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8 Episodes 1966 - 1966
Episode 1
The lads are planning on a holiday weekend at a location where apparently free love reigns among the hippies who stay there. However, when they eventually make it to their destination, Terry complaining as his feet are blistered, they discover that the site has been demolished. Fortunately the two girls camping in the adjacent field may be able to offer consolation.
Episode 2
Bob is dating the middle class Lorna and things are going well as her parents see him as a pleasant upwardly mobile young man with prospects. Unfortunately Terry's disgusting old grandfather is house sitting in the property next door and makes it clear to Bob that he is a traitor to his class by trying to marry beyond his station.
Episode 3
Bob buys a moped in the hopes that it will give him a cool image and enable him to get pretty young girls as pillion passengers. Terry offers to help him with lessons to enable him to pass his driving test on it. Unfortunately an accident with the emergency stop ends up with Terry being admitted to hospital.

Episode 4
At the local dance the likely lads agree to split up in order to improve their chances of pulling and Bob ends up with the delightful Ursula. Next day they go on a date but any further meetings are somewhat ruined when she explains that she is already seeing somebody else - Terry, who also picked her up at the same dance.
Episode 5
Bob has chickenpox, keeping him off work for three weeks and effectively putting him in quarantine. When he recovers and Terry sees him for the first time, he has grown a beard, but when he returns to work he is ordered to shave it off. Terry calls a strike in defence of his friend's civil liberties and right to sport facial hair.
Episode 6
Bob persuades Terry to go on a boating holiday with him on the Norfolk Broads, explaining to him that it would be a great way to meet women and impress them with his boating skills. However, when Terry meets and hits it off with Sally from the boatyard, Bob ruins his plans by casting the boat off early. Terry is determined to have his revenge.
Episode 7
The likely lads have been invited to a friend's stag night and arrive at the pub before everybody else. They meet Duggie, an old friend who is now married with a child, a fact which is restricting his social life. Bob and Terry decide to show him a good time, in short what he has missed and they, so far, have been lucky enough to maintain.
Episode 8
Bob seems to have found his ideal woman in Thelma Chambers, but when she drops him he is despondent and decides to join the Army. Not wishing to be parted from his best friend, Terry decides to join up with him. However, in the event it is Bob who is turned down whilst Terry finds that he has signed on for the duration.
