Episode 1
Financial Difficulties
Sep 9, 1993
Diana is horrified to find that she is in the red as all her investments have gone into receivership. Tom's room has severe rising damp and has the solution for them both. They will live together in one large room. Diana accepts but draws the line at being carried over the threshold.
Episode 2
Living Together
Sep 16, 1993
Tom and Diana struggle to adapt to each other's habits and routines, and battle over whose furniture should remain. Diana realises new resident Mrs. Kent is attempting to starve herself. They play happy families but only succeed when she sees what they are really like.
Episode 3
Living In Miserable Sin
Sep 23, 1993
Living together is not the bed of roses that Tom and Diana were expecting. They are critical of each other's ways so Diana decides to stay with Sarah to be a nanny to baby Diana - but this is not her forté. Tom misses her, especially when Geoffrey decides to move in with him again.
Episode 4
Shelves
Sep 30, 1993
Geoffrey is getting on Tom's nerves with his obsession with shelves, which he keeps putting up. Tom is not the only resident missing Diana as she is seen as a source of advice. Diana herself, a thoroughly incompetent nanny, is missing Bayview and after ruining a fashion show goes home to Tom.
Episode 5
The Seance
Oct 7, 1993
Tom is introduced to Jane's spiritualist, Marjorie Evans, who claims to have heard from Tom's dead wife. A seance is duly organised, but Marion has bribed the medium to give a fake message, saying that Tom's wife disapproves of his relationship with Diana. But Diana smells a rat.
Episode 6
The Promotional Video
Oct 14, 1993
A promotional video is being made to extol the virtues of Bayview and several residents are to have speaking parts, including Tom, Jenny and Basil, who sees himself as the new James Bond. Few heed Diana's view that it is just another money-making scam by the idiot Baines - except Tom, who joins her in sabotaging the project by substituting footage of Marion and Geoffrey giving a rather more realistic look at life.
Episode 7
Adult Education
Oct 21, 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. Baines is to be the model, posing as Julius Caesar, bare beneath his toga for authenticity - or so Diana tells him. When an inspector calls, Diana undoes the knot holding the toga in place, leaving Baines publicly nude. As a result, he has to go to a clinic.
Episode 8
Sent To Coventry
Oct 28, 1993
A strange reversal of fortune overtakes Bayview with the hospitalised Baines seen as the victim and Diana his tormentor. She is sent to Coventry and staff strike as Baines's dodgy dealings are put on hold. Help comes from an unexpected source - Marion, whose pharmaceutical knowledge leads her to see that Baines is faking his condition. Diana is vindicated though it's realised that Baines is a necessary evil. Tom persuades Diana to apologise to Baines, but hasn't told her Marion's revelation.
Episode 9
Waterworks
Nov 4, 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 goes to hospital and Diana feels guilty, wishing he had told her the truth.
Episode 10
The Conference
Nov 11, 1993
There is to be a conference on the needs of the elderly held, and Diana is asked to be the local representative. At the same time Tom is awaiting tests to see if he has prostate cancer, and so Diana researches the subject for the conference. Although the results are as yet undisclosed, Tom declares his love for Diana.
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