A pilot episode that aired in December 1984 with Colin Blakely and Gwen Taylor as the two leads. With over five-and-a-half million viewers, a full series was scheduled for September the following year.
Museum curator George Vance (Windsor Davies) is uninterested in his exhibits or any of the people that come to see them. Yet his life is turned around when he finds his Uncle Sherlock has left him an inheritance of a Lordship.
George and Enid visit their son's university to let him know of their change in circumstances, and to ask for his advice. But will George be able to stop alienating everyone around him?
George prepares to open his inheritance of a mobile fish and a chip van, but when he hires a new cook to help out, he's paranoid that she's out to seduce his son - and her husband, his daughter.
George's overbearing nature sees him outstaying his welcome in North Wales. With his solicitors conspiring against him to get him to leave the country, will George come unstuck, or will the wiser heads of his children save him?
George has decided he's going to dedicate his life to politics, and has a maiden speech written to mark the occasion. The only problem is, no one wants to hear it - not even Enid, when they both find themselves stuck on a deserted island.
The day has finally arrived: George is due to enter the House of Lords. To help him settle in, George requires the assistant of a fellow Lord, and one who likes him enough to help. George's family help him with a very small list.
