In the first episode, after the reading of the will of his late friend Desmond Ambrose (Norman Beaton), Augustus "Porkpie" Grant, a former employee at the Ford Motor Company is now a lollipop man.
The ticket turns out to be a winner and Porkpie (as he is always called by friends) suddenly finds himself with a fortune of ten million pounds.
He moves out of his flat into a house and also hires a chauffeur to drive him around in his new car, a Ford Escort (Porkpie explains that he bought one because "I always wanted one of these, I could never afford one, not even with the staff discount").
As time (and the series) move on, Porkpie goes through various situations and learns whom he can and cannot trust now he is a millionaire.
Must be one of two things: either a thousand angels weeping for you, or you having a good drink up in heaven and you spilling it all over the place.