Sorry! - Season 3 (1982)

When the mobile library breaks down in the country Timothy takes shelter from the rain in a barn where three elderly women tell his fortune. Although Muriel dismisses it all their prophesies come true so that when they foretell a successful job interview with a move to Yorkshire Timothy knows the job is in the bag. Sadly once again he had reckoned without his dreadful mother.

Timothy is obsessed with the fair Jean from Acacia Avenue but is too cowardly to approach her. On Mrs Lumsden's birthday she is predictably ungracious about the family's presents but delighted when Timothy arranges a day on the river with her ukulele-playing old friend Edgar. Typically it rains and things go from bad to worse as Timothy literally goes overboard in front of Jean.

After an accident at the tennis club Timothy is taken to hospital where he wrongly believes that he is terminally ill. As ever Mother is too bound up in her own selfish world, Father more concerned in ridding the garden of moles and the people at the pub more interested in the Colorado beetle in the sausage roll to listen to him. At least he can dream that he had an heroic funeral with a glamorous mistress among the mourners. But then he wakes up.