A comedy produced by Ronald Padgett about a wife who is becomes so pre-occupied in preparing a formal dinner party that she forgets to get dressed before greeting her guests and appears to them only in her underwear. Title: Dinner at Eight Credit: A Bracken Edge Production A wife sets the dining room table for a formal dinner. She heads into her kitchen to continue the food prep for the meal before checking a calendar hanging on the wall. She turns to check the time on the kitchen wall...

A comedy produced by Ronald Padgett about a wife who is becomes so pre-occupied in preparing a formal dinner party that she forgets to get dressed before greeting her guests and appears to them only in her underwear. Title: Dinner at Eight Credit: A Bracken Edge Production A wife sets the dining room table for a formal dinner. She heads into her kitchen to continue the food prep for the meal before checking a calendar hanging on the wall. She turns to check the time on the kitchen wall clock before putting a piece of meat on an oven dish into the oven. Coming out of the kitchen she checks in on her husband who is relaxing in the living room drinking a pint of beer and reading a newspaper. She points out the time to him, but he dismisses her concerns. Back in the kitchen she checks on the dish in the over before adding meringue to a lemon meringue pie and placing that into the over. After checking on pans simmering on the stove, she checks the time again with the clock on the wall. She goes back to see her husband who again dismisses her concerns about the time. She leaves and goes upstairs to her bedroom where she begins to undress and gets into a dressing gown. She sits at her dressing table putting her hair into curlers and a net before applying a face cream. Next, she draws herself a bath before closing the bathroom door and hanging her dressing gown over the door. In the bath she scrubs her back and her feet. Wrapped in a towel the wife comes downstairs to check on the food. She removes the lemon meringue pie and moves the meat to the upper shelf. She lights another burner on the stove and places a third pan on to simmer. The clock on the wall reads 7.45pm. She returns to the bedroom and after putting on tights begins to apply makeup. Still only wearing her underwear and with her hair still in a net she puts on her shoes and races downstairs to check on the food again. One of the pans on the stove has boiled over, she removes it and uses a cloth to clean up the mess. She looks up at the kitchen clock and seeing that it is now 8pm. She then rushes into the living room where her husband is speaking with his guests who all stop and turn to look at the wife standing in the doorway in only her underwear. The film ends on her realising the situation placing her hand over her mouth. End title: The end