Love & Marriage

- Season 1

(2013)

Pauline Paradise retires from her job as a lollipop lady but only teacher Peter Bachman seems to miss her. Her selfish,lazy husband Ken is as negative as ever whilst elder son Kevin,a fireman,is obsessed with his daughter's christening and his pub quiz team,roping in sister Heather and her spouse Charlie for the latter. Heather,when not preparing for her flamenco contest,is more concerned with getting pregnant whilst younger son Martin and his wife Michelle are over-run with offspring. Kevin's conceit loses his team the quiz and its prize money so he steals from the ...

Rowan gives Pauline a make-over and persuades her to live for herself. Oafish Kevin believes that he can reconcile his parents at his son's birthday party but Pauline,aware that Ken is too selfish to make his own attempt to win her back,deliberately stays away and gets drunk with Rowan. Heather is single-minded in her desire to win the flamenco contest with partner Ashley but feels insecure when her rival Louise takes a shine to the younger Charlie and gets him to fit her smoke alarm. Heather and Ashley win the competition but she is annoyed when Charlie commiserates ...

Strapped for cash to send Nathan to France Kevin steals money from a house where a woman has died but it is discovered and he is arrested. Thanks to Nathan returning the money to the pub no action is taken over the first theft but he is cautioned for the second,losing his job and the respect of Sarah and his children. Rowan's grand-daughter Scarlett,anxious to track down the mother who abandoned her as a child,is optimistic when she finds a note from her at Frank's grave whilst Heather finds she is pregnant at last. However she is unsure whether the father is the ...

Scarlett tracks down her mother Emma,only to find that she has married again with a child and has no maternal feelings for her,making Scarlett grateful to Rowan for acting like a real mother. Sarah is angry with her foolish husband as he puts organizing a family barbecue above job-hunting. At the event Peter arrives and patches things up with Pauline whilst Martin announces that he is to be a house-husband as Michelle can earn more in the lawyers' office than he can as a teacher. Heather realizes that Ashley is her baby's father but determines to let Charlie believe ...

As Michelle returns to work Martin finds it hard juggling his house husband duties with his writing aspirations but makes a friend in young nanny Alice,who makes him long for his single,student days. Michelle is unimpressed but after a mishap at the baths with their eldest daughter the couple reconcile. Heather,meanwhile,tells Ashley she wishes she had met him before she knew Charlie and Kevin is saved from total unemployment when Sarah speaks up for him at his disciplinary tribunal. Pressurized by their sons Pauline and Ken attend marriage guidance but the only thing...

Ken shocks the family by advertising for a girlfriend on the Internet and putting his and Pauline's belongings into a table top sale,requiring drastic action by his sons to retrieve it. His children and their spouses make another,last ditch effort to reconcile their parents but Pauline and Ken know better and agree to part as friends,she going to Paris with Peter whilst he meets a lady named Joyce on the Internet. Scarlett has a successful university entrance interview,Rowan offering to contact her mother at a later stage but Heather confides in her sisters-in-law ...