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S4.E1 ∙ Love's Young Dream

Fri, Jan 09, 1987

Simon has to accept that Samantha is growing up when she tells him that she is in love with a teen-aged boy called Jeremy and his paternal,protective instincts surface. When Jeremy asks him to tell Samantha something on his behalf,he fears the worst but the news is that Jeremy has to move abroad with his family and he tells Samantha himself. She is upset but comes to accept it. Derek,meanwhile, finds that his wife is pregnant.

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S4.E2 ∙ Marriage in Haste

Fri, Jan 16, 1987

Simon and Samantha are pleased for Nell that her friendship with Pinky is progressing and encourage Pinky to propose to her. They are all shocked therefore when she meets Major Pendleton who,whilst having a wife in Canada, books the local church for a wedding in the name of Pendleton. It turns out that the groom is actually the major's ancient father while Nell and Pinky decide that they are happy being just good friends.

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S4.E3 ∙ The Rhinoceros and the Pussycat

Fri, Jan 23, 1987

Simon falls out with Nell after rejecting her offer to help in the agency. Hurt,she announces that she is moving to Spain. Samantha attempts to get them to reconcile but in vain. Then Isobel tells Simon that Samantha has left home and will only return when her grand-mother and father make up.. . which they do,leaving Samantha to emerge from her room,where she had been hiding all along. Derek smartens himself up and wins a fashion contract.

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S4.E4 ∙ Poor Uncle Derek

Fri, Jan 30, 1987

Samantha has a pet hamster and calls it Uncle Derek,due to its facial resemblance to her father's business partner. The hamster gets ill and,when Fergus overhears Samantha bewailing the fact that 'Poor old Uncle Derek might die',he gets the wrong idea. Derek himself has back pains and is not cheered to hear Fergus's condolences. Preparing for the worst he signs over his partnership to Fergus and is not best pleased when the truth comes out and he is revealed to be in no danger from dying but given Fergus his share of the business.

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S4.E5 ∙ The Lost Weekend

Fri, Feb 06, 1987

When Samantha tells him he is neglecting her in favour of his work,Simon decides not to make his planned business trip to Zurich but to let Derek go instead. Unfortunately,Derek misses the plane and, so as not to lose face with his wife,stays at the Harraps for the weekend before going to the Swiss Centre to buy presents for the family supposedly from his stay in Zurich.

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S4.E6 ∙ Kissing Cousins

Fri, Feb 13, 1987

Simon is left a large amount of money in a will but it has to be shared with another family member,whose surname is Appleby, the same as Fergus,who is not in Simon's good books,having borrowed and broken some Eye Catchers equipment. Simon is relieved to find that he is not related to Fergus after all and gives some of his inheritance to Isobel's brother to set up his own business.

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S4.E7 ∙ French Leave

Fri, Feb 20, 1987

Derek's daughter Emma and Samantha are due to go on a French exchange visit but Derek is not sure if he can afford it and Simon then believes Samantha should not go so that her friend is not envious. Finally Nell comes up with the money and,at the evening to meet the host families, Simon finds Samantha getting very chummy indeed with son of the house,the handsome Michel.

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S4.E8 ∙ A Single Night of Love

Fri, Feb 27, 1987

Isobel has met a young teacher Alan, who is shortly leaving for Africa and who asks her to his flat for 'a single night of love'. Fearing he is just using her for sex, she gets Samantha to ask Simon for his advice, which leads to a misunderstanding when he thinks she is referring to herself and her boyfriend. However he finally tells both of them to say No, which they do. Isobel is proved right. Alan just wanted her for sex but Simon must now play by his own rules when he has the opportunity to spend a night with a girl-friend.

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S4.E9 ∙ Lost and Found

Fri, Mar 06, 1987

Samantha is unhappy when Simon seems likely to marry his current girl-friend Ellen. Whilst he initially denies any marriage plans he realises that he really wants to walk her down the aisle. WWhen Nell meets Ellen she is struck by her resemblance to her daughter, Simon's late wife. Ellen believes Simon only wants to marry her because of this resemblance and calls off the engagement.

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S4.E10 ∙ A Star Is Gorn

Fri, Mar 13, 1987

Liz, the Eye Catchers secretary, gets the chance to star in a commercial filming in the Canary Islands and so Nell suggests Simon replace her with her friend Winifred, who has split from her husband and has time on her hands. Though efficient Winifred is no ray of sunshine and then Liz returns - her acting career cut short when the director got fresh with her. Simon cannot fairly sack Winifred so he plots to get her back with her husband, a double glazing salesman, on the premise that he needs new windows. The plan works and Winifred returns to her spouse, who has hit Simon with a big double glazing bill.

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S4.E11 ∙ Pulling Power

Fri, Mar 20, 1987

Isobel recommends her excellent dentist to Simon but as he is leaving the office for his appointment he is waylaid by the formidable Mrs. Grant who accuses her son Kevin's girl-friend,Samantha of being a punk who is leading him into bad ways. In the dentist's waiting room Samantha tells her father that she and Kevin are only pretending to date each other as a cover as both of them are really seeing punks. Simon then goes in to see the dentist - who is Mrs. Grant.

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S4.E12 ∙ An Offer You Can't Confuse

Fri, Mar 27, 1987

A larger agency wants to take over Eye Catchers, employing Simon but not Derek who,unaware of this,comes to Simon's to ask for a rise though Simon is out and Samantha tells Derek she too wants a rise in her allowance. She gets Isobel to broker this but due to confusion Simon gives Isobel the rise before agreeing to Samantha doing a paper round. At the office he and Derek discuss old times and Simon feels unable to take up the offer and ditch his old friend.

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S4.E13 ∙ Waiting for Adrian

Fri, Apr 03, 1987

Simon is perturbed that Nell has become very morbid,wanting to discuss her will and funeral and assures her that she has many good years left. Derek's wife Muriel is about to give birth and,if the child is a boy,Derek wants to call him Adrian. After one false alarm Muriel starts to go into labour at the Harrap house and,whilst everyone else panics,Nell delivers the baby,a girl called Adrienne. All thoughts of death are forgotten and Samantha declares she would like to have children - one day.

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