3-2-1 Paris (1978–1987) Online

Mes amis!, I suspect anyone encountering 3-2-1 for the first time via this episode may well be confused by Ted's reference to a chauffeur called George who couldn't make the show due to appearing in a national beauty contest that week. George's absence, and the episode's Paris theme, does mean though that Madame Allonville gets more screen time than usual, no bad thing as that accent of hers does bring sexiness to the most mundane thing- such as summaries of the lives and occupations of 3-2-1 contestants- and the comedy faux-pas keep on coming, check out her order to "stand up when you toast the lady", which due to her accent sounds more like "stand up when you toss the lady".

With regard to the hostesses, it does occur to me that early 3-2-1 is not unlike Val Guest's Au Pair Girls, its the world as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged crumpet chaser, one that can only view women in one way, but does at least place women of different nationalities and skin colour on an equal level of attractiveness and desirability (and in a further nod to multi-cultural Britain this episode also includes the revelation that Dusty Bin has a black Uncle). Elsewhere audience members- seemingly cloned from Mary Whitehouse- constantly stare upwards and contestants with umbrellas on their heads toss toy frogs into pans, to misquote a famous Kinks song "its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Tula".