Tue, Aug 16, 2016
Having resigned his teaching post Dan is having a leaving party but it gets cancelled when the venue, Jo's shop, is repossessed whilst Daddy spitefully arranges to take Mum away for the weekend so that she will miss it. Brian has his own bad news but when there is a family crisis Dan and Nesta ally to put Daddy in his place and circumstances contribute to Dan changing his mind about emigration - even in the light of news from Emma.
Tue, Nov 21, 2017
To relieve a stressed out Emma health visitor Patty suggests Dan takes baby Simon for a day but the child refuses to look at him and Dan's attempts to resolve the situation fail. Then he meets a blind man who offers advice but disaster strikes thanks to Jo's hippy friend Milky Sue and worse is to follow at the christening when Dan inadvertently takes Brian's 'recreational' pills.
Tue, Nov 28, 2017
Dan has his own flat, without Emma, who is applying for sole custody of their baby but finds himself being abducted by the vengeful Daddy and his daughter, love-lorn care assistant Carol, who chain him up in a remote woodland caravan. Now is the time for friends and family to rescue him and get him to court to challenge Emma.
Mon, Dec 22, 2014
Dan learns that his late father has left him a flat - provided the legacy is approved by Dan's direct and eccentric aunt Nesta, so Dan takes Jo and Brian to see her on her farm. Nesta sets her nephew tasks to gain her approval and he and Brian almost come to blows as a result, particularly over a runaway turkey. Having delivered a calf Dan gains Nesta's support and the flat but the turkey gets revenge on him.
Tue, Aug 9, 2016
Dan is shocked when Mum tells him that she and his father are his natural parents but, being young and poor, they put him up for adoption, the adopters eventually giving him back. A search for their identity leads him, along with Jo and Brian and his daughters to Southend, finishing up in an Irish pub where Dan's attempts to join in a music session with a made-up song does not impress and circumstances prevent a reconciliation with the adopted parents. However Brian becomes uncharacteristically free-spirited in comforting Dan after his disappointment.
Tue, Aug 2, 2016
Forced to share with Nesta when Daddy moves in Dan decides to leave home, taking his sole possession, a blue chair, which causes a problem on a bus. Another problem is his need for a visa to go America since he needs an address and has made himself homeless, being foiled when he tries to sleep at the local gym. Nor does having Jo as his guarantor help when she accidentally starts a fire outside the passport office but, though his application is accepted and he returns home, the real shock comes when he sees his birth certificate.
Sun, Jun 28, 2015
When pupil Dennis's uncle who is his sole guardian is hospitalized Dan volunteers to look after him for a weekend to impress Emma. Dan grudgingly accepts Nesta as the second mandatory adult but takes a reluctant Dennis cycling with him rather than hunting with her and recruits Jo and Brian for an adventure game which Dennis finds extremely boring. However the lad is suitably impressed when they end up accidentally attending a criminal's lavish funeral.
Tue, Oct 31, 2017
With Emma living with her parents Dan, back at work teaching, is staying in an empty room at the retirement home, where his mother discovers his teen-age diary. This includes his attachment to a teddy bear which he had forgotten but aims to claim back from the children's ward at the local hospital. Meanwhile Brian is unsuccessfully trying online dating as well as being disturbed by Jo's sudden interest in scavenging, though he does at least solve the mystery of the bear.
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
Dan's friend, financial advisor Brian is nominated for the West Regional Small Business Awards and Dan goes to the presentation with him - wearing an ill-fitting suit donated by his spiteful father and sporting a bad haircut, due to an incompetent barber. His 'plus one' is Jo but she has dressed as a man as Dan did not want Naomi to recognize his date. Brian does not win the award and Dan feels the need to speak up for him - which is ill-judged. It does however win the admiration of Jo though the appearance of some unfriendly faces from Dan's past leads to a custard pie fight.