With Roger Scott's wife, Amanda, about to give birth to their first child, and Dave Finn's wife Rose about to bear their third, the two men bond, with Dave offering clean-cut Roger advice in his 'earthy', blunt language.
As the Scotts move into their new home, they are shocked and exasperated to find that the Finns are their new next-door neighbours.
Dave applies for a job with Roger's company. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he doesn't get it.
After arguing with their respective wives, Roger and Dave find themselves downing a few pints - and then tempted by the pleasures of other womens' flesh...
The Scotts are planning to have the new baby Christened. Unfortunately, so are the Finns - on the same day.
After a bereavement at work, Roger must attend the funeral. Dave, as ever, is there to hinder him every step of the way.
n Spasms, the single-episode pilot screened 15 months before the series (which had Jonathan Pryce in the Michael Crawford role and Miriam Margolyes as his wife), Finn and Scott were at the hospital, waiting for their wives to give birth to their first children. This was re-enacted as the opening episode of Chalk And Cheese.