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- Mildred is taking driving lessons from an elderly neighbour, but wanting to keep it secret from George she tells him she's going to Keep Fit classes. When Ann accidentally lets slip that the classes have finished, George suspects Mildred of having an affair; on Jeffrey's advice he tries to be more romantic with her. A misunderstanding arises when the supposed lover comes to the Ropers' house but all is resolved as Mildred passes her test. Meanwhile, Jeffrey must take over a poorly Tristram's paper round.
- Charlie Roper, George's long-lost brother, comes to visit. He is a charmer who once dated Mildred and he gives George a thirty-year-old letter which seems to state that George is still liable to be called up for military service, as he ignored the letter at the time. George wants to hide in the attic and sends away a man who has come to sell Mildred a car thinking he is a policeman before the mistake is rectified.
- The Ropers 'celebrate' their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary with an exchange of gifts. George gives Mildred a carriage clock, which is very nice and only cost him ten quid. However, when the Fourmiles return from holiday to discover that they have been burgled and the police arrive it looks as if the clock was among the stolen items.
- Due to complaints about his over-zealous attitude George rows with his superior, Arnold Higson, and resigns his job as a traffic warden. He is scared to tell Mildred, who finds out from Mr. Higson with whom she flirts to get George his job back. Jeffrey has a new sports car and Mildred says he can use the Ropers' garage, unaware that George's useless friend Jerry is storing bags of cement in it.
- After twenty-five years the Ropers' bed finally collapses and it's time to buy a new one. The trouble is that George is on a hire purchase black-list and can only get a new bed if he can put down the readies. Fortunately he has a winning system for horse racing and is confident it can get him the money.
- Mildred gets a job as a secretary in Jeffrey's estate agency. George is thus the house husband but he is a disastrous cook and home-maker. Mildred is relieved when he finally gets a job - less so when she discovers it involves being away all night.
- Having baby-sat for Anne and Jeffrey Mildred is broody and wants a child of her own. George is less keen but is persuaded to apply for adoption. His crassness and the Ropers' age means that the adoption agency turns them down but he is thoughtful enough to buy Mildred a dog to compensate.
- George borrows Jeffrey's ladder to fix the television aerial but when Jeffrey takes it away George falls off the roof and ends up in hospital in the next bed to the knowledgeable Mr. Jolly who tells him he should sue his neighbour. Out and about in his wheelchair, George - or Ironside, as Mildred calls him, decides to do just that but has to settle for compromise.
- George is surprised and then delighted when young Bill Albright, son of the recently deceased Rosie, approaches him with evidence that he is George's long-lost son, conceived on V.E. Night 1945. There is even a ready-made daughter-in-law and grand-daughter into the bargain. However on further investigation the real father turns out to be George's old friend Ernie.
- Ethel and Humphrey come round to discuss the future of Ethel's and Mildred's elderly mother, who they think should be put into a home as she cannot cope on her own and they need their spare room. Curiously it's George who suggests that mother moves in with them. Jeffrey has Tristram learn boxing after he gets beaten up by a girl.
- George buys Mildred a fur coat from the Oxfam shop but when she hears that he found a credit card in the pub she assumes he used it in the shop and returns the coat - only to find, too late, that she was mistaken. Jeffrey is disapproving when he learns that Tristram is playing with a new friend from the council estate and finds that he is not the only one who is a snob.
- George lets his goldfish,Moby, swim in the sink and Mildred accidentally pulls the plug out,losing Moby, so, by way of compensation, George buys two supposed homing pigeons and builds a loft in the backyard to, calculatedly, annoy Jeffrey. Once released the pigeons never return and Mildred, feeling sorry for George, buys him another goldfish,though it comes at a price.
- Mildred is thrilled to get a letter from Lee Kennedy,an ex-American airman with whom she has a wartime fling who is visiting England and wants to see her again. A jealous George rings up his old flame Gloria and arranges to meet up for a drink with her- though neither reunion turns out to be as the Ropers had hoped.
- Browsing through 'Country Life' Ethel sees a photo of a Ming dynasty china horse worth ten thousand pounds. Her mother tells her Mildred owns the only other one in the world and Mildred agrees to sell it to her,having first established that it is one of many worthless copies made in 1927 and not the real thing. For once the Ropers come out on top as Mildred pockets Ethel's cheque for 1,500 pounds and Tristram's pet mouse has the last word.
- Mildred goes into hospital with suspected appendicitis so kindly Ann, to Jeffrey's annoyance, has George round for dinner. When he gets home he finds Jerry, who has been evicted, wanting to stay,along with his 'niece.' But the appendicitis is actually indigestion, and Mildred comes home early. She is not happy to find two unwelcome guests and throws them out. Lucky for them Tristram has a tent pitched in the Fourmiles' garden.
- George is not happy. Not only has Oscar the budgie died but Mildred has donated all his gardening magazines to the vicar for the local church jumble sale,on the basis that George never does any gardening. What she has failed to realise is that only the top few are about gardening, the rest are girlie mags, so George has to retrieve them before the vicar finds out.
- The ever work-shy George is apprehensive when called for a job interview but the resultant, successful post suits him down to the ground. He is now a traffic warden and inevitably loves the power that this gives him. Others are less enamoured so that when he turns up in his uniform,with Mildred,for Tristram's school prize-giving, someone has tipped a bag of cement all over him.
- George takes his father to live in a retirement home but he gets thrown out after only one day and billets himself on the Ropers, leading Mildred to discover just where exactly her husband got his loser's streak from. She finds she has not one but two unwelcome guests before order is restored.
- When their house is subject to a compulsory purchase order the Ropers must move. Mildred sees her dream house in suburbia, next door to yuppie couple Ann and Jeffrey Fourmile and their seven-year-old son Tristram. Jeffrey is appalled by George and pretends the house is already sold to prevent him and Mildred moving in but Tristram explains that his dad is lying and the Ropers get the house.
- When the Fourmiles go on holiday Mildred has a key to their house so she can water their plants but George abuses this by going in to watch the couple's superior colour television. Mildred has asked George to decorate their lounge but George calls in professionals - who follow him into the Fourmiles' house,wrongly assuming that this is where the re-decoration is needed. George and Mildred have to put the resultant unwanted make-over back to normal.
- When the Fourmiles must attend a funeral, Mildred is happy to mind their new baby Tarquin for the day. But their car breaks down on the way home, making them late, and Mildred has her clay-modeling class. George is left holding the baby and when the last-minute call comes from the British Legion to say that they need him for the darts team, his only option is to take Tarquin along. Will he get him home before Mildred finds out? Will he even get him home?
- Jeffrey is directing the neighbourhood's Christmas pantomime - 'Cinderella' - and Mildred is only too happy to be playing one of the Ugly Sisters. Unfortunately on the opening night she loses her voice and is unable to go on stage so,inevitably, George is called upon to replace her.
- Having had an extremely boring and non-eventful Christmas Day, George and Mildred spend next day with the Fourmiles where George and Jeffrey become addicted to Tristram's present, a video game, which sees George losing money. Ethel and Humphrey arrive for an exchange of presents but George and Mildred don't have any presents for them.
- Jerry the ice-cream man persuades the gullible George to invest in his pigeon-farming idea but the only way George can raise the cash is by selling the house behind Mildred's back. Jeffrey is delighted, Mildred anything but when she catches George showing prospective buyers around and soon puts a stop to his plan. Ann is pregnant and convinced the baby is a girl.
- George and Mildred get to move in and Ann, who is not a snob like Jeffrey, invites them round for a cup of tea. Unfortunately when they go home George and Mildred find they have locked themselves out and left the bathwater running.