UK Air Date: 14th January 1991
Writer: Dave Worthington
Director: Russell Webb
Viv tells Steven it’s all over. Marilyn tells Lance he must sell his car to pay for their wedding.
Extended Summary
Tom is cooking fish soup.
Viv talks to Emma. Viv is puzzled as to why Steven has “lost interest” in her.
Lance is depressed over his car as he has to sell it to be able to pay for the wedding of him and Marilyn. Tom talks to Lance.
Steven talks to Viv at school. They both look sad and they agree it was right for them to split up. Neither of them know it is because of Vicki’s fake letters.
Adam wants to help Lance to sell his car. He wants to be paid for the help as to be expected. Adam promises Lance he will get a lot more money for the car by letting Adam help him. Lance say no to the whole thing loud and clear!
Adam phones the newspaper, which Lance has advertised his car in. Adam fakes his voice and pretends he is Lance and changes the price in the ad to a higher price. He also made them change the phone number in the ad to his number instead. He also won’t accept that Lance told him to stay out of the selling of his car so he will help Lance no matter what!
Sally will be making dessert for Tom’s dinner today. She is in Alf’s store and talks to Celia. Sally asks for some strange ingredients for the dessert that are in the recipe. The recipe says it needs alcohol in it as well. Celia can’t sell any to Sally since she is way too young to buy any. Sally is somewhat disappointed.
Sally gets Lance to buy it for her.
Tom has high expectations of his fish soup and how delicious it will taste but the rest of the family doesn’t like the smell of it at all.
Sally makes her dessert.
Celia manages to get Adam to rent a documentary video to support the Africa Awareness Week.
The Fletchers have a family dinner together. The girls decide not to take soup, so Tom pours the soup for Pippa, Steven and himself. Tom tastes it and he does not like the taste of it. Everyone laughs!
Adam and Matt are bored since there is nothing good on TV so they decide they might just as well watch the video documentary which Adam rented from Celia to support the Africa Awareness Week. When Matt puts on the video they notice it is the wrong tape and that it is an X-rated porn video and not a documentary!
Adam and Matt are pleased and watch the porn video.
Sally serves her desert and before anyone has tasted it, she runs out to give some to Lance and Marilyn too. The Fletchers taste the dessert and it tastes awful because there is too much salt in it by mistake. They feel bad for Sally’s sake.
Marilyn didn’t like the dessert but pretends it is OK. Lance loved it! Sally has a taste of it and says it is awful. She gets upset and runs out of Lance and Marilyn’s home.
Adam and Matt say to Celia that they enjoyed the video! They don’t tell her that it was the wrong tape in the cover. They rent another video too.
Celia manages to get another customer to rent the “documentary”. She doesn’t know it is the wrong video in the cover.
Sally talks to her family about the dessert disaster. They try to cheer her up and say it could happen to anyone.
Sophie gets along well with Sally.
Adam gets a call from a person who is interested in buying Lance’s car. He wants to check it out first. Adam says it is OK but he is worried how he will get Lance to lend him the car!
Matt asks Adam how he will get Lance to lend him his car. Adam looks worried.
Ola Carlsson, 2000
Guest Cast
MARILYN CHAMBERS (EMILY SYMONS)
SOPHIE SIMPSON (REBEKAH ELMALOGLOU)
