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- Season 1

(1981)

Meek, 41-year old librarian Timothy Lumsden still lives with his domineering mother and hen-pecked father. Having met the sweet Annette at his amateur dramatics group he arranges to go on a river-boat shuffle with her. However, his mother decides to sabotage the arrangement, leading to his going on the date dressed as a cat and ending up in the river.

Whilst playing the rear of a pantomime horse in 'Cinderella', Timothy is asked by Zac, the smooth casting director, to date his old girlfriend Vanessa as he now has a new lady friend in Poppy. Timothy is delighted but unfortunately Vanessa already has a boyfriend in the hulking Tiny Heseltine and when, on his father's advice, Timothy challenges Tiny to a duel, he actually has cause to thank his mother for her intervention.

Timothy is ordered to talk to the father of a boy who is bullying his godson at school.

Timothys mother is outraged when he decides to leave home to flat share with two young women.

Mother wants Timothy to paint the cupboard under the stairs before the man comes to read the meter but Timothy is more concerned with betting snide colleague Victor that he can take new library assistant Caroline to see 'Gone With the Wind'. However the film has started by the time they reach the cinema and Caroline wants to see 'Rickshaw of Blood' instead. A second attempt is also thwarted when Victor buys the last available ticket.

The Lumsdens get a visit from Timothy's sister Muriel, to whom their mother refuses to speak because she disapproves of Muriel's husband Kevin. Muriel prevails upon Timothy to leave home and come with her and, helped by Timothy's best friend Frank, they escape. However Timothy's parents give chase and freedom seems very unlikely.