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S4.E1 ∙ Financial Difficulties

Wed, Sep 08, 1993

Diana is horrified to find that she is unaccountably in the red and goes up to London to cause a fuss, only to discover that all her investments have gone into receivership. Back in Bayview, Tom's room is suffering from severe rising damp, so he comes up with a solution that will sort things out for both of them: They will live together in one large room. Diana accepts this but draws the line at being carried over the threshold.

7.6 /10

S4.E2 ∙ Living Together

Wed, Sep 15, 1993

To Jane's disapproval, Diana and Tom are now living in sin, or rather together, but they have already started to argue, since they can't decide whose furniture they should be using. A new resident, Mrs. Kent from Gwent, arrives. She is withdrawn and nervous, so Tom and Diana put on an act of being very happy together in order to bring her out of her shell. They do get a result--but only when she sees what they are really like.

7.5 /10

S4.E3 ∙ Living in Miserable Sin

Wed, Sep 22, 1993

Living together is not the bed of roses that Tom and Diana were expecting. He criticizes her sloppiness and her funny little ways, such as feeding acorns to squirrels with a slingshot. She decides to move out and goes to stay with Sarah to be a nanny to baby Diana but this is not her forte. Tom misses her, especially when Geoffrey decides to move in with him again.

7.3 /10

S4.E4 ∙ Shelves

Wed, Sep 29, 1993

Geoffrey is getting on Tom's nerves with his obsession with shelves, which he keeps putting up all over the unit, so it's a blessing when he gets a call from Marion, asking him to return home. Tom is not the only resident who is missing Diana as they see her as a source of advice, but Diana herself, a thoroughly incompetent nanny, is missing Bayview. After ruining a fashion show she returns "home" to Tom.

7.6 /10

S4.E5 ∙ The Seance

Wed, Oct 06, 1993

While Mr. Kwok demonstrates karate to the Bayview males, who vie with one another to impress Jane, Tom is introduced to Jane's psychic, Marjorie Evans, and asks to be put in touch with his dead wife. A seance is duly organized, but Marion has bribed the medium to give a fake message that Tom's wife disapproves of his relationship with Diana. However, Diana exposes the plot.

7.7 /10

S4.E6 ∙ The Promotional Video

Wed, Oct 13, 1993

A promotional video is being made to extol the virtues of Bayview, and several residents will have speaking parts, including Tom, Jenny, and Basil--who sees himself as the new James Bond. The excitement is such that few will heed Diana's view that it is just another money-making scam by the idiot Bains--except Tom, who joins her in sabotaging the project by substituting footage of Marion and Geoffrey giving a rather more realistic look at life.

7.4 /10

S4.E7 ∙ Adult Education

Wed, Oct 20, 1993

When Tom and Diana's life-drawing art classes at the local college are terminated and complaining yields no joy, they decide to instigate their own at Bayview. Harvey is to be the model, posing as Julius Caesar, bare beneath his toga for authenticity (or so Diana tells him). But when an inspector calls at Bayview, Diana undoes the knot holding the toga in place--leaving Harvey publicly nude. As a result, he has a breakdown and must go to a clinic.

7.6 /10

S4.E8 ∙ Sent to Coventry

Wed, Oct 27, 1993

A strange reversal of fortune overtakes Bayview with the hospitalised Harvey seen as the victim and Diana as his tormentor. She is sent to Coventry and there are threats of staff strikes unless she goes. Help comes from a most unexpected source: Marion, whose pharmaceutical knowledge lets her see that Harvey is faking his condition. Diana is vindicated, but Tom makes her apologize to Harvey so that she will be allowed to stay; he too knew that Harvey was faking, but thought that the humility would do her good.

7.4 /10

S4.E9 ∙ Waterworks

Wed, Nov 03, 1993

After drinking a lot at a reunion, Tom has trouble passing water and becomes very sensitive about it. He tries to keep it from Diana but his secretive behaviour initially leads her to believe that he is seeing another woman. Ultimately he sees a doctor and goes to hospital and she is upset that he had not told her the truth.

7.8 /10

S4.E10 ∙ The Conference

Wed, Nov 10, 1993

A conference on the needs of the elderly is to be held, and Diana is asked to be the local representative. At the same time, Tom is waiting on tests to see if he has prostate cancer, so Diana researches the subject for the conference. Although he doesn't yet have his test results, Tom declares his love for Diana.

7.9 /10

S4.E11 ∙ Another Christmas at Bayview

Wed, Dec 22, 1993

Jane's grandfather Jamie arrives at Bayview, where Tom and Diana are putting on a Christmas play for the residents, though Diana is as curmudgeonly as ever in respect of the festive season. She and Tom play a trick on Harvey that seriously injures him, and he undergoes a personality change for the better.

7.3 /10