Alf hears of the provision of home-helps by the DHSS, but none of them will stay in the same house as him. After a session in the pub with Arthur, he returns home to find that Else has acquired a different kind of home-help - one who will stay!

Rita comes home for a few days to visit Mum and Dad, and meets their new home-help, Winston. Mike , meanwhile, is still unemployed in Liverpool, and who can wonder, when 'the Tory Government's being run by a grocer's daughter!'