Dave Allen meets a man named Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a railway box in a suburban garden; a former robot-maker for TV who is married to Jill but pretends to fly Lancaster bombers; Red Indian admirer Edward H. Blackmore who with his wife was adopted by the Sioux; Snowy Farr who rides a very tall bicycle containing a circus menagerie; a Cowboy Preacher; Ivor Cutler the humorist poet; and a model railway enthusiast Victor Martin an electrical engineer spending years building a working replica of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway as it existed in 1938.
