Series 2
| Episode No. | Series No. | Title | Director | Writer | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "I'm Going Slightly Mad" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 8 September 1992 (1992-09-08) |
| Bill wakes up with Angelo in bed next to her, but when she goes downstairs to find Rona has become a nun, David is playing with a rifle, and Jenny has a punker boyfriend and a tattoo, the shock of it all wakes her up again; she was dreaming. Bored by being unemployed her only relief is the telephone calls from her mother, but when she loses track of he time, she becomes late for signing on. The car breaks down as she makes her way to her appointment, but she finds a mechanic is in the area, who starts to fix it; however, things turn disastrous for her when Anneka Rice of Challenge Anneka arrives to take the mechanic for an episode of her show, and a policeman pulls Bill over as she pushes the car through a red light. Bill finally gets to her DHSS appointment, but her advisor is a rather unstable woman who starts acting more like a client than Bill. Ben hires a new assistant, Chris, but he and Bill are alarmed to discover Chris is actually Christine, the obnoxious meat counter girl from the supermarket. Feeling bored, useless and sick of spending her time at home, Bill decides to take a job with Rona in an airline meals factory. That night, exhausted from the day's events, Bill falls asleep on the couch, while on the television the local news reports a fatal motorcycle accident; a photograph of the victim reveals him to be Angelo. | |||||
| 8 | 2 | "Bedtime for Bonzo" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 15 September 1992 (1992-09-15) |
| Bill tell Jenny that she hates her new job at the factory, and the hours are causing a strain on her well-being. Meanwhile, Ben catches the flu and Bill also has to watch the next-door neighbours' dog, Bonzo, who suffers from flatulence. When the dog becomes sick with digestive problems the Porters must decide whether to put him down or let him live in pain. Fed up with Ben, Bill gives him some of the dog's asprins but in the night he starts feeling worse and begins to vomit. David has become fascinated by death, especially after a house fire down the street has killed some people and he wants to watch as their bodies are being brought out. Bill becomes worried when she finds his Action Man tied up in a freezer bag, and then asks for ketchup to use for "playing accidents". Ben is upset that Bill put the dog to sleep and asks if she would do the same to him, given his current situation. In the middle of the night David buries his teddy bear in a shoe-box coffin in the back garden. | |||||
| 9 | 3 | "One Night in Bangkok" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 22 September 1992 (1992-09-22) |
| Bill gets into trouble at work for sending a rescue note in one of the in-flight food trays claiming she is being held against her will. To cheer her up, Rona tries to persuade her to go on a girls' night out and see a group of male strippers, but she initially refuses. Tina and Brian arrive to tell Ben that their estranged father Frank is returning to the country, and invite him and Bill to their house for a reunion. At the reunion, Tina cannot accept that her father has married Darrani, a Thai woman, but Brian gets on with Frank as they have similar misogynistic views, which disgusts Bill and Ben. Rona and Bill decide to take Tina and Darrani to the strip show, where Rona discovers one of the strippers is her ex-fiancé, and Frank makes a trip to the Porter house to make amends with Ben for being absent all his life. Meanwhile, David brings home a Saint Christopher medal he found when playing in a graveyard. | |||||
| 10 | 4 | "Hormones" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 29 September 1992 (1992-09-29) |
| Imagining himself to be the Terminator, Ben drives aggressively on the way to Parents' Evening at David's school, and cuts up a Ford Escort. Bill begins to wonder if Ben is influencing David's growing obsession with violence and death, though Ben denies it. Everyone thinks Jenny is malingering to avoid taking part in P.E. until Rona confronts her about her behaviour. Ben spots the driver of the Escort and issues a challenges to the driver, but when he finds out the driver is disabled, he feels ashamed. Bill fears she is pregnant, and buys a home pregnancy test. When she discovers one of the testers is missing, she thinks Jenny is pregnant, and Rona has to convince Jenny to confide in Bill that she is suffering from bulimia. Ben challenges the Escort driver to a race, but loses; and he reveals to Bill that he took the pregnancy test and it says he is pregnant. | |||||
| 11 | 5 | "The Skeletons in the Cupboard" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 6 October 1992 (1992-10-06) |
| Bill finds out about Angelo's death, and Ben begins to film everyone on his camcorder, hoping to send the footage into You've Been Framed, a candid-camera television show. Feeling unfulfilled and strained by the hours she has to work at the airline meals factory, Bill decides to find another job. At home, the family are still unwilling to help with the chores, so Bill tells Jenny and David they can be in charge of the household for the night; however, Bill and Ben refuse to do what they are told, so they are sent to their bedroom without being given their tea. Bill sets off to the interview wearing the Saint Christopher that David found in the graveyard. Meanwhile, Rona agrees to go on a date with Gordon, the stripper, and her ex-fiancé. Gordon takes Rona to a singles bar, where he discovers that since their break-up, Rona has been bed-hopping with many men. Bill's job interview does not go well; she finds her interviewer is naked and thinks he is a dog after suffering a nervous breakdown since being made redundant, and discovers that the job she came to interview for does not actually exist. At home, Ben is still filming Bill, hoping she will do something silly so he can send it to the television show. Under the stress of being constantly filmed, and with feelings of failure, Bill breaks down until Rona arrives and reveals she is marrying Gordon, and wants Bill to do the catering for the wedding. | |||||
| 12 | 6 | "Bird on a Wire" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 13 October 1992 (1992-10-13) |
| Rona gets ready for her shotgun wedding to Gordon, and the Porters' house is in chaos as Bill prepares the food. David keeps complaining that he feels sick and wants to stay at home, and Ben decides to escape the house and hide out in the car as he is constantly getting in the way. David joins him, and asks his father about sex and love, but Ben does not have an answer. Bill finds David's dead badger in the kitchen and realises she has decorated the mini trifles with David's fake eyes. As she shouts at him, she notices a cut on his finger and sends him to the bathroom for a plaster. Bill arrives at Rona's house, but through the kitchen window sees her hanging from the light fitting in her wedding dress. Assuming she has hanged herself, Bill puts her head through the cat flap to find out what happened; Rona explains she was changing a light bulb when the ladder fell and she is now trapped. Relieved, Bill tries to crawl back through the cat flap but finds her head is stuck. With the help of a passing door-to-door salesman, Rona and Bill are set free, but back at the Porter house, Jenny discovers David is unconscious. Rona tells Bill and Ben to take David to the hospital in her wedding car, leaving Rona trying to hail a taxi. A doctor tells Bill and Ben that David is suffering from tetanus, and is in a serious condition. | |||||
| 13 | 7 | "Thank Your Lucky Stars" | Richard Boden | Andrew Marshall | 20 October 1992 (1992-10-20) |
| While Bill, Ben and Jenny await news of David from the doctor, Rona is waiting at a bus stop to get to her wedding. At the hospital, Bill blames herself for not listening to David when he complained of being ill, and compares herself to an incompetent mother who wears a shell suit and appears on the local news when their child has died after playing on train tracks, ignorant as to why he would be dead. Jenny professes her guilt for not checking up on him when she was more concerned with a spot. Ben, however,initially feels David's situation is not his fault before being reminded that he took David to have his tetanus booster but Ben couldn't stand the sight of the needle and was unable to make another appointment. On the bus, Rona is sat next to a talkative old lady whose conversation is convincing Rona to back out of the wedding. While David lies in a coma, Angelo the biker appears to him in a dream, and tells him that he has to make the decision to live or die. David tells Angelo that he feels unwanted and unloved by his family, and is not sure whether to continue living. When Rona arrives at the church, she sees her side of the seating is filled with her boyfriends, and at the last minute runs out on her groom. In David's hospital room, Ben begins talking to the unconscious David, explaining that he loves him and the family want him back. David suddenly awakes, and throws up over Ben. |
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