Love Thy Neighbour - Complete Series 1 (Plus Pilot Episode) £19.99
Eddie Booth is a man who is used to calling a spade a spade and that's just the start of his problems. How will he, an ardent trade unionist and defender of 'our white heritage', react to a neighbour who votes Tory and talks about black power. This series helps to take some of the heat out of race relations by showing the funny side of everyday conflict. From its first showing it shot into the Top Ten programme chart, reached no.1 in its second week, and was rarely out of the top three thereafter. Episode 1- It is quite a shock for Joan and Eddie Booth when Mr and Mrs Reynolds move is as their next door neighbours. Episode 2- The Saturday night dance at the Work's Social Club gives Eddie Booth the opportunity of proving that he is as good at the limbo as he is at anything else. Episode 3- Eddie decides that Maple Terrace just isn't big enough to hold both the Booths and the Reynolds. But when he tries to organise a petition to "keep Maple Terrace white", his plans misfire-with hilarious results. Episode 4- An industrial dispute between Eddie and Bill at the factory causes a domestic dispute with their respective wives, Joan and Barbie. However, blood is thicker than water- as Eddie learns to his cost. Episode 5- There comes a time in every husband's life, when he is tempted to stray from the marital home: and Eddie and Bill are no exception-for the seven year itch has no colour bar. However, the trouble with an itch is that one is tempted to scratch it. Episode 6- Despite the fact that Eddie Booth is a staunch Socialist and his black neighbour Bill Reynolds is a true blue Tory, there are many subjects on which they both agree. For instance, they are both against discrimination. When Bill tells Eddie that he was once refused a drink in a pub because of his colour, Eddie's inbred British sense of justice and fair play is outraged and he sets out to prove that the opposite must be the case, with rather painful warfare. Episode 7- When Joan decided to make herself more attractive to her husband Eddie, she little realises that it will start of a chain of events which will bring the uneasy truth between them and their black neighbours, Barbie and Bill Reynolds, into open warfare.