Jill and Trevor are still living together in unmarried bliss and have the happy addition to their family of "First Born". They are still under the surveillance of the defrocked Bank Manager from over the road - who sends video footage of their activities to the now Detective Inspector Hobson PhD. Jill's return from maternity leave to San Quentin High, as an unwed mother, upsets Mr Wheeler's morality further.
Big Al and Little Norm return to ask the dynamic duo to help them hide a political refugee by the name of Ivan. How can Jill refuse? As he turns out to love jazz, Trevor supports the project. In return, Big Al helps out the cash strapped San Quentin by supplying school equipment - which falls off the back of the lorry of the jolly gravedigger from the previous season.
However, Ivan is not all that he seems, and when Mr Swinburn turns up, things start to get - well, complicated. Just a simple tale of ordinary folk in a world that seems to be turning even madder.
The pieces are so of their time - the joys of living in the UK during the last days of the conservative government, or so we thought. Plater reflects perfectly the times for ordinary folk in a funny and engaging script that keeps you gripped to the last of the (sadly only) four episodes. I have watched them all again recently after having watched these originally as a school pupil/university student. Even funnier with the joy of hindsight. James Bolem and Barbarah Flynn (who my dad fancies the cardigans off of) are brilliant again and the reasons for them being in love are made even more clear - fab stuff.
Big Al and Little Norm return to ask the dynamic duo to help them hide a political refugee by the name of Ivan. How can Jill refuse? As he turns out to love jazz, Trevor supports the project. In return, Big Al helps out the cash strapped San Quentin by supplying school equipment - which falls off the back of the lorry of the jolly gravedigger from the previous season.
However, Ivan is not all that he seems, and when Mr Swinburn turns up, things start to get - well, complicated. Just a simple tale of ordinary folk in a world that seems to be turning even madder.
The pieces are so of their time - the joys of living in the UK during the last days of the conservative government, or so we thought. Plater reflects perfectly the times for ordinary folk in a funny and engaging script that keeps you gripped to the last of the (sadly only) four episodes. I have watched them all again recently after having watched these originally as a school pupil/university student. Even funnier with the joy of hindsight. James Bolem and Barbarah Flynn (who my dad fancies the cardigans off of) are brilliant again and the reasons for them being in love are made even more clear - fab stuff.