Mrs Thursday nurses her Man Friday through a bout of pneumonia. But as Richard regains his strength, he starts to find Alice's parsimony intolerable - and tells her as much. She promptly sets out to prove that she knows how to enjoy herself.
Guests Barbara Leake and David King
Written by Julian Bond
Directed by Alastair Reid

Mrs Thursday discovers that she owns thirty-five grocery shops that have somehow been lost in her vast empire. She's also disconcerted to learn that she has a reputation as an uncaring employer...
Written by Stuart Douglass
Directed by Dennis Vance

Mrs Thursday's friend is dismissed from her job as a result of union activities; Alice is determined to get her re-instated. Hunter, meanwhile, goes digging in the Dunrich archives - finding various rare treasures and, possibly, a new line of action for Alice.
Guests Geoffrey Lumsden and Stella Tanner
Written by Stuart Douglass
Directed by Shaun O'Riordan

Mrs Thursday and Hunter spend a weekend at the country home of Sir Charles and Lady Barker. There they encounter the Duke of Midlothian, an endearing old man who is experiencing a lean time, and hit upon an idea to help him settle his debts.
Guests Russell Napier, Bill Shine and John Benham
Written by Diana Morgan
Directed by Cecil Petty

Mrs Thursday's son unexpectedly arrives home on leave from the Merchant Navy. She wants him to settle down in the Dunrich empire instead of returning to sea, but Gordon Thursday is clearly unsuited to the rigours of the business world...
Guest Ray Lonnen
Written by Gerald Kelsey
Directed by Valerie Hanson

When the company's liftman is mysteriously taken ill, Mrs Thursday makes sure his children are properly cared for by bringing all five of them home with her - and Hunter finds himself playing Old Mother Hubbard
Written by Bruce Stewart
Directed by Bill Stewart

Mrs Thursday travels up to Manchester on business, where local-boy-made-good Joe Lever is to open a chapel bazaar. An impromptu football game puts paid to Joe's appearance, so Mrs Thursday agrees to take his place.
Written by Jack Rosenthal
Directed by Cecil Petty

Finding he can no longer fit into his skiing gear, Richard books in at a health farm. Alice thinks her friend Lil might also benefit from a stay, and takes her there herself - and that's when she finds herself being forced to take a steam bath...
Guests Norman Mitchell and Royston Tickner
Written by Hazel Adair
Directed by Bill Stewart

Mrs Thursday learns that an old Fuller Street friend has been driven to a suicide attempt by the activities of Joe Sedgley, a blackmailing door-to-door salesman. She sets out to make Sedgley wish he'd never been born...
Guests Leslie Dwyer and Joan Newell
Written by Robin Smyth
Directed by Bill Stewart

When Mrs Thursday and an old friend keep a date, tongues start wagging. And when her associates learn the truth about 'factory worker' Albert Spencer, they're all set to instigate romance - and more.
Guests Harry Locke and Sheila Raynor
Written by Jack Rosenthal
Directed by Valerie Hanson

Mrs Thursday is called upon to present the prizes at a public school speech day, and finds herself championing the cause of a runaway boy who happens to be Hunter's nephew.
Guests Geoffrey Palmer, Bernard Horsfall, Josephine Tewson and William Kendall
Written by Diana Morgan
Directed by Bill Stewart

A big redevelopment scheme involves demolishing a three hundred-year-old market hall, and pressure is being put on Mrs Thursday from all sides... so much so that she begins to wish she'd never inherited all her money.
Written by Robert Storey
Directed by Dennis Vance

Hunter persuades Alice to accept the chairmanship of a charity ball committee; approaching things with typical thoroughness, she allows the organiser to work from her house. And that's when events take an unexpected turn...
Written by Vincent Schofield based on an idea by Tony Warren
Directed by Cecil Petty