roy Boulting | Producer |
| Sound | Fred V. Bowers | Songs |
| Sound | Charles Horwitz | Songs |
