Documentary feature about the great days of variety.

Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.

Follows comedian Ken Goodwin at home and on stage during one of his most successful years.