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8 April 2007Peter Kingdom runs his law practice in the small East Anglian town of Market Shipborough, aided by efficient secretary Gloria and a young trainee from London, Lyle. Whilst managing to avoid grumpy Mrs. Thing, he is continually being visited by local Sidney Snell, who is constantly battling the local council, in this case over plans for a new road. Peter's somewhat dodgy younger brother Simon disappeared some time ago. His clothes were found on a beach but no body was recovered. Peter manages to clear up a feud between two brothers, the sons of glamorous Sheila Larsen who died suddenly and whose money apparently disappeared. However, he has a further problem of his own when his unstable sister Beatrice descends on him, having discharged herself from rehab and looking for somewhere to stay.
29 April 2007Peter is hired by an Estonian woman, Aeste, who claims that grumpy local farmer Jack Thriplow has 'kidnapped' her child, of whom he claims to be the father. Further investigation uncovers the use of illegal labour. Meanwhile a nervous Lyle is entered for the annual dyke-leaping contest, resulting in him becoming a very dirty boy. And the less than civil Mr. Hill is snooping around, telling Peter that brother Simon was deeply in debt.
6 May 2007Whilst Sidney Snell complains that he is being harassed by the council into dropping his actions against them, Peter represents the Cases, father and son fishermen, whose boat exploded. The insurance company are unwilling to pay out and sabotage is suspected. Beatrice falls for local artist Alan McEwan and becomes the nude model at his life drawing class, suddenly causing an increase in would-be artists. Peter discovers that Simon had a bank account in the name of Christopher Waller and that it is very much current even though Waller himself is dead.
13 May 2007Mr. and Mrs. Forshaw engage Peter in a case of discrimination when their daughter Laura is refused a place at Cambridge, bringing him into contact with his former tutor Professor Barkway. Gloria fails to show up for work, a squirrel gets into the attic, Beatrice is pining for Alan, and of course there's the ever-present Sidney Snell, with his cunning plan to stop the gas company building on grazing land, whilst more information about Simon's nefarious dealings comes to light.
6 May 2007With Gloria still away Beatrice takes over the running of the office and, especially in view of her disastrous efforts last time, proves very competent, even getting Sidney to help. Lyle helps Herb Griffiths acquire a field in which to keep his prize-winning horse and things turn ugly when the horse disappears and travellers are blamed. Peter gets involved in a marital case involving Mr. and Mrs. Collins. He likes wearing women's clothes and, unlike his wife, can see nothing wrong in it, so it takes all of Peter's resources to come up with a solution. Hill returns, in more threatening mood, demanding the money owed by Simon.
13 May 2007Mr. Narbutowicz, an elderly Polish man who has survived a concentration camp, comes to see Peter,as the council want to evict him in view of all the rubbish in his house. Peter gives the case to Lyle who acquits himself well. With Gloria back at work Beatrice makes efforts to befriend her by suggesting that they do 'girly' things together, a suggestion met with some wariness. Peter judges the rudest shaped vegetable at the church fete - where Mrs. Thing is persuaded to leave her money to the church - but a ruder shock is in store for him when Honor, Simon's girlfriend, turns up with her and Simon's baby Daniel.
13 January 2008Peter takes to surrogate fatherhood happily, assisting Honor with his nephew and learning to change nappies. He helps Cynthia from the Womens' Institute prevent the local light-house from closure, which involves stemming objections from the elderly Tucker sisters. More sibling trouble occurs when he persuades the warring Smith brothers, who run rival fast food vans in opposite lay-bys to stop throwing food at, and mooning, each other and work as a team, rather than taking each other to court. He and Beatrice, along with their aunt Auriel, attend baby Daniel's christening, Beatrice and Peter acting as godparents. On their return home they receive a shock. Simon is not dead after all but waiting for them.
20 January 2008Peter has to hide Simon, who is shocked at the discovery that he is a father. Lyle has to strip in front of a group of naturists in solving the matter of an access path to a nudist beach which has offended some stuffy locals. Peter is drawn into a dispute at the retirement home where his aunt Auriel lives. Patricia Wright is incensed that her father, another resident, has developed a friendship with a nurse, Heather, who is young enough to be his daughter, and intends to leave everything to her when he dies. Even Peter cannot prevent the outcome of this case being less happy then he would have liked but Beatrice has even more shocking news for him. She is pregnant!
27 January 2008Simon is arrested and Peter feels unable to represent him as this would suggest partiality. He also refuses to respond to Simon's request that he remortgage his house for bail money, and puts Lyle on the case to defend Simon. In fact Simon gets bail after Lyle finds a bag stashed full of money which Simon has left in the house. The local American army base figures prominently as the pregnant Camilla gets Peter to put pressure on serviceman Brad Johnson to admit liability for her unborn baby, with love ultimately finding a way. Another, less expected, romance appears to blossom when Sidney, in protest at a new jet runway being built near his house, stages a one-man sit-in and Gloria joins him to bring him tea and refreshments.
3 February 2008Lyle takes up cudgels for veteran protester Henny Leach, who claims she is being victimized by the council, who are evicting her for non-payment of her council tax. Before he can help her he comes to find out that she has not told him the full truth. Simon is bailed and wants to rejoin Peter in the family firm but the Law Society prevent this. Olivia Godfrey, owner of the Tiger Lily sex shop, tries to bring a case against Peter's cricketing pal, Nigel. She paid Nigel 5,000 pounds for her sex shop to be advertised on the team's logo, but instead the side is being sponsored by Exhausts-R-Us. Nigel admits that he has been taking money from various would-be sponsors to win back his unfaithful wife, who just happens to be committing that infidelity with Simon. Peter persuades his brother to do the decent thing and let her go whilst the sponsorship debts are met by some of Simon's ill-gotten gains.
10 February 2008Lyle is left in charge of the office and cat-sits for Mrs. Compton, as well, in Gloria's absence on holiday with Sidney, getting himself into hot water when he and Gloria's enterprising little boy, Scott, inadvertently advertise a free will-making service and are inundated with clients. Peter has gone to Cambridge to help Professor Barkway clear up a matter. Another lecturer, biologist Mary Goodyear has died and Barkway believes her valuable research papers should be published but her partner, Janet Cramer, is blocking him, stating that Mary's will left her the papers. Peter discovers that this is a lie and Janet is protecting Mary, who killed herself as she thought her research was in vain. But Barkworth has an ulterior motive as the dead woman's effects contain love letters between her and himself, unknown to Janet. He believes this will prevent his being made Master of the college but the committee instate him anyway.
17 February 2008PLEASE NOTE. THERE IS A SPOILER AT THE END OF THIS PLOT OUTLINE!!!Beatrice comes home with her baby girl. She refuses to name the father but calls the child Petra, after Peter, "her rock." Gloria and Sidney also return, from a rather disastrous holiday where he was taken ill and had to be air-lifted to hospital. Lyle gets involved with Ellie, an underage girl working illegally, who,it turns out, is the primary carer for her invalid mother and siblings. He looks into her being paid benefits,to prevent reception into care. The pub landlord's bees escape and the sprinklers keep going off at Auriel's retirement home so she and other residents move in with Peter. He has to stick labels on them to recall who they all are and one old dear accidentally tries to get into bed with him.Simon's trial is cancelled,due to lack of evidence but he is edgy. People are after him. The sprinklers are fixed and Lyle is all set to play the leading lady, in a pink dress, in the home's alfresco version of 'Twelfth Night'. But torrential rain falls, causing widespread flooding.Simon slips away but after the floods have subsided Peter sees his brother's body floating in the tide.
10 April 2009Whilst Peter helps soldier Tony Gillespie, who lost a leg in Iraq, get decent compensation, Lyle acts for Tony's girlfriend Kate, who files a case of sexual discrimination when Tony's regiment turn down her application to enlist. Lyle suspects a revenge motive and is right but for the wrong reason. Gloria's senile father, ex-lock keeper Cyril, gets into an ongoing war with a mother and son on a barge holiday which ends in reconciliation when they save his life and he even teaches Peter a new piece of legislation.
17 April 2009Farmer Geraldine Merrick suspects vandalism when crop circles appear in her wheatfield and plans to harvest immediately but widowed ufologist Terry is convinced it is the work of aliens and a site of scientific interest, requesting Peter to stop her. Geraldine calms down when sci-fi fans pay to camp in her field but Peter suspects that Terry's neglected young son and Terry's rivals in the pub quiz know more than they claim. Lyle wins the day for an eccentric old couple whose sour-faced daughter feels they should be put in a home,thanks to an eccentric judge, but finds himself falling for rival solicitor Emily.
24 April 2009Widowed Nicky Laker, a doctor at a research lab which uses animal testing, asks Peter to defend her daughter Donna, who has vandalised the unit to expose it and lose her mother her job. In fact Donna's motive is not out of principle but fear of being cut out of her workaholic mother's life, whilst Nicky's work obsession is to find the cure to prevent Donna from dying of the hereditary illness that killed her father.The two are reconciled after Peter has acted as go-between. Lyle defeats a greedy developer out to evict a group of nuns - who are a hit in the local pub where they are temporarily housed - and Beatrice tells Alan the artist that he is not Petra's father, before getting a call from the man who probably is.
1 May 2009Grumpy but promiscuous judge Jeremy Harding is sent compromising photographs of himself with a young woman and blames Beatrice. She denies it before exposing him as the father of her daughter, Petra. Harding asks Peter to find the blackmailer, who turns out to be very close to home. Lyle is involved when Stan Geddick and his druids claim the local golf club is on the site of an ancient place of worship but he saves the day by proving that they are,geographically, way off course,so to speak. Stan rewards him by setting up an idyllic date with Emily,which is ruined when Lyle's mother turns up.
8 May 2009Lyle goes home to Stockport with his mother to prevent the council from selling off local allotments for a golf course. Lyle's younger twin brothers do not help the situation with their 'guerilla gardening' tactics but the discovery of a lady's slipper orchid growing in the allotments does. Peter acts for Andrew Risden who is refused permission by the headmistress to video his child prodigy cellist daughter Abigail's recital, on the basis it may attract paedophiles. Feeling under pressure, Abigail runs off but the head relents when she is eventually found. Beatrice helps Nigel pass his relationship counselling course via unusual methods and Sidney gets married, though not to Gloria. At the reception Peter suddenly collapses.
15 May 2009Peter is briefly admitted to hospital for tests and, on discharge, is engaged by David Morston, whose older brother Lord Robert, a mad ex-junkie, is selling off parts of the family estate and its titles when not cavorting nude in the fountain or shooting at people. Unusually, Beatrice, who was in rehab with Robert, helps resolve matters, showing that Robert's actions are, ultimately, for a good cause. Lyle suspects a local chemical firm of river pollution but he discovers that large corporations are not always in the wrong. Peter is diagnosed with diabetes, but blood tests show that he is not Beatrice's brother, in fact he is not Peter Kingdom at all, as Auntie Auriel confirms.
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