Seasons & episodes

S26 · E1The Swan Man Of Ilkley 2005-03-13 · 30 min＋

Lennie from the pickle factory, who has visions of sailing the canals in a swan boat, unwisely allows Clegg, Truly, Alvin and Billy to help him on his way. But a passing narrowboat puts paid to his dream.

Clegg climbs an old tree to prove that the town clock from a nearby village can be seen from its height. scared of heights, Truly, Alvin, Billy and Howard have to get him down.

Nora Batty finds herself the target of a notorious womaniser after she garners his attention with her baked goods.

Smiler is more miserable than usual. He's pining for Hermione, a woman he met the night before.

Smiler pretends to be an intellectual in an attempt to enchant Marina. Howard, a simple thinker, wants to keep an eye on them at the poetry group without being seen so, foolishly, he goes along with Truly's idea.

After Clegg ends up with his foot in a plaster and an arm in a sling after a bike trip with Billy & Alvin, Truly and the Boys try to invent a bike that also an ATV. Barry gets bit by the camping bug.

Smiler regrets never having taken up the offer from Mavis McDonagh to look her up sometime. Truly, Alvin and Billy go on the trail to track her down. With the help Nora and Ivy, they find out that the woman had lived in Jamieson Street, now renamed Pepworth Street. So they go knocking on doors.

Clegg is trying to remember the name of a particularly obnoxious superior of his, from his days working in the Co-op.

Overcome by the smell of a real bargain, Auntie Wainwright has made a successful bid at the auction rooms.

Truly leads the enquiries into the whereabouts of a Co-op Manager who was a tyrant when Clegg worked there.