Three elderly men from Yorkshire wonder around their town, around the countryside and look for ways to kill some time and feel young again.
1 | Jurassic No Parking |
| Howard wants to buy Marina a birthday gift, but he is confined to quarters, so he enlists the help of the trio to buy her something special. Barry has won a model dinosaur in a competition. Alvin pans for gold and Miss Davenport joins the ladies for their coffee morning. |
2 | The General’s Greatest Battle |
| The lifelike effigy of the old General has been spruced up for the annual parade. Nora is to be on a float playing his wife! |
3 | Spores |
| Clegg, Truly and Billy meet Lionel who has a habit of being unpredictable, so when he abandons his wife, Mavis, in the hills she isn’t too surprised. Mavis joins the ladies for their coffee morning and it doesn’t make her feel any better. Alvin tries to make Nora Batty smile so he can take a picture of her. |
4 | Happy Birthday Robin Hood |
| Both Barry and Billy wear a green suit in honour of Robin Hood’s birthday. Auntie Wainwright sells Howard an adventure kit. Marina is spotted in a wedding dress much to Howard’s dismay. Alvin offers to paint Nora Batty, Miss Davenport tries to start an evening course in romantic novels and the two policemen get stuck up a tree ! |
5 | Who’s That With Barry and Glenda? – It’s Not Barry and Glenda |
| Glenda suspects Barry of seeing another woman and Barry suspects Glenda of seeing another man...Truly of the yard investigates. Miss Davenport has to be rescued from a bramble bush and Alvin takes up sculpting much to Nora Batty’s disapproval. |
6 | An Apple a Day |
| Badgered by Nora Batty, Truly, Alvin, Entwistle, Ivy, Pearl and Roz volunteer to take an elderly couple out for the day but their son escapes and he is notorious for giving away apples. Howard and Marina escape to a country pub and Barry dons his wild west gear. |
7 | Barry Becomes a Psychopathic Killer But Only Part Time |
| Smiler gets a gold digging admirer. Barry gets the part of a gangster in his amateur dramatics group so he needs an appropriate costume from Auntie Wainwrights shop. Alvin listens for signs of life from outer space. |
8 | Things To Do When Your Wife Runs Off With a Turkish Waiter |
| Barry and Glenda are surprised when a man they met on holiday pays a visit. |
9 | Beware of Laughing at Nora’s Hats |
| Alvin tries to get Nora in his sidecar and in doing so resolves a 30-year feud between Nora and ex best friend Audrey Craig with the help of a brass band. Glenda buys Barry some explosive golf shoes and Smiler becomes Barry’s caddy. |
10 | Yours Truly – If You’re Not Careful |
| The musical ’Rose Marie’ comes to town so Howard, Marina and Smiler dress for the occasion. Truly is worried when he gets a phone call from the former Mrs. Truelove and then hears a strange woman is trying to contact him, she turns out to be Entwistle in a dress! |
11 | Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley |
| Norman Clegg is writing his memoirs, but is having trouble remembering people’s names, including a girl from school who had blonde pigtails and liked licorice. Ivy and Nora recall that she was Audrey Needham, now the Widow Winstanley. Truly, Alvin, and Billy Hardcastle scheme to bring the widow together with Clegg. |
