Episode list

Peter is briefly admitted to hospital for tests and, on discharge, is engaged by David Morston, whose older brother Lord Robert, a mad ex-junkie, is selling off parts of the family estate and its titles when not cavorting nude in the fountain or shooting at people. Unusually, Beatrice, who was in rehab with Robert, helps resolve matters, showing that Robert's actions are, ultimately, for a good cause. Lyle suspects a local chemical firm of river pollution but he discovers that large corporations are not always in the wrong. Peter is diagnosed with diabetes, but blood tests show that he is not Beatrice's brother, in fact he is not Peter Kingdom at all, as Auntie Auriel confirms.

Mr. Narbutowicz, an elderly Polish man who has survived a concentration camp, comes to see Peter,as the council want to evict him in view of all the rubbish in his house. Peter gives the case to Lyle who acquits himself well. With Gloria back at work Beatrice makes efforts to befriend her by suggesting that they do 'girly' things together, a suggestion met with some wariness. Peter judges the rudest shaped vegetable at the church fete - where Mrs. Thing is persuaded to leave her money to the church - but a ruder shock is in store for him when Honor, Simon's girlfriend, turns up with her and Simon's baby Daniel.

Farmer Geraldine Merrick suspects vandalism when crop circles appear in her wheatfield. She plans to harvest immediately but widowed ufologist Terry is convinced it is the work of aliens and a site of scientific interest and requests Peter to stop her. Geraldine calms down when sci-fi fans pay to camp in her field but Peter suspects that Terry's neglected young son and Terry's rivals in the pub quiz know more than they claim. Lyle wins the day for an eccentric old couple whose sour-faced daughter feels they should be put in a home, thanks to an eccentric judge, but finds himself falling for rival solicitor Emily.

Peter takes to surrogate fatherhood happily, assisting Honor with his nephew and learning to change nappies. He helps Cynthia from the Womens' Institute prevent the local light-house from closure, which involves stemming objections from the elderly Tucker sisters. More sibling trouble occurs when he persuades the warring Smith brothers, who run rival fast food vans in opposite lay-bys to stop throwing food at, and mooning, each other and work as a team, rather than taking each other to court. He and Beatrice, along with their aunt Auriel, attend baby Daniel's christening, Beatrice and Peter acting as godparents. On their return home they receive a shock. Simon is not dead after all but waiting for them.

Beatrice returns to Market Shipborough with her baby daughter whom she has named Petra, though Peter himself is still a trifle hurt that Simon was chosen as Beatrice's birthing partner rather than himself. However he is occupied with Simon's upcoming trial. Lyle is about to make his theatrical debut in an open air production at Aunt Auriel's home but it is interrupted by heavy rain. A terrible storm blows up and in its aftermath it appears that Simon has drowned.

Grumpy but promiscuous judge Jeremy Harding is sent compromising photographs of himself with a young woman and blames Beatrice. She denies it before exposing him as the father of her daughter, Petra. Harding asks Peter to find the blackmailer, who turns out to be very close to home. Lyle is involved when Stan Geddick and his druids claim the local golf club is on the site of an ancient place of worship but he saves the day by proving that they are,geographically, way off course,so to speak. Stan rewards him by setting up an idyllic date with Emily,which is ruined when Lyle's mother turns up.

Simon is arrested and Peter feels unable to represent him as this would suggest partiality. He also refuses to respond to Simon's request that he re-mortgage his house for bail money, and puts Lyle on the case to defend Simon. In fact Simon gets bail after Lyle finds a bag stashed full of money which Simon has left in the house. The local American army base figures prominently as the pregnant Camilla gets Peter to put pressure on serviceman Brad Johnson to admit liability for her unborn baby, with love ultimately finding a way. Another, less expected, romance appears to blossom when Sidney, in protest at a new jet runway being built near his house, stages a one-man sit-in and Gloria joins him to bring him tea and refreshments.

Lyle goes home to Stockport with his mother to prevent the council from selling off local allotments for a golf course. Lyle's younger twin brothers do not help the situation with their 'guerilla gardening' tactics but the discovery of a lady's slipper orchid growing in the allotments does. Peter acts for Andrew Risden who is refused permission by the headmistress to video his child prodigy cellist daughter Abigail's recital, on the basis it may attract paedophiles. Feeling under pressure, Abigail runs off but the head relents when she is eventually found. Beatrice helps Nigel pass his relationship counselling course via unusual methods and Sidney gets married, though not to Gloria. At the reception Peter suddenly collapses.

Peter has to hide Simon, who is shocked at the discovery that he is a father. Lyle has to strip in front of a group of naturists in solving the matter of an access path to a nudist beach which has offended some stuffy locals. Peter is drawn into a dispute at the retirement home where his aunt Auriel lives. Patricia Wright is incensed that her father, another resident, has developed a friendship with a nurse, Heather, who is young enough to be his daughter, and intends to leave everything to her when he dies. Even Peter cannot prevent the outcome of this case being less happy then he would have liked but Beatrice has even more shocking news for him. She is pregnant!

Lyle takes up cudgels for veteran protester Henny Leach, who claims she is being victimized by the council, who are evicting her for non-payment of her council tax. Before he can help her he comes to find out that she has not told him the full truth. Simon is bailed and wants to rejoin Peter in the family firm but the Law Society prevent this. Olivia Godfrey, owner of the Tiger Lily sex shop, tries to bring a case against Peter's cricketing pal, Nigel. She paid Nigel 5,000 pounds for her sex shop to be advertised on the team's logo, but instead the side is being sponsored by Exhausts-R-Us. Nigel admits that he has been taking money from various would-be sponsors to win back his unfaithful wife, who just happens to be committing that infidelity with Simon. Peter persuades his brother to do the decent thing and let her go whilst the sponsorship debts are met by some of Simon's ill-gotten gains.