Episode list

Businesswoman Nita McKinnon is anxious to tear down a row of old houses to make way for a property development but Stan, the last householder , an old man who lives in virtual squalor with his gay son Dennis and their dogs, will not sell and Nita resorts to getting her drink-loving sister Beth and her brood to harass him. He drops down dead and Nita bribes everyone to say nothing for Stan was her father. At the funeral Phyl, the sister who went to work in London, turns up and clearly has a history with Nita's husband Nash. Alice, the shy youngest sister who has not seen her father in years brings along Bryce, a young therapist she met by chance.

Nita has to prepare a banquet in order to gain an important catering contract and asks all the sisters, Phyl included, to help her. Dennis however still keeps her hanging on as regards the house sale. Beth considers leaving Manchester to move to London with Phyl, but, after Phyl has spoken to her, she has a heart-to-heart with her husband Kaz, who is blind. Beth admitted that she blinded him by accident years earlier in their courting days during a ruck with Liverpool football fans and married him out of duty. He tells her that he knew. Alice wakes from hypnosis during a session to find Bryce too close for comfort and Nita is sure she has seen Stan alive.