Replacing Tiswas (in the TVS area only), Ethel Davis opens the door to No 73 for the first time. Since she hates making sandwiches for all the guests, she tricks some of the guests into playing 'The Sandwich Game'.
A secret admirer begins sending caricatures of the No 73 household members in the mail.
Percy has applied for a job as a maintenance man at a Television company in Gillingham called TV South.
The Secret Admirer who's been sending in caricatures over the past few weeks has now posted himself in a Red Star parcel and turns out to be Neil Buchanan (making his first appearance at No 73).
Debut of the original, animated title sequence set to the theme by Peter Gosling. Percy begins working at Gillingham Television station.
Dawn is celebrating her birthday Hollywood style.
The council has decided to widen the road and tear down No 73 to make the A-73. Several shady characters, mistakenly thought to be decorators, are already measuring the house.
Percy and his friend Tony English are building a hovercraft out of one of Ethel's wardrobe. Harry considers becoming Gillan's tour manager.
Dawn has had another late night out with another new boyfriend and gets annoyed with all the noise Percy makes. Wes brings over his newly designed No 73 teapot for Ethel.
Percy and Dawn are at TVS's Gillingham studio, where David Jensen shows how to handle a barbecue. Ethel, Harry and Neil keep track on the microwave television, but can't smell it, as Percy hasn't installed his Smell-a-Rama device yet.
Unscrupulous Tony Deal the door-to-door salesman makes his first appearance at No 73.
Harry has met Kim Goody at a disco and invited her over to meet the gang at 73. Ethel pretends to give Dexys Midnight Runners some record producing advice.
Ethel's in bed with the flu and everyone is nursing her. The Sandwich Quiz contestants end up in bed with Ethel at the end.
The gang take part in an Irish caley, Ethel visits a lighthouse and Percy celebrates his birthday by facing off against Ultra the Amazing Android in the Sandwich Quiz.
Hazel is looking after the house (with Martin very suspicious and nosy) while Ethel and the gang are out and about on a 'luxury country house mystery tour' organized by Tony Deal.
Harry wants to become Tenpole Tudor's tour manager and shows them a film of his visit to the TS Royalist with the Sea Cadet Corps. He and Dawn also go bread shopping in Calais while The Great Soprendo attempts to teach Ethel some magic.
Ethel thinks musical guests The Firm have come to redecorate the lounge. Jenny Lee Wright competes with nosy neighbour Martin Edwards in the Sandwich Quiz.
Everybody is gathering in the yard for a barbecue. Ethel desperately needs a break from the manic goings on at No 73 each week.
Percy's Scottish cousin Alec moves into No 73 and Harry has yet to learn he will have to give up half of his room for the new lodger.
Ethel is spring cleaning. Everybody is making limericks. Harry and Alec are having a rough time sharing a room. Neil presents his new invention: Plop Art.
No 73 is filled with guest queuing in the front room for breakfast before the FA Cup final '83 comes on at Eleven. These also include a band in the kitchen (Big Country) and a magician in the shed (The Great Soprendo).
Ethel is building a hovercraft in the yard. Alec is asking viewers to call-in to suggest an ending to his play. Martin from No 75 is complaining about the noise. Peter Mayhew drops by to talk about Return of the Jedi.
It's a quiet day at No 73, or so they think. A producer is coming to hear Alec's radio novel. Harry wants to join Mari Wilson and the Wilsations. Tony English has finished building a full sized hovercraft in the yard, with help from Hazel. Dawn shows a film of her visit to a rock candy factory. Martin offers to help Alec, but insists on avoiding Ethel while at 73. However, Martin secretly has aspirations to become a radio newsreader. Bill Oddie has sent in a film on bird watching in town. The Edwards and Jenny Lee Wright perform an excerpt of Alec's radio novel "Tough Breaks".
Dawn tries out computer-dating. Martin and Hazel are obsessed with holidays abroad. Gary Glitter faces Spit the Dog in the Sandwich quiz. Fred tries to impress with a large dog and a shiny uniform.
Not only does Harry need money to pay of his debts to Ethel and Alec, and then some to show Kim the time of her life. Elton John comes round for tea five weeks late, arriving in a helicopter that lands in the garden.
Ethel and Alec spend a day at Bembom Brothers' Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate. Guests include impressionist duo Les Dennis and Dustin Gee who compete in this week's Sandwich Quiz dressed as Ethel.
Alec has organized the entire weekend for everybody. Hazel has returned from Sunny Toes, but Martin is still there, working a Green Coat (children's entertainer). Mindreader Hugh Lennon arrives and ruins Alec's schedule.
The gang is flipping coins to determine the outcome of every decision. Harry is looking for a new job. Neil shows a film from his sketching holiday down a tin mine in Cornwall.
Tony Deal of Deal Enterprises teams up with Martin Edwards to get some culture on the show by introducing the Venomettes. They end up competing against each other during the Sandwich Quiz.
Hazel and Martin Edwards are at odds after a disastrous holiday at Sunnytoes Holiday Camp. Alec is feeling 'slightly unfinished'.
Ethel is in a great state of nerves as The Bank Manager wants to discuss her precarious finances. Dawn is preparing to go on a cycling holiday. Harry needs got get himself a new image. Percy has rented a video camera for 87 pounds 40.
Ethel had planned to go on a trip to France, but Alec has spend their holiday money (all 87.40 pounds). Meanwhile, Harry and Kim are leaving on a tandem, but are planning to perform a send-up of a Eurovision song first.
Fred the Postman wants to move and be near Ethel. He gets offered to share Harry's room. Nik Kershaw becomes the first musical act to play in the newly renovated cellar (instead of the lounge of the backyard).
Ethel is looking for a new profession and decides to stand for the local council. Harry and Fred have divided all the furniture in their shared room. Fred stays upstairs now that Ethel is dating Tony Deal. Kim spill her hot dog with tomato sauce on Leee John from Imagination's shirt at the cinema the day before and has promised to clean it. Super Sleuth is looking for his dog, Tracker.
Ethel accuses Harry of selling stolen wares at his stall and he leaves 73. Martin Edwards has decided to run against Ethel in the council elections. Police Five's Shaw Taylor helps out with the Super Sleuth competition.
Ethel and Martin were both beaten in the council elections by a Frenchman. Roger McGough is moving into No 37 down the street and is giving poetry tips as well as putting ups shelves at 73. Kathy Tayler gives Ethel and Hazel some fencing lessons. With Harry gone, Hazel has arranged for Dead or Alive to be the musical guests into the cellar. Meanwhile Martin has got a terrible secret. Ethel fails to get a cup of tea upstairs to a waiting Fred. Simon Bates comes over to show a film about drag racing and faces African musician Nana Kwame Tsiboe in the Sandwhich Quiz.
In Ethel's absence, Tony Deal has taken charge and David Jensen is helping around the house. Dawn is studying for her van driving exam while Neil is studying for his art exams. He has picked Kim as a model without telling her. Meanwhile, Kim is learning to speak 'Unwinese' from Professor Stanley Unwin. Neil has come up with the matchbox competition (try to fit 73 things into a matchbox). Tony presents the Sandwich Quiz, all the while doing his Bruce Forsythe impression.
All about twins and how they are together
Ethel is expecting Frankie Goes to Hollywood as guests, but Frankie Howerd arrives instead. Mistaking him for a workman she tells him to put up a tent in the yard.
Ethel hasn't paid her bills and now all her furniture is being taken away. Shaw Taylor is overseeing the SuperSleuth finals. Neil receives his exam results. Matt Bianco play live for the first time ever in the cellar.
On the season opening of her Bed & Breakfast, Ethel keeps being locked out of the house.
A precious painting of Donald Duck has been stolen.
Ethel's guest house is a success, so the house has to be thoroughly cleaned to make room for all the guests.
Ethel is about to leave on a skiing holiday but first Nicholas Parsons comes round to give her some expert quiz master advise. Chaos ensues as local con man Tony Deal visits and manages to squash Ethel's tea pot while riding an elephant.
With Ethel away for the weekend, Dawn sees fit to fill the house with pets from David Taylor's veterinary.
A British World War 2 prisoner of war has been tunneling his way to freedom for 40 years and has finally dug his way up into No 73.
Ethel is throwing a party to celebrate Fred the Postman's birthday.
Ethel pretends to be her own cousin who comes to visit from Australia. At the very end, the actual cousin shows up.
Martin Edwards is put to the test "Game for a laugh" style.
Martin wants revenge on Ethel for subjecting him to 'Game for a laugh' and locks her in the cellar. Ethel, for her part, manages to frame Martin for stealing bars of gold.
The house is filled with snakes and competitions.
Harry is having a difficult time managing the bed and breakfast with Ethel once again away.
Ethel is hoping to get a star for her bed & breakfast and is desperately trying to impress the inspector.
Martin is directing a play he wrote while Bank manager Frederick Crossfield is looking for Ethel. Meanwhile, Ethel would rather stay away from both of them. However, the bed and breakfast didn't receive a star from the inspector who visited last week.
The gang has organized a game of cricket, but because of a lack of space, it has to be played indoors. Meanwhile Bobby Davro is confusing everyone by pretending to be several famous people.
Kim has put everybody on a strict, sporty diet. Ethel however keeps sneaking off to eat cake she has hidden everywhere.
To celebrate the premiere of the latest 'Front Door Production', "The Three Musketeers", there is a French open day at No 73. The mayors of Maidstone and it's French counterpart Bouvier are expected, as well as 253 other guests, but there are only 4 chairs.
With Ethel at her aunts, Fred and Eazi broadcast their community radio station Radio Shed (from the shed). They only have two records to play: "Tie a yellow ribbon" and "Two little boys".
The Aroma Vision episode. Ethel is dating Frederick Crossfield, the bank manager. Harry and Dawn mistakenly think Crossfield already has two wives and 20 children.
There street is having a funfair to raise money for the church bell (the one Neil broke during a game of cricket). Kim the fortuneteller gets Frederick to propose to Ethel.
On her wedding day, Ethel is more interested in tennis tournaments. Dawn and Kim are bridesmaids, while Harry is the reluctant best man. He and Neil are having a hangover from the bachelor party.
Ethel and Frederick meet for the first time since their aborted wedding. Overprotective Harry is overseeing the installation of a brand new kitchen for Ethel while Martin Edwards decides to give the famous front door a new lick of paint.
Ethel is studying (not to mention practicing) medicine, because every Bed & Breakfast needs someone with knowledge of first aid. Neil and Kim have both got their mind set on moving into the spare 'box-room'. Harry has got a new job as a singing Telegram, and must dress up as Tarzan for a sweet sixteen party. Lucky for him, Dicky Heart & the Pacemakers are on hand to give him tips.
Ethel wants to be a Girl Scout. Tony Deal is suspected of robbing a bank, but Kim helps him by giving him 6 different disguises. Neil has been deputized by the local PC and is on to Tony.
Ethel is trying to convince everybody that she's training an invisible dog. Harry has a gig to open a pet shop as a singing telegram, and dresses up as a gorilla, chicken, rabbit and a dog. Dawn returns from holiday and is exhausted from the trip. Neil and Kim are now occupying the box-room on alternating weekdays.
Dawn is being very posh. She has even gotten David Taylor to play her butler. What is more, she is hinting that her special VIP guest is none other than Prince Andrew (it turns out to be a DJ, Andy Prince). Harry is shocked to learn Kim has been dumped by her boyfriend Dirk (aka Berk), because Dirk just happens to be Harry's employer.
With Ethel gone, No 73 is even more chaotic than usual. Martin even feels free to re-enact war campaigns in the house. Neil gets a big valentine card from Kim.
Whith Ethel still away on holiday, Martin and Tony Deal try to lure all the guests to No 75. Tony even puts on a mask molded after Harry by visiting mask makers. Dawn is busy counting fleas while Kim, who has fallen out with Neil again, is playing "Porkys" on the piano.
Dawn is writing a book, Harry is planning to organize a rock concert, Neil a Wild animal park (wearing a leopardskin) and Ethel wants to have a archaeological dig in the backyard.
It's a girls weekend as Harry and Neill are off to France. Kim and Dawn fight over a diary as Ethel and Hazel try to negotiate between the two of them. Ethel want to get out of the bed and breakfast business. Martin just wants to be more popular and tries wearing a toupee.
An episode on the beach: Shaw Taylor from "Police 5" helps solve a crime masterminded by Ethel under the guise of 'The Jeweled Hand'.
Ethel is away. Neil does sports, Hazel does the house cleaning and Harry tries hard not to be confused.
It's Martin and Hazel Edward's 20th wedding anniversary, but only Hazel remembers. This makes her understandably upset. Ethel finally reveals the results of the Quest for the key to the Box Room: Kim has won, but Neil suggests she shares it with Dawn. Ethel is planning to be a clown with Harry as her reluctant sidekick.
Hazel has thrown herself into directing an amateur production of "Pirates of Penzance". Martin, despite having two parts and being in charge of the box office , is sulking because of the lack of an anniversary present from her. Stage Manager Ethel is on a diet, Harry is doing the special effects but remains very confused about his role and Kim is in charge of publicity. She has set up a dark room to develop her photos in the shed. Harry and Kim end up winning a Funny Face competition.
Ethel is gardening. Dawn helps Neil fix his van and so does S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. Telebug, making her first appearance on the show.
Harry is afraid the others are trying to drive him crazy when they act even more silly and mysterious than usual. They are actually planning a secret Christmas pajama party for him (to make up for the previous Christmas when none of them could be together). As presents, Harry receives a video and LP of his all time favourite film, 'The Sound of Music'. Neil and Kim are now definitely an item, so he gets 3 football tickets from her, while Dawn receives a puppy. In the next season it would be revealed Ethel emigrated to Australia over the summer, taking the pup along.
S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. Telebug, now a regular, has fallen in love with the fridge. Dawn spars with a boxer, Neil is caught reading one of Kim's soppy romance novels while Harry goes off to meets a 73 year old sailor named Harry.
Harry has installed a jukebox in the lounge. Neil is teaching S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. how to support Liverpool. Neil agrees to babysit Martin's nephew Geoffrey. However, Geoffrey is quite grown and wants to study quantum physics.
Maisie is following the strict rules of the new landlord, JC Birch. This means Neil has to replace the toy dog that serves as a doorbell. This he does with a new guitar riff by Gary Moore. Dawn is getting ready for a date. Martin, aka 'Sergeant Major Edwards' is playing war games, but ends up being overpowered by his wife Hazel using his own gingerbread army against him.
Dawn bakes a cake shaped as a spider for David Taylor's birthday but Kim and Harry keep eating the legs. When a water pipe bursts (thanks to Harry), the bathroom floor crashes into the lounge with Neil in the bath. The Millenium Dustbin from "Get Fresh" lands on top of the shed. Hazel sends positive minded Martin to fetch material to patch things up, but he drives Dawn's 'Lodge Lifters' van through the front door. Samantha Telebug leaves to marry Nigel the spin dryer.
David Rubin answers the add at Mr. Patel's to share a room with Jules. Dawn and Nadia find him quite a dish. Neil prefers to watch the Communards perform. Jules tries his hand at film editing. David Taylor has brought a giant tortoise.
Dawn has an interview with Mr. Curtis concerning the theme park she and the others have applied to. Morris Minor and the Majors car engine needs fixing. Nadia is into meditation and Kendo. Other guests include Wet Wet Wet.