EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

SERIES 1
1. PILOT - It’s just an ordinary day at the Northolt surgery. Dr Piers Crispin, the publicity- mad TV doctor, still fancies Janet almost as much as he fancies himself, Mrs. Raven, the sarcastic receptionist, is still frightening patients and Janet’s mother has dropped in to wonder why her daughter is bent on passing up such an eligible husband as Piers. Janet, however, is trying to get back to normal after her recent holiday, during which she was rescued by Thermoman when a freak gust of wind blew her into the Grand Canyon. (Piers is jealous that she was in the news rather than him.) Janet has fallen for Thermoman but never expects to see her superhero saviour again, so when an odd hypochondriac Irishman called George Sunday visits her at the health centre, at first she doesn’t make the connection. (1)

2. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO LUNCH - George Sunday has moved in with his new girlfriend, nurse Janet Dawkins, though why on earth she is attracted to the peculiar Irishman is beyond her colleagues. Piers can’t wait for Janet to introduce George to her parents, knowing that George is bound to make the wrong impression. Janet’s mother, Ella, disapproves of everything Janet does and her father, Stanley, is pathologically protective of his little angel so, understandably, both George and Janet are very nervous when her parents arrive for Sunday lunch. George is under strict instructions to try to behave ‘normally’, but he can’t resist helping to cook the chicken and heat the soup with his breath. After that disaster, George decides not to use his special powers to extinguish the burning oven gloves… (2)

3. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Thermoman is called upon to save Grimsby from being destroyed by an abandoned Russian space station. Unfortunately, he has his own domestic disaster to deal with first. He’s got Marmite over the front of his Thermo-uniform. It may be 100 per cent Thermomium and resistant to fire, flood, toxic waste and nuclear attack, but the Marmite won’t shift. Janet insists on washing his costume, which not only makes him late for his rescue mission but makes him itch like crazy due to an allergic reaction to the washing powder. Piers becomes suspicious when he sees Thermoman scratching himself on a news bulletin and seconds later George appears in his surgery scratching all over. He insists on giving George a medical,and when he discovers George has two heart beats and superhuman eyesight, threatens to reveal Thermoman’s double identity live on television unless George leaves Janet.A brainwipe seems to be the only answer. (3)

4. NO TITLE - Thermoman’s repeated visits to the health centre to save Janet from a wasp sting or a spider are baffling patients and staff.Piers thinks he’s made a new celebrity friend and invites him to be guest of honour at the fund-raising party he has organised to boost his own public image. Janet’s parents insist both George and Janet attend the party so that George can personally thank Thermoman for saving Janet from falling into the Grand Canyon. Not easy, given that George is Thermoman.George hatches a cunning plan which involves him meeting Thermoman in the toilets, but the fake rendezvous doesn’t quite go as planned. (4)

5. OLD MAN RIVERDANCE - George receives a visit from his father, the original Thermoman, who now resides in the Dunrescuin’ home for retired superheroes in Florida. George’s father, [Earth name] Seamus (Peadar Lamb), is unhappy that his son is co-habiting with an Earth girl. Apart from the smell, she is interfering with his work. On planet Ultron, a father’s word is law, or risk inter vention by the all-powerful Ultron Council – a prospect George doesn’t relish having seen what they did to his cousin Arnie Having given the couple two days to try to prove him wrong, Seamus decides George must leave. But Janet has a plan: if Seamus meets her own parents and hears how much they disapprove of George, this should make Seamus jump to George’s defence. Fine in theory; in practice the parents bond in mutual disapproval of their offspring’s relationship. There is only one thing to do. If George wants to stay with Janet, he must renounce his superhero status… (5)

6. NO TITLE - It’s Janet’s 30th birthday, but an earth girl hitting the Big 3-0 means nothing to the Ultron male. So when Janet says she doesn’t want to discuss it and then changes her mind, poor George isn’t quite sure what to do. As always, he turns to his cousin Arnie for advice. It’s decided that George should throw Janet a surprise birthday party (although George doesn’t quite understand the concept). Disguised in a hat and sunglasses, George visits the health centre to invite Janet’s work colleagues to the party. George flies Janet over to New York to meet Arnie which should keep her out of the way while her friends and parents get the party swinging in Northolt. Piers arrives with Zoe (a runner from his TV show who he’s paid to accompany him) while Mrs Raven is busy fighting off amorous advances from Janet’s fried-brain neighbour, Tyler. All seems to be going smoothly when George flies off to collect Janet, but on arrival, he accidentally spills the beans about her surprise party. Can George can come up with the perfect solution? (6)

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SERIES 2
1. CHRISTMAS - George tries to get into the spirit of Christmas by creeping into the houses of Janet's parents, Mrs Raven and her boss Piers on Christmas Eve dressed as Santa to leave them all presents. This doesn't go down as well as he had planned, and Christmas dinner is a bit of a miserable affair – until George appears with the real Father Christmas who has a special present. for everyone. (7)

2. PARENTS - George ruins Janet's parents’ amateur dramatic performance by shouting out as if it's a panto, so Janet tries to deflect their anger by telling them the truth – that he is really superhero Thermoman. Although Janet's mum and dad now love him, life gets more complicated when everyone knows, particularly when Mrs Raven tries to offer him her body.(8)

3. GIRLFRIEND - Disaster strikes at the heart of Thermoman's domestic bliss when his long- lost fiancée, Xil, arrives from Ultron. Janet is horrified to learn that George is bound by Ultron law to marry Xil, but she is determined not to lose her man. George's cunning plans to dissuade Xil don't work, neither do Janet's woman-to-woman powers of persuasion. All seems lost, until Janet makes a discovery…(9)

4. CAR - Thermonan's defrocked superhero cousin, Arnie, wants his powers back. George agrees to intercede with the Ultron High Council on condition that Arnie behaves himself and will take care of saving the world while George saves up for a car for Janet. Sadly though, temptation is too much for Arnie, and when he steals the Crown Jewels things have to revert to the way they were. But Janet still gets her car in the end…(10)

5. NEMESIS - A vengeful school mate, Rovi, comes to Earth intent on making George (aka Thermoman) miserable. First he takes over Piers’ body and makes Janet fall in love with him. Then he takes over as the world's superhero. In a desperate attempt to win Janet back,Thermoman issues the terible challenge of Chang-Ching. Can he defeat Rovi/Piers and win back Janet's love? (11)

6. PREGNANT - When Janet discovers she is pregnant,Thermoman is over the moon and gives her special powers to protect herself and the unborn baby. Janet isn't keen at first, but as she gets used to being a superhero she is even better at it than Thermoman! (12)

7. WEDDING - Janet's dad is insisting that her baby be born in wedlock, and Thermoman's bosses on Ultron are of the same mind. But as usual things don't go smoothly for the world's favourite superhero as the baby starts to arrive during the marriage ceremony. (13)

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SERIES 3

1. BABY TALK - Life is becoming increasingly stressful for George and Janet Sunday. Keeping George's alter ego secret from Janet's parents is difficult enough but with a new baby in the house who, to put it mildly, takes after George rather more than Janet, it is becoming impossible. (14)

2. ZERO TOLERANCE - Life at the health centre takes an unexpected turn when a desperate man turns up waving a gun and demanding access to the drugs cabinet. (15)

3. PET RESCUE - Ella and Stanley have the decorators in, so Janet has volunteered to look after their dog, Biggles--much to George's disgust. However, George is determined to overcome his aversion and bond with the mutt. (16)

4. THE OLDER MAN - It'ss George's birthday and, at 327 years old, he's a mere spring chicken in Planet Ultron terms. But the lease on George's earthly body has run out and he's starting to look his real age rather rapidly… (17)

5. PUTTIN' ON THE WRITS - It's just an ordinary morning in a supermarket car-park - until Mrs. Raven has a run-in with a stack of wayward trolleys and is tipped over the edge of the multi-storey building. It's ThermoMan to the rescue--but when he refuses Mrs R's kind offer of Battenberg cake in return for saving her life, retribution is swift! (18)

6. SHOCK, HORROR! - Baby Ollie has a temperature so George, instead of concentrating on saving the world, keeps zooming back to the flat to check on the baby. But all this dashing about is making George careless and it's not too long before an unscrupulous journalist takes advantage of the situation and obtains pictures of George in his ThermoMan guise… Suddenly it's all over the papers that Janet is having an affair with ThermoMan. (19)

7. LITTLE GREEN MAN - Janet thinks George is taking her for granted. After all, most husbands would react rather badly after discovering their wife in a compromising position with the handy man…George's response is merely 'Why should I be jealous of a human when I can do it 15 times a night?' But it's not long before George succumbs to jealousy. (20)

8. MINE'S A DOUBLE - George has to attend a Super-Heroics Conference which means leaving Janet at home alone, minding the baby. In their wisdom, the Ultron Council provides a "George clone" with the unlikely name of Hilary to keep Janet company. But while Hilary looks just like the real thing, his character couldn't be more different…(21)

9. A LITTLE LEARNING - George is devastated when Ella and Stanley ban him from their 40th wedding anniversary party. The situation calls for some drastic action. Admittedly George's attempts to make new friends via the calling cards in telephone booths backfire somewhat but when he obtains some magic pork scratchings which increase his brain power, miraculous effects occur. (22)

10. A DAY TO REMEMBER - It's a bad day for Planet Earth when George accidentally erases his own memory, to the extent he can't remember who ThermoMan is, let alone that he is ThermoMan. For Janet it's a dream come true. George turns into a model husband who volunteers to change nappies and take Ollie for strolls in the park - a first in the Sunday household! (23)

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SERIES 4

1. A SPORTING CHANCE - Being a peace-loving Ultronian, George knows nothing about sport or the psychology of sport that drives men and women to thrash opponents to within an inch of their lives. So when Piers asks George to join his Sunday League cricket team to make up numbers George hasn't a clue what he's being asked to do. After a crash course on the rules of cricket from Janet, George takes the field and proceeds to decimate his own team with his over-zealous fielding. Piers is scathing about George's performance, but is forced to eat humble pie when George eclipses Piers by scoring a near-impossible 24 runs off the last 4 balls. George has discovered the ecstasy that is winning! Success goes to his head and he becomes horribly competitive, until Janet forces him to choose between grinding opponents' faces into the dirt or staying married to her. (24)

2. THE LIVING DEAD - Approached in the street by a salesman selling Life Assurance, George walks under a bus and kills himself in order to cash in his new lucrative policy. Even though George is perfectly fine after his encounter with a bus (being a superhero he is of course indestructible), Janet has to explain to everyone that her husband is dead. Ella is delighted, because her daughter is now free to marry the far more suitable Dr Piers Crispin. It is not long, however, before George is
feeling trapped by his non-existence and he and Janet hatch a plot to bring George back to life at his own funeral. (25)

3. TAKING THE CREDIT - George has not quite got the hang of managing domestic finances. Never having seen a Credit or Debit card before, he goes on a massive spending spree, mightily impressed with a Welfare State that literally gives him money to do so. Janet finds out what has been happening when the bills arrive, by which time they are heavily in debt. Selling their belongings and the flat only scratches the surface of this debt, and Janet is forced to take advantage of Ollie's supertalent to correctly predict the Lottery numbers. Such an abuse of Ultronian super-powers, however, draws Thermoman to the attention of the Lord High Arbiter of Abuses of Power - a sadistic, avenging judge, feared throughout the cosmos for putting wayward superheroes to the sword. (26)

4. IT"S ALL IN THE MIND - George is asked by the Ultron Council to write a progress report on humanity. All seems to be going well (apart from the French George is pleased with what he finds), until his mind-reading powers reveal the true nature of human thought. George is disgusted at human beings' capacity for deception and wicked behaviour.The unpleasant thoughts of Stanley, Ella and Mrs Raven in particular leave George in a state of despair. George's sense of honesty forces him to write a damning report and the Ultron Council condemns the human race to death by laser. Only Janet can save the world by giving her sanctimonious husband a tongue-lashing. (27)

5. VIRUS - On a trip to Ultron to request some leave to take Janet and Ollie on holiday, Thermoman picks up a rather nasty space virus, which is fatal to humans. Unfortunately, on his return to Earth, Janet, Stanley, Ella and Mrs Raven catch it off him and Thermoman has to neutralise the virus with a Thermo-Kiss-Of-Life. During this brief exchange of bodily breath, however, he accidentally passes on his super-powers. Stanley and Ella become Faldo Man and Dorothy Perkins and are harmless enough, if a little selective in whom they save, but when Mrs Raven transforms into The Raven and terrorises the world with spiteful acts of mischief - such as dumping Disney World in Siberia - Thermoman is forced to suck his superpowers out again. (28)

6. THE MAYOR OF NORTHOLT - A faulty streetlight outside Stanley and Ella's bedroom is keeping them awake at night, but getting the Council to mend it is proving impossible. George stands for Mayor, promising to fix the streetlight if elected, only to find that his opponent is the over-confident Piers, whose mistake is to treat George as a joke candidate with no chance of winning. George wins unanimous approval when the voters respond positively to his refreshingly honest approach. Unfortunately the pressures of Mayoral Office put an unreasonable strain on his marriage and his resignation follows his election within 24 hours.(29)

7. BIG - Ollie's half-human, half Ultronian physiology causes a few problems when he starts to grow at an accelerated rate. In 24 hours he grows from a nine-month-old baby into a 19-year-old boy with a 'serious' girlfriend. Janet and George are distraught at being robbed of the pleasure of watching their only son grow up, especially when he turns into a girl. They employ the services of an eminent Ultronian doctor to cure their son, who, despite her impeccable qualifications, looks and sounds like Britney's irritating kid sister. (30)

8. THE CONSULTANT - Arnie turns consultant when the Ultron Council sends him to check up on Thermoman's performance. Arnie conducts a Time and Motion study on George and demands that Thermoman be fully accountable for his actions. A plethora of customer satisfaction forms quickly hamper Thermoman's ability to rescue the victims of natural disasters - or as Arnie prefers to re-classify them, 'clients'. Arnie's regime over-stresses George to such a degree that he starts making mistakes ending up with him bringing home an armed intercontinental ballistic missile. Fearing for the world's safety, George retires, only to return to active duty when Work Experience Boy makes a hash of replacing him.(31)

9. THE FAMILY WAY - When George becomes pregnant with a surrogate baby that he is carrying for a childless couple on Ultron, Janet is confused. What is her role now that George is a mother? And why does she feel like she wants to keep the baby when it is born, when her own Ultronian baby, Ollie, is such a handful? The unconventional parents-to-be are on an emotional rollercoaster which finally comes off the rails and crashes when the biological parents arrive to claim their baby. Luckily, letting the baby go is the only option open to Janet and George once they have seen what the little thing looks like. (32)

10. TIME AND TIME AGAIN - Groundhog Day meets Back To The Future as George and Arnie travel back in time to stop seven-year-old Janet from breaking her arm in a tree-climbing accident. Unfortunately their interference in the space-time continuum has catastrophic consequences in the future/present. When they return to the present day, they discover that everyone is deliriously happy and George is NOT included. Janet is married to Piers with several beautiful children, Ella and Stanley are in love,Tyler is co-habiting in a stable relationship, and Mrs Raven is a Saint. George decides that it is time to return to Ultron and stay there forever, until Arnie persuades him to turn back the clocks one more time and fight to get his life back. (33)

SERIES 5

1- The Foresight Saga
George and Janet’s second child is born brandishing Janet’s appendix. Apart from being able to talk she possesses a very special gift – the ability to predict the future. This proves a mixed blessing, however, when baby Cassie foresees the imminent death of everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. The pressure is on Thermoman to avert catastrophe. (34)

2 - Illegal Aliens
After a bust up with a patient, (who also happens to be an immigration officer), George and Arnie find themselves under investigation. Without documentation proving their right to stay in the country the situation seems hopeless, until Tyler has an unexpected stroke of genius. (35)

3 - The First Husbands Club
George wants to be more assertive, but when he joins Piers’ men’s group, things go too far. Whipped up into a frenzy, George decides to use his superpowers to get his own way, and very odd things start happening to the women of Northolt… (36)

4- Cassie Come Home
Ella is training to be a magistrate. She’s also convinced that Janet and George are bad parents and uses her new ju-dicial power to take the children away. There seems to be nothing that George and Janet can do, until Ollie decides to take matters into his own hands… (37)

5 - Nothing to Hide
When the priceless Mona Lisa is discovered in the Sundays’ flat, George is arrested. To save him from jail a plan is hatched to steal the painting back and replace it with a fake, but things go from bad to worse when Stanley puts a hole right through the real Mona Lisa’s face… (38)

6 - Brain Drain
In a bid to rid people’s minds of prejudice and bad thoughts, George decides to electronically filter their minds. But of course things go far from smoothly……Why has Janet turned up for work in overalls? What is Tyler doing attending to the patients? Why is Piers dressed in a nurses uniform? And who’s that singing Britney Spears in the Nurse’s Room?! (39)

7- Fear and Clothing
Even superheroes get scared, but when George becomes a nervous wreck around Friday 13th, the consequences are unsettling for everyone. While Piers and Mrs Raven plot their latest money-laundering scam, Arnie is worried that Thermoman’s days may be numbered. (40)

8 - How Green was My Ollie?
Thermoman finds his popularity fading as he is held responsible for global warming, owing to the heat created by his flying around the world ! With a hate mob on his back, he’s forced to take drastic measures to prove that the planet is safe in his hands. (41)

9 - Big Bother
Janet is fuming when she discovers that George has been secretly filming her for the Ultronian reality show ‘Ther-mowatch’. With the camera in his right eye, George is so preoccupied with his new career he doesn’t notice when the producers turn the tables on him and he ends up in Reality TV hell. (42)

10 - Night Fever
George is having nightmares – something completely unknown to an Ultronian – but they are so vivid he’s loosing his grip on reality. Things are becoming increasingly weird, then George makes the announcement that he is leaving Janet for Mrs Raven…has he gone totally mad? (43)


SERIES 6

1. Footloose
Money has been tight since the closure of the health shop where George worked, and he's taken to busking outside the Health Centre. He does, however, have a possible alternative to their financial worries as he intends to play in a poker game on Ultron. Janet hopes he won’t lose his shirt!

2. Here's One I Made Earlier
The children unsettle Janet by talking in tongues that even George, despite his super-powers, can’t understand. She tells him she needs time to get accustomed to his new body before accepting him as her husband. This sets him thinking and he disappears into the bathroom… … only to re-appear as a woman in the hope that he can better understand her female psyche.

3. My Kingdom for a Cat
Having developed an allergy to Ella’s new cat, Stan pays George a surgery visit and is given a prescription. Ella comes to collect Stan
and is convinced that George is Janet’s same old idiot husband in all but appearances. He is quite pleased by this and is hurt that Janet still can’t accept him as readily.

4. Sidekick
George and a blackened Janet return from what he thinks has been a romantic evening – flying over an active volcano! She says still needs
more time alone with George to get to know him again, but their ensuing chat is interrupted by a ship’s disaster and George must fly.

5. Not for Prophet
George as Thermoman resurrects Ollie’s pet spider – only to kill it again as he is scared of them! Janet is trying to get baby daughter Cassie into the church nursery and has invited the local Vicar and her parents around for tea. However, George ruins everything by saying he thinks Satan is fantastic and much better than drippy angels and disciples.

6. Dermoman
George has been caught breaking the speed limit by the Ultronian Police,
having been flying faster than light, and has to re-sit his superhero theory test. Janet tells him he has to pass, otherwise he will lose his licence and get sent back to Ultron. Tyler blames Janet for George’s vigour as she has been making him sleep on the couch, but to help him burn off his excess energy she simply suggests George joins a gym. He deems this a good idea and thinks oiling up his pecs might win him Janet’s favour.

7. Top of the Table
Old George’s position as second-best superhero in the Galaxy has prompted new George, with Arnie’s help, to market Thermoman-branded merchandise, including Thermo-suits and loo rolls! George hopes that
the new Superhero Assessment of Total Saves league table will prove
that he is the same George and that Janet will therefore accept him as
her husband.

8. Believe!
George has been a one-man wrecking ball all week as his super-powers seem to have deserted him. He has even dropped a Bavarian village whilst saving it from a mudslide thus destroying three other villages. Janet insists he sorts himself out, but he doesn’t know what is wrong and hopes it’s just a temporary blip. However, he then playfully throws baby daughter Cassie up into the air – and thru’ the ceiling!

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