Dennis (1992 Character)

Dennis played by Tony Aitken appeared on Episode 778 (21 July 1992).

On the morning of July 21st, Dennis arrived in front of the Portakabin which served as a business office for Frank's used car lot and Pat Cabs which was run by his wife, Pat. Frank thought this small man with the thick eyeglasses and vacant expression a likely punter who, in Frank's words, would "give a whole new meaning to the word gullible" and proceeded to give Dennis the full benefit of his salesmanship. After several minutes of politely listening to Frank's sales pitch regarding a particular motorcar, Dennis asked if Mrs Butcher was about adding that the jobcentre sent him about the mini-cab driver's job. When Frank realised that he had no chance of selling Dennis a car he replied: "Do you make a habit of wasting people's time?" Dennis innocently told him he thought it was part of the job interview. Pat hired Dennis immediately as she had to turn business away for lack of a driver. That afternoon, as Dennis was returning from a pickup at Seventeen Dixon Street to pick up another customer who was waiting at the Portakabin, Pat heard a crash and rushed outside to see that Dennis had just smashed his cab into a car parked on the car lot. The next morning, Frank left an invoice for £200 on Pat's desk to cover the cost of repair to the motorcars. When she found it and complained that she couldn't pay, he suggested that she take it out of Dennis' wages. However, later that day, Dennis telephoned Pat to tell her that he "couldn't take the pace" at Pat Cabs and was quitting the job!