[3] The show regularly appeared in the TV ratings top ten throughout its three-year run.

Albert Courtnay (Rodney Bewes) leaves his home in the North of England to live in London.

Albert finds work in a confectionery company, moves into a flat he shares with two young ladies and becomes engaged to Doreen Bissel (Liz Gebhardt).

During the fourth and final series, Albert loses both his job and Doreen (now played by Cheryl Hall), but he continues his struggle to survive in London.

The name of Garfield Morgan's character, A.C. Strain, was an in-joke that would have been understood only by those who lived or worked in the same part of Fulham, south-west London, as Rodney Bewes at the time the series was made and broadcast.