Follows the adventures of the fighter pilots of an Royal Air Force Hornet Squadron during World War II.

It's the 1950's and Sidney "Pop" Larkin has managed to avoid paying taxes for practically his entire working life. He embarks on a number of ill-fated entrepreneurial ventures and his daughter causes more than one head to turn with her flirtatious ways. But the flamboyant Larkins are thoroughly devoted to each other in good times and bad.

Three elderly delinquents are outstanding examples of the positive benefits of being out of work: they are free to wander and talk together for the first time since their school days, drifting among the gainfully employed world of a small Yorkshire town.

Dr. Alexander Cameron has devoted his life to medicine and healing. Now, after a night of excessive drinking, he collapses from a heart attack in his home. At the mercy of a crippling snowstorm that shuts down all the roads, his only hope is hs colleague, Dr. Finlay. As the storm worsens and knocks out both the power and the phone lines, Dr. Finaly works his innovative healing skills to care from his patient. Meanwhile, Dr. Cameron, in his beridden...

While celebrations are taking place at the new college building at Oxford, Morse and Lewis look into the murder of a freelance journalist, who was working on an article about college benefactor Bayden.