EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES ONE

1. Maggie and Andrew return from holiday in France to find that their son and daughter-in-law have been killed in a car crash. They now are guardians of their three grandchildren. Plus rabbits, hamsters and goldfish. And a parrot.

2. Only a half-day into the care of their grandchildren, Maggie and Andrew are beginning to become exhausted. Jake is heartbroken when his hamster dies. Worse - he believes his grandmother may have had something to do with it.

3. Maggie asks Philip and Georgina to accompany her to the supermarket but finds that they are anti-shopping and pro-anything-organic. Andrew’s visit to the park with Jake ends with tears and an embarrassing situation.

4. Our company of Maggie, Andrew, Georgina, Philip, Jake and assorted pets are finding living conditions a bit cramped. The besieged grandparents concoct what they think is a cunning plan for expansion.

5. Maggie has made plans for a day to herself, but those look in jeopardy when Jake turns up at the bedroom door with spots that prove to be chickenpox. Andrew heroically volunteers to look after Jake so Maggie can go to the health club.

6. All three of the grandchildren have been in trouble at school. The school psychologist recommends to Andrew and Maggie that they legally adopt them in order to make them feel more secure.

SERIES TWO

1. Maggie and Andrew are still grandparents reluctantly saddled with the responsibility of raising their orphaned grandchildren. Their immediate concern is whether they should go ahead with a formal adoption process as recommended by a school psychologist.

2. Maggie “finds” Georgina’s diary and discovers that she and Andrew have completely forgotten Georgina’s birthday. Jake has been cast as a locust in the school play and needs his grandmother to sew him up a costume.

3. Jake discovers that Maggie is still smoking, despite her promises to give it up. Georgina is told that she will have to be fitted for braces, and Maggie has the unenviable task of persuading her to wear them.

4. Maggie has planned her own birthday party, and the children’s present turns out to be an unwelcome surprise. Should she keep the boisterous puppy or give it away and risk the combined wrath of the grandchildren?

5. It is Jake’s school sports day, and his grandparents prove to be much more competitive than the other parents. Maggie gets so involved in the goings-on that she becomes a last minute entrant for the Mother’s Race.

6. Maggie and Andrew take the grandchildren on holiday. No longer are their times away spent in the glorious surroundings of French chateaux. Holiday now means cheap camping sites and nights spent under the tent.

7. Maggie and Andrew’s wedding anniversary is planned as a quiet night at home with the grandchildren away for the evening. Then the nightmare family from the French camping holiday arrives with their home video and refuses to go away.

8. Maggie wins, and reluctantly agrees to take part in, a family trip to Chessington World of Adventures. Jake is too short for the rides. Georgina harasses the zookeepers. Philip secretly meets with his free-spirit girl friend. It’s fun for all!

SERIES 3

1. Maggie is confined to bed with the flu, meaning Andrew must look after the grandchildren. At first Andrew thinks this is not so bad a task, but between looking after the three youngsters and a rather demanding Maggie, he has other thoughts.

2. Even while attempting to be supportive of the grandchildren, Maggie and Andrew are seen by the younger householders as embarrassments. Can they learn to behave otherwise?

3. When Georgia asks Andrew to help her write a letter to the Environment Society, Maggie is offended and not a little hurt. Is it possible that Andrew’s actions on behalf of the grandchildren are making her “surplus to requirements”?

4. Maggie and Andrew accompany their friends Rosie and Hugh to a much anticipated Golf Club dinner where they hope to win the raffle - a ‘new car. When they discover Rosie has rigged the drawing in their favor, will they be able to accept the prize?

5. All five Prentices are about on a canal boat holiday. The grandparents assign Georgia, Philip and Jake various duties, but before long Andrew finds himself the victim of a mutiny and relegated to the post of galley slave.

6. Georgia seems to be suffering a great lack of self esteem, and Maggie and Andrew worry she may be headed towards anorexia. Rosie introduces Georgia to her niece, Miranda, in the hopes a burgeoning friendship can put Georgian right.

7. Maggie is upset to learn that her neighbors are set to move because the Prentice household has become too noisy to tolerate. She and Andrew later discover that Philip has conspired to keep secret an invitation for them to attend a “High School Hop” for teachers and parents.

8. Philip has become the target of a school bully, and Maggie will not hear of it. When she and Andrew confront the child’s parents, however, they seem not to care. This leads Maggie to give them a piece of her mind,