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8 Episodes 1978 - 1978
Episode 1
Cissie places an innocent advert in the local paper, requesting somebody with whom she can swap crochet patterns but the ambiguous wording attracts a mountain of unsavoury replies, leading Flora to believe her friend is in danger from a stalker. She sets a trap for him and, although his intentions are honourable it gives Flora the idea of placing an ad of her own.
Episode 2
A tipsy Cissie returns from her uncle Bert's funeral with a shoe-box containing £10,000 that he has left her. Greedy Flora of course is only too happy to help her spend the money, to her own advantage. Unfortunately nobody told her that the notes were counterfeit.
Episode 3
On the strength of one of her old films being shown on television Dolly is offered a part in a bread commercial but when the director arrives at the home he feels she is too glamorous to play a homely grandmother. Flora is naturally happy to step forward to take over the role ...but then he sees Cissie.

Episode 4
Having been banned from most of the shops in town Flora returns from Peabody's Department store - and a traumatic visit to the cinema - with a new model elephant for her collection. However she suddenly realizes that she has forgotten to pay for and enlists the help of Cissie, Dolly and Mildred to disguise themselves in an effort to return it.

Episode 5
Flora is disturbed late at night by a baby's crying, and when she discovers the child left on the doorstep it falls on the ladies of Paradise Lodge to care for him, or her.

Episode 6
Thanks to Cissie knocking away a ladder with her on it Miss Milton ends up in hospital and, in her absence, disciplinarian Rex King, a former army sergeant, takes over, applying rigid rules to the ladies and causing Flora to lead a roof-top protest.
Episode 7
The church's Spring Fayre is approaching but Flora has fallen out with the vicar's wife, who consequently bans her from attending. However Flora blackmails Miss Milton, the fair's organizer into letting her run the tea stall - usually the prerogative of the vicar's wife. When the prize draw is announced it would somehow seem that Flora has indeed won a prize, thanks to a little crafty manipulation, but the ticket has gone missing and Flora must rely on Cissie to recover it.
Episode 8
Flora feels unwell but, being banned from the surgery, sends Cissie to describe the symptoms and learns that she has a grumbling appendix. Admitted to hospital for an operation she annoys everybody on her ward but when Cissie takes a call from the hospital it would seem that Flora is no more.