The rich comic delights of Marc Camoletti’s Boeing-Boeing were recognised at once by critics and punters when it was unveiled to its first British audiences in 1961 at Oxford’s New Theatre, en route to a seven-year run in the West End. One of its stars was David Tomlinson, in the days before his Mary Poppins film fame.

There have been many revivals since, testifying to the staying power of the script as refashioned from the French original by Beverly Cross, an Oxford resident at the time.

The new production at the Mill and Sonning dinner theatre, necessarily played as the period piece that it is, is perfect for an evening of easy, unchallenging fun, with fine work from all aboard the flight.

This isn’t to say there aren’t a few spots of turbulence – a couple of muffed lines, a few mistimed entrances, a tendency to have all the engines working flat out when a little more restraint might have made for a more comfortable ride. But on the whole, under the captaincy of director Keith Myers, is buzzes along very satisfactorily.

Many will be familiar with the plot. It concerns the efforts of dashing young bachelor Bernard (the excellent Max Gell) to have the best of three worlds in the shape of a trio of lovely air hostesses.

Bernard works on the principle that at any one time only one of these ladies is likely to be at his flat, conveniently situated near Orly Airport. As he explains to his amazed and soon-admiring schoolfriend Robert (Steven Blakeley, famous as Heartbeat’s PC Geoff Younger): “I have one up, one down and one pending.”

First in the frame for the audience comes the confident American Gloria (Rebecca Witherington), to be followed within hours by sexy Italian Gabriella (Carla Freeman) and strapping Fraulein Gretchen (Erica Guyatt), who soon starts to show a worrying tendresse for Robert too.

As will be guessed, Bernard’s well-crafted plans soon start to fall apart with all three young ladies in dangerous proximity. This is falls to Robert and the world-weary maid Bertha (Anita Graham) to keep ach out of view of the others, making full use of all seven doors in the set for hiding places.

Performances continue until August 1. Box office: 0118 969 8000, millatsonning.com