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- A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.
- The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself.
- Social satire on life on Cambridge College - from the headmaster to the students and even one memorable bedder...
- Jack Lithgow is a British government minister who travels to Pakistan to discuss a new aid agreement aimed at reducing opium production in the country which farmers cultivate it and local organized crime figures harness it for heroin production for worldwide distribution. Jack also encounters Fazal, a local poppy farmer in the North-West Frontier provinces who grows opium poppies since the local drug traffickers give him huge amounts of cash for the sale of the crop. But when the Pakistani Army arrives to destroy the fields, Fazal finds himself out of work. Meanwhile in Hamburg, Germany, Karl is a high-profile businessman who gets arrested for drug trafficking which stuns his British wife, Helen, who does not know about his secret work of drug trafficking on the sides.
- After returning to England from his visit to Pakistan, Jack becomes distracted from his work to stop the drug flow from the Middle East by a family crisis involving his 17-year-old daughter, Caroline, who becomes addicted to heroin after carousing with her outgoing school mates all of whom are addicts to the same drugs that come from the country Jack is trying to prevent it from coming from. Meanwhile in Hamburg, Helen struggles to stabilizes her family's finances and safeguard her two young daughters as her financial situation worsens and Karl is officially charged with drug trafficking, while Agents Dieter and Ulli try to make their case against Karl. In Pakistan, Fazal arrives in Karachi to look for work when he meets and falls in with Tariq Butt, a major drug trafficker.
- Helen's desperation grows as she wades deeper into her imprisoned husband's world of drug trafficking despite constant police surveillance of her house and realizes that she, out of blind loyalty to her husband, will not only have to take over his drug smuggling business to support her expensive and lavish lifestyle, but also use his contacts to try to get him released. In London, Jack's continuing trouble with Caroline causes his marriage to disintegrate as his daughter refuses to go into rehab which leads to her running away from home, and his wife emotionally begins falling apart. In Pakistan, Fazal, now working as Tariq's chauffeur, observes the drug lord's mastery of the drug trafficking system.
- In England, Jack confronts the mounting conflict between his political and personal lives as Caroline's drug problem becomes more out of control and his advisers tell him that the war against drug trafficking is unwindable. In Pakistan, Tariq brings Fazal to one of his remote heroin making laboratories where he tests Fazal's loyalty. In Germany, Helen launches her own counter-offensive against the police to destroy their case against her husband as Karl's trial for drug trafficking begins.
- Jack returns to Pakistan to press the arrests in exchange for the British aide agreement which sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences for Fazal. Meanwhile, Helen also travels to Pakistan to do business with Tariq for another shipment of raw opium to Germany. But Tariq asks her to prove her loyalty to him first by trying to smuggle heroin with her back to Germany, while Ulli, still reeling from the murder of his partner, becomes determined to nail Helen who proves to be just as slippery and dangerous as her imprisoned husband.
- Jack returns to England utterly changed by his downbeat experience in Pakistan, with his career and family life in ruins as he is forced to resign his post, as well as struggle to help Caroline and get her into a rehab program before it is too late for her. Back in Pakistan, Fazal's wife, Roomana, goes to work for Tariq to secure her husband's release from prison in which Fazal decides to resort to drastic steps to get out of the drug making business for good. In Germany, Ulli prepares to intercept Helen's first shipment of heroin from Pakistan just as she works behind the scenes to secure Karl's release from jail so he can resume his drug trafficking business.
- When the master of Porterhouse College, Cambridge dies of a Porterhouse blue, a stroke brought on by excessive living, having rejected all likely candidates to succeed him, the post passes to former Minister of Social Security Sir Godber Evans. This is not a popular choice with the staff, who are snobs, as former student Evans was a grammar school boy. Notably aghast is head porter Skullion, whose ancestors have worked at the college for over five hundred years and who resents the upstart and his pushy wife, Lady Mary. The new master is progressive, intent on overturning centuries old traditions and planning a new, unisex college, named after his wife. Earnest research student Lionel Zipser meets Lady Mary at a feminist lecture but this makes him late returning to college and he accidentally knocks Skullion unconscious climbing over the wall.
- Despite his disdain for Zipser's studiousness Skullion does not report him but Zipser has another problem - he has the hots for Mrs. Biggs, his chubby, middle-aged cleaner. After a disastrous effort to get condoms in a pub vending machine Zipser goes to the suppliers and ends up with four gross of contraceptives by mistake. Sir Godber learns from the bursar that Porterhouse is broke and, to cut costs, plans to bring in outside caterers and launch an appeal as well as accepting scholarship students of both sexes. An appalled Skullion seeks the help of former student Sir Cathcart De'ath, a loopy aristocrat, to try and stop the master's innovations.
- Sensing his attraction, the bedder Mrs. Biggs creeps into Zipser's room for sex. She ignores his protests, but causes an explosion from the unknowingly blocked chimney. Sir Godber and Scullion clash over the consequences.
- Cornelius Carrington comes to Porterhouse to make his film but it is an act of revenge for unhappy student days and he distorts the result to make the college seem like a salacious hotbed of sex. Skullion is interviewed live on his television show where he becomes a national hero for exposing the bribery and buying of degrees represented by his list. This plays into Sir Godber's hands as he intends to make all college decisions by himself in future. As the dean takes the list to Sir Cathcart to blackmail several luminaries into defeating Sir Godber, Skullion, who has been left shares now worth half a million pounds by a former master, takes them to Sir Godber to bargain for his job back but in the resultant argument Sir Godber hits his head on a wall. Soon afterwards he dies, mouthing 'Skullion' but the dean assumes he is announcing the name of his successor. Skullion is duly made the new master and the college returns to its old excesses thanks to his money though the shock gives him a Porterhouse blue.