The Fenn Street Gang

No longer able to say "Please Sir!" when they have a problem, Form 5C from Fenn Street Secondary Modern are out in the cold hard world. But school friendships die hard and the mob determine to preserve their group identity.

Things are not going too smoothly for Eric and Sharon. While Eric is busy having a brush with the Law, Sharon realizes that there are other fish in the sea. It is then that ace "tec" Frankie Abbott comes onto the scene - on his first case!

The Fenn Street Gang get a new member - Bernard Hedges.

Dennis knows who his real friends are - or does he? Things come to a head when Maureen takes him to a party.

Penny (Bernard's wife) decides that a woman's place is certainly not at home but the problem is keeping her job a secret from Bernard, who has rather old-fashioned views on women. Because, when at last he does get off the dole, his new job brings him into contact with all sorts of people.

The course of Duffy's and Sharon's true love never did run very smoothly, but as they grow older it becomes positively bumpy. When Sharon meets a sensitive student and Duffy gets his first taste of real competition, something just has to give.

Bernard still waits to start work at London University, while at home the bills keep on piling up. When a friend suggests a lucrative part-time job, he jumps at the chance but the kind of work involved makes him wished that he had looked before he leaped.

When private detective "Hank" Abbott's career comes to an inglorious end, the British Army opens its arms to a new recruit. Had the Army realized what it was getting, the open arms might well have become clenched fists.

When Dennis leaves home he finds he's taken on more than he can handle. Meanwhile, Eric has taken on Peter Craven in an optimistic attempt to contemplate a decorating job.

This episode chronicles the final dust-up between Duffy and Sharon, Abbott in hospital with a stab wound and Dunstable's flat as a rendez-vous.

Dennis falls into bad company and is introduced to Russian bitter. The result is an appearance in the Magistrate's Court. This may seem bad enough, but when Duffy, Craven and their old teacher Mr. Smith appear for the defense, things go from bad to worse.

Duffy is feeling the strain of separation from Sharon but is not above chatting up a bird - especially when her father is in a position to put a bit of business his way.

Maureen is a bundle of nerves as she waits for her "O" level results which will affect her nursing career. What better cure for the nerves than a nice date with a "nice chap?" Duffy and Craven, with the best will in the world, pick the "nice chap." But where there is a will there is not always a way.