Starring Maureen Lipman, it was written by Richard Ommanney, Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent and Alex Shearer.

[1] Maureen Lipman played Sheila Haddon, whose husband had died 18 months before the start of the first series.

She brings back her fellow art student Carol, a doctor called Henry, as well as Chris, Hamish, Candy and Frankie.

Sheila also gets many part-time jobs, while her old friend Richard Beamish proposes marriage to her.

When it emerges that he has planned the outing in order to propose to Sheila, she turns him down, saying that she isn't over her late husband.