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The Phone Shop is hoping to win the Golden Bowl award for the most missold insurance for the sixth year in a row despite the fact that the trophy resembles a man with his hand in a toilet and Christopher finds it all dishonest. Indeed whilst his colleagues are ducking out of paying out premiums he is trying - in vain - to dissuade customers from buying the insurance. However come the evening of the sales seminar he joins the others in putting over the soft sell, to the delight of his proud parents. Unfortunately they are interrupted by armed police after Lance's attempts to send Tweets to 'Masterchef' judge Gregg Wallace have been interpreted as threats.

Whilst Ben is away on a course Susan is persuaded by Janey to go on the Facebook social network, which leads to her meeting up again with charming ex-boyfriend Paul Tremaine. He takes her for a drink and says romantic things to her. However he turns out to be a large scale drug dealer and Susan is forced to help the police trap him to avoid being charged herself.

A celebrity television chef challenges Homer to a barbecue cook-off. But before the competition, Homer's new, prized barbecue grill is stolen.

Following the enquiry into the 'Pibroch''s scuttling, Baines is temporarily reduced to mate. The head of the board, Sir Walter Teal, asks Baines and Onedin to take his young son David as an apprentice. The boy is keen for a mariner's life and his father hopes the harsh realities will make him change his mind. James and Baines are very hard on him, which Albert notices, but James tells him he would be better occupied patching things up with Elizabeth. David ultimately proves himself as a very capable sailor and even puts in a good word for Baines with his father.

Zara helps patient Leslie to stand up to her bullying neighbour. Ashley attempts to push his way back into Valerie's life. Al starts his cunning plan to get Eve's money back.

Middle-class housewife Marcia Edmunds approaches Regan in a pub and, in exchange for sex, supplies the names of the gang who recently robbed a bookies - including that of her husband Martin. He is recognized by a witness but has a cast-iron alibi, which Regan is eventually able to break. At the same time he begins to feel that Marcia is using him to get rid of a husband of whom she has long tired.

Lisa becomes interested in astronomy and starts fighting the light pollution which is preventing her from being able to enjoy her new hobby.

After spending all his money on an expensive gift for himself, and the family thinking he should be less of an egoist, Homer decides to change his ways.

Mildred gets a job as a secretary in Jeffrey's estate agency. George is thus the house husband but he is a disastrous cook and home-maker. Mildred is relieved when he finally gets a job - less so when she discovers it involves being away all night.

Gary realises he's been left to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied France.

Harry is appointed as the bodyguard for a visiting Middle Eastern president but his ex-wife Laura turns up in a frantic state. The president's political opponent Kahan has had the Rule's son Johnny kidnapped and he will be harmed unless Harry shoots the president. A charade follows in which Harry appears to do as he is ordered and Caroline then kills Harry.

Jim finds himself in hot water with the Department of Health and Social Security thanks to his busybody neighbour Councillor Bertram Allnutt.

The daily hardships of wartime life begin to take their toll on Gary and he contemplates returning to the present. Reg is disappointed when Gary fails to turn up for fire-watching duty.

Andy is over-joyed when Melodie reappears in his life but their reconciliation is literally in his dreams. Meanwhile in his fantasy-writing class Errol pens a fairy tale in which idiot stable boy Andy seeks to find his beloved princess Melodie, meeting various characters based on friends and relations. With the help of Errol's classmates Andy tracks Melodie down but it is not necessarily the case that they will live happily ever after.

Zara sees a man with insomnia who'd rather sleep and dream of his dead wife. Heston, Jimmi, and Emma all voice their concerns about the merger to Daniel. Karen wants to foster a Treehouse kid, much to Rob's shock.

When Gary enters Duckett's Passage from the wrong end, he finds himself in the 1880s.

Heston is questioned by the police with solicitor Philip present. Philip advises him to say nothing but DI Addison is anxious to make an arrest. Meanwhile Shak has something to tell his mother and Zara and Daniel compete to tell Joe the best bedtime story.

Ben hates Christmas at the best of times but this year mother-in-law Grace is staying, Nick's hippy friend Alfie turns up from Wales and Susan insists on booking an expensive clown, Shingles, for Kenzo's birthday on Christmas Eve. To save money Ben asks Roger to play the clown but he gets drunk so Ben has to save the day. Finding an expensive ring Ben thinks it is a present from Susan - but it turns out to be from Grace for her lover - so he buys her a first edition of a Virginia Woolf novel at a grand plus.

After rescuing a train from a suicide bomber, a Scottish Afghanistan War vet is assigned to protect the UK Home Secretary.

A bereft Sid needs a stern talking to from Ruhma after his Meningitis misdiagnosis. Al gets involved in two warring neighbours, one or both of who may be mentally ill. Zara asks Emma for some advice.

The wizards are trapped in a force field but Michael destroys the machine to extract the magic so Lexi summons a mother ship to beam up the wizards. Chloe and Tom head for the roof and create a storm, which delays the ship whilst Benny gets rid of the force field and frees the captives. With a hundred angry wizards summoning all their energy to protect themselves the Nekross are forced to retreat - but later return to claim a victim.

Chloe Martin is an Internet sensation, a street magician due to appear on a Hex TV show. Tom and Benny realize that she is a wizard but when they visit her she tells them that she was orphaned as a baby and, brought up in a children's home with no parents to explain her gift to her, believes her special powers are actually telekinesis. Many other wizards have, like Tom and Benny, cottoned on to the real nature of Chloe's powers, and a hundred of them have turned up at the television studio to stop her from performing and revealing to a hostile world that wizardry exists in the twenty-first century. But the show is a fake, a ploy devised by the Nekross and its producer is a disguised Varg, who has succeeded in bringing all the wizards to one place to steal their magic.

Given that she leads a comfortable life-style, lacking for nothing, Lady Shaw is one of the last people one would expect to be caught shop-lifting. However, when reports are called for and she gets to meet Dr. Corder it becomes evident that to some extent her uncharacteristic behaviour is a means of rebelling against her controlling husband, a severe High Court judge.

The team investigate the murder of a young peace protester, killed near a nuclear base in 1984. Was it a cover-up?

1985: WPC Denise Woods starts work at Brixton police station and immediately encounters sexism and hostility from piggish DCI Ferguson. One friendly face is DS Ray Deans,with whom Denise teams up to investigate the rape and murder of teen-aged Amy Reid,a girl Denise befriended after a disturbance at the Subotica club and who told Denise her father Paul disapproved of her dating black men. Ferguson is keen to arrest Paul Reid but Denise learns from Amy's friend Ellen that Amy left in a car with the club's DJ. When Denise and Ray visit the club they find bouncer Mike Holland with scratches on his face and wearing a medallion identical to Amy's. Denise seeks out Jay,a woman Holland was accused of raping though he was acquitted and,as the Brixton riots start,Ferguson allows Denise to take the credit for Holland's arrest.