When a Black couple moves in next door, Eddie decides that he and his wife Joan must move. He changes his mind when he sees the woman, but trouble is still afoot.
Bill gets angry at Eddie when he keeps ogling Barbie while she's sunbathing in the garden. Eddie thinks Bill is stirring things up, so he decides to move. Bill doesn't want any Black people moving in.
After an argument over a new machine at work gets out of hand, Bill and Eddie both withdraw their labour and go on strike. As a result, Barbie and Joan both also go on strike until the guys go back to work.
Eddie has a union meeting at the pub with Jacko and Arthur; Barbie and Joan think that their husbands have a roving eye, so they phone two friends to try to tempt them into cheating.
Eddie gets all excited about meeting Harold Wilson, but the arguments start when Bill puts a poster of Edward Health in his window. To prove a bet that Blacks can get served anywhere, Eddie dresses up in an Afro wig and blacks himself up.
Barbie suggests to Joan that she doesn't wear a bra like her, to try to keep Eddie interested, but Eddie doesn't even notice. When he later thinks he sees Joan and Bill embracing, Eddie gets really drunk and tries to start a fight.
Eddie refuses to go to Bill and Barbie's housewarming party, thinking he isn't wanted. When the music gets too loud for him, he calls the police to break it up.
After Eddie has a drunken night at the foreman's leaving party, he refuses to go for the job as it's against his principles. When his boss offers it to him with extra money and the key to the executive toilet, he soon changes his mind.
Joan convinces Eddie to buy a new bedroom suite in the sale. Unfortunately Bill wants the same suite, so they both decide to camp outside the shop overnight.
Thinking his trip to the T.U.C. Conference will get him away from everything, Eddie gets a shock when Bill says he's going as well - and Barbie has arranged for the two men to share a room.
After being disturbed by the local Revivalist Band and having a big argument with the boys about religion, Eddie gets converted and joins the band; Joan hatches a plan to revert him to normal.