Nearest and Dearest

Season 2

After many years of faithful service to Pledge's Purer Pickles, the time has come for the firm's entire transport - Stan and his cart-horse Storm - to go into retirement. But what kind of a send-off should Stan get? He's the first employee ever to retire

Eli is showing an unusual amount of brotherly love - but can it really be just because it's Nellie's birthday? And is the Starlight Roof, Colne, the ideal place for a quite birthday treat?

Eli Pledge is a drinking man; most of his adult life has been one long lost weekend. One momentous morning, suffering from a size nine-and-a-half hangover, he goes teetotal. Lips that have touched liquor will never touch his…But then the withdrawl s

A week at the seaside for the pledge's. Majorca or Blackpool? There isn't really much choice when the holiday money's already spent. So it's a holiday on home ground. The Blackpool boarding house is coming up in the world to meet the challenge of holidays

As captains of industry the Pledge's have a certain standing in the town of Colne; but when you're in court charged with causing a breach of the peace, can you ever hold your head up again?