Episode list

Depressed vicar Dennis Sparrow is conducting the funeral of ex-Bayview resident Jimmy but is making heavy weather of the eulogy and later tells Tom and Diana that he is losing his faith. Geoffrey is back with Marion but their life is far from being a bed of roses and it's suggested Dennis tries to help them sort out their marriage. Not long afterwards Geoffrey announces that Marion and the vicar are now living together in Wales. Meanwhile, Harvey is looking for a wife--a plan which does involve Jane, but only as a helper, not as a possible candidate.

Geoffrey, blaming Tom for introducing Marion to Dennis Sparrow, asks him to babysit his two children Skye and Tarquin. They are little monsters who run rings round their grandfather. Fortunately, Diana is on hand to put them in their place. Meanwhile, Harvey decides to find his wife by computer dating, and Jane decides that she can't wait to interfere with this plan.

It's April but it's still very cold, so the residents do not appreciate Harvey turning off the central heating and suggesting that the residents go jogging to keep warm. Tom and Diana decide to get jobs to escape icy-cold Bayview. Tom gets a job working with Geoffrey but makes such a pain of himself that in order to get rid of him, Geoffrey pays Harvey to turn the heating back on.

Harvey meets a girlfriend, Lucy Maitland, at the Hunt Ball. His mother is coming to visit before she goes to stay with his sister, so Jane poses as Lucy to put Harvey's mother off his new fiancee while Tom and Diana mercilessly ham it up pretending to be Harvey's parents talking to Lucy. The result: Lucy leaves and Jane has gotten Harvey back all to herself.

After being accused of selfishness, Diana volunteers at a charity for elderly people and takes up the cause of an old lady who is about to be evicted by unscrupulous estate agent Janet Follett. Diana learns that Ms. Follett is Harvey's new girlfriend and she has plans for Bayview that will not go down well with the residents. With a little help from Tom and her media background, Diana sets out to expose Ms. Follett.

Resident Dave Cartwright has died, and at his wake the drink flows freely among the inhabitants of Bayview. Tom and Diana certainly have knocked it back, and the next morning they wake up in bed together. Jane is shocked, but Tom suddenly becomes very popular with the ladies in Bayview's bowling team.

While Harvey is ecstatic about his new car, Tom and Diana plan a little holiday and start a vacation fund. Unfortunately, Geoffrey decides to invest the money in the new intensive-care wing that Harvey is having built for Bayview. When Tom finds out, he and Basil show how creative they can be when somebody conveniently leaves a bulldozer lying around, and the holiday is on.

Diana decides that she would like to enter politics and stands as an independent candidate for the Residents' Party. Harvey has been asked to stand for the Tories, so Tom decides that he will have some fun and join in the race too. Diana is forced to stand down when Harvey threatens to sack care-worker Jenny, but Diana makes sure that this is used against him too, and his political career is a non-starter.

Diana collapses and is rushed to hospital--where Harvey tries, unsuccessfully, to cop off with the female doctor. Diana convinces herself, erroneously, that she is dying of cancer and asks Tom to get her enough sleeping pills for her to end it all quickly. However, Tom has limits as to what he will do for his best friend.

The residents are getting wet waiting for a bus, but when it arrives the driver claims that they cannot get on for free for another four minutes as they are too early, so Diana hauls him off the bus and Tom hijacks it on behalf of the residents. This comes in handy later when a very pregnant Sarah arrives, seeking Diana's reluctant help to deliver her baby. A healthy girl is ultimately born and receives the perfect name.

It's Christmas and unsurprisingly Diana is not in the Christmas mood. She has already told off a very young Santa to whom she took her great-niece, and she's not bothered that there will be no entertainment, thanks to Harvey fiddling the funds to get a new jacket. When Tom takes over as the house pianist, earplugs are the order of the day for her. Her dire warnings seem to come true after Tom has invited Sally and Dave, a young homeless couple he met in town, to spend the holiday at Bayview and they run off with some of the residents' Christmas presents. However, after the police have been called, the couple return, having had the presents gift-wrapped, as a thank-you.