Upon discovering the identity of her husband's latest mistress, Linda Pearson invites the dumb-struck Kathleen Micklehurst to take on her fair share of his laundy - and to join them for tea.

Doris Livesey, the ideal average housewife, has been chosen by a consumer research organisation as a domestic guinea pig. There's only one thing that can upset the calculations - Doris is married to the average working man...

Taking two young children to the seaside for a week's holiday can be a testing time for any married couple. But for Thelma and Barry Fosset the big test comes when they are packed and ready to leave for home.

Looking after her widowed father has become a way of life for Christine Bradshaw. But life throws up some surprises when Dad meets Gloria and announces their betrothal!

Sailor Donald Rudge has signed up Vera Clayton and journalist Roger Patterson to man a round-the-world boat trip with him. All goes well at first, but when the wind dies down off the Azores, tensions begin to rise.

The good secretarial "temp" can cope with the needs of most business executives. But how does she deal with an amorous boss whose requirements go well beyond shorthand and typing?