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- Meet Desmond, his non-conforming family, and the regulars of his hairdresser salon in Peckham, London.
- Schoolteacher Izzy Comyn (Imelda Staunton) searches and searches for romance, but the right man never seems to come along. Not helping matters is Izzy's habit of playing fast and loose with the truth whenever she finds herself in a jam.
- On her husband's demise, attractive Bridget suddenly finds she can't meet the financial demand of her Sussex country house in Brighton without his income. Her solution: take in lodgers. Two other "belles" answer her offer. Annie, also a widow, is a dim but friendly, likable farmer's daughter from a small village; Frances is a sardonic, sarcastic teacher whose husband Gilbert left her for a younger woman, taking the house. Later, Frances' tactless, overprotective mother Josephine moves in as well, to hover over and generally annoy her daughter. The women bond and Bridget shows her seductive side and she searches for a new mate.
- Augustus "Porkpie" Grant works as a lollipop man and struggles to make ends meet. He borrows a pound to buy a lottery ticket and wins big.
- The series followed the exploits of two working-class young women, Mo - Amanda Symonds and Jude - Rachel Weaver, who share a flat in a council tower block in London's East End, along with their three-legged cat, Tripod.
- The 'Crucible' is a new muck-raking tabloid newspaper in London. Managing editor Russell Spam is always on the lookout for the latest dirt and gossip, while senior editor Harold Stringer struggles to preserve some sense of dignity (usually to no avail). Spam writes such questionable stories as lurid details about Prince Andrew's girlfriend, a campaign to bring back capital punishment, and accusing a bishop of being a werewolf.
- Fitz finds out he has a son from a holiday fling at Butlins in Clacton. When he turns up Fitz has to be a father for the first time.
- Jenny, separated and broke, takes up a post as warden of a block of sheltered flats for the elderly.
- A Channel 4 New Year's Eve special with scripted comedy as well as musical live performances from black British artists reflecting the variety of cultures existing in Britain exposed to a wide audience . British entry for Montreux in 1984.
- Twiggy Rathbone's Daily Crucible is determined to keep abreast of the competition and Page Three is an outstanding target area. Meanwhile, young reporter Bill Tytla unearths the first clues to an international scandal bigger than anything Russell Spam could ever dream up.
- While the Daily Crucible makes hay with its outrageous depiction of Father Teasdale as a militant Marxist, its proprietor Twiggy Rathbone finds reason to denounce public misrepresentation. Meanwhile, Bill Tytla's on the trail of a murderer.
- The Daily Crucible indulges in a little espionage and comes up trumps with the most sensational free offer of all time.
- Millionnaire Twiggy Rathbone is seeking a new figurehead to control his look-alike editor Russell Spam. Failing TV Presenter Richard Lipton believes that his integrity will enable him to clean up the Daily Crucible. Is he right?
- Lipton's banishment of reporter Greg Kettle to El Salvador results in a story that touches the heart of millions.
- As Lipton sets about cleaning up the Daily Crucible, Greg Kettle manages to turn an educational report into a porno scandal.
- After successfully relaunching the Daily Crucible with his Royals Porno Storm story, editor Russell Spam is about to unveil his Sensational Sex Secrets of the Soviets - from the mouth of Nikita Khrushchev, who reporter Greg Kettle has found alive in Switzerland. Meanwhile, the government would like a little support on a humanitarian matter.
- With Bill Tytla threatened at gun point, pressure to suppress the story he's been unearthing is getting very heavy - and is about to get heavier still.
- Russell Spam has come up with yet another gimmick to boost the sales of the Daily Crucible - and Harry Stringer finds himself smack in the firing line as usual. Summoning all his courage, he decides to do something about it - and a story begins to develop.
- What will the tycoon owner of Rathouse International do to Harry Stringer's respectable but doomed Daily Crucible? Who is the mysterious new editor, Russell Spam, that no one has ever heard of? And what scandalous front-page story will they have to think up to rocket the Daily Crucible to the top of the market? All is revealed.
- Bright young hope Maggie Troon may yet achieve some real investigative journalism for the Daily Crucible, increasing Richard Lipton's hopes of cleaning up the paper. But Twiggy and Russell Spam decide that his war on Page Three calls for devious counter-measures.
- A Royal Commission is about to put a drastic end to the runaway sales of Twiggy Rathbone's Daily Crucible. The only thing that can stop Lord Gilbert's report is a little underhand work - or a genuine story of international importance.
- Porkpie borrows a pound from Michael and uses it to buy a winning lottery ticket, to the tune of 10 million pounds.