Frank Thornton – Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? – gives a pedestrian a road test in this snappy public information film.

Frank Thornton dons cap and coat to observe a pedestrian in action and accident on an unexpectedly eventful day in this entertaining, short and snappy public information film. Thornton famously played Captain Peacock in the long-running BBC television comedy Are You Being Served? which was shown from 1973 until 1985. He also played Captain Peacock in the programme's spin-off series, Grace and Favour, which was first broadcast in 1992.

Frank Thornton with a cap on his head and a microphone in his hand, follows a hapless chap, played by Larry Martyn, around all day as if he were road-testing a car, pointing out the vulnerabilities of the human body to injury.