The Larkins

Pop Larkin manages to sell the crumbling mansion next door, making enough on the deal to start building himself a swimming pool; he and Ma struggle to warm up to their new neighbors, the Jerebohms, after a dinner party.

Pop tries to make peace with the Jerebohms by inviting them to a lavish barbecue; Primrose plans to woo Rev. Candy gets a job offer at a local newspaper; the barbecue ends up a raucous affair, but a trap is set to bring Pop down.

Pop is in denial; Ma shows him some tough love while playing Cupid between Primrose and Rev. Candy; Pop's old friend Fruity Pears turns up in the village with his fairground in tow, but it's not all cotton candy and laughs.

Ma and the children want Pop to take the court case seriously, but he would rather focus on finishing the swimming pool; Pop conducts his own defense, squaring off against the Jerebohms' London lawyer and a suspiciously biased Judge Sprague.

Primrose and her newspaper editor dig up more evidence against the Jerebohms; Ma enlists the help of Angela Snow's eminent barrister father; Charley decides that a full family christening will boost the Larkins' respectability.

After Norma confesses that the Jerebohms set up Pop and blackmailed the judge, Ma organizes her own sting operation against Pinkie; Rev. Candy agonizes over a moral dilemma; Primrose looks to find a solution.