Moving On

- Season 6

(2014)

Active pensioner Madge has a boyfriend, Eric, who commends her good deeds and her work as a prison visitor. What she has not told him is that the prisoner she visits is her husband Mike, jailed for manslaughter, but whom she has told everybody died in a car crash. At Madge's birthday party Eric proposes and she accepts but on the wedding day takes drastic action to prevent the ceremony going ahead. The truth comes out at last and for Madge it is a truth she has known for many years.

With her husband Ken suffering from MS mother of two Moira is the family bread-winner, working both as a dinner lady and in a corner shop. Finances are tight so that when the Polish Anna, a customer at the shop, hands Moira a winning lottery ticket Moira tells her she has won £25 when it is actually worth thirty five thousand, Moira claiming the ticket as her own and ringing the lottery headquarters. Ken is shocked when he learns what she has done and they burn the ticket to hide the evidence but when Moira sees that Anna is as impoverished as herself she does the ...

Now that their daughter Becca has left for university married couple Jenny and Terry seem to have nothing in common and frequently argue. Then an old college friend of Jenny, Dan, who is blind, comes to stay. He is a successful writer and Jenny seems to come alive in his presence, making Terry very jealous. However when he suggests that Jenny leaves Terry for him it is a wake up call to her to realize that the marriage can be saved after all.

Separated from his sour wife Claire and adoring daughters Eddie lives with his irresponsible brother Pete and his family. When Pete drinks and gambles away money owed to him Eddie reports him for drink driving and Pete loses his job. Eddie feels guilty and Pete's wife Lorraine discovers the truth, forcing Eddie to own up to his brother. Strangely enough this leads to positives all round.

Married to the boorish Derek with two demanding boys put-upon Helen's life is brightened by her meetings with cultured, older lover Duncan and she is devastated when he is killed in a car crash. When she receives a letter to say Duncan left her £50,000 she has to admit everything to an angry Derek though she points out that Duncan respected her intellect and did not take her for granted like her husband. She decides to refuse the bequest, feeling that it would cheapen what she and Duncan had. And then her solicitor tells her something that makes her change her mind.