Mon, Apr 21, 1986
Daphne is annoyed with Giles for cheating over the Chinese meal but relents when she learns that he is a genuine major. She is excited when her friend Camilla arrives from Cheltenham to visit and cannot believe that Camilla would be sexually attracted to Sam - until she catches her sneaking out of his window.
Mon, Apr 14, 1986
Nick is taking Angie out to celebrate his getting a contract to work for a fashion catalogue and Sam agrees to mind baby Joe. Daphne is being wined and dined by Giles in his flat and she compliments him on his mastery of Chinese cuisine. However next day he is exposed as a fraud when she spots the empty cartons from the takeaway in his dustbin.
Mon, May 20, 1985
Daphne has sold her house in Cheltenham and offers Sam some of the proceeds if he will move out. Sam counters by saying that he agrees - but only if he fails to make her laugh. They then spend a day together, in the pub, visiting Sam's wife's grave and at a restaurant. Next day Sam succeeds not only in making Daphne laugh but getting her to admit why she is so bitter.
Mon, May 13, 1985
Angie, Nick and Joe are away for the weekend and, having eaten some condemned pastries, Sam reckons that if he feigns illness Daphne will be nice to him. He even persuades his zoo-keeper friend Wilf to pose as a doctor but when Daphne injures her toe Sam pretends to expose Wilf as a fraud to impress her. She is unusually grateful and gives him a reward - which proves to be just desserts.
Mon, Apr 22, 1985
Sam settles in to the basement and proves himself a champion nappy changer, though he is less successful at winning over reluctant flatmate Daphne. She is also displeased to hear that her grandson will be called Joe and not Jeremy and will not be christened. Daphne hopes to get her vicar friend Gerald on her side and is appalled when he and Sam hit it off totally, leading to Gerald upbraiding her for being a snob.
Mon, Apr 28, 1986
Rock star Flash Leopard asks Nick to his country mansion to shoot his album cover and Angie and Sam persuade Daphne to make up the numbers. Daphne is instantly critical of Flash's anarchic lyrics which are at odds with his accumulated wealth and is unusually grateful to Sam who rescues her after a riding mishap. Sam is outraged to hear that Flash wants sex with Angie in order to give Nick the job and proves himself to be a hero all round to secure the contract.
Sun, Oct 4, 1987
Sam is having to prop up both Wilf, dejected that his acting career has yet to take off, and Nick, who feels inferior as Angie flies out to the Seychelles. Indeed both Daphne and Sam are in agreement that she should not go and come near to sharing an intimate moment. Daphne also makes it clear to Giles, who has staged a rooftop protest to get her to visit him in prison, that she never wants to see him again.
Mon, Apr 7, 1986
Sam is hoping to acquire a dead penguin to add to his taxidermy collection and predictably Daphne is not amused, However she is charmed to meet Major Giles Bradshaw, who has moved into a flat across the road and who invites her a candle-lit supper. She sees him as a soul-mate, not because they are both snobs but because they share a dislike of Sam.
Mon, Apr 15, 1985
Photographer Nick Tyler and his wife Angie have just bought a house for them and their new-born son but want to let the basement flat to improve their finances. Nick's father Sam, recently made homeless, is keen to move in but, unbeknown to him and Nick, Angie's mother Daphne also arranges to take the flat to be the child's nanny. Daphne is refined and hypercritical. Sam is down to earth and unassuming. As co-tenants they will prove to be a very mismatched couple.
Mon, May 6, 1985
Daphne is dismayed that Angie is returning to work but cheered to get a dinner invitation from Penelope, a girl whom Angie hated at school but whom Daphne admires as she married the wealthy , boorish Nigel. Daphne is appalled to find that Sam has also been invited. However when Nigel tries to scam Daphne out of money for a fraudulent investment Sam puts aside his dislike of her to do the decent thing.