Born and Bred

Tom is appalled by the informal way Arthur runs his practice but both men combine to try and talk sense into their cleaner Edie McClure, sister of pub landlady Phyllis, whom Edie disdains for giving up on her marriage. Edie has a weak heart but is determined,against doctors advice, to see through her seventh pregnancy as she has six daughters and is desperate for a son. Matters are taken out of her hands when she miscarries but reconciliation with Phyllis follows. Eddie,the hunky garage mechanic ,asks for advice from scrap-dealer Jean about dating Toms teenaged daughter Helen but Jean misunderstands and assumes he wants to date her whilst Toms son Michael gets revenge on a bullying schoolmaster.

Tom is perplexed by carpenter Bert Cartwrights hostility to doctors until he learns that Bert blames Arthur for the death of his little boy years earlier. When Annie,Berts wife, falls ill, Bert resists her hospitalisation but ,in her delirium, she mistakes Michael for her son who watches over her and agrees to go, saving her life. Michael finds ancient coins in the woods but when the Reverend Brewer and station master Wilf start digging for treasure they unearth an unexploded bomb. Fortunately ex-munitions worker Phyllis knows how to defuse it - or thinks she does,but at least the remainder of the coins are unearthed.

Neville Manly, the shy new NHS inspector declares the cottage hospital the official annexe to Rattenbury General. To celebrate, Deborah revives the Flower of the Valley beauty contest, to be judged by Neville, who finds himself under siege from the competitive entrants. Arthur visits stroppy Sally Waddington, the local telephone operator,who has not set foot outdoors for ten months,since her mother was put in a home,suffering from dementia. She believes she too is going mad but she is agoraphobic.When Jean breaks her ankle Wilf rings for help but the ancient exchange, already faulty, blows up and Sally has to face her fears to fetch Arthur personally. In hospital next to Jean she tells Arthur, who is feeling side-lined, how much Tom appreciates him, as well as encouraging Jean to enter the beauty contest where the besotted Neville declares her the winner, restoring her self-confidence. When the celebrations end Arthur discovers that Tom and Deborah have moved him into their house.

Deborahs mother arrives in Ormston with some surprising news. Meanwhile, Tom has some unusual advice for shop-keeper Mr Boynton.

Some villagers are found swigging brandy instead of water when the local supply is cut-off. Meanwhile, Eddie refuses to allow her daughter Joanne to go to hospital.

Wedding bells are ringing in Ormston, but the groom may not be all he claims. Meanwhile, Wilf and Arthur may have met their match in a parrot.

An elderly recluse agrees to go to hospital only if Arthur and the Rev. Brewer attend one last party; Jean and Eddie must pose as the Gilders.

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Helen becomes a trainee nurse just as the hospital welcomes its most demanding patient, putting both Tom and Arthur in a difficult position. And tensions run high when a famous radio show arrives in Ormston.

Len and Linda have their hands full when their first foster child arrives and doesnt meet their expectations. Tom and Arthur are at loggerheads in the medical treatment of Rita Lennox, the woman sent by the brewery.

New doctor, Donald Newman, arrives in Ormston, saving the life of a beautiful young woman, in love with the local beekeeper. And Deborah and Phyllis discover the shocking truth behind the eviction notices.

Ormston is united in its determination to win the annual pub olympics, which this year means a hefty cash prize to buy Phylliss pub back from the brewery.

Dr. Nick Logan arrives in Ormston to help Deborah and Donald set up a walking blood bank; Jean and Eddie search for privacy; Len awaits his first call in his new police station.

Parents Dee and Christina Georgiou cannot agree on who is to blame for four-year-old Nicolas bad behaviour. She wets herself night and day, has violent temper tantrums and still insists on breast feeding.

Ormston prepares for the traditional Apple Day Festival, while Lens cousin Nathan visits town.

Deborah and Nick are forced to spend the night together during a storm, and Nancy and Wilf decide to swap jobs.

Phyllis wants to start a petition to keep Haven Hill from closing; a tax inspector visits Jean; the sexual tension between Logan and Deborah heightens.