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- Yorkshire-based crime drama centering on the personal and professional life of Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood.
- A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
- 1920s set sitcom following the misadventures of the accident-prone Billy Henshaw and his auntie Ivy as they try to run the family firm of undertakers.
- At his wedding to Mary Billy is dismayed to learn that Ivy intends to accompany them on their honeymoon to Harrogate so to foil her he switches the location to Whitby but she still finds out and insists on going with them. They eventually manage to get rid of her for some privacy when she takes great delight in attending a local funeral.
- Having been told by her aunt Gertrude that Billy's father may well have been his mother's employer when she was in service at the Big House Ivy feels it could be true when Billy seems to know his way around the house on a supposed first visit. And when she discovers a diary written in the previous century by the lady of the house she fears that history may be repeating itself.
- Billy is shocked to see his aunt at the cinema with married undertaker Mr Sutton, who feels left out as his wife is obsessed with playing bowls. When Mrs Sutton finds out she throws her husband out of the house and he ends up at Ivy's so in order to get the couple back together again Ivy proposes an unusual game of bowls - with Mr Sutton as the prize.
- Ivy is surprised when she gets a letter from Annie Greenhalgh requesting a burial as Annie is not dead. However next day she is run over and so the funeral takes place. Sadly there is no money to pay for it, only a pawn ticket - which Ivy hopes will yield something valuable. And in a way it does.
- Billy is perplexed by a strange Welsh man who seems to be on the spot when a likely customer is about to come his way but there is a further mystery when Billy gives Ivy a birthday present which appears to be part of a jewel robbery in which a hearse was used. Much confusion arises before both matters are resolved.
- In order to have some privacy with girlfriend Annie Billy moves out and takes a room of his own. To his dismay rather than try to stop him Ivy takes a new lodger - his suave cousin Donald - and to make things worse Billy gets thrown out by his new landlady for trying to smuggle Annie into the house. He can only hope that Donald has outstayed his welcome to get a roof over his head.
- Billy makes it clear that he does not approve of Ernie's bride to be, Mary, and is a reluctant best man. He agrees to take Mary in the hearse to collect her wedding dress but when the hearse runs out of petrol and they are stranded in the countryside something happens that causes Billy to alter his opinion of his passenger.
- Billy is enchanted by aviatrix Sylvia Mason who takes him for a spin in her plane. Ivy is not amused - particularly when Billy agrees to be Sylvia's navigator in a race to Paris - and conspires with Sylvia's aunt to prevent it.
- Ivy Unsworth runs the undertakers in the 1920s village of Oldsham with her drunken, greedy husband Jeremiah and daft young nephew Billy. Business is not exactly booming and the loss of a coffin and its late occupant in the river does not help matters. However, when Jeremiah goes the same way, Ivy sees a chance to make a go of things Under New Management.
- Ivy and Billy acquire their latest client, wealthy Arnold Slaithewaite, who gave up the ghost at the local fell-running contest, but after the funeral is sabotaged by the rival Pardoe family, a challenge is thrown down. Billy is to race against Malcolm Pardoe, the loser's firm to give up the business to the winner. More than brute strength is required to ensure that Billy is king of the mountains, so Mary attempts a little cheating.
- When Ivy refuses to buy lucky heather from gypsy Vera Turnbull, she puts a curse on her and Billy. Ivy is sceptical until bad things start to happen including Billy ending up in hospital. However the tables are turned when Vera also has an accident - tripping over her basket of lucky heather.
- When Ivy and Billy attend the music hall a short-sighted knife thrower inadvertently provides them with their latest body when he accidentally skewers his shrewish wife. Billy finds romance with showgirl Vera Venables and intends to marry her but Ivy knows it would never work and joins Vera in disabusing him.
- Having made an extremely good impression on Ivy Billy's new girlfriend Doreen then shocks her by suggesting that she and Billy spend a pre-marital weekend together to see if they are compatible. Eventually Doreen manages to convince Ivy that nothing untoward will happen and, thanks o Billy's clumsiness, nothing does - leading Doreen to believe that their relationship would be doomed.
- Whilst the reverend Chadwick is trying to persuade her to get Billy to stop drinking and attend his services Ivy gets locked in the chapel overnight with him and next morning their rescuers think the worst. As a result Ivy is expelled from the chapel and considers selling up again - until the offer of a lucrative funeral comes in.
- On the eve of the Undertakers' Annual Outing Ivy and Billy recall the previous year's trip when they gave a lift to the Pardoe family - kindly Mr Pardoe, his snooty wife, their greedy son Herbert and Herbert's betrothed, Mary Bennett. When the hearse broke down Herbert and his mother took the train, leaving Ivy and Mr Pardoe to reminisce on their past romance and for a new one to flourish between Mary and Billy - though Mary still married Herbert.
- Looking through the family album with Ivy and Billy, Mary is shocked to see a wedding photo with Billy as bridegroom. When Ivy explains that this was his elopement, carried out to please her, with the already-married Cynthia, Mary insists that Ivy accompanies her to visit the lady in question. There is a surprise in store for them both.
- After yet another disastrous funeral, Ivy decides to take on an apprentice, though the only applicant, Harold Barlow, is not only Mary's old flame but a crook who intends to run off with both her and the petty cash. When Billy gets wind of this he decides to take action to get rid of him.
- Billy reluctantly agrees to partner saucy Tiger-Lily Longstaff at a marathon dance competition in the hopes of winning prize money to buy Mary a present but lies to Mary about where he is going. She and Ivy are suspicious and eventually track him down, though Mary relents when he tells her that he has won the money.
- Still on honeymoon Mary and Billy are puzzled as to Ivy's whereabouts. In fact she is being romanced by undertaker Mr Wagstaff and she announces to the newly-weds that she is staying behind to marry him. They look forward to having the house to themselves but the dream is shattered when Ivy returns suddenly, declaring that Mr Wagstaff was looking for an embalmer rather than a wife.
- Ivy and Billy find a baby, Eric, in their backyard and look after him but he goes missing when his grandfather, disapproving of his daughter's unmarried status, steals the child from them. In their efforts to get Eric back to his mother Ivy and Billy get arrested though fortunately the mother comes to court to clear them - leaving Billy feeling somewhat broody.
- Awarding the prizes at her old school Ivy gives a speech on goodness which inadvertently traps her into accommodating the four children of a recently deceased mill-worker. Collecting the body from the mill Billy hooks up with old flame Irene but gets a shock, four times over, when he brings her home until Ivy eventually resolves the situation.
- The bankruptcy of the Pardoes generates extra work for Ivy and Billy who have high hopes of betterment but business is so brisk that it puts a strain on Billy's marriage to Mary, who walks out on him. But after an unexpected ride in a balloon she returns, literally the bearer of good news.
- Ivy learns that Jeremiah has left her everything -on condition she gives a home to his demanding sister Gladys, a professional hypochondriac who runs Ivy ragged. Fortunately thanks to Ivy's old costume as an angel in the village nativity play Gladys believes that her days at the funeral home are numbered and makes a swift departure.
- Perturbed that no woman wants to date him when they find out that he is an undertaker Billy lies to the charming Doreen that he is a plumber. When Doreen finds out his true line of work she is prepared to be forgiving but unfortunately she catches a reluctant Billy in a compromising position with his predatory admirer Daisy Plummer with only a jelly mould to cover his nudity.
- Ivy feels sorry for baker Malcolm Fletcher, who seems unaware that his supposedly ill wife Edna is having an affair with window cleaner Alec Crowther and, at Edna's request organizes Malcolm's funeral after his death in a bus crash. However Malcolm is far from dead and, as Ivy comes to realize, has faked his demise as a means of getting out of his failed marriage.
- Ivy and Billy drive to Bridlington to collect a client's remains and enjoy a day at the seaside. Then Billy decides to use the coffin as a canoe but it springs a leak and Ivy fears that he has drowned. She holds a lavish memorial service which is very well-attended, including by Billy himself, who has not drowned but has spent the last few days with a young lady.
- Following a drunken birthday celebration Billy loses a coffin with a body due for burial . The police find it but in order to hit a funeral deadline Ivy has buried somebody else and when she and Billy try to swap the coffins back again they are arrested for grave robbing and must appear in court. They are acquitted but Ivy fears it will harm her application to be the British Undertakers' Association's first female president.
- A despondent Ivy fails in her bid to become the president of the British Undertakers' Association and, to make things worse, Billy's pet frog is discovered inside the coffin at the latest burial. Misreading a note left by his aunt Billy wrongly assumes that she is suicidal and ends up dragging the canal for her whilst she joins the onlookers watching him from a bridge.
- Ivy writes an article for The Undertakers' Journal in the hopes of winning a five guinea prize. It concerns another disastrous funeral where the hearse fell apart after crashing into a farmyard and the coffin and mourners had to be taken to the churchyard on a motor cycle and side-car. However, having finished it, Ivy reckons that it will be too bizarre to be believed and tears it up.
- When French onion seller Marcel Duval falls off his bicycle and gets killed Billy decides to broaden his cultural horizons by driving the body back to France, accompanied by his feckless friend Ernie, who can speak the language. Ivy is concerned for him but without cause as they never make it out of Yorkshire since Billy has forgotten to take his passport.
- Ivy organizes the funeral for Alderman Potter, wealthy pork butcher and late husband of Ivy's school- friend Annie but, due to a borrowed hearse and incompetent pall-bearers, it is a disaster and, at Annie's suggestion, Billy goes to work in her butcher's shop. Ivy soon misses him and is pleased when, due to his ineptitude, he is back working with her at the undertakers.
- 1969–198625m6.6 (8)TV EpisodeThe festive season is anything but for Ivy and Billy who find themselves in competition with the rival Pardoe family. However when a local dignitary dies it affords them the opportunity for a happy Christmas as well as partaking in the local glee club choir.
- When rabble-rousing evangelist Brother Benjamin Bailey arrives in town Billy is smitten by his assistant Sister Joanna and willingly joins their mission as a fund-raiser. Ivy is shocked when he announces that he might be leaving the business to travel with them and relieved when he discovers that they are a pair of con artists.
- A hot summer spells a lack of trade for Ivy with the bank threatening to repossess the business for resale. After an unfortunate double booking the future looks bleak - until Ivy gets a client with an unusual last request.
- Perturbed that rival undertaker Percy Openshaw is stealing her custom Ivy sets a trap, which leads to a truce and a marriage proposal. However a tea leaf reading and an unexpected visitor expose Percy's true motives, providing Ivy with a narrow escape.
- When Billy injures himself Ivy tries to drive the hearse herself but ends up in bed after having an accident. Believing that she is dying she urges Billy to get married but the girl he chooses to elope with, Cynthia, turns out to already be somebody else's wife.
- Walking between Bronte family places and meeting people knowledgeable about the family. This is a long walk, finishing in Haworth, visiting places from the novels and used in real life by the Bronte family.