Shirley is planning a traditional Guyanese Christmas but the family have other plans. Lee decides that the barber shop needs a Christmas grotto, complete with elves and santas.

Desmond has ordered a neon sign for the shop and Lee has got it for him at a bargain price. But then he offers to install it, too...

A huge wedding takes place in Peckham, which means big business for the shop. But Desmond is away and Shirley is forced to call in his hated rival, Irving Poole.

Lee falls in love. She's beautiful, talented, an aromatherapist - and that's not all...

Porkpie's old flame Hyacinth turns up - and just happens to answer the phone when his absent fiancee Susu calls from Jamaica.

A funky American preacher arrives at the barbershop to sue Desmond for a cut he had two years ago and the months of mental distress he had to suffer afterwards.

Desmond is away at a conference. but his speech has gone Awol. When it can't be found, there's only one answer: the barbershop gang will write a replacement.

Desmond hires an architect to plan the retirement house he's always dreamt of - but then he tries to keep it secret from Shirley.

Beverley is distraught when she finds some love letters written by Cuthbert.

Sean invents a video game that seems destined to put his father out of business.

On a miserable English day Desmond wonders what might have happened if he had never come to this 'godforsaken country'.

Desmond gets a shock when he reads a page or two from Porkpie's diary.

Desmond hires a new assistant, Ricky, but no one else can understand why he's chosen him.