Hold the Sunset

Edith plans one last Christmas with the family before she and Phil embark on their sunset journey, and Phil's anxiety about not selling his house leads him to a spooky encounter.

Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture the happiness of his boyhood.

Phil and Roger make rival attempts to impress Edith on her seventieth birthday. Roger's bright idea is to invite back Mrs Gale, Edith's chaotic former cleaner.

Phil and Roger make rival attempts to impress Edith on her seventieth birthday. Roger's bright idea is to invite back Mrs Gale, Edith's chaotic former cleaner.

As tensions grow between Roger and Wendy, a midnight break-in brings Edith face to face with a ghost from her past. How can she explain the raffish Bob to Phil?

Bob gives Roger the idea of applying to be a paid carer for Edith. However, Edith is perfectly well, so who can Roger persuade to stand in for her?

Phil is worried that Edith's old flame Bob may be gaining ground and that his own one-time floozy Desiree may put in an unwelcome appearance.

With Edith and Phil’s sunset future in suspense, Phil’s beginning to despair of ever selling his house. Queenie talks him into an Open Day – but with ulterior motives.

After his disastrous Open Day, Phil has disappeared. As Edith searches for him, her difficult sister Joan invites herself to stay. Meanwhile Roger comes up with a new way to make money: by renting out his mother's spare room online, to…

Edith is finding her irritating sister Joan very difficult, and Roger, impatient to help Phil sell his house, decides to help by checking his roof for dry rot.

Edith and Phil are dismayed to find themselves portrayed in Wendy’s prizewinning book, and Roger’s hopes of becoming a carer look like being revived.

Edith and Phil finally set a date for their wedding, but romance is in the air for more than one couple.

Edith and Phil can finally make a plan for their wedding – which doesn’t include an invitation for Bob – and Roger enlists Georgie to video the proceedings.