Created and written by Michael Aitken
Produced by Gareth Gwenlan
Directed by Gareth Gwenlan except when indicated
Regulars:
Graham Crowden as Tom Ballard
Stephanie Cole as Diana Trent
Daniel Hill as Harvey Bains
Janine Duvitski as Jane Edwards
Andrew Tourell as Geoffrey Ballard
Sandra Payne as Marion Ballard
1st series 1990
Episode One
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Ross Thomson as Davey
Hilda Campbell-Russell as Mrs. Stephens
Tom Ballard reluctantly arrives at Bayview Retirement Home with son
Geoffrey and daughter-in-law Marion, but finds a kindred soul in his
neighbor, Diana Trent and starts a hunger strike to obtain better
meals for the residents.
Episode Two
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Michael Bilton as Basil
Shawn Prendergast as policeman
Diana decides to take her niece's sports car for a spin to Brighton,
taking Tom along as her navigator, but Harvey puts a damper on things
by calling in the police.
Episode Three
Chris Breeze as old man
Ben Onwukwe as the doctor
Julie McDonald as the nurse
After a mild heart episode, Tom decides to commit suicide, leaving
it to Diana to give him a reason to live.
Episode Four
Leigh Samuels as Sally
Harvey tries to get rid of Diana using her concealed medical
condition as a lever, so she decides she must prepare Tom to live
without her.
Episode Five
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Richenda Carey as Greta Mueller
Michael Bilton as Basil Makepeace
Diana intervenes when Harvey uses Jane's new found religious mania as
an excuse to replace her with a stern German matron.
Episode Six
Lucy Aston as Sarah Snow
Brian Gwaspari as Dr. Darrow
After encouraging the Residents' Committee tp spend money, Harvey
tries again to get rid of Tom and Diana by appealing to his
son and her niece to have them both declared incompetent and unable
to care for themselves.
Episode Seven
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Paul Chapman as Ferguson
Tom and Diana get themselves involved in a local election when a
politician supporting foreign investments courts the elderly vote.
Episode Eight
Michael Bilton as Basil
John Crocker as the Vicar
Angela Bruce as Judy
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Joanna Vickers, Amanda Wise
After a spate of funerals, Tom volunteers to be a counselor for
residents on the verge of dying.
2nd Series 1991
Episode Nine
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Jane Downs as Daisy Williams
Chico Andrade as Antonio
directed by Sue Bysh
Tom loses interest in life until he meets a new Bayview resident, the
self-possessed Daisy Williams, who's more than a match for Diana.
Episode Ten
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Jane Downs as Daisy Williams
Michael Bilton as Basil
Patricia Leslie as Betty
The estrangment between Tom and Diana allows Daisy to take over the
resident leadership of Bayview, and to institute some radical
changes.
Episode Eleven
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Michael Bilton as Basil
Patricia Leslie as Betty
Dean Lepley as Ben Fraser
Tom and Diana turn to sleuthing when Harvey threatens to call in the
police to investigate some missing jewelry, and their efforts uncover
a kleptomaniac.
Episode Twelve
Lucy Aston as Sarah Snow
Christopher Bowen as Sam Parry
Tom's policy of absolute honesty proves embarassing for the naive
Jane, and Diana's niece introduces her fiancee, who seems to be a bit
bent.
Episode Thirteen
Lucy Aston as Sarah Snow
Christopher Bowen as Sam Parry
Michael Hughes as David Davis
Diana's hip surgery threatens to disrupt he niece's wedding. Tom gets
Tom and Marion out of their beauty salon franchise.
EPISODE FOURTEEN
Michael Bilton as Basil
Patricia Leslie as Betty
Dawn Hope as Jenny
David McKail as Billigh
John Halstead as mc
directed by Sue Bysh
Tom's challenge to Diana to be pleasant to people is severely tried
when Harvey agrees to hold a "Glamorous Granny" contests at Bayview.
EPISODE FIFTEEN
Carol Macready as Susan Speed
Richard Bates as Dr. Henry
Chico Andrade a Antonio
Tony Allef as Grigor
directed by Sue Bysh
Diana becomes very concerned when Tom takes up a vigorous physical
fitness program after attending lectures at the community center.
Jane fears for her job when Harvey extolls the virtues of his new
foreign staff.
EPISODE SIXTEEN
Jo Stone-Fewings as Bob
Louise Russell as Carol
Harvey tries again to get rid of Diana, this time on grounds of
immoral behavior, namely she's having an affair with a much younger
man.
EPISODE SEVENTEEN
Michael Bilton as Basil
Geoffrey finally has enough of Marion and leaves her, and ends up
moving into Bayview to live with Tom when she doesn't want him to
come back.
3rd Series 1992
EPISODE EIGHTEEN
Tim Preece as Reverend Dennis Sparrow
Michael Bilton as Basil
Tom accidentally acts as matchmaker when he asks a vicar with shaky
faith to try and counsel a seriously disturbed Marion. Harvey begins
to look for a wife.
EPISODE NINETEEN
Ben Davis as Tarquin
Ania Sowinski as Skye
Diana takes Tom's grandchildren in hand while Marion's away, and Jane
tries to fiddle with Harvey's application for a computer-matched
mate.
EPISODE TWENTY
Michael Bilton as Basil
Paula Ann Bland as Sylvia
John Hudson as Job Center Assistant
Donald T. Allen as railway porter
Diana and Tom look for jobs as Harvey continues his search for a wife
and refuses to reinstate the heating.
EPISODE TWENTY-ONE
Vilma Hollingberry as Esmee Southerland
Michael Bilton as Basil
Francesca Longriss as Lucy Maitland
Harvey finally comes up with a fiancee just in time to meet his
mother as she leaves to live with his sister.
EPISODE TWENTY-TWO
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Caroline Harding as Janet Follette
Noel Dyson as Anna Saville
Rowena Cooper as Cynthia Barnes
Adrian Mills as Dave Preston
Chico Andrade as Antonio
David Tysall as Inspector Davies
Jane's comment that she's "unhelpful" sends Diana charging off to
volunteeer to help the elderly, which presents the opportunity to
thwart the latest scheme of Harvey's greedy girl friend.
EPISODE TWENTY-THREE
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
An inebriated wake for a former resident produces much comment around
Bayview and a change in the relationship between Tom and Diana.
EPISODE TWENTY-FOUR
Michael Bilton as Basil
Tom McCabe as Bernard
Neale Goodrum as townplanner
Amanda McGowan as au pair girl
David J. Nicholl as bearded man
Helen Bennett as bored woman
Tom and Diana's plans for a holiday abroad are derailed when they
learn that Geoffrey has invested Tom's savings in the proposed
new wing for Bayview, an intensive care hospital wing that promises
to bring in lots of government monies. Harvey gloats over his new
car.
EPISODE TWENTY-FIVE
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Bill Stewart as Jack Scott
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Linda James as Mrs. Twigg
Cherrell Amo as Mandy
Diana is indifferent to Tom's suggestion about entering the political
process until she sees a chance to help Jenny keep her job and tweak
Harvey's nose by competing with him.
EPISODE TWENTY SIX
Michael Bilton as Basil
Lucy Aston as Sarah Snow
Adjoa Andoh as Dr. Angela Avery
Diana comes to believe she's dying and asks Tom to help her committ
suicide.
EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Michael Bilton as Basil
Lucy Aston as Sarah
John Rapley as Ron Arthur
Simon Williamson as doctor
Jo-Anne Hewitt as nurse
Su-Lin Loo as teacher
Lucy Edelstein as baby Diana
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Beryl Cookes as lady resident
Tom steals a bus from a rude bus driver and Lucy comes to stay at
Bayview to be close to Diana while waiting for the birth of her baby.
1992 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ( 60 MINUTES )
Michael Bilton as Basil
Lucy Aston as Sarah Snow
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Mark McKenna as Dave
Katherine Toy as Sally
Jamie Ripman as Det. John Berry
Mark Charnockes as Santa
Sue Scott Davies as woman in grotto
Danny Swanson as policeman
Chico Andrande as Antonio
Daryl Kwan as Mr. Kwok
Charlotte Grimes and Martha MacKintosh as Baby Diana
The Christmas holidays bring a mixture of joy and anger to Tom, Diana
and the residents of Bayview. First, they learn there will be no
holiday entertainment, thanks to Harvey's fiddling. Next, Tom brings
home a young homeless couple who seem to fulfill Diana's dire
warnings. And Diana causes a ruckus at a local store when she objects
to the youthful Santa about to see her baby grand-niece.
4th series 1993
EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Michael Bilton as Basil
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Lucy Aston as Sarah Snow
Tara Ward as Jane Malcolm
Andrew Hilton as Admiral
Jeremy Beaton as cabbie
Leonard Webster as postman
Sean Patterson as secretary
As Tom worries over his rising damp, Diana storms London for an
explanation of her radically altered financial situation.
EPISODE TWENTY NINE
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Michael Bilton as Basil
Gwenllian Davies as Gwen Kent
Chico Andrade a Antonio
James Warrior as Mr. Kent
Melita Marrger as Mrs. Kent
Tom and Diana try to adjust to living together while reaching out to
a withdrawn new resident.
EPISODE THIRTY
Michael Bilton as Basil
Lucy Aston as Sarah
Glynis Brooks as Mary
Issy van Randwyck as Inger
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Lucy Edelstein as baby Diana
Tom tries to curb Diana's sloppiness, so she moves in with Sarah and
baby Diana, leaving Tom lonely and in the company of Geoffrey.
EPISODE THIRTY ONE
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Lucy Aston as Sarah
Issy van Randwyck as Inger
Miranda Forbes as nanny
Anthony Warren as cabbie
Rupert Degas as trendy
Lucy Edelstein as baby Diana
As everyone bothers Tom about getting Diana's advice, she finds
herself fed up with being baby Diana's nanny.
EPISODE THIRTY TWO
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Gillian Goodran as Marjorie Evans
Tim Preece as Reverend Dennis
Daryl Kwan as Mr. Kwok
Diana faces a new foe, a psychic who claims to have a message from
Tom's late wife, deploring his new relationship with Diana.
EPISODE THIRTY THREE
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Harry Audley as Richard Irons
Daryl Kwan as Mr. Kwok
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Angel Wyndham-Lewis as lady councillor
Diana finds herslef on the outside looking in when the others agree
to help Harvey make a promotional film to sell Bayview franchises.
EPISODE THIRTY FOUR
Michael Bilton as Basil
Myfanwy Talog as Gloria
Nick Burnell as driver
Aftab Sachak as Mr. Patel
Peter Tuddenham as Mr. Davis
Eileen Davies as Mrs. Penshaw
Diana capitalizes on Harvey's distraction over his rapidly
diminishing hair to set up a particularly nasty surprise for him
in front of her drawing class.
EPISODE THIRTY FIVE
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Daryl Kwan as Mr. Kwok
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Harvey's apparent breakdown leads to strikes and insurrection at
Bayview, forcing Diana to reevaluate her behavior.
EPISODE THIRTY SIX
Michael Bilton as Basil
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Philip Childs as Dr. Henry
Diana jumps to all the wrong conclusions when Tom develops sexual
dysfuction problems.
EPISODE THIRTY SEVEN
Michael Bilton as Basil
Philip Childs as Dr. Henry
Debbi Blythe as Minister of Health
Melvyn Bedford as policeman
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Daryl Kawn as Mr. Kwok
Tom and Diana each react in their own way to the possibility that he
might have prostate cancer.
5th series 1994
EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Tim Preece as Reverend Dennis Sparrow
Fiona Allen as nurse
Len Trusty as Jimmy
Colin Ward Lewis as tv announcer
Harvey tries again to get into an exclusive golf club and decides he needs
a wife to do it. Tom comes home from the hospital, despite Marion's
hopes, with a heightened sense of time passing. Geoffrey leaves his wife
yet again and mopes around's Tom's apartment.
EPISODE THIRTY-NINE
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Harvey brings in a Japanese mini-hotel designer to create a new compact
housing wing. Tom tries to get Diana to join the Age Resource organization.
Jane and Geoffrey become friends.
EPISODE FORTY
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Nicholas Pritchard as Smith
Shawn Williamson as Brown
A Royal visit stirs up everybody except Diana, whose sore foot makes her
cranky. Marion sleeps with Harvey but thinks it's Geoffrey.
EPISODE FORTY-ONE
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Jemma Churchill as Dr. Swain
Roger Swaine as specialist
Kim Barry as dietician
Deddie Davis as nun
Diana's foor gets worse, prompting Tom to make her a doctor's
appointment, which leads Diana to fear the worse,. Jamie gives
Geoffrey a pep talk about winning Marion, resulting in a visit from
the uncouth 'Fat Boy' Higgins, motorcycle and all. Jane decides to
dedicate her life to God.
EPISODE FORTY-TWO
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Bunny May as driving instructor
Steve Morley as Sgt. Watt
Jan Shepherd as WPC
Tom sets out to woo Diana, first by learning how to drive. Jane
takes time out from her service to god to urge Diana to accept
Tom's proposal. Marion tells Fat Boy to get a job. Harvey
becomes a minister of the Church of the Flaming Sword, Las
Vegas, as he pursues Jane and membership in the golf club.
EPISODE FORTY-THREE
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Lucy Aston as Sarah
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Tim Preece as Reverend Dennis Sparrow
Chico Andrade as Antonio
Lucy Edelstein as Baby Diana
Tom's efforts at bungee jumping finally breaks Diana's will and she says
yes. Jane begins making wedding plans while Harvey gets another
disappointment. Marion pleads to get her old Geoffrey back.
EPISODE FORTY-FOUR
Paddy Ward as Jamie Edwards
Dawn Hope as Jenny
Lucy Aston as Sarah
Tim Preece as Reverend Dennis Sparrow
Robin Driscoll as funeral director
Brian Miller as funeral man
Ross Martin as waiter
Lucy Edelstein as Baby Diana
The Climax dance group
As the wedding approaches, Diana confides her reluctance to Sarah.
Tom, Harvey, Jamie and Geoffrey have a rather staid stag night while
Diana, Sarah, Jane and Jenny go to a male strip club. Marion schemes
to stop the wedding.
Copyright 1997 by Donna R. Lemaster
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