Smashing Time (1967) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Brenda had been robbed of all her savings by a tramp at St Pancras railway station. This left both her and Yvonne completely penniless when they tried to buy food at a greasy spoon café shortly after arriving in London to seek their fortune.

• brenda
• tramp
• robbed
• london
• st pancras
• penniless

Tom Wabe, a trendy photographer on Carnaby Street, took Yvonne's photo for a newspaper. However, the published photo made Yvonne look out of fashion, which is why she became the subject of mockery rather than celebration.

• yvonne
• tom wabe
• carnaby street
• photo
• fashion
• mocked

After seeing Yvonne mocked in the newspaper, Brenda decided to track down Tom Wabe to confront him about the humiliating photo. She found him at a strange party served by robots, where she attempted to curse him out, though he tried to charm her instead.

• brenda
• tom wabe
• robot party
• confrontation
• clive sword

When Yvonne was taken by Bobby Mome-Rath to his secret apartment after being drugged at the nightclub, Brenda followed and sabotaged the tryst. She added laxative to Bobby's drink and caused his bubble bath to overflow, creating chaos that allowed them to escape when the building supervisor fell through the ceiling.

• brenda
• yvonne
• bobby mome-rath
• nightclub
• apartment
• sabotage
• laxative

Charlotte Brillig, the dilettante heiress who hired Brenda to manage her exclusive design shop called Too Much, abruptly decided to close the business and fly to Greece on an impulse trip. This left both Brenda and Yvonne unemployed once again.

• charlotte brillig
• too much shop
• greece
• closed
• unemployed

Yvonne invested her £10,000 payout from the demolished house to record a single called "I'm So Young." The live recording was genuinely awful and her voice was completely out of tune. However, after studio mixing corrected all the flaws, the final polished version became a big hit, propelling her to pop stardom.

• yvonne
• i'm so young
• song hit
• mixing
• studio
• pop star

After both achieved success, Brenda as Tom Wabe's girlfriend who became a top model, and Yvonne as a fading pop star, their friendship deteriorated. Their contrasting fortunes and divergent paths in the entertainment industry caused them to drift apart naturally.

• brenda
• yvonne
• drift apart
• model
• fame
• friendship

At the glamorous party celebrating Yvonne at the top of the Post Office Tower, she sat alone while everyone else celebrated. Brenda watched on CCTV, saw Tom arrive and get mobbed by fans, then gatecrashed the party. Yvonne suffered the humiliation of falling into her own giant cake, and Brenda retaliated by turning the revolving restaurant controls to full speed, ending the party in disarray.

• post office tower
• party
• yvonne
• brenda
• cake
• chaos
• revolving restaurant

After experiencing the corrupting effects of fame, losing their friendship to the entertainment industry, and enduring the chaotic party humiliation, Brenda and Yvonne chose to walk away together in the early morning and return home to the North of England, seeking a simpler life away from London's celebrity culture.

• brenda
• yvonne
• return home
• north england
• fame
• ending

The girls watched a Candid Camera-style TV show called You Can't Help Laughing from a shop window, which featured an old lady's house being demolished as a prank. To their shock, the same program had also demolished their own rooming house as part of the same joke. Yvonne, as the sole name on the lease, received a £10,000 reimbursement cheque.

• tv show
• candid camera
• house demolished
• ten thousand pounds
• lease
• yvonne

Yvonne was working at Sweeny Todd's restaurant serving pies in Nell Gwynne costume. A custard-pie fight started at a party at the restaurant and escalated onto the street. Yvonne was blamed for starting the fight and was subsequently fired from her job.

• yvonne
• sweeny todd's
• pie fight
• fired
• restaurant job

After becoming Tom Wabe's girlfriend, Brenda went to dinner at his canal barge and stayed the night. The next day, they spent time taking photos together, which led to Brenda's modeling career. She subsequently became a successful top model, appearing in adverts like one for a perfume called Direct Action.

• brenda
• tom wabe
• model
• career
• canal barge
• direct action