Fri, Feb 13, 2009
Amber is anxious to get in with her new boss,Marianne, who is a keen cyclist but she never learnt to ride a bike as a child so Roy agrees to teach her. Tom is of course jealous but discovers that a lump sum would be added to his pension if he was married. Since none of the women from his past offer any hope he bribes Sally to marry him. Things start well but inevitably he ends up single again.
Thu, Aug 12, 2010
Amber has finally persuaded Steve to propose to her and Tom is doubly happy. Not only has Sally offered to foot the bill for the lavish reception but they will be in-laws...and possibly more. However both the bride and groom start to experience cold feet and have their doubts about the wedding. Will it take place? And if not who will go on the honeymoon flight?
Fri, Feb 27, 2009
Sally suggests the old guys might like to have a holiday away from it all in a Scottish croft she would have stayed in with Mark had he not died. Tom is bored to tears and asks Amber to visit them and bring some DVDs. Having just split with her boyfriend Steve, Sally's son, Amber picks up Malcolm, a local ,in the pub and brings him back to the croft. However Sally and Steve arrive unexpectedly and Roy has to ensure Steve does not find out about Malcolm - as well as coping with the fact that he thinks the croft is haunted. Roy makes his play for Sally, asking her to move to the country permanently with him but she only sees him as a friend.
Fri, Mar 6, 2009
Having been celibate for many years and appreciating that he will get nowhere with Sally, Roy goes to Soho and visits Katia, a prostitute from Belarus. Amber has a crush on Phil, the handsome vicar, and takes Tom to church with her. Tom has also started seeing Katia and finds it hard to balance with being a church-goer. Eventually Roy and Tom each discover that Katia has been pleasuring them both. Will they fall out over her or will they carry on living together as two ill-matched old guys?
Fri, Feb 6, 2009
A depressed Roy goes to see a therapist and tells him about his frustrating unrequited love for Sally. Unfortunately the therapist, Ned, and Sally actually meet and are attracted to each other. To make matters worse,Roy has been acting as Sally's campaign manager in her bid to save the local post office from closing and at the celebratory party who should turn up to take Sally's attention from him but Ned?
Fri, Feb 20, 2009
When Mark, an old flame of Sally's, moves in with her Tom feels doubly isolated as Roy gets on very well with him and to make matters worse his daughter Amber wants to know why he has never said he loves her. Sally and Amber discover that they are both fans of the poetry of W.H.Auden whose 'Funeral Blues' Tom claims to know off by heart. Unfortunately this is about to be put to the test.
Fri, Jan 30, 2009
Tom and Roy are two grumpy pensioners sharing a house and lusting after next door neighbour Sally, though the feeling is not mutual. When Sally throws a party hoping to match her son with Tom's daughter Amber, the gents are happy to help in the hopes that this will ingratiate them with Sally, But then Tom falls over and Roy's time is occupied in looking after him, and when they actually make it to the party,both are caught short and discovered in an embarrassing situation by Sally.
Thu, Jul 15, 2010
With Sally on a spa weekend the old guys decide to get her out of their system by doing evening classes where Tom makes a date with administrator Joanna but gets side-tracked so he asks Roy to entertain her until he can make it. Joanna likes them both and they end up on a triple date,lying about themselves to impress her. However,she is already spoken for and only accepted the date as she likes meeting new people.
Thu, Aug 5, 2010
Sally is admitted to hospital for a knee operation and Roy and Tom vie with each other to be the more attentive visitor. This leads to Roy having to pretend to be a Welsh friend of another patient,Len, and Tom being diagnosed with a rare skin complaint though his time as a text book case is brief. The pair combine to do a good deed for Len but miscalculate at the undertakers.
Thu, Jul 8, 2010
Due to a feud in which neither will admit it's their turn to buy the food Sally sees the old guys having a meagre breakfast so she gets new boyfriend Keith,a headmaster,to send pupil Roland round with supplies as part of the school's Help the Aged scheme. Having lost miserably in the pub quiz to deli owner Rajan,who accuses them of being old and forgetful,Tom and Roy decide to drop Sally from the team and replace her with hot new librarian Barbara but she won't play so they drag Roland along instead. He gets drunk and throws up in the toilet. Roy,looking for him,ends up spying on Keith in a cubicle,and,as an excuse,explains that he's very old and not quite with it.