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!'

Alf and Else are invited to Christmas dinner at the church hall - thereby missing the free beano for pensioners at the local pub. Alf feels he ought to have his share of both, and achieves as much by conniving with his mate Arthur. Also using devious means, Rita is forced to stay to look after them over the Christmas period which ends with a knees-up at the church hall.