 George and Mildred Roper ( Brian Murphy (I)  (qv) and  Yootha Joyce  (qv)) are forced to leave their home in South Kensington (as the landlords in _"Man About the House" (1973)_ (qv)) when they receive a compulsory purchase order from the council. Mildred talks George into buying a nice middle-class house in suburbia, and they move next door to Jeffrey and Ann Fourmile ( Norman Eshley  (qv) and  Sheila Fearn  (qv)). Unfortunately, Mildred s dream of upward mobility seems doomed to failure, as George relentlessly embarrasses her in every way possible. Poor Mildred not only has to cope with George s gormless behavior, she has to try and deal with the the snobbish Jeffrey as well as her rich-bitch sister Ethel ( Avril Elgar  (qv)) and mad old mum ( Gretchen Franklin  (qv)).