Brian Murphy
The gang return for their third adventure, this time on a trip to scatter Grace’s mother’s ashes on the Yorkshire Moors.
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinĂ©e performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest “all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing” extravaganza.