Fourmile is annoyed at bindweed from the Ropers' garden growing into their garden.
Tristram has made friends with Tommy, a boy from the local council estate. This displeases Fourmile who thinks that their sort should have a separate playground and is annoyed at Tristram speaking in a downmarket way recently. Tommy's shop steward father visits, telling Fourmile that he does not want his son to be friends with Tristram, because Tommy has been speaking in an upmarket way since knowing him.
George finds a credit card. When he buys Mildred a fur coat from Oxfam as an anniversary present, she assumes that he paid with the card. The card's owner comes to the house, pleased that George handed the card in to the police. Mildred finds out from Oxfam that George paid for the coat with cash. She finds out from George that he stole the money for it from her.
Trevor Baxter, Roy Herrick, Ivor Roberts and Hal Dyer appear in this episode.
This episode aired on the first night ITV returned after the 1979 ITV strike, which saw the entire ITV network (apart from the Channel Islands region) off air from 10 August until 24 October 1979. This episode was planned to air earlier in the autumn schedules, but the strike delayed its transmission.
Original Broadcast Date 24th October 1979