Mike Crystal is an all-round entertainer and a man of many talents. Sadly he is also a financial incompetent with no future, but soon discovers an abrasive, loud-mouthed agent.

Guy and Stuart Crump are quiz fanatics who lost the 1975 final of Top of the Class, went on a murderous rampage and spent the next 20 years in prison. Now they are out and looking for revenge and a second chance.

Tim Fleck, the curator of the most tedious museum in the world, the Little Ottle Museum, is about to have his cosy world blown apart by an arch rival.