In the first four series, the family, consisting of Ada Larkin (Peggy Mount), her henpecked husband Alf (David Kossoff), their son Eddie (Shaun O'Riordan), daughter Joyce (Ruth Trouncer) and her ex-GI husband Jeff (Ronan O'Casey), all lived together at 66 Sycamore Street, next door to inquisitive neighbour Hetty Prout (Barbara Mitchell), her husband Sam (George Roderick), and their daughter Myrtle (Hillary Bamberger), who had an occasional fling with Eddie.
Alf also reveals that Jeff and Joyce are now in America and Eddie has a Government job, "abroad somewhere in one of them far flung outposts".
Alf says that he has been retired (or made redundant), by his firm, but received a superannuation, together with a golden handshake and "a bit extra in lieu of notice" and as such he and Ada have pooled their resources and now run a café, where they now also live.
Ada and Alf also had a lodger, Major Osbert Rigby-Soames (retired) (Hugh Paddick), who always tried to avoid paying his rent.
[14] In 2023 the UK vintage film/nostalgia channel Talking Pictures TV announced that it would be broadcasting the series weekly from 26 March.