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- A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.
- A modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.
- A series set in the fictional village of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys centered on the lives of a single mother in her forties, who earns a living doing the locals' ironing, and her family and friends.
- A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
- When famous DJ Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
- The survivors of the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital reunite to bury one of their number.
- Four tales of terror unfold at the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiactric hospital.
- During their lastest disastrous holiday travel season, Peter and Judith get mixed up in the dark arts of voodoo while Tommy finally gets his chance be a pilot. Fearghai is hopeful to win a Golden Trolley at the Steward of the Year Awards and Buster is suspended after an incident involving Dame Judi Dench. Omar Baba deals with his latest staff mutiny when all of FlyLo's ground crew goes on strike.
- Mum and Dad are having a clear-out, and Dad's been ordered to chuck away all his tatty, old magazines. "Why do you keep all this crap?" says Mum. "It's not crap, " says Dad, "they're collectibles." Dad tells Jonny to secretly hide his magazines in his car and look after them back at his flat. Meanwhile, neighbor Jim has been using the family's toilet, as he mysteriously broke his own loo. Jim keeps interrupting dinner with a call to nature, and Adam has to keep letting him in. Dad has forgotten that he asked a man off ebay to come and pick up their old sofabed, and when the man turns up, Mum is livid that her meal is ruined. The sofabed weighs a ton, and as they carry it downstairs, it gets stuck on the staircase. Mum and Adam are stranded upstairs. How will they ever get down? And will Mum ever get to see her precious Masterchef?
- Jackie's plain-speaking mother comes to dinner,getting her hair caught in the car door,and instantly antagonizes her daughter by telling her that the new curtains of which Jackie is so proud are horrible. And when Martin drops the dinner on the floor and scoops it back in the dish,nobody dares tell Grandma. As the two women row Adam and Jonny repair to the pub,where they meet Jim and have to help him carry his drunken dog home. Adam gets everybody back on good terms though his practical joke almost kills Grandma who,after a glass of reviving spirits,finds the curtains are really rather nice.
- Peering through the window Adam and Jonny are amazed to see Martin looking at his privates with a magnifying glass but do not like to say anything. After dinner,Martin,anxious that Adam should have a girl-friend,pays him twenty pounds to go on a Jewish internet dating site but Adam is more keen to listen to a jingle he has written for a local firm which is to be played on the radio. Unfortunately none of the house radios seem to work so the family pile into the car,only for Adam to find that mot of the jingle has been cut. Eventually the family discover why Martin is so obsessed with looking through the magnifying glass. He was stung by a bee whilst having a pee in the garden.
- Jackie insists that Martin burns his old magazines so he builds a bonfire,though his plan is to hide them all in the shed. Jackie's friend Val arrives to show off the dress she is wearing at her daughter Karen's wedding and Martin cannot resist scaring her with his Prince Charles mask whilst Adam cannot resist teasing Jonny since his supposed girlfriend is unable to attend the wedding.Jim appears,firstly to return Jackie's scales and then to report his dog Wilson missing though Wilson does return,bearing a pair of shoes. Jackie finally makes Martin burn his magazines but somehow in the confusion caused by Jim's visit Val's dress has got put in with them and goes up in smoke.
- It's Adam's birthday and,as he arrives at the house,he is almost run over by the dreaded Sheila Bloom,or Bitch-face as Jackie and the boys call her,an old flame of Martin's,in her much-prized silver Mercedes. Martin gives Adam a book on the S.S, as a present and cooks the dinner since Jackie has done her ankle in. It is a disaster so the family,plus Grandma,head to the local Chinese,only to find Sheila and her husband Eddie there. Sheila's insistence on telling the family that her mother died in the Mercedes reduces the boys to laughter and worse is to come when,discovering that he has taken Eddie's coat by mistake,Martin calls on the Blooms to return it - and backs into the Mercedes. Grandma's insistence on trying on her bikini and getting locked out of the house rounds off a very eventful birthday for Adam.
- Adam is horrified to discover that Jackie has invited Tanya Green,with whom he used to play as a child,to dinner with a view to pairing them off. A look at his baby pictures,Martin's burping,Jonny bloodying his nose with a pickle jar by accident,Jim arriving,having been locked out of his house when his dog swallowed the key - can things get any more embarrassing for Adam? At least Tanya shares his awkwardness and at least Jackie can be pleased that Tanya fancies one of her sons.
- Sean takes Stella to Big Rae's gym to teach her how to box and she is amazed that her boyfriend is a personal friend of Welsh champion Joe Calzaghe. In the evening everybody gathers for Luke's twenty-fifth birthday bash, where Luke is pursued by Sunil's teen-aged sister Jasminder and Stella shares a romantic dance. All is going well until Luke's father Rob appears.
- Still upset by Rob's proposal Stella accompanies Dai for his day in court, where he dresses to impress in his full regimental uniform. However the more pressing event is Emma, about to sit her school exam going into labour and being rushed to hospital where she gives birth to a son and is joined by Sunil. As Rob apologizes to Stella for his past behaviour they share a moment recalling their first love, a moment which does not sit well with Sean.
- Aged sixteen Stella fell pregnant with son Luke but his father Rob emigrated to Canada with his family. Stella married school-mate Karl by whom she has Emma and Ben but now, at forty-two, she is alone, Karl having gone off with the younger, vain Nadine and Luke in prison. She makes ends meet with her ironing business. After a row with Karl and Nadine over Emma's schooling Stella is ready for a night in the pub with best friend Paula, an undertaker and lollipop man Alan, who fancies her. However she gets a shock when she discovers that Emma, for whom she had high educational hopes, is pregnant by boyfriend Sunil.
- Unhappy about Emma's situation Stella goes to see Sunil's parents, newsagent Jag and his snobbish wife Tanisha. Though they too are unhappy Stella falls out with Tanisha, who considers Sunil above Emma and a general row ensues which also alienates Stella from her daughter. To make things worse she has car trouble and has to deliver her ironing by push-bike but things start to look up when she is helped out of a sticky situation by Sean, a handsome - and younger - decorator who has moved to Wales from Yorkshire. And Paula manages to find her stolen hearse, complete with makeover.
- Two months have passed and Emma and Sunil are planning their wedding. However everything in Pontyberry is overshadowed by the death of local Rugby legend Dick the Kick. This proves to be a boon for Paula and her father, whose business is ailing when they are charged to organize a celebrity funeral with orations from the likes of Neil Kinnock and a whole bunch of famous pall-bearers. And once more, when things look like going wrong Sean proves his worth.
- Luke is now home but, unlike Nadine, who has started a dog grooming business and wants to practice on Stella's dog, he is having no luck in finding work and is tempted when Keckers, the local drug dealer, suggests they do business together. Matters come to a head at a family outing where Sean confronts Luke about his involvement with Keckers and the two lads end up fighting. on the plus side Stella agrees to go on a date with Sean.
- In preparation for her date with Sean, Stella decides to try and lose weight and joins Ben's rugby training fitness group led by Alan. She is visited during her work-out by Dai, her older brother and partner of Paula. Dai is an ex-serviceman wounded out of the army and technically unable to work though he has a habit of playing on his disability. Then he goes missing.
- After her sexy date with Sean Stella is on top of the world but she's about the only one. Emma has heard that Sunil is two-timing her with an older woman and ends their relationship after Luke spots him with another girl, Dai is up in court for working whilst he is meant to be an invalid and Luke has had a letter from his father, now back in the area and anxious to meet up with him.
- Sunil's stag party takes the form of a camping weekend and, as she sees her son and her man off on the coach, Stella is not happy to see that Rob is going with the others. Stella herself joins her daughter and her female friends for a pampering session at a spa but she is brought down to earth when Paula tells her that Dai has overheard Rob asking Luke to go back to Canada with him.
- The boys are already bickering when they arrive for dinner and Martin, stricken with a cold, sneezes all over them. However when Jackie produces their box of childhood belongings and Jonny learns that Adam binned his toy panda when he was eleven, all hell breaks loose with Jonny setting out to destroy Buggy, the toy rabbit that Adam still owns. For safe keeping Adam gives Buggy to Jim who gets rather attached to it and whilst he returns Buggy an accident with a Flymo precludes a happy reunion.
- Grandma brings her boyfriend Lou Morris to dinner. He is a rude,critical man - likened by Jim to Hitler - who crashes his car into the front of the house and demands the Goodmans pay for his headlight. Furthermore he is still married and is having an affair with Grandma so Jackie asks the boys to find out his intentions but they are all too cowardly to cross him - until he goes too far. Fortunately Grandma knows how it will end.
- Jonny is pretending to have dislocated his shoulder to get out of helping Martin clear the loft but when Adam threatens to expose his deception he counters by threatening to tell Jackie about the blind date Adam dumped because she smelt like her,forcing Adam to give in. The boys are puzzled by the fact that their parents are not speaking having rowed over 'something sexual',Jackie inviting her friend Val round to support her. Things escalate with Jackie throwing the menfolk out of the house,Jonny really dislocating his shoulder and the reason for the parents' row finally coming to light.
- Martin,put on a diet by Jackie but eating goodies smuggled in by his sons,has bought a Fax machine. Jonny has a company car but it turns out to be little more than an advertisement for the estate agents who employ him and the family are unimpressed. Jackie is even less impressed to learn that Jonny is having an affair with his boss Liz,who is forty-three. After another bizarre visit from Jim,who has bought a cake for Wilson's birthday,the family goes for a spin in the car but on their return see a burglar making off with the Fax machine. The police are called but fail to stop a second thief driving off in the company car.
- Martin is drying fish in the cupboard under the stairs whilst Jonny is fretting as he wants to split with Liz but is scared to tell her and asks Grandma's advice. This,however,is to take her dancing and then make love to her. After Grandma has accidentally got locked into the faulty boot of Adam's car with a box of yoghurts for sustenance the family eats the burnt fish and Liz arrives,causing Jonny to panic. Eventually he breaks the news to her,with devastating results - though Grandma,who had initially mistaken her for a boy through her short hair-cut,offers her the yoghurts as compensation.
- Thanks to cowboy builders the house is in a mess and Martin in charge of cooking as Jackie is hiding in the shed from a mouse - which the lads believe they have squashed. Jim comes by to help but has an accident caused by the building works which leads guilt-stricken Jackie to ask him for dinner. Her menfolk goggle - and no wonder,given Jim's strange eating habits and desire to appear Jewish. The reappearance of the mouse means the meal is finished in the shed but,on returning to the house,Jim has a more spectacular accident - this one involving large amounts of red paint.
- Christmas gets off to a bad start for Jackie when Martin brings a huge tree into the house. It gets worse for everybody when, along with nice grandma, Martin's mother Horrible Grandma arrives for the day. She brings no presents as usual but her own sherry and her own turkey as Jackie's is too dry, along with her dog Boudacea, who is so old and ill she needs an oxygen mask. Sadly Jackie's turkey is indeed dry, causing Adam to choke and Martin to use Boudacea's oxygen mask to revive him, which does not please her owner and leads to a fight between the two grandmas. Martin manages to make his mother laugh but then the tree intervenes, though Jim, disguised as Santa Claus, manages to bring a little seasonal peace to the gathering.
- Following the birth of their baby Emma and Sunil's wedding is put on hold but, since Sunil's mother is against them living together in their new flat until they are married, they sneak off to the registry office. Stella accepts that Luke wants to try for a new life with Rob in Canada and there is a send-off party for him - and for Paula's gay assistant Bobby, who is leaving to move to Bristol with his boyfriend. At the party Rob confesses that he never forgot Stella and was reluctant to leave her. He still has feelings for her and asks her to go with him and Luke. Should she trust him or choose to stay with the handsome, younger, and reliable Sean?
- 2010–201228mNot Rated7.8 (35)TV EpisodeSix months after Bernie's funeral,Simon,jobless and homeless,is living with Grandma and has the chance of a role in a new television comedy. Grandma tricks Tanya and Liz into meeting up at her house to break the feud which began at Bernie's funeral and at least gets them talking. Clive shows up and tries to mend the leak in the roof and Simon has trouble in getting rid of Mark,a one night stand who turns out to be only sixteen. Between them Clive and Mark accidentally destroy Bernie's chair.
- 2010–201229mNot Rated7.0 (21)TV EpisodeHaving won an audition for 'The Tempest',Simon is anxious to get his own place but is restricted by lack of funds. Then he hears that Liz's husband Barry has a flat in Soho which he rarely uses and begs for the loan of it but Barry is not agreeable. This leads to yet another squabble between Tanya and Liz,especially when Tanya discovers Barry and Liz have not asked her to their anniversary party. Clive's efforts to mend the roof unearth Bernie's stash of porn magazines and damage a toilet but he is championed by Tanya since,unlike Barry,he is at least trying to help.
- 2010–201228mNot Rated7.4 (19)TV EpisodeWhilst Simon is concerned that he cannot realistically cry for his stage role Adam tells him that Barry has left Liz and Grandma appears to be a kleptomaniac. However it's Tanya's birthday and she has ordered Gary, a beefy stripper , for herself. Unfortunately Clive,who has fallen asleep in the loft and wet himself,appears and gets into a row with the stripper. Ultimately it would seem that Simon could learn about crying,not from Grandma,who will not be drawn on her bereavement,but from Gary.
- 2010–201228mNot Rated7.3 (16)TV EpisodeGrandma's kleptomania is still worrying the family. Liz wants to put her in sheltered accommodation but Simon has booked her into seeing a therapist recommended by his director Ben Theodore. Clive arrives and confesses to a drunken kiss with Liz during a theatre trip which annoys Tanya and requires Liz to replicate the kiss with Simon. Then Barry turns up,wanting reconciliation with Liz and thus making their separation public. All this makes Grandma too tired to see the therapist though the arrival of young Mark provides an escape for Simon.
- 2010–201228mNot Rated7.3 (15)TV EpisodeGrandpa's will is read and Liz is annoyed that he has left twelve thousand pounds to Simon and nothing to her son Adam. The sisters further quarrel after Tanys blames Liz for her split with Clive. Nor is Simon happy when the Daily Mail picks up comments he made about Russell Watson's brain tumour on a television interview,leading to a host of angry Tweets. With work drying up as a result Liz can get him back in the limelight hosting a charity quiz but it means he will have to surrender most of his legacy to Adam with much of the rest it being loaned to Clive as he proposes to Tanya. His plans to get his own flat are well and truly put on hold.
- 2010–201229mNot Rated7.6 (15)TV EpisodeFollowing Tanya's wedding to the now jobless Clive the reception is held at Grandma's house. Ben Theobald arrives with garrulous actress Zazzy in tow. He has a film offer in Hollywood and wants Simon to go with him, but as his P.A. as he feels Simon is not a very good actor. An angry Clive takes action against Ben but it is nonetheless back to square one for Simon,unemployed and living with Grandma.
- Sunil goes to medical school but spends most of his time drinking whilst Dai drives Paula mad when he joins her working at the undertakers. Alan is made redundant, thanks to the new traffic lights at the school. As Karl and Nadine open their tanning salon Tantastic Bodies it looks likely that a regular customer will be one of two arrivals in town. Stella's sharp-tongued Aunty Brenda, back from 'wicked' Tenerife. The other arrival, however, is Rob and, given her one night stand with him, Stella is not happy as she and Sean are looking forward to their new arrival.
- As Stella confesses that the father of her baby may indeed be Rob, a disheartened Sean prepares to leave town and, thanks to the likes of Aunty Brenda, Stella's bad news is soon all over Pontyberry. Stella is anxious to shield thirteen year old Ben from the scandal but he is too busy discovering girls and going in for body-building to impress. Bobby returns to town, to the immense relief of Paula, who cannot work with Dai. Also back is Luke, deported from Canada for not disclosing his criminal record. A despondent Alan tries to make money by selling old junk but ends up out of pocket.
- Scott is nervous as he is chosen to use the McFlurry on new client Elroy Carrington,so nervous that an unimpressed Elroy throws him out. Scott decides the group should see itself as a legitimate business and show more professionalism so he books them into a business advisory seminar. Inevitably Cozzo's brashness negates the experience though he helps Scott to win over Elroy for a successful exit. Joey,still in debt to Nkanta,is given twenty four hours to extract money owing from a girl called Kelly - who has sex with him and then kicks him out before he can get any money from her.
- Scott meets two new neighbours,porn starlet Claudia,and Julia,the daughter of his first client Paddy. Julia is upset because she cannot find her father's most treasured possession - George Best's football boots,which Scott sold on Ebay. He tries to buy them back with no success but consoles Julia at Paddy's funeral by saying that his memory transcends earthly possessions. Debbie finds a stash of money from the first two jobs that Cozzo is hiding in his underwear drawer but he bluffs his way out of things by telling her he is keeping it safe for Joey.
- Medical school drop-out Scott,now working as a receptionist to an abrasive female vet,is dumped by his girlfriend after sex and is not happy. Then terminally ill neighbour Paddy asks him to help him commit suicide. Scott is reluctant but his half-brother Joey owes the fearsome Nkanta five grand in gambling debts so he asks his friend,fast food worker Cozzo,to construct a suicide machine. With policewoman girlfriend Debbie pregnant Cozzo needs cash and obliges with his McFlurry of Death,which dispenses just the right lethal dosage. Scott is appalled when Cozzo suggests they go into business for other would-be suicides. The machine's initial failure causes fraternal strife but ultimately despatches a happy Paddy. And then Joey comes up with another potential customer.
- With Sean gone and a visit to the doctor yielding a shock, Stella finds herself without a man and a baby and is vulnerable enough to be tempted into reconciliation with Rob. Aunty Brenda decides her niece needs a change of direction and gets her a job at the local bap factory. Russell Grant arrives to open the tanning salon but not everybody is happy. Paula and Dai's colourful sex life has hit a problem as Dai is unable to perform and succumbs to taking the strange blue pills Aunty Brenda has picked up in Spain. At Sunil's student ball Emma realises that his vampish fellow student Leah is competition for her man whilst Alan is depressed that, now he is out of work, he cannot compete with his ex-wife at giving his son expensive presents.
- Sunil is happy to return to Emma as they prepare for their son's forthcoming naming ceremony but Leah seems persistent in her efforts to catch the young man. Alan is desolate when the rugby club closes and Paula makes it clear that she no longer wants Dai either as a work colleague or her man. Fortunately a Dutch new age life coach Peschman arrives in Pontyberry and soon has half the residents sitting in a semi-circle chilling out to 'Tubular Bells'. Can he save Paula and Dai's relationship?
- Scott's attempts at sex with Julia are hampered when he keeps seeing Paddy in bed with them. New client Mr Rothstein requests a Jewish man recites a prayer as he dies so Cozzo pretends he is Jewish. Mr Rothstein sees through him but is flattered that he made the effort. Angry that he must keep working at his dead end job to secure the drugs for the McFlurry of death Scott is relieved when a drug dealer offers to provide them for a price. However Joey predictably gambles away the money with which to buy them so Scott has to steal another lot and have sex with Dr Jill to stop her exposing the theft. Her text to him acknowledging the act is unfortunately seen by Julia.
- Dumped by Julia after she found out he went with Dr Jill an angry Scott forces Joey to attend a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. In the same building there is a sex addicts' group so Cozzo persuades Scott to tell Julia he is a sex addict to account for his behaviour. Believing him she accompanies him to a meeting where he acquits himself well. Unfortunately she gets the wrong idea when she sees him with his latest McFlurry of Death client,thirty-something Amanda,and dumps him again. Joey ends being blackmailed by the gambling group leader Philip,himself an addict who owes thousands. Joey and Cozzo decide to kill him but let him go. Fortunately for them fate intervenes.
- Dancer Ashley Banjo comes to town with talent contest 'Got To Dance' and Ben persuades Little Alan that this could be his chance to get the money to save the rugby club from closing. Stella attends an 80s themed fancy dress reunion at her old school where she finds herself attracted to Rob's Tom Cruise outfit and once again comes close to reconciliation with him. Dai's Adam Ant get-up is the least of his worries as, at a marriage guidance meeting with Peschman, Paula admits to having sex with Yanto before moving into her own bedsit. Sunil is still having trouble keeping Leah at bay but at least Aunty Brenda gets it together with Daddy at the crown green bowls club.
- After unwittingly showing herself up at the school reunion Stella decides to concentrate on her job at the undertakers with Paula and is surprised to see Rob and Melissa sharing a romantic moment. Alan feels anything but romantic towards his ex-wife and decides he must take up a plan of action on learning that property developers intend to buy the land on which the rugby club stands. Inspired by Pechman Paula decides to be a better person and offers to baby-sit Sunil and Emma's son Abrha, but loses him on the way to his naming ceremony. Fortunately Jagadeesh's Tom Jones impression carries the day at the event but Luke could do without ex-con Lenny Mack - boyfriend of Zoe and little Jack's father - turning up.
- Unable to get Julia back Scott decides to concentrate on work and takes Cozzo and Joey for a corporate retreat at a country hotel. Here they see Nigel Banks,a former TV star reduced to a cabaret spot and Joey,who has always worshipped him,goes to see him. Nigel is depressed and is keen to become the lads' next customer - to Scott's horror as he is not terminally ill. However,on hearing of Cozzo's delight at being an expectant father Nigel is keen to live. Scott meets ex-girlfriend Lucie with her new man Eddie and impresses her by claiming he is a doctor. It gets her in the sack but they are discovered by Eddie and Scott has to admit he was using her to get over Julia. Returning home Scott wins Julia back after confessing how he helped Paddy to die. Debbie is now a detective,investigating a spate of suspicious suicides. She has taken a finger-print which looks very much as if it belongs to Scott...