Sat, Apr 3, 1993
When George fails to recognize Mabel, Cissy tells him he should take more interest in staff welfare so, after asking them if their rooms are all right, he invites them to a ball where the employers wait on the servants. Teddy is reunited with his true love Rose, sacked by Madge for her involvement with him, and Alf ensures not only that Mabel is invited but that she is rewarded for an act of honesty, giving a thieving butler his come-uppance in the process.
Sat, Apr 24, 1993
The factory is saved, thanks to Lady Lavender selling her jewels to finance efficient new machinery and Cissy forms a workers' cooperative to run it fairly. Teddy marries Rose and becomes a successful car salesman. George reduces his staff with Mabel taking over as cook when Mrs. Lipton marries P. C. Wilson and they retire to the country. Henry becomes the new butler when Alf returns to the music halls and Ivy, after a brief stint alongside him, joins James as his partner running a boarding house.
Sun, Dec 22, 1991
Lord George treats the entire household, including P. C. Wilson, who drives the bus, to a picnic at stately Peabody Hall. Nobody is surprised to find that Ralph and Agatha are also there with their staff - except Lord George, supposedly. Teddy finds he has feelings for Ivy whilst Poppy and James renew some unfinished business. Ralph has a nice afternoon nap due to the brandy with which Agatha has plied him and he thanks George for 'entertaining' her. In the evening both households join together for a sing-song round the campfire.
Sun, Dec 8, 1991
When Poppy tells Agatha of her engagement to Dickie Metcalfe Agatha is appalled. He is a penniless fortune hunter, blackmailing Agatha over her indiscretions. Poppy, however, will hear nothing bad about Dickie and they drive off to Gretna Green to get married. The family and the staff give chase and catch up with them at Watford Gap where Dickie escapes in Cissy's plane and Ralph takes pot shots at him, incurring his wife's admiration for once. Poppy also reiterates her fondness for James but Ivy is annoyed that she treats him like her lap-dog and he obeys.
Sun, Dec 2, 1990
Teddy resigns himself to his forced engagement to Madge Cartwright whilst the girls start to suspect their father's dalliance with Agatha. Alf pretends to woo Mrs. Lipton so she will lend him fifteen pounds to bid for the vases at the charity auction. He successfully buys them but, due to other bidders, has to pay more than he expected and ends up out of pocket.
Sun, Feb 11, 1990
Fisher the pawnbroker blackmails Alf into letting him into the house, masquerading as a French polisher, to rob the safe whilst the family are watching a recital by the 'progressive' poet Aubrey Wilmslow. Ivy appeals to James to save the situation, which he does, giving the impression that Alf had no idea what was happening and that Fisher is an old comrade fallen on hard times. However it also means that James now knows that Ivy is Alf's daughter.
Sun, Dec 9, 1990
Ralph confronts Lord George with his suspicions of Agatha's infidelity but Alf puts him off the scent by claiming that his employer is impotent due to a war wound. George meanwhile believes Agatha is seeing somebody else. James uses Ivy as an excuse to get out of a compromising situation with Poppy but, seeing that he has hurt her, takes her to the pictures - as a friend. Alf stalls Mrs. Lipton by claiming that his wife refuses to divorce him.
Sun, Dec 15, 1991
James is offered the post of butler with Ralph Shawcross and, apart from Alf, nobody wants him to leave, particularly love-struck Poppy, who promises to pay him more money to stay, and Ivy. Mabel, the daily skivvy, is also grateful to him when he lends her rent money and there is general jubilation when the job offer is withdrawn. Not only that but Cissy has been elected as a Socialist member, to her father's horror but the staff's delight. Alf's advice to Teddy to feign impotence to get out of marrying Madge Cartwright, however, backfires.
Sun, Nov 18, 1990
Teddy's sexual harassment of some of the factory girls leads to a strike. Alf persuades Lord George to address the strikers but his efforts are feeble and Alf, knowing that his employer has to be home by evening to entertain the prime minister, conducts his own negotiations - leading to a pay rise and Teddy's dismissal. Lord George asks Ivy and Henry to take the money from under Lady Lavender's bed but she has hidden it somewhere else.
Sun, Nov 11, 1990
Lord George is sick of keeping Teddy and gives him an ultimatum. Either he marries Madge Cartwright, the heiress to a soap dynasty and a potentially wealthy woman, or he will have to go and work in the family's rubber factory. Teddy, who prefers servant girls to his own class, would rather be dating Madge's maid Rose than Madge herself but George calls his bluff and sends him to the factory. Alf, meanwhile, has found a load of money under Lady Lavender's bed and aims to get his hands on it.