[1] It stars Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy.
The first episode focuses on Edith Fuddle (Saunders), who is told by her doctor De Quincy (Stephen Fry), that she has Corrington's disease, and will die within nine months.
Although in a bitter feud with her grandson (Ade Edmondson), she enlists his help to go out into the world to find his four sisters, and to bring them back to her for a family reunion before she dies.
Their anger finally bubbles over, after a postcard featuring Madeleine in a suggestive pose finds Guy, and led by their local priest (Rik Mayall) the town revolts and burns Dalcroix at the stake.
Episode 4 sees the life of Joyce, the eldest, who is now a Catholic nun, after a miracle featuring the Madonna Mary, a tree and a conker.
Obsessed with the documentary On the Mangle, which focuses on the inmates of Long Mangley, Guy hatches a plan to spring Roxanne by using a giant chocolate box, which, surprisingly, works, although all the prisoners are released for a "stroll".
The final episode reunites all of the family together back in Fuddlewich—the four granddaughters return by various means of transport to their childhood home, and they all encounter one sister, although none of them recognise the other.
She tells her granddaughters, that the only cure is to get one organ from four donors of the same bloodline and gender, and offers to give them all one quarter of her entire estate, in order to get her vital operation.
All of them agree, however just as the operation is about to begin, Flossy the maid barges in to tell them that Cook has died after turning blue (a symptom of Corringtons).