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- Wuzzo, a convict Timothy has met on the prison library run, escapes and asks Timothy to bring his girlfriend Cilla to meet him - in the Lumsdens' shed. At the same time Mother is expecting Inspector Henderson and his wife from the Neighbourhood Watch to visit and Timothy must keep the two couples apart. When Muriel and Kevin turn up in costume for a vicars and tarts party and Timothy also discovers that his father has bought a stolen bottle of whiskey much confusion follows.
- An ex-advertising executive, Morris Codman, practices a philosophy of selfishness. His bizarre antics in promoting his product surprisingly lead to a fortune.
- Discovering that Timothy has over four hundred pounds in his bank account Mrs Lumsden decides to change her will and leave her money to the dog's home. Timothy however does have some cause for celebration after meeting nurse Christine and imagining himself as a champion snooker player. Unfortunately it is only a dream and his chances of impressing Christine grow slimmer when Muriel's car breaks down.
- Timothy attends a weekend self-assertiveness course but his mother suspects that he is staying with Jennifer and makes a fool of herself by going to Jennifer's house to accuse her. On his return Timothy decides to put his new found confidence into effect, with surprising results.
- Timothys mother is outraged when he decides to leave home to flat share with two young women.
- Timothy is named in the will of his late uncle Barstable but his reward is in a secret drawer in a sideboard and nobody can find the key. During a concert at the wake the key is eventually located but when Timothy finally opens the drawer he is surprised at the nature of his legacy.
- Timothy is promoted from prompter to Bottom in the the local dramatic society production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Whilst playing the rear of a pantomime horse in 'Cinderella', Timothy is asked by Zac, the smooth casting director, to date his old girlfriend Vanessa as he now has a new lady friend in Poppy. Timothy is delighted but unfortunately Vanessa already has a boyfriend in the hulking Tiny Heseltine and when, on his father's advice, Timothy challenges Tiny to a duel, he actually has cause to thank his mother for her intervention.
- With their parents away at the Chartered Accountants Ball Timothy, Muriel and Kevin decide to throw a party in the Lumsden house, the guests including Gillian the Bearded Lady and other circus folk Timothy has befriended. When the bailiffs arrive to repossess the circus Timothy and his accountant friend Maxwell swing into action to save the day - including hiding an elephant in the kitchen.
- When Mr Lumsden starts doing gardening work for Violet Cathcart, the 'Merry Widow', his wife is convinced that they are going to elope and decides to sell the house and move away, which is bad news for Timothy. He decides to visit Mrs Cathcart and persuade her to leave Father alone but there is the inevitable mix-up before Mr Lumsden returns home and Mrs Lumsden's curiosity brings its just deserts.
- The night before Frank's wedding Timothy meets and gets on extremely well with bridesmaid Liz, who also has a restrictive family life and is accident-prone like himself. Next day Timothy has to come to her aid but, as best man, has to get the ring to the church on time, and almost fails to make it due to a succession of mishaps. On arrival he encounters disappointment and a lucky escape both at the same time.
- When Timothy's parents go on a second honeymoon, he plans to hold a party and get closer to Veronica.
- The Lumsdens get a visit from Timothy's sister Muriel, to whom their mother refuses to speak because she disapproves of Muriel's husband Kevin. Muriel prevails upon Timothy to leave home and come with her and, helped by Timothy's best friend Frank, they escape. However Timothy's parents give chase and freedom seems very unlikely.
- Timothy is getting married to Jennifer, the reception has been arranged and Frank makes sure the stag night is one to remember, Next day, however, Timothy gets locked in the house by his evil mother and, even after he has escaped thanks to Muriel, there is another obstacle - literally - placed in their path. The honeymoon is booked for a fortnight in Eastbourne but with whom will Timothy be spending it - Mother or Jennifer?
- Mother wants Timothy to paint the cupboard under the stairs before the man comes to read the meter but Timothy is more concerned with betting snide colleague Victor that he can take new library assistant Caroline to see 'Gone With the Wind'. However the film has started by the time they reach the cinema and Caroline wants to see 'Rickshaw of Blood' instead. A second attempt is also thwarted when Victor buys the last available ticket.
- Timothy is rehearsing for 'Private Lives' but looking forward to his parents going to visit an uncle in Australia, which means that he can have time alone with the desirable Jennifer Blenkinsop. There is a set-back after he meets Jennifer's supposed boyfriend, the hulking Sandy, but after Timothy has had a dream in which Jennifer declares her feelings for him he knows what he must do.
- Timothy is the prompter for the local dramatic society production of Hamlet.
- Things are going well for Timothy in his plan to buy his own house but Muriel is rightly suspicious when her mother announces that she is helping him. Her suspicions are confirmed when a surveyor Timothy has met by chance declares the house to be unfit for purchase and Timothy catches the same apparent surveyor in a secret meeting with his mother.
- Timothy is now dating Pippa, the young lady who crash-landed on the house. Mother has announced her intention to divorce her husband, sell the house and move in with Timothy,, but with Muriel pregnant she and Kevin will have no room for her father. Fortunately Timothy learns from Pippa's friend Garth that, as the house is in Mr Lumsden's name, only he has the right to sell it.
- Meek, 41-year old librarian Timothy Lumsden still lives with his domineering mother and hen-pecked father. Having met the sweet Annette at his amateur dramatics group he arranges to go on a river-boat shuffle with her. However, his mother decides to sabotage the arrangement, leading to his going on the date dressed as a cat and ending up in the river.
- Phyllis appears to have died in mysterious circumstances, but is there more to it, when Timothy will only inherit the entire Estate if he doesn't marry for 30 years.
- When rich Aunt Esme visits the family Timothy and his father are so embarrassed by Mother's attempts to get Esme to leave her her money they sneak off to the pub but prang the car in the process. A shifty garage owner mends it at cut price, thanks to aunt Esme, but since Mrs Lumsden has reported the car stolen the police give chase and there is a second accident before Timothy learns who will benefit from the will.
- Timothy is obsessed with the fair Jean from Acacia Avenue but is too cowardly to approach her. On Mrs Lumsden's birthday she is predictably ungracious about the family's presents but delighted when Timothy arranges a day on the river with her ukulele-playing old friend Edgar. Typically it rains and things go from bad to worse as Timothy literally goes overboard in front of Jean.
- When Timothy wishes he had never been born, a Fairy Godmother makes his wish come true.
- Timothy rescues an injured fox from the local hunt and after taking it to the vet releases back into the countryside. He manages to see through his mother's ridiculous lie that he and Jennifer are actually brother and sister but having watched Muriel and Kevin have a big row he wonders whether he is doing the right thing in getting married and imagines himself being chased by the hunt - led by Mother.
- Following the disastrous non-wedding Jennifer has left Timothy and he is now a monk. However when Muriel visits to say that her marriage to Kevin is on the rocks he leaves the abbey to help her and Mother is delighted to have her little boy back home. Muriel takes Timothy to view a house, which he assumes is for her on her own , but as Kevin returns to her Timothy realizes that it is a bolt hole for himself.
- Mother is aiming to be the Ladies' Luncheon Club chairperson and invites the influential Aurelia for dinner on the same night that Timothy is having a pianola delivered before going on a date - inevitably ruined by his mother - and Muriel decides Father should live with her and Kevin. Timothy completely charms Aurelia, securing Mrs Lumsden her chairperson-ship but the date is ruined and she is characteristically ungrateful when another opportunity beckons.
- Timothy is challenged by new girlfriend, barge-dwelling Fenella, to leave home and come away with her but first he has to attend a family christening, to which he has accidentally brought a duck. The ceremony over Timothy finds that Fenella has predictably gone without him, leaving him a bizarre inflatable monster which wrecks his mother's car.
- After Mrs Lumsden complains that burglars seem to find her house too lowly to rob Timothy meets Sharon, a young runaway living in a squat. To please his mother Timothy burgles the house but is caught and put in the van with a number of young squatters but Sharon has gone. Timothy grudgingly does a deal with his mother to persuade Sharon to return home and reconcile with her parents.
- Timothy is shocked when chief librarian Endicott suggests that he takes early retirement. Inspired by sister Muriel Timothy attends the Endicotts' party to prove his usefulness and, when the family cat gets stuck a tree, Timothy shows himself to a branch librarian in the literal sense - getting his job back, though not quite as expected.
- Timothy is reading the raunchy 'Storm of Youth' by Jade Tempest to a ward full of eager male patients when he discovers there are pages missing. He is able to bribe book-thief Dodgy for a whole copy but, thanks to his interfering mother, has to take a trip to the refuse dump to retrieve it, ensuring himself back on the ward in more ways than one to finish reading it.
- Timothy is preparing for a job interview but has a recurring dream that the interviewer is his old headmaster, who wants to cane him. He visits a psychotherapist who tells him not to worry but to enjoy the experience of the interview. Unfortunately he enjoys it rather too much with an overly laid back attitude. And those dreams still persist with Mother replacing the headmaster.
- Timothy is not pleased when his cousin Brinsley, who bullied him as a child, comes to stay, especially as Mrs Lumsden gives him preferential treatment, banishing Timothy to the attic to give Brinsley his bedroom. In fact she even tells Timothy to move out though fortunately the constant fussing over him is too much for Brinsley, who makes his own decision, thus negating the need for Timothy to emigrate.
- When the mobile library breaks down in the country Timothy takes shelter from the rain in a barn where three elderly women tell his fortune. Although Muriel dismisses it all their prophesies come true so that when they foretell a successful job interview with a move to Yorkshire Timothy knows the job is in the bag. Sadly once again he had reckoned without his dreadful mother.
- After an accident at the tennis club Timothy is taken to hospital where he wrongly believes that he is terminally ill. As ever Mother is too bound up in her own selfish world, Father more concerned in ridding the garden of moles and the people at the pub more interested in the Colorado beetle in the sausage roll to listen to him. At least he can dream that he had an heroic funeral with a glamorous mistress among the mourners. But then he wakes up.
- Timothy is ordered to talk to the father of a boy who is bullying his godson at school.
- Frank is getting married to Jennifer but has asked his friend Richard to be best man - to Timothy's annoyance. However, after Timothy has indirectly caused Richard to break a leg, he gets his request with Mrs Lumsden inviting the happy couple to tea. Timothy decides to sabotage the occasion though ironically he is the one who also ends up with a broken leg.
- Whilst collecting monies for overdue library books Timothy stumbles upon married building tycoon Byron Hadlee with his mistress. To keep him quiet Byron gives Timothy a thousand pounds, causing him to quit the library, and an invitation to a party where Timothy loses his trousers but, thanks to Mother, not his job.
- The town is gripped by gold fever when the local paper prints a series of cryptic clues which, when linked together, will lead to the site where a golden rabbit has been buried, the first to find it winning three hundred pounds. After helping Frank Timothy decides to enter the contest himself and, whilst he fails to win the prize, he does get to meet the delightful Winifred - or Freddie to her friends.
- Timothy is all set to move into his new house and Muriel is taking him whilst Kevin attempts to get rid of unwelcome house guest Clifford. Timothy is very nearly captured by his mother and returned to her house but his father rescues him, ensuring that he starts a new life with Pippa, Clifford taking his place as Mrs Lumsden's little boy.
- In an effort to put Pippa off Timothy Mother tells her how, the previous Christmas, Timothy tried to kill the cat because it was incontinent and ended up shooting her. Then Mr Lumsden gives a different account in which no such thing occurred before Timothy gives the final and true account, leading Pippa to suggest that they live together.
- Muriel and Kevin invite Timothy and Freddie to stay the weekend with them to help their romance along but when Timothy's dreadful mother finds out she pretends to be dying to coax Timothy back home. Oddly enough, despite his weakness, Freddie is still happy to go out with him and they plan a trip abroad.