Eric is put out when Charles Brown gets burgled. He tells Eric that only top people in the neighbourhood are getting burgled.
After all Eric and Hattie have nothing worth stealing.
Eric responds that they have a vicious dog called Nero and that is the reason they have not burgled.
Nero is just an invention, the barking sound is from a gramophone record.
Later Hattie buys a dog from a stranger and he really is vicious. Eric is afraid of it and so is the rest of the neighbourhood.
The first episode of the relaunched Sykes, now in colour. Many of the episodes were remakes of his earlier series for the BBC.
A good dose of foolishness carried by Eric's and Hattie's charm.