James comes to the help of Sister Rose when she finds a dog stuck in a bog. He takes quite a liking to the animal and takes it home as a pet even though he's determined that its quite ill, perhaps terminally so. Helen disapproves and thinks he's raising the children's hopes for no good reason. Tristan is now working for the Ministry of Agriculture. He's also taken up, again, with Debbie Mount but to do so has had to convince her abstemious father that he's now taken the pledge and is a regular churchgoer. Siegfried treats a cat that has taken up residence in Walt Barnett's scrapyard. Someone is clearly abusing the animal but the irascible Barnett seems to have taken quite a liking to it. With their wedding anniversary soon upon them, Helen is after James' haircut but he's downright afraid of the rather rough and tumble barber.
—garykmcd