Chaos ensues as Ian and Gordon’s pals park up at Beth and Eric’s for their Aussie holiday, and an organised Morven becomes increasingly tense with Lin’s lack of packing skills.

As the Duty Free wine flows, a post-holiday soiree at Cathy & Colin’s becomes competitive

Colin & Eric lose their ball. Ian & Jaz lose their keys. And Cathy loses her rag.

As if the NHS needs any more challenges, Christine now stress-tests nursing staff with a hospital stay.

With their house in turmoil in the midst of a redecoration, new neighbours Alan and Michelle take refuge at Beth and Eric’s house.

Gordon's parents Graham and Sandra visit Scotland from Yorkshire and Ian brings them to Latimer Crescent to meet Beth and Eric.

Because Eric left the freezer door open, Beth decides she has to cook it at once and invite everyone over to eat it all.

Cathy and Colin have returned from a luxury cruise and seem strangely keen to persuade neighbours Eric and Beth to join them on their next trip. However, it soon transpires they have an ulterior motive - getting hold of a cheap deal. With Eric and Beth politely declining, the determined couple have another target in mind. Christine, fresh from a PPI refund windfall, wants to crow about her good fortune, and Beth is railroaded into holding a celebratory barbecue - the perfect moment for the holiday hunters to pounce.

Beth's hopes of a nice traditional Sunday lunch collapse when Cathy and Colin arrive in the midst of an argument, Jaz locks himself in the toilet, and uninvited guests Christine and Sophie turn up to enjoy the lovely roast lamb and organic potatoes the Bairds have been preparing all morning.

Back from a quiz night at the pub, everyone is encouraged to reveal their hidden talents. Cathy is very bendy but Gordon not quite as agile as everyone had hoped.

After an emotional funeral for Colin's Dad, he and Cathy have the neighbours round. Understandably Colin is not his usual upbeat self.

Beth is ill in bed and in desperate need of some rest. But the neighbours have decided Eric isn’t coping and are convinced they know how to nurse Beth back to health.

Cathy invites the neighbours round to enjoy an extravagant spread of posh shop-bought nibbles to celebrate Colin's dad's birthday. Despite her big show of being the ultimate hostess, long-suffering Beth has to step in and rescue the party. Birthday boy Willie isn't impressed by any of it, but finally gets into the party spirit when Colin presents him with his old accordion.

Beth has organised the perfect baby shower for mum-to-be Sophie. Everyone is invited and Christine has even asked Pat from over the back, who she is assuming is going to be the baby's godmother. Sophie, however, has already asked Beth and Eric and hasn't yet broken the news to her mum. Jaz is sporting a black eye after a run-in with a packing box, and whilst Cathy is excited by the idea of a party, she doesn't want to get too close to Sophie in case the birth happens earlier than expected.

Cathy's jealousy over Colin's ex-girlfriend nearly derails Burns Night. Not everyone is enthusiastic about eating haggis, least of all vegetarian Gordon.

Beth's birthday treat - lunch out with the family - is hijacked by a very drunk Colin, another uninvited guest and an alarmingly intimate photograph.

Over at Colin's house, the neighbours are gathered for a surprise birthday party for Anne Marie. But when the doorbell goes, it's Colin who gets the big surprise.

Cathy & Colin have a hot tub party. What can go wrong with that?

Technophobe Christine faces a computer crisis when she goes online to buy a Barneyboo Buggy for Sophie's baby and her screen freezes mid-purchase. She heads to the Bairds to get help. Beth has got more company at home in the shape of Ian and Jaz, who are staying while they wait to pick up keys for their new flat, and footie fans Colin and Eric are getting excited about their trip to watch Scotland play in Latvia.

Colin is vulnerable after being unceremoniously dumped. Beth and Eric are doing their best, but conversation is already strained when Christine steams in demanding gory details.

All Eric wants for his birthday is peace and quiet. Good luck with that.

Christine takes extreme measures to find out who the father of Sophie’s baby is.

When Cathy and Colin's house is burgled, Cathy goes into meltdown. Beth and Eric find themselves cast as laundress and chief suspect.

The new couple on the street are invited to Beth's to meet the neighbours. Everyone warms to them except for Cathy, whose competitive instincts get a little out of hand.

Everyone is tucking into some doughnuts when the new, health-conscious neighbours turn up.