In a small township, the forces of progress on the council are opposed to the forces of tradition in the collection of citizens called 'Save Mornley's Beauty Spots', with its leader schoolteacher Lisa Daniely. The current furor is over the last gaslamp around, in Assassin Mews, for which the borough employs a full-time lamplighter. Given that Ian Fleming and his sister Amy Dalby have been electrocuting vacuum-cleaner salesmen and been disposing of their bodies in a nearby tip, the matter seems important. Its chiefest proponent, Francis Matthews, goes incognito to a meeting of the opposing groups, and falls in love with Miss Daniely. She likes him too. Miss Dalby recognizes him, but thinks that telling Miss Daniely would be distressing to the youngster, so they decide to kill Matthews, who has just moved into the Mews.
It's an amusing black comedy, quite obviously derived from Arsenic And Old Lace, and the two oldsters provide much of the fun in the show with their familial bickering and failed attempts. Will their murderous rampage be discovered? Will the young lovers somehow get together? Most important, will the lamp be saved from the oppressive regime of progress, always progress? If you wish to know, you'll have to look at it yourself.
