 The original novel, "The Long Firm", contained five stories. "Red  Hot Poker", "Dissolution Honours", "The Rank Charm School", "Jack  the Hat" and "Open University". The first episode of the TV show,  "Teddys Story" was an amalgamation of "Red Hot Poker" and  "Dissolution Honours". The episode "Rbuys Story" was an adaptation  of "The Rank Charm School", "Jack the Hat" became "Jimmys Story"  and "Open University" became Lennys story. In "Jack the Hat", the  main support character was the factual Jack "The Hat" McVitie. For  legal reasons he could not be included, so the character of Jimmy  was adopted from the first chapter of the book "Red Hot Poker", to  replace Jack in this episode.