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The following is a '''list of episodes''' for the [[British sitcom]] '''''[[Birds of a Feather]]''''', that aired on [[BBC One]] from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998. |
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During its history, [[Greenpeace]] has been criticized by a number of groups. These include governments, industry and political lobbyists and some environmental groups. The organization's use of [[nonviolent direct action]] has also caused controversy.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} |
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The first series, of six episodes, aired from 16 October to 20 November 1989 on Mondays at 8.30pm. A Christmas special aired on 26 December 1989 at 9.00pm. The second series aired for fifteen episodes from 6 September to 13 December 1990 on Thursdays at 8.30pm, followed by a Christmas Special on Christmas Day at 8.20pm.<ref name="RT">{{cite book|last=Lewishohn|first=Mark |authorlink=Mark Lewisohn|coauthors=|title=Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy|year=2003|publisher=[[BBC Worldwide]]|location=[[London]]|isbn=0563487550}}</ref> The twelve-episode third series aired from 31 August to 16 November 1991 on Saturdays at 8.00pm, followed by a Christmas special on Christmas Day at 8.00pm. The fourth series, of thirteen episodes, aired from 6 September to 29 November 1992 on Sundays at 8.40pm, with a Christmas Day special at 8.00pm. Series Five for thirteen episodes on Sundays at 8.20pm from 5 September to 28 November 1993, with a Christmas Special on 25 December 1993 at 8.00pm.<ref name="RT"/> The sixth series aired from 18 September to 18 December 1994, for thirteen episodes, on Sundays at 7.30pm. A Christmas Special followed on 24 December at 8.55pm. A ten-episode seventh series aired from 26 May to 28 July 1997 on Mondays at 9.30pm, with a Christmas special on 27 December 1997 at 9.25pm. The eighth aired on 5 January to 9 February 1998, on Mondays at 8.30pm, for six episodes. The ninth and final series, also of six episodes, aired from 16 November to 24 December 1998, mostly on Mondays at 8.30pm.<ref name="RT"/> |
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==Criticisms== |
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Some critics have said the organisation is too mainstream. [[Paul Watson]], who left Greenpeace to found [[Sea Shepherd]], once called Greenpeace "the [[Avon Products|Avon ladies]] of the environmental movement," because of their door-to-door fund-raising that relies on the media exposure of deliberately orchestrated and highly publicized actions to keep the name of Greenpeace on the front pages. [[wikia:siliconvalley:Bradley Angel|Bradley Angel]], who organized communities in California and Arizona for Greenpeace, split to found [[wikia:siliconvalley:Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice|Greenaction]] in 1997. Greenpeace had summarily shut down its community-building operations, terminating more than 300 employees in the US alone, in what Mr Angel called "a betrayal".<ref>The Village Voice, 26 August 1997</ref> |
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Out of a total of 101 episodes, 94 are 30 minutes long. The 1990 Christmas special is 75 minutes, the 1993 Christmas special is 60 minutes long, while the 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1997 Christmas specials are 50 minutes in duration. The final episode, which aired on Christmas Eve 1998, is 40 minutes long.<ref name="RT"/> |
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A prominent critic of Greenpeace is Icelandic filmmaker Magnus Gudmundsson, director of a documentary ''Survival in the High North''. Gudmundsson's criticisms have focused largely on the social impacts of anti-[[whaling]] and anti-sealing campaigns, while Gudmundsson's documentary was judged [[libel]]lous by a Norwegian court in 1992 and he was ordered to pay damages to Greenpeace. Similarly, a Danish tribunal held that the allegations against Greenpeace about faking video materials were unfounded. Many media that published Gudmundsson's allegations have subsequently retracted and apologized (e.g. the ''Irish Sunday Business Post'' and TVNZ). |
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==Series One (1989)== |
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A former Greenpeace founding member, [[Patrick Moore (environmentalist)|Patrick Moore]], is also a critic<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120882720657033391.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</ref>. Moore's main criticisms have been leveled at the campaign to protect the forests of [[British Columbia]]. |
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|Title=Nicked |
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|Aux1=[[Maurice Gran]] and [[Laurence Marks]] |
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|Aux2=[[Tony Dow (English director)|Tony Dow]] |
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|OriginalAirDate=16 October 1989 |
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|ShortSummary= Life is never the same again for Sharon and Tracey after their husbands take part in an armed robbery and are later jailed for 12 years. |
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|Title=Just Visiting |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Tony Dow |
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|OriginalAirDate=23 October 1989 |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey is still depressed after Darryl's been sentenced, Sharon and Tracey try to find a way to tell Garth that his dad is in prison. |
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|EpisodeNumber=3 |
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|Title=Shift! |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Tony Dow |
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|OriginalAirDate=30 October 1989 |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon has to go back to her job at Lo Price because of Tracey's money problems. |
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|EpisodeNumber=4 |
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|Title=Women's Troubles |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Tony Dow |
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|OriginalAirDate=6 November 1989 |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey believes she might be pregnant, however when going to the doctors with Sharon, it is the latter who in fact is. Sharon aborts the baby, while her latest boyfriend tells his mother she’s going to be a “gran”. |
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|EpisodeNumber=5 |
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|Title=Cheat! |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Tony Dow |
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|OriginalAirDate=13 November 1989 |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey is still suffering from money problems, Dorien meets a new man and Sharon sells unofficial T Shirts at Wembley. |
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|EpisodeNumber=6 |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Tony Dow |
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|Title=Substitute |
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|OriginalAirDate= 20 November 1989 |
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|ShortSummary= Marcus and Dorien have someone living in their house temporarily. The lodger becomes fond of Tracey causing her to feel unfaithful to Darryl. |
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==Christmas Special (1989)== |
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The factual basis of particular campaigns has been criticized, for example over the [[Brent Spar]] [[oil platform]] affair in 1995, in which Greenpeace mounted a successful campaign (including occupation of the platform and a public [[boycott]]) to force one of the platform's co-owners, [[Royal Dutch Shell|Royal Dutch/Shell]], to dismantle the platform on land instead of [[scuttling]] it. A moratorium on the dumping of offshore installations was almost immediately adopted in Europe, and three years later the Environment Ministers of the countries bordering the North East Atlantic agreed with Greenpeace, and adopted a permanent ban on the dumping of offshore installations at sea [http://archive.greenpeace.org/odumping/radioactive/reports/odhistory.pdf (PDF)]. After the occupation of the Brent Spar it became known that Shell had misled the public as to the amount of toxic wastes on board the installation. Greenpeace admitted that its claims that the Spar contained 5000 tons of oil were inaccurate and apologized to Shell on [[September 5]]. However Greenpeace dismissed the issue of the amount of oil, saying that the main issue was one of wider industrial responsibility: as the first offshore installation to be dumped in the North East Atlantic, the Brent Spar would have been followed by dozens or hundreds more, thereby setting what Greenpeace considers to be a dangerous precedent. It also pointed out that the decision by Shell to scrap the Brent Spar had been taken before the incorrect amount of toxic waste was published by Greenpeace, and therefore that its mistake could not have influenced Shell's decision. |
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|Title=Sailing |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=[[Geoffrey Fax]] |
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|OriginalAirDate=26 December 1989 |
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|ShortSummary=After Tracey gets two tickets for a "Christmas Cruise" in the post, Daryl tells her he booked these just before he was arrested. He only booked two as he wanted it to be just just Tracey and him, and thought Garth would be on a school trip or something. Tracey decides to take Garth, which annoys Sharon who wanted to go herself. When Garth then telephones to say he will not be home for Christmas, Tracey refuses to go at all. However, Sharon and Dorien then devise a plan to get Tracey to go on the cruise. |
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==Series Two (1990)== |
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In September 2003 the [[Public Interest Watch]] (PIW) complained to the [[Internal Revenue Service]] claiming that Greenpeace tax returns were inaccurate and a violation of the law.<ref>http://www.publicinterestwatch.org/pdfs/PIW_report.pdf</ref> PIW charged that Greenpeace was using non-profit donations for advocacy instead of charity and educational purposes. PIW asked the IRS to investigate the complaint. Greenpeace rejected the accusations and challenged PIW to disclose its funders, a request rejected by the then PIW Executive Director, Mike Hardiman, because PIW does not have 501c3 tax exempt status like Greenpeace does in the U.S.<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200309\NAT20030923b.html</ref> The IRS conducted an extensive review and concluded in December 2005 that Greenpeace USA continued to qualify for its tax-exempt status. In March 2006 the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' reported that PIW had been funded by [[ExxonMobil]] prior to PIW's request to investigate Greenpeace [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB114291044305003774-lMyQjAxMDE2NDIyMTkyMTEwWj.html]. Exxon has been labeled 'No.1 Climate Criminal' by Greenpeace for its role in denying climate change. The charitable status of Greenpeace has been revoked in Canada (since 1989).{{Fact|date=October 2008}} <!-- and the US? source? --> |
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|EpisodeNumber=8 |
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|Title=Getting a Grip |
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|Aux1=[[Peter Tilbury]] |
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|Aux2=[[Nic Phillips]] |
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|OriginalAirDate=6 September 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=When the [[central heating]] breaks down, Tracey and Sharon get two [[plumber]]s round for a quote, but when neither will do, Dorien recommends two female plumbers she knows, Alison ([[Eve Bland]]) and Gloria ([[Jane Hollowood]]). Tracey and Sharon soon hire them to do the work, but shortly after they leave the tank starts leaking. Meanwhile, Tracey gets letters from Garth telling her he has had a fight at school and she will have to pay for half the damage. |
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|EpisodeNumber=9 |
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|Title=Sweet Smell of Success |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=13 September 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=After speaking to Sharon’s former neighbour Lisa ([[Christine Ellerbeck]]), Sharon and Tracey decided to start selling [[perfume]] [[door-to-door]], as they are in desperate need of money. However, when this proves unsuccessful, Tracey decides to sell Darryl’s [[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar]] and advertises it on the Internet. When a prospective buyer ([[Owen Brenman]]) comes to view it, he drives it away. Tracey is later told it has been [[Repossession|repossessed]] as Daryl never kept up the payments. At the next prison visit, Daryl tells her he kid £25,000 in the car’s spare wheel. When Tracey then tries to buy the car back, Dorien buys it first to save Tracey’s embarrassment at having the car repossessed. |
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|EpisodeNumber=10 |
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|Title=Young Guns |
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|Aux1=[[Keith Lindsay]] and [[Martin Tomms]] |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=20 September 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Garth brings home a 17-year-old handsome school friend, Richard ([[Jamie Glover]]), for the holidays. Sharon and Tracey suspect that Garth is [[gay]], and Dorien tells them that she thinks Richard is also gay. When Tracey tells Darryl, he goes mad when she admits she has not actually spoken to Garth about it yet. Soon after, she and Sharon speak to Garth who says he is not. Moments later Dorien says she was wrong about Richard being gay, as she has just slept with him. |
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|EpisodeNumber=11 |
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|Title=Muesli |
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|Aux1=[[Steve Coombes]] and [[Dave Robinson (writer)|Dave Robinson]] |
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|Aux2=[[Charlie Hanson]] |
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|OriginalAirDate=27 September 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=After a Friday prison visit, Tracey decides that in an attempt to understand what Darryl is going through, she will live like a prisoner for the weekend. Sharon decides to join her and they then set up the spare bedroom. When Dorien gets locked out of the house for the weekend while Marcus is away, she stays at Tracey and Sharon's and acts a [[Corrections officer|prison officer]] and locks the bedroom door. On Sunday, Dorien returns to her house to find that it has been burgled and forgets to unlock Tracey and Sharon. After a short while, they climb out of the window and start throwing [[Tile#Roof tiles|roof tiles]] in an attempt to get Dorien's attention. However, when one tile ends up going through the car of police officer investigating Dorien's burglary, they end up in a police cell. Meanwhile, Darryl's cell mate Gary ([[Roger Griffiths]]) cheers him up by trying to relive how Darryl spent his weekends before being sent to prison. |
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|EpisodeNumber=12 |
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|Title=Keep of the Grass |
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|Aux1=[[Sue Teddern]] |
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|Aux2=Charlie Hanson |
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|OriginalAirDate=4 October 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon and Tracey see a friend of their husbands', Vinny Hutchins ([[Michael Cassidy (English actor)|Michael Cassidy]]), while out with Dorien. Moments later they see him raid a building society. Tracey believes they should tell the police, but Sharon says they cannot "[[Informant|grass]]". After visiting Darryl and Chris, they both change their minds; Sharon changing hers because Vinny beats his wife. When Dorien is round, they see an appeal by [[Shaw Taylor]] on ''[[Crime Busters]]'' and Dorien recognises Vinny. Sharon and Tracey, after hearing about the reward money, decide to tell the police but Dorien rings first, and uses the money to buy a kitchen from her toyboy Luke, who has been threatened with a move to [[Northern England]] unless he sells more kitchens. |
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|EpisodeNumber=13 |
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|Title=Mice |
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|Aux1=[[John Phelps (writer)|John Phelps]] and [[Gary Lawson]] |
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|Aux2=Charlie Hanson |
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|OriginalAirDate= 11 October 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey is planning a party to sell [[perfume]], but discovers they have [[Mouse|mice]], which Tracey blames on Sharon not tidying up after herself. After cleaning the house and buying poison, Sharon buys a [[cat]], but it does not seem to have any effect. The perfume party goes badly when the cat wets the hall carpet. Eventually, Sharon rings pest control, who reveals that he has been at Dorien's house trying to get rid of after a major mice infestation, and the mice have come over from her. |
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|EpisodeNumber=14 |
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|Title=Brief Encounter |
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|Aux1=Peter Tilbury |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=18 October 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon goes to the aid of 53-year-old Don Sheridan ([[Mark Kingston]]) when he is mugged at [[Chigwell tube station]]. That evening they accidentally meet at a bar, and he says he is in Chigwell on business as the [[financial adviser]] to Marcus, who apparently is near to going under. They go out several times, and make love, despite him being married. On his final night before going home, they plan to re-live the 1960s by taking drugs, which Sharon had been given to pass to Chris in prison, but the police arrive to give back Don's wallet, causing Don to flush the drugs down the toilet. Meanwhile, Dorien pays £2000 to have her telephone number changed to 071, as she sees it as more exclusive. |
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|EpisodeNumber=15 |
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|Title=You Pays Yer Money |
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|Aux1=[[Julia North]] |
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|Aux2=Charlie Hanson |
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|OriginalAirDate=25 October 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=With an upcoming [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliamentry]] [[by-election]], Sharon discovers that Tracey did not registered her to vote in Chigwell, however she did register Darryl, not wanting to admit he was in prison. Darryl then agrees that Sharon can buy his vote for £350. Meanwhile, Dorien is backing the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]], as she fancies the party's agent ([[Robert Swales]]). While Sharon will vote [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]], Tracey is unsure who to vote for, so Tracey arranges for each candidate to pay her a visit. At the polling station, Tracey votes Labour, as does Dorien when realises the agent is having a relationship with the Green candidate ([[Anna Keaveney]]). |
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|EpisodeNumber=16 |
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|Title=Trust |
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|Aux1=John Phelps and Gary Lawson |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=1 November 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey is having [[psychotherapy]], and develops a crush on the pyschotherapist Gerald ([[Jeremy Nicholas (writer)|Jeremy Nicholas]]). Darryl suspects she is having an affair and forbids her to see Gerald again. However, soon after Tracey meets him in a wine bar. She tells Gerald of her feelings, and he says they should not seen each other again, and she has developed an emotional dependency. Sharon and Dorien then persuade Tracey not to tell Darryl the feelings she had for Gerald. |
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|EpisodeNumber=17 |
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|Title=Thirty Something |
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|Aux1=Peter Tilbury |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=8 November 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=As Sharon approaches her 30th birthday, she looks back on her life and regrets her lack of education. She pays a visit to her Edmonton council flat, where she meets Lisa ([[Christine Ellerbeck]]), whose criminal partner is in the property business and Sharon considers buying the flat. Tracey disapproves of the idea. Dorien however is more encouraging and then goes with Sharon to the flat. However, Lisa's partner is soon sent to prison, and Sharon then takes his place on a holiday with Lisa to [[Benidorm]] with [[Club 18-30]]. |
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|EpisodeNumber=18 |
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|Title=Love on the Run |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Charlie Hanson |
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|OriginalAirDate=15 November 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Darryl is in hospital, and plans to escape for one night so he can spend it with Tracey. With the help of the nurse Joy ([[Jo Martin]]), the guard ([[Lloyd McGuire]]) is drugged and he and Tracey go to a hotel. Meanwhile, Sharon is spending the night with Martin ([[Ronan Vibert]]), an [[artist]] she recently met. The following morning, the taxi Darryl and Tracey are in is stopped by the Police and the driver ([[James Warrior]]) is arrested for drink-driving. Tracey rings Sharon, who then drives with Dorien and picks Darryl and Tracey up and takes them back to the hospital. They get back just after the guard wakes up and get away with the escape. |
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|EpisodeNumber=19 |
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|Title=Old Friends |
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|Aux1=John Ross |
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|Aux2=[[Sye Bysh]] |
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|OriginalAirDate= 22 November 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=While at [[Tesco]], Tracey sees Trish Taylor ([[Chrissie Cotterill]]), an old friend and one her [[Participants in wedding ceremonies#Bridesmaids|bridesmaids]], and invites her to stay for a while as she has recently left her husband. This annoys Sharon, who is also worried that when Darryl gets out of prison Tracey will make her move out. After taking Dorien's advice, Sharon goes out with Trish and they get on well. Meanwhile, Tracey has got annoyed with Trish for keep talking about their younger days. Soon however Trish leaves and goes back to live with her husband. |
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|EpisodeNumber=20 |
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|Title=Parting |
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|Aux1=John Phelps and Gary Lawson |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=29 November 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon has decided she will end her and Chris's relationship, and when she tells him this he says that one of his [[testicle]]s is getting bigger, she does not believe him. However, he is soon diagnosed with a [[Cancer|malignant tumor]] in the testicle. She goes to see him in hospital, but afterwards decides that she still wants to end their relationship, although Chris says he loves her. Tracey is annoyed by this, but Sharon wants to move on with her life. She does agree to continue seeing Chris in hospital on occasion. |
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|EpisodeNumber=21 |
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|Title=Jobs for the Girls |
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|Aux1=Sue Teddern |
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|Aux2=Sue Bysh |
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|OriginalAirDate=6 December 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=In order to make money for Christmas, Sharon becomes a dog-walker and cat-sitter, and soon comes up against stiff competition from Dorien's 13-year-old friend Adrian Gold ([[Ryan Freedman]]). Meanwhile, Tracey becomes a typist, and after having problems with the [[typewriter]] uses a [[word processor]]. She agrees to type up a manscript for a novel that Dorien has written. However, Sharon later notices that Dorien's manuscript is largely copied from ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'', and Dorien admits she just wanted Sharon and Tracey to think she had a talent. |
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|EpisodeNumber=22 |
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|Title=Someone Else's Baby |
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|Aux1=[[Frankie Bailey]] |
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|Aux2=Charlie Hanson |
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|OriginalAirDate= 13 December 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=With the ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'' coming to Chigwell, Sharon, Dorien and Tracey go into Tracey and Sharon's loft. Sharon discovers some letters written by her mother suggesting either she or Tracey were [[Adoption|adopted]]. After some arguing between Sharon and Tracey, Sharon invites their mother's sister Auntie Sylvie ([[Vivian Pickles]]), who finally tells them that they are sisters, but were both adopted. Meanwhile, Dorien goes to the ''Antiques Roadshow'' with a family heirloom, but to her horror what she believes is a [[Russian Empire]] vase turns out to be a mid-20th century [[East End of London|East End]] fake. |
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==Christmas Special (1990)== |
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===Anti-DDT Campaign and Resurgence of Malaria=== |
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|Title=Falling in Love Again |
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|Aux1=Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|Aux2=Nic Phillips |
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|OriginalAirDate=26 December 1990 |
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|ShortSummary=Chris owes two fellow prisoners £3000, and their two wives come and threaten Sharon and Tracey. Chris has a plan to raise the money which involves Sharon going to Germany to pick up a collectable car that he had while he was in [[Germany]] with the [[British Army|Army]] during the [[Cold War]]. Sharon then manages to win a week in [[Berlin]] on the game show ''[[Second Time Lucky]]'' presented by [[Leslie Crowther]]. She is accompanied by Barry ([[Simon Slater]]), the show's other winner, and Tracey. Sharon and Barry, who she cannot stand, tour the city with the cameras while Tracey tracks down the car, with the help of mechanic Manfred ([[Benedick Blythe]]). Tracey and Manfred soon start to fall for each other. Back in England, Tracey ends their relationship over the telephone, he does however still send the car over. Meanwhile, Luke dumps Dorien and she then tries to get more romantic with Marcus, who she soon discovers is having an affair with a younger woman. |
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==Series Three (1991)== |
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Along with the [[Environmental Defense Fund]] and the [[World Wide Fund for Nature|WWF]], Greenpeace has long supported the ban of [[DDT]] for agricultural purposes. Since 1955 the [[World Health Organization]] widely used DDT to control lice-carried [[Typhus]] and malaria mosquitoes. In [[Europe]], [[North America]], [[Northern Asia]] and parts of [[South America]] DDT use was widely credited with nearly eradicating Malaria.<ref>Malaria Site. [http://www.malariasite.com/malaria/history_control.htm History of Malaria Control].</ref> By 1973 growing concerns over DDT's effect on wildlife and especially [[birds]] lead to a full ban on the use of DDT in America. Pressure worldwide to stop DDT usage for agricultural purposes grew in the 1970s, with Greenpeace one of the most passionate advocates of a worldwide ban.<ref> [http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/02.htm "DDT Ban Takes Effect" |
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"Since the early 1970s, DDT has been banned in industrialised countries and the interdiction was gradually extended to malarious countries...because of environmental concerns... Despite objections by notable malariologists...the move away from spraying houses was progressively strengthened by WHO's malaria control strategies of 1969, 1979, and 1992...were adopted even though published WHO documents and committee reports have consistently and accurately characterised DDT-sprayed houses as the most cost effective and safe approach to malaria control...assistance from industrialised countries was often specifically contingent on not using DDT"<ref>Dr. D.R. Roberts "[http://www.malaria.org/ddtlancet.html DDT house spraying and re-emerging malaria]" The Lancet 2000; 356: 330 - 332</ref> Dr. D.R. Roberts in the 2000 [[The Lancet]] |
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|EpisodeNumber=24 |
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|Title=Keeping Up Appearances |
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|Aux1=[[Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks]] |
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|OriginalAirDate=31 August 1991 |
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|ShortSummary=Darryl has stopped shaving and can not take his mind off sex. Thus he writes a letter to Tracey asking her to dress more provocatively on her next visit. |
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|EpisodeNumber=25 |
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|Title=Tinker, Tailor |
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|Aux1=Peter Tilbury |
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|Aux2=Charlie Hanson |
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|OriginalAirDate=7 September 1991 |
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|ShortSummary=When a man, Charles FitzRoy ([[Paul Shearer]]), knocks on the door one evening asking for some water for his car, Sharon tells him all about Dorien and her relationships, which he seems interested in. After visiting Chris in prison, Sharon suspects that FitzRoy may have been a police spy. Soon after two policemen come round and they ask about the whereabouts of Dorien and Marcus, who needs to be questioned about a major fraud case of which he was the accountant. Sharon tells them they are on holiday in [[Zurich]]. When Dorien returns she finds that a Sunday newspaper has an article on her private life, and Sharon and Tracey are relieved that the source - them - is not revealed. |
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Currently, Greenpeace has members serve on boards for the [[Stockholm Convention]] of Persistent Organic Pollutants, a UN-sponsored body that pressures countries to stop using environmental toxins such as DDT.<ref>Greenpeace press release "[http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/the-stockholm-convention-s-ent The Stockholm Convention's entry into force a victory for the environment and our future]" 18 February 2004 [http://www.environment.gov.au/settlements/chemicals/international/pubs/seminar-1.pdf]</ref> The convention allows DDT to be used for Malaria control, however [[libertarian]] critics such as [[Paul Driessen]] claims the permit process has been so elaborate that up to 85% of [[USAID]] toward Malaria control is spent on environmental consultants needed to comply with the convention.<ref>Driessen,Paul K. "[http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/article.php3?id=149 The Killer Elite: Anti-pesticide activists perpetuate diseases that kill millions]"</ref> Other [[libertarian]] opponents of Greenpeace such as [[Roger Bate]] claim that "As late as 2001 Greenpeace has been lobbying to shut down the last major DDT factory in the world located in [[Cochin]], [[India]], even persuading the Indian government to shut down the factory by 2005".<ref>Bate, Roger "[http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidinthenews/articles/nr_051401.html A Case of the DDTs: The war against the war against malaria]" [[National Review]] May 14, 2001, Vol. LIII, No.9</ref> |
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On April 25, 2005 the [[Ugandan]] minister of health Jim Muhwezi declared: "DDT has been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective and least expensive method of fighting malaria...malaria kills between 70,000 and 110,000 children every year[in Uganda]"<ref> IRIN [http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=54054 "UGANDA: Anti-DDT lobby could slow fight against malaria, minister says"] IRIN News, 25 October 2007</ref> |
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On September 16, 2006 the Director of the [[WHO]]'s Global Malaria Program Dr. Arata Kochi announced with Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah Assistant Director-General that they would promote the spraying of DDT to control Malaria in Africa. Dr. Kochi said "One of the best tools we have against malaria is indoor residual house spraying. Of the dozen insecticides WHO has approved as safe for house spraying, the most effective is DDT."<ref> UN Press Release [http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19855&Cr=malaria&Cr1] "Reversing its policy, UN agency promotes DDT to combat the scourge of malaria" September 15, 2006 </ref> |
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Critics of Greenpeace's DDT campaign include [[novelist]] [[Michael Crichton]],<ref>Crichton, Michael "Environmentalism as Religion" Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA September 15, 2003[http://michaelcrichton.com/speech-environmentalismaseligion.html]</ref> [[Ralph Nader]], [[Patrick Moore (environmentalist)]] and [[magician]] and [[libertarian]] [[Penn Jillette]]. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon is at the shopping centre selling double glazing when she meets her old flame Dave, Dave already has a wife who is in fact 8 months pregnant, this causes an uneasy relationship between him and Sharon. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey is upset when Darryl tells her to cancel a visit because his parents are visiting him. Tracey decides to make an impression for Darryl as his parents come to her house. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon and Dorien try to get Tracey back to employment. |
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|ShortSummary= After watching a film, the television starts smoking leading to a boring weekend for Sharon and Tracey. Dorien later suggests an activity weekend away but Sharon isn't keen on some of the activities. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey discovers an old photo with Darryl under the table with someone else. Sharon is chucked out of the house by Tracey after keeping it a secret. |
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|ShortSummary= Chris and Darryl move to a prison in the Isle of Wight where Dorien interviews Chris on a book she is writing. Tracey suffers food poisoning after eating at a motorway cafe. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey has decided to give up smoking but the psychotherapist's help doesn't stop just there. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon is accused of fraud by the clerk at the DSS. Dorien writes her novel. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon warns Tracey her son will be a "mummy's boy" if she isn't careful. Sharon also dates a man in secrecy; however her hopes of happiness are dashed when discovering the man is an over-grown kid controlled by his mother. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon arrives from the clinic with an allergy, she later visits Chris who wants her to start business at the cafe but Sharon is hesitant at first. She later visits the cafe and asks Tracey to help her out but Sharon just lets Tracey do all the work. |
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Dr. [[Patrick Moore (environmentalist)|Patrick Moore]], ecologist and an early member of Greenpeace, has broken with the group over a range of issues, including its campaign against [[genetically modified crops]]. He stated that "the campaign of fear now being waged against genetic modification is based largely on fantasy and a complete lack of respect for science and logic." |
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|Title=We'll Always Have Majorca |
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|OriginalAirDate=25 December 1991 |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey, Sharon, Dorien and Garth head off to [[Majorca]] for Christmas, however they get a surprise when arriving at the holiday villa to see Chris and Darryl waiting for them; having tricked their ways out of a Christmas prison performance and escaping. However, the holiday is not a smooth one, especially for Dorien who becomes sea sick on a boat driven by a drunken sailor. Later, Tracey, Dorien, and Sharon are held by the police at the villa, thus Darryl and Chris keep their distance. Drugs are found in Dorien’s suitcase and the three get thrown in jail. |
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Greenpeace spends roughly $12 million annually on campaigns against genetically modified crops, and have thereby encouraged governments to establish regulation which an industry funded lobby group, AgBioWorld claims is overly restrictive.<ref>AgBioWorld. [http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/biotech-art/potrykus.html Experience from the Humanitarian Golden Rice Project: Extreme Precautionary Regulation Prevents Use of Green Biotechnology in Public Projects]. 3-6 April 2004.</ref> |
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|Title=Breadwinner |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon is in the money after doing great business at the cafe. Tracey doesn't like being dependent on her and wants to start a job. |
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|Title= Food for Thought |
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|OriginalAirDate=13 September 1992 |
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|ShortSummary=Garth has got a taste for a catering course in Nottingham, not to Tracey’s approval. Meanwhile Dorien has enrolled on a course in Harlow, posing as a penniless widow to gain her tutor’s sympathy. |
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|Title=Commitments |
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|ShortSummary= Chris tells Sharon that he is leaving her for some other woman called Tina, Tina takes the cafe away from Sharon, Chris later tells Sharon that Tina has dumped him for lying about the cafe. Sharon later gets her cafe back and Dorien returns back to Chigwell. |
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|Title= Wipe That Smile off Your Tape |
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|Aux1= [[Miles Tredinnick]] |
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|OriginalAirDate=27 September 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon joins a video dating agency and sets her sights on a man called Mike, Dorien and Tracey get more involved than usual. |
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|Title= Caring |
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|OriginalAirDate=4 October 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Aunt Sylvie comes to stay at Tracey's house, Tracey wants her to go in a home but Sharon is against the idea, eventually it causes the girls to think about how they will spend their old age. |
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|Title=Nine and a Half Days |
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|OriginalAirDate= 11 October 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon settles down with the man of her dreams who wants to them to move to Norfolk but Tracey isn't keen on Sharon's decisions. Sharon doesn't tell Chris that she's moving due to the fact Chris is finding prison difficult so she decides not to go. |
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|Title=Belongings |
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|OriginalAirDate=18 October 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon is tired of the appalling behaviour in the cafe so Sharon decides to make it look different. |
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|Title=Hungry for Love |
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|OriginalAirDate=25 October 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Darryl tells Tracey she's spread out over the weeks so Tracey decides to lose weight and go on a diet. Sharon decides to offer support. |
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|Title= Time and Tides |
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|ShortSummary= Dorien announces to Sharon and Tracey she has taken a pregnancy test but later discovers that she can't have children. |
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|Title=Sisters Are Doing It |
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|OriginalAirDate=8 November 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey has a new job as a secretary but the boss seems to offer her more than advice leaving Dorien and Sharon to take out their revenge on him. |
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|Title=The Front |
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|OriginalAirDate= 15 November 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Dorien wants her novel published but uses Sharon's name and address. |
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|Title= Okey-Cokey-Karaoke |
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|OriginalAirDate=22 November 1992 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon and Tracey participate in a singing competition to win money for a holiday. Unfortunately, Sharon loses her nerve thus Dorien steps in her place, ironically singing "like a Virgin". The short-skirted neighbour wins the money for the girls. |
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|Title= Loyalty |
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|OriginalAirDate=29 November 1992 |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon wants to have an extensive makeover on the cafe but her plans are later foiled unless Tracey can help out. |
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Among other anti-GMO campaigns, Greenpeace opposes [[golden rice]]. The alternative proposed by Greenpeace is to discourage [[mono-cropping]] and to increase production of crops which are naturally nutrient rich (containing other nutrients not found in golden rice in addition to beta-[[carotene]]). The Golden Rice Project acknowledges that |
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"While the most desirable option is a varied and sufficient diet, this goal is not always achievable, at least not in the short term."<ref name="goldenrice">[http://www.goldenrice.org/ goldenrice.org]</ref> |
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|Title=High Fidelity |
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|ShortSummary= Dorien has her eyes on a new man causing Sharon to fall for the man of her dreams, he can't spell so Tracey offers to help him. Sharon wants to go out with her man and doesn't want Tracey in the way. |
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|Title=Bang |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon accidentally blows up the kitchen, and her and Tracey have to move in with Dorien while a new kitchen is fitted, but Dorien proves to be a far from gracious host, and the sisters quickly outstay their welcome. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey is being driven round the bend by Sharon, the former teaching her how to drive; thus it's not long before Tracey needs spiritual guidance. Eventually, Sharon's driving errors lead to her crashing into the van taking the sisters' husbands to a new prison. |
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|Title=Absent Friends |
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|ShortSummary= There has been burgularies in Bryan Close, but people start to become suspicious of Tracey and Sharon. |
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|Title=Suspicious Minds |
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|ShortSummary= Dorien and Marcus have been bickering lately but Sharon and Tracey find something weird going on in the night. |
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|Title=Dead Loss |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon breaks the news to Tracey and Dorien that Chris's mother has died and that Chris is released from prison temporarily. |
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|Title=A Brush With the Law |
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|OriginalAirDate=17 October 1993 |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey paints Sharon's room and decides to start a new business while Sharon has her eyes on Colin who's a copper |
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|Title=Mind Over Matter |
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|OriginalAirDate=24 October 1993 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon is suffering from toothache but is too scared to go to the dentist, so allows Dorien to hypnotise her, which is successful in itself, before Dorien realises she doesn't know how to undo the process. |
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|Title=East Side Story |
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|OriginalAirDate=31 October 1993 |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey and Dorien fall out when Garth starts dating Dorien's niece, who turns out to be not quite so angelic as she would like people to believe. |
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|Title=Find the Lady |
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|ShortSummary= Darryl has paid a large amount of money into his pension account, Tracey is worried so it's up to her, Sharon, Dorien and Garth to tackle some detective work. |
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|Title=An Inspector Stays |
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|OriginalAirDate= 14 November 1993 |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey is unhappy with the undercover detectives staying at her house. She also fears Garth is taking drugs. Later, the sisters discover the detective is a cheat, using Tracey’s house for immoral purposes. |
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|Title=All Gone Pear Shaped |
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|OriginalAirDate=21 November 1993 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon dates a policeman but does not take a liking to his friends, and Tracey helps a prisoner’s wife called Hailey. Dorien feels left out as the two women seem not to have time for her. |
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|Title=The Beautiful Game |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon and Tracey come to blows when Tracey starts to manage the local kids football team, as the two have very different ideas with regards to team spirit and sportsman-ship. And Sharon and Dorien fall out over a game of Monopoly. |
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Although it had admitted efficiency to be its primary concern as early as 2001,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050123041053/http://www.checkbiotech.org/blocks/dsp_document.cfm?doc_id=891 Prof. Dr. Ingo Potrykus Addresses Claims of Anti-Biotechnology Activists]. 15 February 2001.</ref> |
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statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety<ref>Greenpeace. [http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/failures-of-golden-rice Golden Rice: All glitter, no gold]. 16 March 2005.</ref><ref>Greenpeace. [http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/golden-rice-is-a-technical-fai Golden Rice is a technical failure standing in way of real solutions for vitamin A deficiency]</ref> despite the fact that these sorts of fears have been widely discredited.<ref>Checkbiotech.org. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070404220035/http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=search&search=rice&doc_id=892&start=11 Scientists Rebuke Critics of Golden Rice; Biotech Rice Can Benefit Developing World Says AgBioWorld Foundation].</ref> While calling for human safety testing, Greenpeace has also opposed the field trials which would provide the needed material.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070409190051/http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=search&search=rice&doc_id=579&start=1 Article: Genetically Engineered “Golden” Rice is Unlikely to Overcome Vitamin A Deficiency; Response by Ingo Potrykus].</ref> Field trials were not conducted until 2004 and 2005.<ref name=goldenrice/> |
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The renewal of these concerns coincided with the publication of a paper in the journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' about a version of golden rice with much higher levels of beta carotene.<ref>Paine JA, Shipton CA, Chaggar S, Howells RM, Kennedy MJ, Vernon G, Wright SY, Hinchliffe E, Adams JL, Silverstone AL, Drake R (2005) A new version of Golden Rice with increased pro-vitamin A content. Nature Biotechnology 23:482-487.</ref> This "golden rice 2" was developed and patented by [[Syngenta]], which provoked Greenpeace to renew its allegation that the project is driven by profit motives.<ref>Greenpeace. [http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/syngenta-agm Patents on Rice: the Genetic Engineering Hypocrisy]. 26 April 2005.</ref> |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon, Dorien and Tracey convince themselves that Princess Diana is moving in to the neighbourhood, and Dorien has high hopes for raised house prices and status, which only leads to disappointment when the new neighbour is revealed as a look-alike. |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey worries when Garth starts dating an older woman. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey is feeling left out while Dorien and Sharon are doing something for the community. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey worries about Sharon's spending but is just as bad when she shows Sharon a knitting machine. Dorian is also spending a lot of money so Tracey and Sharon offer to help her through. Dorian also tells them that she's not happy with her mum marrying some other man. |
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|ShortSummary= Dorien has a wild night out with a friend called George at a cafe. Sharon later finds out that George has been using her cafe as a nightclub. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon moans about how hard it is at the cafe and Tracey says that it's just as hard at home but Sharon says it's practically a holiday being at home. They swap jobs, Tracey is working hard at the cafe while Sharon is finding tasks at home daunting. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey decides to sell the house after a conversation with Darryl. Sharon is none to pleased when she finds out. |
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|ShortSummary=Chris has been let out of prison to spend time in Chigwell, not to the sisters’ approval. Tracey wants Dorien to try it on with Chris, but he claims he’s a reformed man; despite this he tries to get the probation officer into Tracey’s bath. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon and Tracey kick start their new business, Garth is interested in something new and Dorien has a little child. |
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|ShortSummary= The swimming pool business is going well, Sharon has to sell the cafe so she can concentrate on the most important business. |
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|ShortSummary=The girls reminisce about their childhood sweethearts, and Sharon meets up with a once spotty-boy who’s now a dashing hunk. To make Dorien jealous, Sharon pretends the man and herself are a couple to be married; realistically Sharon’s first love is a homosexual. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon and Tracey are doing well in the swimming pool business, they are given an offer they can't refuse. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey worries about Sharon's spending and tells her to put some away for a rainy day but Sharon says that she is just treating herself. Later, Sharon is cleaned out |
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Dr. C.S. Prakash, who is the director of the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at [[Tuskegee University]] and is president of the industry [[lobby group]] AgBioWorld Foundation expressed the opinion that "[c]ritics condemned biotechnology as something that is purely for profit, that is being pursued only in [[Western world|the West]], and with no benefits to the consumer. Golden Rice proves them wrong, so they need to discredit it any way they can."<ref>Checkbiotech.org. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070404220035/http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=search&search=rice&doc_id=892&start=11 Scientists Rebuke Critics of Golden Rice; Biotech Rice Can Benefit Developing World Says AgBioWorld Foundation]. February 14, 2001.</ref> |
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Greenpeace has been accused of downplaying the benefits of nuclear power by indicating that nuclear power can only satisfy electrical power requirements, and not those for heating or transport.<ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/the-convenient-solution-20070718 The Convenient Solution | Greenpeace UK<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Yet nuclear power could, through the electrical grid system, supply much of the energy demand for heating and transport energy requirements, and it has no 'end use' CO2 output. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456932/html/nn5page1.stm] In terms of climate change from CO2 emissions, nuclear power is as 'environmentally friendly' as are wind turbines or solar arrays. After protesting about nuclear power for a number of years, Greenpeace now maintains that nuclear power stations cannot be built quickly enough to reduce our CO2 emissions before "it is too late." However Greenpeace now overtly supports the burning of fossil fuel in Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants because an all-renewable solution cannot be developed fast enough.<ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/the-convenient-solution-20070718 The Convenient Solution | Greenpeace UK<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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|ShortSummary=Tracey is over-joyed when Daryll announces he is being released from prison, although for Sharon the news is far from welcome as she realised that Chris will also be released. |
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|Title= Nearest and Dearest |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon has a blazing row with Dorien, leading to the latter believing she has to alter her selfish ways. Thus, in an attempt to be more thoughtful, Dorien organises a day of opera and manicures for herself and Sharon, but Sharon isn’t keen on the idea and explains she’s attending a funeral on that day; her plan goes pear-shaped when Dorien offers to come to the funeral with her. |
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|ShortSummary=Darryl and Chris are released from prison, but fortunately for Sharon her husband gets hit by a car and thus spends his first free night in hospital, leaving it free for Sharon to invite “Snotty Scotty” an old school friend to Darryl’s welcome home party. Unfortunately for Tracey, Darryl is impotent and spends the night down the pub. |
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|ShortSummary= Dorien’s world falls apart when discovering her husband has been leading a double life, and after a heated argument, Darryl throws Sharon out of his house. |
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|ShortSummary=Failing to bring home the bacon honestly, Darryl meets a trickster who supplies him with counterfeit money, this he and Chris are both caught with, thus sent back to prison. Dorien poses as a barmaid and talks to Marcus’s secret partner, in order to find out some home truths. |
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|Title= Rising Damp |
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|OriginalAirDate= 30 June 1997 |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon gets on the TV to appeal for her husband’s release, but ends up fighting the channel’s mascot: a man dressed as a dog. Tracey’s out on the pull and Dorien gets her house back of Marcus. |
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|Title= Three Up, Two Down |
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|Aux1= Gary Lawson and John Phelps |
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|OriginalAirDate=7 July 1997 |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey’s economic crisis results in herself and Sharon having to move house. Garth decides to move in with Kimberly |
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|Title= Are You Being Served? |
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|OriginalAirDate=14 July 1997 |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon and Tracey try to adjust to their new lives in their new home. Sharon longs for a baby and wants to start a new family. |
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|Title= Never the Twain |
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|Aux1= Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks |
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|OriginalAirDate=21 July 1997 |
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|ShortSummary= Garth is worried about Darryl in prison and wants Tracey to visit despite been given the cold shoulder. Tracey and Sharon eventually travel by train to visit the prison while Dorien is pampered in the hotel. |
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|Title= Three's Company |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon plans to get pregnant and reminds Tracey that's it not simply about sex, Tracey drops the bombshell that she's pregnant and says she isn't sure it's Darryl's. |
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Commentators have also noted that Greenpeace does not often express concerns about [[nuclear waste]] - which is either a low-mass residuum (most nuclear reactors will 'burn' 2kg of U-235/U-238 fuel rods for 10 years of continuous output), which either is stored in incredibly tough/impermeable materials such as concrete, or is fully recyclable in a [[breeder reactor]], the typical ratio being 3:1 for conventional:breeder reactors. |
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==Series Eight (1998)== |
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A life cycle analysis centered around the Swedish [[Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant]] estimated carbon dioxide emissions at 3.10 g/kWh<ref>Vattenfall 2004, Forsmark EPD for 2002 and SwedPower LCA data 2005.</ref> and 5.05 g/kWh in 2002 for the [[Torness Nuclear Power Station]].<ref>[http://www.uic.com.au/nip57.htm Energy Analysis of Power Systems] accessed [[20 October]] [[2007]]</ref> This compares to 11 g/kWh for hydroelectric power, 950 g/kWh for installed coal, 900 g/kWh for oil and 600 g/kWh for natural gas generation in the United States in 1999.<ref>[http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/co2_report/co2report.html#electric Electric Power Industry CO2 Emissions] accessed [[20 October]] [[2007]]</ref> |
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|ShortSummary=Sharon gets a job at an abatoir, which causes friction between her and Tracey, especially when Sharon stays out late drinking with the boys and comes home with blonde hair on her uniform. |
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|Title= The Essex Patient |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey and Sharon are making progress with their cleaning job when Sharon complains that she's ill, Tracey just thinks she's putting it on until Sharon arrives from the hospital announcing that she has an allergy, it's later found to be self inflicted due to her over eating. |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon and Tracey start their cleaning business but it's not going as planned so they try to raise some cash to get their business going. |
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|Title= Baggage |
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|ShortSummary= Sharon wants to attend the school reunion to confront her rival while Dorien meets someone from the past. |
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|Title= Can't Judge a Book |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey wants Sharon to lose weight, Sharon doesn't think she can do it but Tracey offers to help. Later, when Sharon loses a bit of weight she visits Chris who has met another woman that Sharon talked to in a queue outside the prison. Dorien decides to change her image to impress a man. |
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|ShortSummary= Tracey faces trouble when Garth's endowment policy arrives, Garth is angry when she doesn't tell him when it came and they have an argument. Later, they go to the restaurant and Dorien tries to bond with Marcus's children. |
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[[Image:Greenhouse emissions by electricity source.PNG|thumb|right|The Vattenfall study found Nuclear, Hydro, and Wind to have far less greenhouse emissions than other sources represented.]] |
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The Swedish utility [[Vattenfall]] did a study of full life cycle emissions of Nuclear, Hydro, Coal, Gas, Solar Cell, Peat and Wind which the utility uses to produce electricity. The net result of the study was that nuclear power produced 3.3 grams of carbon dioxide per KW-Hr of produced power. This compares to 400 for [[natural gas]] and 700 for [[coal]] (according to this study). The study also concluded that nuclear power produced the smallest amount of CO<sub>2</sub> of any of their electricity sources.<ref>nuclearinfo.net. [http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower/WebHomeGreenhouseEmissionsOfNuclearPower Greenhouse Emissions of Nuclear Power]</ref> |
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In August 2006, Greenpeace released a "Guide to Greener Electronics," which ranked fourteen consumer electronics vendors in environmental issues. Greenpeace encouraged manufacturers to clean up their products by eliminating hazardous substances and to take back and recycle their products responsibly once they become obsolete. |
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The Guide to Greener Electronics<ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/greener-electronics-guide.pdf Guide to Greener Electronics (PDF)]</ref> stated "the ranking is important because the amounts of toxic e-waste is [sic] growing everyday and it often ends up dumped in the developing world. Reducing the toxic chemicals in products reduces pollution from old products and makes recycling safer, easier and cheaper." It ranked [[Nokia]] and [[Dell]] near the top, but essentially gave failing grades across the industry, ranking [[Toshiba]] thirteenth, and [[Apple Computer]] in eleventh place out of the fourteen brands. The report singled out Apple for its low rank, saying: "Already, many of the companies are in a race to reach the head of the class - that is, except for Apple, who seems determined to remain behind rather than be the teacher's pet we'd hoped for." This caught the attention of tech media news sites, and was widely reported. Greenpeace gave Nintendo a score of 0.3 / 10 is based on the fact that Greenpeace has almost no information on the company, which by Greenpeace's grading system, automatically results in a zero for the affected categories. |
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Daniel Eran of [[RoughlyDrafted Magazine]] criticized the guide in an article,<ref>[http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/29C5599A-FCD8-4E30-9AD5-5497999ABA1B.html Top Secret: Greenpeace Report Misleading and Incompetent]</ref> saying the Greenpeace guide's "ranking puts far more weight upon what companies publicly say rather than what they actually do. It is also clear that Greenpeace intended the report more as an attention getting stunt than a serious rating of corporations' actual responsibility." In response, Greenpeace attacked Roughly Drafted's credibility, pointing out that it has in the past been called "the lunatic fringe of Mac fandom" by other bloggers after comparing the cost of [http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/660E746C-F388-4AC7-98F5-6CB951501472.html Windows and Mac OS X].<ref>Technovia. [http://technovia.typepad.com/technovia/2006/08/roughly_drafted.html Roughly Drafted's not a good thing].</ref> |
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It is in fact alleged that Greenpeace has had no factual evidence, instead relying on unsubstantiated official company information for the report in order to garner publicity, as well as political and monetary support. The Environmental Protection Agency's [http://www.epeat.net/ EPEAT] shows Apple leading the ranks in all categories. ArsTechnica called the Greenpeace report [http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/6/6507 a fraud] after factual substantiation was questioned. |
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Greenpeace responded to the criticisms in a rebuttal also published by RoughlyDrafted. Along with the Greenpeace rebuttal, the article<ref>[http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/ABC6DFDA-9DE9-4EA8-A269-65EAAB628676.html Greenpeace Apologizes For Apple Stink]. September 18, 2006.</ref> further presented the results of a second Greenpeace report, called "Toxic Chemicals in Your Laptop Exposed," which Roughly Drafted called an 'apology' for the initial claims Greenpeace made in the Greener Guide rankings. While Greenpeace itself has never used the word "apology", they did restate several of their initial claims in a response to Keith Ripley, another reviewer of the report.<ref>The Temas Blog. [http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=70 Musings about the Evolution of Consumer, Environmental & Health Policy in Latin America & the Caribbean]. 30 October 2006.</ref> For example, the data reported findings of minimal traces of [[TBBPA]], an unregulated fire retardant in the Apple computer; the Greenpeace press release said Apple "appears to be using far more of this toxic chemical than its competitors". This is despite the fact that the EU Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks concluded in March of 2005 that TBBPA "presents no risk to human health"<ref>EMS now. [http://www.emsnow.com/newsarchives/archivedetails.cfm?ID=10795 EU Scientific Committee confirms that TBBPA presents no risk to human health]. October 13, 2005.</ref> and "the World Health organisation conducted a scientific assessment of TBBPA and found that the risk for the general population is considered to be insignificant."<ref>EPC. [http://halogenfree.ipc.org/HF_3_1.htm Environmental and Health Issues].</ref> |
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More criticism of the statement in the Greenpeace press release followed in:<ref>[http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/E83D58B3-10E0-4A9C-8847-BCE665EE235C.html Greenpeace Lies About Apple]</ref> "The most recent report, 'Toxics in Your Laptop Exposed,' did credible scientific tests, but then threw out the data to instead present a lathered up, misleading and deceptive press release that was simply a lie. No amount of credible science is worth anything if you ignore the findings and simply present the message you wanted to the data to support." |
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Greenpeace published an article on its website, addressing the criticism so far, with a special focus on scientific issues.<ref>Greenpeace. [http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/greenpeace-response Responses to criticisms about the Greenpeace campaign for a greener electronics sector]. No date.</ref> |
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|ShortSummary=Dorien needs to get to her boyfriend’s before he returns home to find the malicious answer message she has left him. Tracey is unhappy with Garth who’s abandoned pregnant Kimberly, however the pair are soon reunited and then engaged. |
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In 2005, Greenpeace was fined for damaging almost 100 square meters of [[coral]] in [[Tubbataha Reef]]. The group accepted responsibility for the act, and paid a fine of approximately $7,000 equivalent in [[Philippine peso|Philippine Pesos]], while claiming that charts provided to them by the Philippine government were outdated and inaccurate.<ref>BBC News. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4395572.stm Greenpeace fined for reef damage]. 1 November 2005.</ref> |
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In June 2006, The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise was banned from attending the 58th [[International Whaling Commission]] meeting in [[St. Kitts]] by the St. Kitts and Nevis Government citing national security concerns.<ref>Sun St. Kitts. [http://sunstkitts.com/paper/?asknw=view&asknw=view,view&sun=494418078207132005&an=332949099606152006&ac=Local St. Kitts/Nevis bars Greenpeace ship]. June 15 2006.</ref> |
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Greenpeace's protests were discussed at the same IWC meeting with agenda item IWC/58/3, relating to their protest actions against Japanese whaling in the Southern ocean in December 2005 / January 2006, during which a collision occurred between a Japanese whaling ship and a Greenpeace ship, resulting in this resolution from the IWC.<ref>Resolution 2006-2. [http://www.iwcoffice.org/_documents/commission/IWC58docs/Resolution%202006-2.pdf RESOLUTION ON THE SAFETY OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN WHALING AND WHALE RESEARCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES]<br /> Videos of the main incident can be seen here:<br />[http://www.icrwhale.org/eng/GPAS1.mpg Video 1]<br />[http://www.icrwhale.org/eng/GPAS2.mpg Video 2 (man speaking on microphone and ship tooting)]</ref><ref name="oceans">Greenpeace (Oceans). 08 January 2006.[http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/whalers-ram-ship-111 Whalers ram Greenpeace ship].</ref> However, according to Lloyd's database (the international record of maritime movements and casualties), it was the Nisshin Maru, not the Arctic Sunrise, which was at fault for the collision in December 1999, as officially recorded after investigations.<ref name="oceans" /> |
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In June 1995, Greenpeace took the trunk of a tree from the forests of [[Metsähallitus]] in [[Ilomantsi]], [[Finland]] and put it on exhibitions held in [[Austria]] and [[Germany]]. They said in a press conference that the tree was originally logged by local people from an [[ancient forest]], but in truth that tree had crashed over a road during a storm a few weeks before. The incident received much publicity in Finland, for example in the large newspapers [[Helsingin sanomat| Helsingin Sanomat]] and [[Ilta-Sanomat]].<ref>[http://vihreavoima.tripod.com/finnish_greenpeace.htm Stolen trunk of a tree: references from Iltasanomat. 9.6.1995]</ref><ref>[http://www.formaths.com/sivu1english.htm Stolen tree stock incident]</ref><ref>[http://www.hs.fi/arkisto/haku?pageNumber=1&order=FIFO&advancedSearch=1&free=greenpeace&date=20070110&depa=Kaikki+osastot&fromDay=1&fromMonth=8&fromYear=1995&toDay=1&toMonth=8&toYear=1995 References from Helsingin Sanomat, 1.8.1995]</ref> |
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In Summer 2005, [http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/ German Greenpeace Magazin 6/2005] showed a photo with a single [[Scots Pine|scots pine]] tree alone on a wide snowy area that was said to be a result of the [[clear-cutting]] of a Finnish forest (in German "Kahlschlag am nordfinnischen Peurakairasee"). This was later found to be an error; the area seen in the photo was actually a swamp and had never been a forest.<ref>[http://www.veikkovasama.net/greenpeace_magazin.htm] About the mistaken deforestation {{fi}}</ref><ref>[http://www.veikkovasama.net/greenpeace_magazin_deu.htm] About the mistaken deforestation {{fi}}</ref><ref>[http://personal.inet.fi/luonto/outoataigaa/greenpeace_magazin_yhd.htm Photo of snowy area which was printed to Greenpeace Magazine 6/2005] {{fi}}</ref><ref>[http://vihreavoima.tripod.com/german_greenpeace.htm Photo of snowy area, Greenpeace Magazine 6/2005, some text in English]</ref> Greenpeace admitted and corrected their error and published a photo of an actual cutting area in the next edition as a result.<ref>[http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/index.php?id=2889 Greenpeace correction] <font color="gray">'''(German)'''</font></ref> |
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In Philadelphia, in 2006, Greenpeace accidentally issued a press release containing the words "In the twenty years since the [[Chernobyl]] tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]." The final report warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.<ref name="wpkidding">Washington Post. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/01/AR2006060101884.html Greenpeace Just Kidding About Armageddon]. Friday, June 2, 2006; Page A17</ref> |
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|ShortSummary=It’s Garth’s wedding, and Tracey wants Sharon to behave less common to please the bride’s snobbish family, however this proves to be a difficult task. Meanwhile it’s Dorien’s birthday, but she feels both old and lonely, and has swallowed a bottle of pills. |
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|ShortSummary=Tracy and Sharon discover they have been mentioned in an Irish relative’s will, thus they and Dorien go to [[Ireland]], where the latter now owns a horse. Unfortunately, the sisters arrive to find they have been left a field. Dorien is not happy either, when discovering her horse is a pregnant one, but it is Tracy who ends up giving birth in a stable. |
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The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom Birds of a Feather, that aired on BBC One from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998.
The first series, of six episodes, aired from 16 October to 20 November 1989 on Mondays at 8.30pm. A Christmas special aired on 26 December 1989 at 9.00pm. The second series aired for fifteen episodes from 6 September to 13 December 1990 on Thursdays at 8.30pm, followed by a Christmas Special on Christmas Day at 8.20pm.[1] The twelve-episode third series aired from 31 August to 16 November 1991 on Saturdays at 8.00pm, followed by a Christmas special on Christmas Day at 8.00pm. The fourth series, of thirteen episodes, aired from 6 September to 29 November 1992 on Sundays at 8.40pm, with a Christmas Day special at 8.00pm. Series Five for thirteen episodes on Sundays at 8.20pm from 5 September to 28 November 1993, with a Christmas Special on 25 December 1993 at 8.00pm.[1] The sixth series aired from 18 September to 18 December 1994, for thirteen episodes, on Sundays at 7.30pm. A Christmas Special followed on 24 December at 8.55pm. A ten-episode seventh series aired from 26 May to 28 July 1997 on Mondays at 9.30pm, with a Christmas special on 27 December 1997 at 9.25pm. The eighth aired on 5 January to 9 February 1998, on Mondays at 8.30pm, for six episodes. The ninth and final series, also of six episodes, aired from 16 November to 24 December 1998, mostly on Mondays at 8.30pm.[1]
Out of a total of 101 episodes, 94 are 30 minutes long. The 1990 Christmas special is 75 minutes, the 1993 Christmas special is 60 minutes long, while the 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1997 Christmas specials are 50 minutes in duration. The final episode, which aired on Christmas Eve 1998, is 40 minutes long.[1]
Series One (1989)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 1 | "Nicked" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Tony Dow | 16 October 1989 | |
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Life is never the same again for Sharon and Tracey after their husbands take part in an armed robbery and are later jailed for 12 years. | |||||
| 2 | "Just Visiting" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Tony Dow | 23 October 1989 | |
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Tracey is still depressed after Darryl's been sentenced, Sharon and Tracey try to find a way to tell Garth that his dad is in prison. | |||||
| 3 | "Shift!" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Tony Dow | 30 October 1989 | |
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Sharon has to go back to her job at Lo Price because of Tracey's money problems. | |||||
| 4 | "Women's Troubles" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Tony Dow | 6 November 1989 | |
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Tracey believes she might be pregnant, however when going to the doctors with Sharon, it is the latter who in fact is. Sharon aborts the baby, while her latest boyfriend tells his mother she’s going to be a “gran”. | |||||
| 5 | "Cheat!" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Tony Dow | 13 November 1989 | |
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Tracey is still suffering from money problems, Dorien meets a new man and Sharon sells unofficial T Shirts at Wembley. | |||||
| 6 | "Substitute" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Tony Dow | 20 November 1989 | |
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Marcus and Dorien have someone living in their house temporarily. The lodger becomes fond of Tracey causing her to feel unfaithful to Darryl. | |||||
Christmas Special (1989)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 7 | "Sailing" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Geoffrey Fax | 26 December 1989 | |
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After Tracey gets two tickets for a "Christmas Cruise" in the post, Daryl tells her he booked these just before he was arrested. He only booked two as he wanted it to be just just Tracey and him, and thought Garth would be on a school trip or something. Tracey decides to take Garth, which annoys Sharon who wanted to go herself. When Garth then telephones to say he will not be home for Christmas, Tracey refuses to go at all. However, Sharon and Dorien then devise a plan to get Tracey to go on the cruise. | |||||
Series Two (1990)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 8 | "Getting a Grip" | Peter Tilbury | Nic Phillips | 6 September 1990 | |
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When the central heating breaks down, Tracey and Sharon get two plumbers round for a quote, but when neither will do, Dorien recommends two female plumbers she knows, Alison (Eve Bland) and Gloria (Jane Hollowood). Tracey and Sharon soon hire them to do the work, but shortly after they leave the tank starts leaking. Meanwhile, Tracey gets letters from Garth telling her he has had a fight at school and she will have to pay for half the damage. | |||||
| 9 | "Sweet Smell of Success" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Nic Phillips | 13 September 1990 | |
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After speaking to Sharon’s former neighbour Lisa (Christine Ellerbeck), Sharon and Tracey decided to start selling perfume door-to-door, as they are in desperate need of money. However, when this proves unsuccessful, Tracey decides to sell Darryl’s Jaguar and advertises it on the Internet. When a prospective buyer (Owen Brenman) comes to view it, he drives it away. Tracey is later told it has been repossessed as Daryl never kept up the payments. At the next prison visit, Daryl tells her he kid £25,000 in the car’s spare wheel. When Tracey then tries to buy the car back, Dorien buys it first to save Tracey’s embarrassment at having the car repossessed. | |||||
| 10 | "Young Guns" | Keith Lindsay and Martin Tomms | Nic Phillips | 20 September 1990 | |
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Garth brings home a 17-year-old handsome school friend, Richard (Jamie Glover), for the holidays. Sharon and Tracey suspect that Garth is gay, and Dorien tells them that she thinks Richard is also gay. When Tracey tells Darryl, he goes mad when she admits she has not actually spoken to Garth about it yet. Soon after, she and Sharon speak to Garth who says he is not. Moments later Dorien says she was wrong about Richard being gay, as she has just slept with him. | |||||
| 11 | "Muesli" | Steve Coombes and Dave Robinson | Charlie Hanson | 27 September 1990 | |
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After a Friday prison visit, Tracey decides that in an attempt to understand what Darryl is going through, she will live like a prisoner for the weekend. Sharon decides to join her and they then set up the spare bedroom. When Dorien gets locked out of the house for the weekend while Marcus is away, she stays at Tracey and Sharon's and acts a prison officer and locks the bedroom door. On Sunday, Dorien returns to her house to find that it has been burgled and forgets to unlock Tracey and Sharon. After a short while, they climb out of the window and start throwing roof tiles in an attempt to get Dorien's attention. However, when one tile ends up going through the car of police officer investigating Dorien's burglary, they end up in a police cell. Meanwhile, Darryl's cell mate Gary (Roger Griffiths) cheers him up by trying to relive how Darryl spent his weekends before being sent to prison. | |||||
| 12 | "Keep of the Grass" | Sue Teddern | Charlie Hanson | 4 October 1990 | |
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Sharon and Tracey see a friend of their husbands', Vinny Hutchins (Michael Cassidy), while out with Dorien. Moments later they see him raid a building society. Tracey believes they should tell the police, but Sharon says they cannot "grass". After visiting Darryl and Chris, they both change their minds; Sharon changing hers because Vinny beats his wife. When Dorien is round, they see an appeal by Shaw Taylor on Crime Busters and Dorien recognises Vinny. Sharon and Tracey, after hearing about the reward money, decide to tell the police but Dorien rings first, and uses the money to buy a kitchen from her toyboy Luke, who has been threatened with a move to Northern England unless he sells more kitchens. | |||||
| 13 | "Mice" | John Phelps and Gary Lawson | Charlie Hanson | 11 October 1990 | |
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Tracey is planning a party to sell perfume, but discovers they have mice, which Tracey blames on Sharon not tidying up after herself. After cleaning the house and buying poison, Sharon buys a cat, but it does not seem to have any effect. The perfume party goes badly when the cat wets the hall carpet. Eventually, Sharon rings pest control, who reveals that he has been at Dorien's house trying to get rid of after a major mice infestation, and the mice have come over from her. | |||||
| 14 | "Brief Encounter" | Peter Tilbury | Nic Phillips | 18 October 1990 | |
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Sharon goes to the aid of 53-year-old Don Sheridan (Mark Kingston) when he is mugged at Chigwell tube station. That evening they accidentally meet at a bar, and he says he is in Chigwell on business as the financial adviser to Marcus, who apparently is near to going under. They go out several times, and make love, despite him being married. On his final night before going home, they plan to re-live the 1960s by taking drugs, which Sharon had been given to pass to Chris in prison, but the police arrive to give back Don's wallet, causing Don to flush the drugs down the toilet. Meanwhile, Dorien pays £2000 to have her telephone number changed to 071, as she sees it as more exclusive. | |||||
| 15 | "You Pays Yer Money" | Julia North | Charlie Hanson | 25 October 1990 | |
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With an upcoming parliamentry by-election, Sharon discovers that Tracey did not registered her to vote in Chigwell, however she did register Darryl, not wanting to admit he was in prison. Darryl then agrees that Sharon can buy his vote for £350. Meanwhile, Dorien is backing the Green Party, as she fancies the party's agent (Robert Swales). While Sharon will vote Labour, Tracey is unsure who to vote for, so Tracey arranges for each candidate to pay her a visit. At the polling station, Tracey votes Labour, as does Dorien when realises the agent is having a relationship with the Green candidate (Anna Keaveney). | |||||
| 16 | "Trust" | John Phelps and Gary Lawson | Nic Phillips | 1 November 1990 | |
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Tracey is having psychotherapy, and develops a crush on the pyschotherapist Gerald (Jeremy Nicholas). Darryl suspects she is having an affair and forbids her to see Gerald again. However, soon after Tracey meets him in a wine bar. She tells Gerald of her feelings, and he says they should not seen each other again, and she has developed an emotional dependency. Sharon and Dorien then persuade Tracey not to tell Darryl the feelings she had for Gerald. | |||||
| 17 | "Thirty Something" | Peter Tilbury | Nic Phillips | 8 November 1990 | |
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As Sharon approaches her 30th birthday, she looks back on her life and regrets her lack of education. She pays a visit to her Edmonton council flat, where she meets Lisa (Christine Ellerbeck), whose criminal partner is in the property business and Sharon considers buying the flat. Tracey disapproves of the idea. Dorien however is more encouraging and then goes with Sharon to the flat. However, Lisa's partner is soon sent to prison, and Sharon then takes his place on a holiday with Lisa to Benidorm with Club 18-30. | |||||
| 18 | "Love on the Run" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Charlie Hanson | 15 November 1990 | |
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Darryl is in hospital, and plans to escape for one night so he can spend it with Tracey. With the help of the nurse Joy (Jo Martin), the guard (Lloyd McGuire) is drugged and he and Tracey go to a hotel. Meanwhile, Sharon is spending the night with Martin (Ronan Vibert), an artist she recently met. The following morning, the taxi Darryl and Tracey are in is stopped by the Police and the driver (James Warrior) is arrested for drink-driving. Tracey rings Sharon, who then drives with Dorien and picks Darryl and Tracey up and takes them back to the hospital. They get back just after the guard wakes up and get away with the escape. | |||||
| 19 | "Old Friends" | John Ross | Sye Bysh | 22 November 1990 | |
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While at Tesco, Tracey sees Trish Taylor (Chrissie Cotterill), an old friend and one her bridesmaids, and invites her to stay for a while as she has recently left her husband. This annoys Sharon, who is also worried that when Darryl gets out of prison Tracey will make her move out. After taking Dorien's advice, Sharon goes out with Trish and they get on well. Meanwhile, Tracey has got annoyed with Trish for keep talking about their younger days. Soon however Trish leaves and goes back to live with her husband. | |||||
| 20 | "Parting" | John Phelps and Gary Lawson | Nic Phillips | 29 November 1990 | |
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Sharon has decided she will end her and Chris's relationship, and when she tells him this he says that one of his testicles is getting bigger, she does not believe him. However, he is soon diagnosed with a malignant tumor in the testicle. She goes to see him in hospital, but afterwards decides that she still wants to end their relationship, although Chris says he loves her. Tracey is annoyed by this, but Sharon wants to move on with her life. She does agree to continue seeing Chris in hospital on occasion. | |||||
| 21 | "Jobs for the Girls" | Sue Teddern | Sue Bysh | 6 December 1990 | |
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In order to make money for Christmas, Sharon becomes a dog-walker and cat-sitter, and soon comes up against stiff competition from Dorien's 13-year-old friend Adrian Gold (Ryan Freedman). Meanwhile, Tracey becomes a typist, and after having problems with the typewriter uses a word processor. She agrees to type up a manscript for a novel that Dorien has written. However, Sharon later notices that Dorien's manuscript is largely copied from The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Dorien admits she just wanted Sharon and Tracey to think she had a talent. | |||||
| 22 | "Someone Else's Baby" | Frankie Bailey | Charlie Hanson | 13 December 1990 | |
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With the Antiques Roadshow coming to Chigwell, Sharon, Dorien and Tracey go into Tracey and Sharon's loft. Sharon discovers some letters written by her mother suggesting either she or Tracey were adopted. After some arguing between Sharon and Tracey, Sharon invites their mother's sister Auntie Sylvie (Vivian Pickles), who finally tells them that they are sisters, but were both adopted. Meanwhile, Dorien goes to the Antiques Roadshow with a family heirloom, but to her horror what she believes is a Russian Empire vase turns out to be a mid-20th century East End fake. | |||||
Christmas Special (1990)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 23 | "Falling in Love Again" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | Nic Phillips | 26 December 1990 | |
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Chris owes two fellow prisoners £3000, and their two wives come and threaten Sharon and Tracey. Chris has a plan to raise the money which involves Sharon going to Germany to pick up a collectable car that he had while he was in Germany with the Army during the Cold War. Sharon then manages to win a week in Berlin on the game show Second Time Lucky presented by Leslie Crowther. She is accompanied by Barry (Simon Slater), the show's other winner, and Tracey. Sharon and Barry, who she cannot stand, tour the city with the cameras while Tracey tracks down the car, with the help of mechanic Manfred (Benedick Blythe). Tracey and Manfred soon start to fall for each other. Back in England, Tracey ends their relationship over the telephone, he does however still send the car over. Meanwhile, Luke dumps Dorien and she then tries to get more romantic with Marcus, who she soon discovers is having an affair with a younger woman. | |||||
Series Three (1991)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 24 | "Keeping Up Appearances" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | TBA | 31 August 1991 | |
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Darryl has stopped shaving and can not take his mind off sex. Thus he writes a letter to Tracey asking her to dress more provocatively on her next visit. | |||||
| 25 | "Tinker, Tailor" | Peter Tilbury | Charlie Hanson | 7 September 1991 | |
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When a man, Charles FitzRoy (Paul Shearer), knocks on the door one evening asking for some water for his car, Sharon tells him all about Dorien and her relationships, which he seems interested in. After visiting Chris in prison, Sharon suspects that FitzRoy may have been a police spy. Soon after two policemen come round and they ask about the whereabouts of Dorien and Marcus, who needs to be questioned about a major fraud case of which he was the accountant. Sharon tells them they are on holiday in Zurich. When Dorien returns she finds that a Sunday newspaper has an article on her private life, and Sharon and Tracey are relieved that the source - them - is not revealed.
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| 26 | "Baby Come Back" | TBA | TBA | 14 September 1991 | |
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Sharon is at the shopping centre selling double glazing when she meets her old flame Dave, Dave already has a wife who is in fact 8 months pregnant, this causes an uneasy relationship between him and Sharon. | |||||
| 27 | "Just Family" | TBA | TBA | 21 September 1991 | |
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Tracey is upset when Darryl tells her to cancel a visit because his parents are visiting him. Tracey decides to make an impression for Darryl as his parents come to her house. | |||||
| 28 | "Confidence" | TBA | TBA | 28 September 1991 | |
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Sharon and Dorien try to get Tracey back to employment. | |||||
| 29 | "The Lost Weekend" | TBA | TBA | 5 October 1991 | |
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After watching a film, the television starts smoking leading to a boring weekend for Sharon and Tracey. Dorien later suggests an activity weekend away but Sharon isn't keen on some of the activities. | |||||
| 30 | "History" | TBA | TBA | 12 October 1991 | |
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Tracey discovers an old photo with Darryl under the table with someone else. Sharon is chucked out of the house by Tracey after keeping it a secret. | |||||
| 31 | "Poetic Justice" | TBA | TBA | 19 October 1991 | |
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Chris and Darryl move to a prison in the Isle of Wight where Dorien interviews Chris on a book she is writing. Tracey suffers food poisoning after eating at a motorway cafe. | |||||
| 32 | "Flavour of the Month" | TBA | TBA | 26 October 1991 | |
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Tracey has decided to give up smoking but the psychotherapist's help doesn't stop just there. | |||||
| 33 | "Cuckoo" | TBA | TBA | 2 November 1991 | |
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Sharon is accused of fraud by the clerk at the DSS. Dorien writes her novel. | |||||
| 34 | "Schooling" | TBA | TBA | 9 November 1991 | |
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Sharon warns Tracey her son will be a "mummy's boy" if she isn't careful. Sharon also dates a man in secrecy; however her hopes of happiness are dashed when discovering the man is an over-grown kid controlled by his mother. | |||||
| 35 | "Business" | TBA | TBA | 16 November 1991 | |
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Sharon arrives from the clinic with an allergy, she later visits Chris who wants her to start business at the cafe but Sharon is hesitant at first. She later visits the cafe and asks Tracey to help her out but Sharon just lets Tracey do all the work. | |||||
Christmas Special (1991)
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| 36 | "We'll Always Have Majorca" | Peter Tilbury | TBA | 25 December 1991 | |
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Tracey, Sharon, Dorien and Garth head off to Majorca for Christmas, however they get a surprise when arriving at the holiday villa to see Chris and Darryl waiting for them; having tricked their ways out of a Christmas prison performance and escaping. However, the holiday is not a smooth one, especially for Dorien who becomes sea sick on a boat driven by a drunken sailor. Later, Tracey, Dorien, and Sharon are held by the police at the villa, thus Darryl and Chris keep their distance. Drugs are found in Dorien’s suitcase and the three get thrown in jail. | |||||
Series Four (1992)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 37 | "Breadwinner" | TBA | TBA | 6 September 1992 | |
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Sharon is in the money after doing great business at the cafe. Tracey doesn't like being dependent on her and wants to start a job. | |||||
| 38 | "Food for Thought" | Sue Teddem | TBA | 13 September 1992 | |
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Garth has got a taste for a catering course in Nottingham, not to Tracey’s approval. Meanwhile Dorien has enrolled on a course in Harlow, posing as a penniless widow to gain her tutor’s sympathy. | |||||
| 39 | "Commitments" | TBA | TBA | 20 September 1992 | |
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Chris tells Sharon that he is leaving her for some other woman called Tina, Tina takes the cafe away from Sharon, Chris later tells Sharon that Tina has dumped him for lying about the cafe. Sharon later gets her cafe back and Dorien returns back to Chigwell. | |||||
| 40 | "Wipe That Smile off Your Tape" | Miles Tredinnick | TBA | 27 September 1992 | |
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Sharon joins a video dating agency and sets her sights on a man called Mike, Dorien and Tracey get more involved than usual. | |||||
| 41 | "Caring" | TBA | TBA | 4 October 1992 | |
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Aunt Sylvie comes to stay at Tracey's house, Tracey wants her to go in a home but Sharon is against the idea, eventually it causes the girls to think about how they will spend their old age. | |||||
| 42 | "Nine and a Half Days" | TBA | TBA | 11 October 1992 | |
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Sharon settles down with the man of her dreams who wants to them to move to Norfolk but Tracey isn't keen on Sharon's decisions. Sharon doesn't tell Chris that she's moving due to the fact Chris is finding prison difficult so she decides not to go. | |||||
| 43 | "Belongings" | TBA | TBA | 18 October 1992 | |
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Sharon is tired of the appalling behaviour in the cafe so Sharon decides to make it look different. | |||||
| 44 | "Hungry for Love" | TBA | TBA | 25 October 1992 | |
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Darryl tells Tracey she's spread out over the weeks so Tracey decides to lose weight and go on a diet. Sharon decides to offer support. | |||||
| 45 | "Time and Tides" | TBA | TBA | 1 November 1992 | |
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Dorien announces to Sharon and Tracey she has taken a pregnancy test but later discovers that she can't have children. | |||||
| 46 | "Sisters Are Doing It" | TBA | TBA | 8 November 1992 | |
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Tracey has a new job as a secretary but the boss seems to offer her more than advice leaving Dorien and Sharon to take out their revenge on him. | |||||
| 47 | "The Front" | TBA | TBA | 15 November 1992 | |
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Dorien wants her novel published but uses Sharon's name and address. | |||||
| 48 | "Okey-Cokey-Karaoke" | TBA | TBA | 22 November 1992 | |
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Sharon and Tracey participate in a singing competition to win money for a holiday. Unfortunately, Sharon loses her nerve thus Dorien steps in her place, ironically singing "like a Virgin". The short-skirted neighbour wins the money for the girls. | |||||
| 49 | "Loyalty" | TBA | TBA | 29 November 1992 | |
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Sharon wants to have an extensive makeover on the cafe but her plans are later foiled unless Tracey can help out. | |||||
Christmas Special (1992)
- The Chigwell Connection (25 Dec 92) (50mins)
Series Five (1993)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 51 | "High Fidelity" | TBA | TBA | 5 September 1993 | |
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Dorien has her eyes on a new man causing Sharon to fall for the man of her dreams, he can't spell so Tracey offers to help him. Sharon wants to go out with her man and doesn't want Tracey in the way. | |||||
| 52 | "Bang" | TBA | TBA | 12 September 1993 | |
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Sharon accidentally blows up the kitchen, and her and Tracey have to move in with Dorien while a new kitchen is fitted, but Dorien proves to be a far from gracious host, and the sisters quickly outstay their welcome. | |||||
| 53 | "Non-Starter" | TBA | TBA | 19 September 1993 | |
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Tracey is being driven round the bend by Sharon, the former teaching her how to drive; thus it's not long before Tracey needs spiritual guidance. Eventually, Sharon's driving errors lead to her crashing into the van taking the sisters' husbands to a new prison. | |||||
| 54 | "Absent Friends" | TBA | TBA | 26 September 1993 | |
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There has been burgularies in Bryan Close, but people start to become suspicious of Tracey and Sharon. | |||||
| 55 | "Suspicious Minds" | TBA | TBA | 3 October 1993 | |
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Dorien and Marcus have been bickering lately but Sharon and Tracey find something weird going on in the night. | |||||
| 56 | "Dead Loss" | TBA | TBA | 10 October 1993 | |
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Sharon breaks the news to Tracey and Dorien that Chris's mother has died and that Chris is released from prison temporarily. | |||||
| 57 | "A Brush With the Law" | TBA | TBA | 17 October 1993 | |
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Tracey paints Sharon's room and decides to start a new business while Sharon has her eyes on Colin who's a copper | |||||
| 58 | "Mind Over Matter" | TBA | TBA | 24 October 1993 | |
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Sharon is suffering from toothache but is too scared to go to the dentist, so allows Dorien to hypnotise her, which is successful in itself, before Dorien realises she doesn't know how to undo the process. | |||||
| 59 | "East Side Story" | TBA | TBA | 31 October 1993 | |
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Tracey and Dorien fall out when Garth starts dating Dorien's niece, who turns out to be not quite so angelic as she would like people to believe. | |||||
| 60 | "Find the Lady" | TBA | TBA | 7 November 1993 | |
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Darryl has paid a large amount of money into his pension account, Tracey is worried so it's up to her, Sharon, Dorien and Garth to tackle some detective work. | |||||
| 61 | "An Inspector Stays" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | TBA | 14 November 1993 | |
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Tracey is unhappy with the undercover detectives staying at her house. She also fears Garth is taking drugs. Later, the sisters discover the detective is a cheat, using Tracey’s house for immoral purposes. | |||||
| 62 | "All Gone Pear Shaped" | Sue Teddern | TBA | 21 November 1993 | |
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Sharon dates a policeman but does not take a liking to his friends, and Tracey helps a prisoner’s wife called Hailey. Dorien feels left out as the two women seem not to have time for her. | |||||
| 63 | "The Beautiful Game" | TBA | TBA | 28 November 1993 | |
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Sharon and Tracey come to blows when Tracey starts to manage the local kids football team, as the two have very different ideas with regards to team spirit and sportsman-ship. And Sharon and Dorien fall out over a game of Monopoly. | |||||
Christmas Special (1993)
- It Happened In Hollywood (25 Dec 93) (60mins)
Series Six (1994)
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| 65 | "Not In My Backyard" | TBA | TBA | 18 September 1994 | |
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Sharon, Dorien and Tracey convince themselves that Princess Diana is moving in to the neighbourhood, and Dorien has high hopes for raised house prices and status, which only leads to disappointment when the new neighbour is revealed as a look-alike. | |||||
| 66 | "Mrs Robinson" | TBA | TBA | 25 September 1994 | |
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Tracey worries when Garth starts dating an older woman. | |||||
| 67 | "First Time Caller" | TBA | TBA | 2 October 1994 | |
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Tracey is feeling left out while Dorien and Sharon are doing something for the community. | |||||
| 68 | "Compulsion" | TBA | TBA | 9 October 1994 | |
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Tracey worries about Sharon's spending but is just as bad when she shows Sharon a knitting machine. Dorian is also spending a lot of money so Tracey and Sharon offer to help her through. Dorian also tells them that she's not happy with her mum marrying some other man. | |||||
| 69 | "All Day and All of the Night" | TBA | TBA | 16 October 1994 | |
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Dorien has a wild night out with a friend called George at a cafe. Sharon later finds out that George has been using her cafe as a nightclub. | |||||
| 70 | "Appreciation Society" | TBA | TBA | 23 October 1994 | |
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Sharon moans about how hard it is at the cafe and Tracey says that it's just as hard at home but Sharon says it's practically a holiday being at home. They swap jobs, Tracey is working hard at the cafe while Sharon is finding tasks at home daunting. | |||||
| 71 | "Moving" | TBA | TBA | 30 October 1994 | |
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Tracey decides to sell the house after a conversation with Darryl. Sharon is none to pleased when she finds out. | |||||
| 72 | "Out" | Gary Lawson and John Phelps | TBA | 6 November 1994 | |
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Chris has been let out of prison to spend time in Chigwell, not to the sisters’ approval. Tracey wants Dorien to try it on with Chris, but he claims he’s a reformed man; despite this he tries to get the probation officer into Tracey’s bath. | |||||
| 73 | "In At the Deep End" | TBA | TBA | 13 November 1994 | |
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Sharon and Tracey kick start their new business, Garth is interested in something new and Dorien has a little child. | |||||
| 74 | "Business Is Business" | TBA | TBA | 20 November 1994 | |
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The swimming pool business is going well, Sharon has to sell the cafe so she can concentrate on the most important business. | |||||
| 75 | "Puppy Love" | Sue Teddern | TBA | 27 November 1994 | |
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The girls reminisce about their childhood sweethearts, and Sharon meets up with a once spotty-boy who’s now a dashing hunk. To make Dorien jealous, Sharon pretends the man and herself are a couple to be married; realistically Sharon’s first love is a homosexual. | |||||
| 76 | "Still Waters Run Deep" | TBA | TBA | 4 December 1994 | |
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Sharon and Tracey are doing well in the swimming pool business, they are given an offer they can't refuse. | |||||
| 77 | "On the Glass" | TBA | TBA | 11 December 1994 | |
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Tracey worries about Sharon's spending and tells her to put some away for a rainy day but Sharon says that she is just treating herself. Later, Sharon is cleaned out | |||||
| 78 | "The Chigwell Years" | TBA | TBA | 18 December 1994 | |
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The girls reminisce about the six years that they have been neighbours and friends. (Flashback episode) | |||||
Christmas Special (1994)
- Christmas In Dreamland (24 Dec 94) (50mins)
Series Seven (1997)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 80 | "Stand By Your Man" | TBA | TBA | 26 May 1997 | |
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Tracey is over-joyed when Daryll announces he is being released from prison, although for Sharon the news is far from welcome as she realised that Chris will also be released. | |||||
| 81 | "Nearest and Dearest" | Damon Rochefort | TBA | 2 June 1997 | |
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Sharon has a blazing row with Dorien, leading to the latter believing she has to alter her selfish ways. Thus, in an attempt to be more thoughtful, Dorien organises a day of opera and manicures for herself and Sharon, but Sharon isn’t keen on the idea and explains she’s attending a funeral on that day; her plan goes pear-shaped when Dorien offers to come to the funeral with her. | |||||
| 82 | "Cheers" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | TBA | 9 June 1997 | |
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Darryl and Chris are released from prison, but fortunately for Sharon her husband gets hit by a car and thus spends his first free night in hospital, leaving it free for Sharon to invite “Snotty Scotty” an old school friend to Darryl’s welcome home party. Unfortunately for Tracey, Darryl is impotent and spends the night down the pub. | |||||
| 83 | "Relative Strangers" | Geoff Rowley | TBA | 16 June 1997 | |
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Dorien’s world falls apart when discovering her husband has been leading a double life, and after a heated argument, Darryl throws Sharon out of his house. | |||||
| 84 | "Porridge" | TBA | TBA | 23 June 1997 | |
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Failing to bring home the bacon honestly, Darryl meets a trickster who supplies him with counterfeit money, this he and Chris are both caught with, thus sent back to prison. Dorien poses as a barmaid and talks to Marcus’s secret partner, in order to find out some home truths. | |||||
| 85 | "Rising Damp" | Sue Teddern | TBA | 30 June 1997 | |
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Sharon gets on the TV to appeal for her husband’s release, but ends up fighting the channel’s mascot: a man dressed as a dog. Tracey’s out on the pull and Dorien gets her house back of Marcus. | |||||
| 86 | "Three Up, Two Down" | Gary Lawson and John Phelps | TBA | 7 July 1997 | |
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Tracey’s economic crisis results in herself and Sharon having to move house. Garth decides to move in with Kimberly | |||||
| 87 | "Are You Being Served?" | Gary Lawson and John Phelps | TBA | 14 July 1997 | |
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Sharon and Tracey try to adjust to their new lives in their new home. Sharon longs for a baby and wants to start a new family. | |||||
| 88 | "Never the Twain" | Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks | TBA | 21 July 1997 | |
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Garth is worried about Darryl in prison and wants Tracey to visit despite been given the cold shoulder. Tracey and Sharon eventually travel by train to visit the prison while Dorien is pampered in the hotel. | |||||
| 89 | "Three's Company" | TBA | TBA | 28 July 1997 | |
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Sharon plans to get pregnant and reminds Tracey that's it not simply about sex, Tracey drops the bombshell that she's pregnant and says she isn't sure it's Darryl's. | |||||
Christmas Special (1997)
- Reservoir Birds (27 Dec 97) (50mins)
Series Eight (1998)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 91 | "Trouble and Strife" | TBA | TBA | 5 January 1998 | |
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Sharon gets a job at an abatoir, which causes friction between her and Tracey, especially when Sharon stays out late drinking with the boys and comes home with blonde hair on her uniform. | |||||
| 92 | "The Essex Patient" | TBA | TBA | 12 January 1998 | |
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Tracey and Sharon are making progress with their cleaning job when Sharon complains that she's ill, Tracey just thinks she's putting it on until Sharon arrives from the hospital announcing that she has an allergy, it's later found to be self inflicted due to her over eating. | |||||
| 93 | "Maids of Ongar" | TBA | TBA | 19 January 1998 | |
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Sharon and Tracey start their cleaning business but it's not going as planned so they try to raise some cash to get their business going. | |||||
| 94 | "Baggage" | TBA | TBA | 26 January 1998 | |
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Sharon wants to attend the school reunion to confront her rival while Dorien meets someone from the past. | |||||
| 95 | "Can't Judge a Book" | TBA | TBA | 2 February 1998 | |
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Tracey wants Sharon to lose weight, Sharon doesn't think she can do it but Tracey offers to help. Later, when Sharon loses a bit of weight she visits Chris who has met another woman that Sharon talked to in a queue outside the prison. Dorien decides to change her image to impress a man. | |||||
| 96 | "Money" | TBA | TBA | 9 February 1998 | |
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Tracey faces trouble when Garth's endowment policy arrives, Garth is angry when she doesn't tell him when it came and they have an argument. Later, they go to the restaurant and Dorien tries to bond with Marcus's children. | |||||
Series Nine (1998)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Director | Original airdate | |
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| 97 | "Ghost" | TBA | TBA | 16 November 1998 | |
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Tracey is convinced the house is haunted, thus herself, Sharon and Dorien hold a séance. | |||||
| 98 | "Mummies And Daddies" | TBA | TBA | 23 November 1998 | |
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Dorien needs to get to her boyfriend’s before he returns home to find the malicious answer message she has left him. Tracey is unhappy with Garth who’s abandoned pregnant Kimberly, however the pair are soon reunited and then engaged. | |||||
| 99 | "Sunday" | TBA | TBA | 30 November 1998 | |
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The threesome get locked inside a garage, and as cabin fever sets in, the girls fear for their safety, as well as their sanity. | |||||
| 100 | "Model" | TBA | TBA | 7 December 1998 | |
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Tracy and Dorien are in disbelief when Sharon tells them she has been offered a job in modelling. | |||||
| 101 | "Nuptials" | Gary Lawson and John Phelps | TBA | 14 December 1998 | |
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It’s Garth’s wedding, and Tracey wants Sharon to behave less common to please the bride’s snobbish family, however this proves to be a difficult task. Meanwhile it’s Dorien’s birthday, but she feels both old and lonely, and has swallowed a bottle of pills. | |||||
| 102 | "Holy Ground" | Geoff Rowley | TBA | 24 December 1998 | |
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Tracy and Sharon discover they have been mentioned in an Irish relative’s will, thus they and Dorien go to Ireland, where the latter now owns a horse. Unfortunately, the sisters arrive to find they have been left a field. Dorien is not happy either, when discovering her horse is a pregnant one, but it is Tracy who ends up giving birth in a stable. | |||||
References
- General
- "Birds of a Feather Episode Guide". TV.com. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
- Specific
- ^ a b c d Lewishohn, Mark (2003). Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy. London: BBC Worldwide. ISBN 0563487550.
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