After a serious accident at Goddard's, Peggy and Ruth have divided loyalties. Meanwhile, the landlord of the Skelthwaite Arms dies and revelations follow, shocking his widow and daughter.

Peggy and Ruth are barely on speaking terms, Simon becomes increasingly isolated, and the new landlord of the Skelthwaite Arms falls out with The Scorpians.

A new nurse's fresh approach threatens Peggy and Ruth's ways. When a life-threatening emergency occurs, the transfer has some hard lessons to learn.

The men go to Whitby on a fishing tip but the only catches they make are on a eventful evening surrounding the local nightlife.

A 19-year-old who hoped to travel has to face the fact that he now can't due to his failing sight. Ruth and Simon's holiday plans are thwarted.

Tragedy strikes the community when Dick runs over a child with his van.

Peggy must face the possibility of her own serious illness; Dick struggles to come to terms with the death of the boy in the van accident; and Ruth has problems with her grandmother.

Simon digs up Peggy's back garden as a silver wedding anniversary present while she's on holiday with Vic in the lake district.

A dying woman's family want to protect her from knowing about the seriousness of her condition while Peggy nurses her. A delegation from Denmark arrives at Goddard's.

Peggy is concerned when an old flame of Vic's arrives at Skelthwaite. Stephan's attempts to woo Jacqui fail and Patricia's old flame returns from New Zealand.