It's Christmas Day and the usual festivities are underway. Compo becomes interested in a skateboard.

Foggy decides to beat the Christmas rush - in the middle of summer. He ends up being conned by Big Eric who sells him 100 Christmas trees for 10. A bargain? Not when they are crawling with insects!

Christmas isn't what it used to be, so the trio decide to look for two old school chums to help recapture the spirit of their youth.

Wanting to take a break from the comercial side of Christmas Foggy books a seaside caravan for himself, Compo and Clegg.

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After Sam's inconsiderate demise at the home of Lily-Bless-Her, our trio are faced with the task of explaining to his wife about his wet feet and fluffy suit.

Wesley has discovered an old racing car. Compo, Clegg and Foggy offer to help him transport it back to his shed, not reckoning on its condition.

The day of Barry and Glenda's wedding brings new gossip to town, and also introduces her uncle Seymour as the new third man of the group.

Seymour plans to put some magic back into Christmas and Santa back where he belongs-on the rooftops not on a bicycle.

Clegg has to deliver a note to Marina in the supermarket. Can Seymour invent something highly original to justify all the security?

A rotting old boat is made to float... sometimes most unsuccessfully.

Why has Compo just thrown something of great sentimental value into Seymour's pond?

After Compo claims that any man who uses a purse is effeminate, Seymour tries to invent a strictly masculine purse.

Will Seymour's car safety device really make him rich and famous? His "guinea pig" may not agree.

Remember when you could buy ice cream from the man on the tricycle? This episode will refresh your memories for sure.

The trio devise a plan to "spring" Howard and Wally for a few hours of freedom.

It's rather difficult selling tickets for the church's Beatrix Potter evening - until someone comes up with an idea to set Compo scurrying.

Seymour insists Edie must be up to date with his latest design in waste disposal.

Edie learns to drive, so obvious disaster is expected.

How can Seymour harness the power of the wind for the benefit of mankind? Once again, Compo is the test pilot.

Old chum Bill Henry dies in America, which prompts Clegg to take Compo and Seymour on a sentimental journey.

It's the annual garden fete at Dream Acres, featuring Nora as VIP waitress and a tramp who has taken a special interest in one particular donkey.

Compo wonders why all the blood rushes to his head when he's turned upside down. Seymour sets out to discover why.

Is the piece of silver fished out of the canal really a thief's haul? Is there more where it came from?

Compo's feet hurt - but why go to visit "The Witch" for a cure?

A visit by a much-loved pet seems the only way to bring a smile to Clem's face during a spell in hospital.

Seymour tries to prove that skiing is more than just a winter sport for the rich.

The trio attend a funeral.

Barry has a secret - he wants to get Glenda a water-bed for Christmas.

Is Jack Harry's cumbersome caravan wrecking his marriage? Seymour seems to think so, so he drags in Compo and Clegg to lend a hand.

Clegg could be the answer to a lonely widow's prayer! Meanwhile, who is kissing who?

The trio examines a haystack, resulting in their having to push it back to the top of a hill.

Compo is concerned when he sees Nora going out mysteriously and then sees her in the pub with another man.

The overly domesticated Gough is a woeful sight to behold at his anniversary party, so the guys take him out for a bit of cavorting.

No sooner than Seymour spots a kite does the trio end up building and attempting to fly their own gigantic version.

Compo wants to help Nora Batty with a troublesome chore, but Seymour ends up taking over and fouling up the entire operation. Howard tests out a series of lame disguises.

Compo is desperate to buy a present for Nora, and a visit to Auntie Wainwright's may provide the answer.

Seymour leaves to look after a school. Will life be boring for Compo and Clegg? Not for long, as Foggy Dewhirst returns to the fold.

Foggy has an idea to use portable radios to improve communications.

When Foggy hears about an athletic charity drive, he enters Compo and Clegg despite their wishes. An "injured" Howard drops out of the race and stops to recover in this young lady's refreshment stand. How refreshed can one man get?

Foggy is upset because he's not famous for anything, so he invents the sport of bicycle polo.

Our trio helps Captain Zero when his vehicle breaks down, but don't reckon on him getting drunk.

Ivy lets Foggy fix her toaster, and it goes to his flippin' head. Now he thinks he can restore the tatty sunken boat he's found at the bottom of the lake. He actually accomplishes even this, so Compo decides he must get Nora Batty into the boat alone with him. But surely Nora knows better - she'll have to be tricked.

After a heated encounter with two motorists, Foggy decides there must be money to be made providing parking spaces.

To stop Nora taking him for granted, Compo becomes a TV star for the day doing his legendary impression.

Having learned absolutely nothing from "The Charity Balls" just a few episodes back, Foggy tries to assert the boys' athletic prowess yet again, this time in a downhill barrel-rolling competition.

Compo is more than a little concerned when Smiler moves in as Nora Batty's lodger.

Is Barry taking the spirit of Christmas too far when he's found "sleeping it off" in the pub wearing a Santa suit?

The trio start a courier service. Wesley fails to keep clean.

Compo, Clegg and Foggy encounter a stranger from the Heckmondwike Extraterrestrial Club who foresees aliens landing in Yorkshire.

Wesley gets Foggy, Norman and Compo to help him move a Piano for Auntie Wainwright almost running into Billy Ingleton, who takes a shine to the instrument. Foggy wants credit as the concert promoter for Billy. Howard and Marina wear, what they think are, disguises. Eli conducts The Holme Band at the concert. Compo saves the show.

A depressed Howard tries to build himself up but, under Foggy's instruction, ends up breaking his leg. Auntie Wainwright has Smiler testing a Triumph Motorcycle, after she rents him the riding gear. Foggy intends to sneak Marina past Pearl and into Norman's house so that Howard can come over to see her. Meanwhile, the ladies morning coffee group plan to give Howard a surprise visit that same evening to cheer him up during his recovery.

All types of strange creatures seem to be parading themselves through town. The reason? A new film's being made. All the locals get involved on the production of the film. Pearl puts a secret electric device on Howard's bycicle, so she can track him down, when he escapes her.

Compo, Clegg and Truly chase a reluctant groom all through the village and beyond to stop him from escaping his wedding. Meanwhile, hungover best man Barry is frantically trying to locate the missing wedding ring.

Compo is selected to travel to France with a group of local WWII veterans, only to have the offer withdrawn when the organisers realize how scruffy he looks. The local ladies take pity on him and collect enough money for him to go, and Truly and Clegg join him for the trip.

Meanwhile, Edie's long-estranged sister Ros shows up in town, ready to make amends with Edie and possibly settle down again. Edie, angry at her for leaving her husband and devastating their mother, isn't interested in reconnecting. In France, the trio has two goals: to release Billy Hardcastle's homing pigeon and to revisit a spot Compo and some of his fellow soldiers camped overnight after a gruelling escape from the Germans. There's just one snag: Compo doesn't remember where it is.

Tom intends to to give Howard a "going fishing" excuse. Truly, Clegg and Billy meet a polar explorer with a domineering wife. Marina and Auntie Wainwright tart-up the explorer's wife. Pearl and Glenda go hunting for fishermen.

When Nora Batty books Billy Ingleton's organ for a charity fair, she badly underestimates how much of an attraction it will be... Marina declines to go out with Howard because she's caught the showbiz bug, and is rehearsing a play at the local church. Howard asks the trio to help him think of something "showbizzy" they can do together.

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Norman has been roped into performing a humorous monologue for the Christmas Concert. Pearl plans to force Howard to mime a recording of Nelson Eddy. Glenda plans to force Barry to perform as a magician. Billy wants to give an archery demonstration. Alvin is practicing as a one-man-band. Entwistle hypnotizes Smiler into knowing how to dance.

Feeling too old for a bicycle, Howard purchases a "secret" car. Barry is having a spiritual crisis.

Truly and Norman are drawn into Howard's latest escape plan. Auntie Wainwright dresses Smiler as Father Christmas and Tom as an elf. Glenda tries to help Barry get over a negative reflective mood. The local police think the men are a gang trying to dispose of a body.

Alvin has Truly and Norman over for a Holiday dinner. Glenda invited a man to dinner that Barry does not like. Pearl and Marina each give Howard a sweater vest, so he wears them both... at the same time. Auntie Wainwright gives Tom and Smiler a dinner that is actually nice, and then empties their pockets in a card game.

Luther 'Hobbo' Hobdyke, a retired milkman with strong links to MI5, arrives in the village. Very soon, calling upon his experiences on numerous dangerous missions overseas as a master spy, he forms a small team of reluctant volunteers, consisting of Alvin and Entwistle, ready to react to any emergency in the village. Finding that Hobbo has moved in next door, Clegg and Truly recall that he was never much of a milkman, but have to admit that his needlework is always exemplary.