Magica tricks Gladstone Gander into stealing the Number One Dime for her, and as a result, he is then cursed with bad luck.

Joey embarks on a tour, having been scheduled to perform at 16 colleges over a period of 14 days. When Joey arrives home from the tour, he sees that Danny and Jesse and the girls have a big surprise for him - the garage has been renovated to become a bedroom for Joey, who no longer has to use the living room alcove as a bedroom, and this indicates that Joey is not going to be living anywhere else any time soon.

There are still no batteries for the wireless radio underneath the bed of Renandeacute;'s mother in law, so Michelle's newest harebrained scheme is to have Renandeacute; and Yvette powering the radio with the generator from a bicycle until the stolen batteries from a German midget submarine are delivered.
The Lieutenant has finished copying the paintings (The Fallen Madonna... and the Van Gogh), and delivers them as sausages. Sausages also come from Captain Bertorelli (real ones), Monsieur LeClerc (submarine batteries), and Officer Crabtree (explosives), and soon they're all mixed up in the German officers pants.

Dr Mary Thominson's parents have come to stay and things are very strained between them all. Megan and Ted argue over the move to Cheltenham and she's not going. George Thominson is rushed in after overdosing and Ewart takes over as Mary comforts her mother. She arranges for her friend Brendan to come and pick her mother up and take her back to her flat and stay with her. Landowners try to drive a group of hippies off their land but a young boy is injured and taken to Holby where the staff have problems, dealing with the trouble they bring. George recovers from his overdose and is impressed with Brendan. Peter turns up and Duffy tells him she was worried about him and tells him her test is clear. The drugs cabinet's been broken into and a rookie cop gets bitten on the leg by one of the hippies and has to have a tetanus shot. Peace is restored when the hippies leave.