Wed, Nov 4, 1992
Diana collapses and is rushed to hospital where Baines tries,unsuccessfully to cop off with the lady doctor. Diana,wrongly,gets it into her head that she is dying of cancer and asks Tom to get her some sleeping pills so that she can end it all quickly. For Tom,however,there are limits as to what he will do for his best friend.
Wed, Sep 30, 1992
Baines meets a girl-friend, Lucy Maitland,at the hunt ball. His mother is coming to visit before going to stay with his sister so Jane poses as Lucy Maitland to put Mother off Harvey's new fiancee whilst Tom and Diana ham it up mercilessly pretending to be Baines' parents talking to Lucy. The result is that Lucy does not stay around and Jane has got her Baines back all to herself.
Wed, Nov 11, 1992
The residents are getting wet waiting for a bus but when it arrives the driver claims that they cannot get on for free for another four minutes as they are too early,so Diana hauls him off the bus and Tom hi-jacks it on behalf of the residents. Later this will come in handy when a very pregnant Sarah arrives, seeking Diana's reluctant help to deliver her baby. Ultimately a girl arrives,unsurprisingly Sarah calls her Diana.
Wed, Oct 14, 1992
Resident Dave Cartwright has died and at the wake the drink flows freely amongst the inhabitants of Bayview. Tom and Diana certainly have knocked it back and next morning wake up in bed together. Jane is shocked but Tom suddenly becomes very popular with the ladies in the home's bowling team.
Wed, Oct 26, 1994
After confiding her doubts about marriage to Sarah, Diana has a raucous hen night with male strippers whilst Tom's stag night is a very staid affair. The befuddled Dennis Sparrow is to conduct the two wedding ceremonies separately but due to a double booking involving a funeral, a double wedding is on the cards after all - despite Marion's efforts to sabotage Tom's marrying Diana. She need not have worried because, whilst Jane becomes Mrs. Harvey Baines, Tom and Diana happily agree not to marry after all but to live in sin.
Wed, Jun 27, 1990
Tom Ballard is put in Bayview retirement home by his weak willed son Geoffrey and his domineering, drunk daughter-in-law Marion. Many of the residents are very passive but not retired journalist Diana Trent, whose mission in life it is to annoy 'the idiot Baines' - Harvey Baines,the home's manager. Initially she thinks Tom is rather dotty but when he tries to organize the residents into action against the home's poor food she knows she has found an ally.
Wed, Sep 18, 1991
Baines threatens Diana with expulsion unless she removes the partition but they both have more pressing matters to consider as Daisy becomes completely domineering,taking over the home with her ideas and threatening to get current staff sacked. Finally Tom organizes a revolt against her, causing her to leave . . . and Diana to remove the partition.
Wed, Oct 7, 1992
After she has been accused of selfishness Diana goes to work as a volunteer at a charity for elderly people and takes up the cause of an old lady about to be evicted by unscrupulous estate agent Janet Follett. Diana learns that Ms. Follett is Baines' new girl-friend and she has plans for Bayview which will not go down well with the residents. With a little help from Tom and her media background Diana sets out to expose Ms. Follett.
Wed, Sep 25, 1991
Resident Betty claims that her sewing basket has gone missing and Tom and Diana decide to investigate. Not fully believing Betty's story they follow her and Tom intervenes when they see her apparently shop-lifting. Tom is arrested and conducts his own court case,being found Not guilty of theft but guilty of contempt of court. Later Diana recalls that she had the sewing basket all along,having borrowed it from Betty and forgetting she still had it.
Wed, Aug 1, 1990
Baines decides that if Diana and Tom are seen to be mentally incompetent it will give him power of attorney over them and end all his troubles,particularly as the home is in financial difficulties. So he refers them to psychiatrist Dr.Darrow,for whom they act out a well-rehearsed pantomine of odd behaviour, leading the doctor to conclude that they are not mad,just a touch eccentric,with unexpected help coming from Sarah.