Fri, Jun 17, 1966
Bob buys a moped in the hopes that it will give him a cool image and enable him to get pretty young girls as pillion passengers. Terry offers to help him with lessons to enable him to pass his driving test on it. Unfortunately an accident with the emergency stop ends up with Terry being admitted to hospital.
Fri, Jul 22, 1966
Bob seems to have found his ideal woman in Thelma Chambers, but when she drops him he is despondent and decides to join the Army. Not wishing to be parted from his best friend, Terry decides to join up with him. However, in the event it is Bob who is turned down whilst Terry finds that he has signed on for the duration.
Tue, Jan 19, 1965
Terry's sister Audrey is dating an 'Italian' hair-dresser called Mario (real name Ernie) and Terry is disapproving. Knowing that Audrey dislikes drunken men he takes Mario to the pub to get him legless before his date whilst Bob is to divert Audrey. But Audrey is wise to the subterfuge and plays along by throwing herself at Bob.
Tue, Jan 12, 1965
Drowning their sorrows in the pub one rainy night after being stood up, Terry and Bob fall into conversation with Wally, an Australian from Adelaide who is visiting the area and is very critical of it, painting a picture of opportunity Down Under to the likely lads. They are tempted but it is inevitable that they will not go.
Fri, Jul 15, 1966
The likely lads have been invited to a friend's stag night and arrive at the pub before everybody else. They meet Duggie, an old friend who is now married with a child, a fact which is restricting his social life. Bob and Terry decide to show him a good time, in short what he has missed and they, so far, have been lucky enough to maintain.
Tue, Jul 13, 1965
Terry and Bob are now feeling the disastrous aftermath of living beyond their means with the girls from the department store and are well and truly skint. With a foreign holiday on the horizon and no cash to finance it looks as if it will have to be called off - unless they can get down to the Labour Exchange and get themselves part time jobs.
Tue, Jul 20, 1965
The lads are guests at a wedding, where they seem to be the only unmarried men in attendance and uncles and aunts keep asking them when it will be their turn to tie the knot. Can it be that even the perpetual bachelor Terry believes that it might be time for him to settle down. After all, he and Bob seem to be the oldest male singletons there.
Tue, Jun 22, 1965
After being less than complimentary about Jack's singing abilities, the likely lads are more or less coerced into taking part in a talent contest night at the pub with a cash prize. Bob is in it for the glory but Terry has an ulterior motive, to try and impress Rhona the barmaid, who put him up to it.
Tue, Jul 6, 1965
The lads are attracted to Angela and Lynn, two girls who work in a department store and, in order to stand a chance of pulling them, they pretend to be well off, spending a great deal of money in the store. Unfortunately this means that, come the double date, the girls assume they are wealthy - which, thanks to their throwing their cash around, they are anything but.
Tue, Jun 15, 1965
Terry and Bob have a double date with two nurses but have nowhere to take them so they offer to baby-sit for workmate Jack whilst he takes his wife out. They try to persuade the girls that the baby belongs to them but are so hopeless at pacifying it when it wakes up and cries that the lie soon becomes apparent.