The Street - 2 ª Season

Unhappily-married Joe Jennerson envies his bachelor twin brother Harry, and when Harry chokes on a sweet and dies, he assumes his identity. His mother is not fooled though she keeps quiet, but Joe's wife Mary does not see through the deception and is flattered and charmed by her supposed brother-in-law's kind attention to her. The coroner's inquest ultimately reveals the truth however and Joe is imprisoned for identity theft, but by this time the married couple have fallen for each other all over again and Mary promises to wait for him.

Cab-driver Eddie meets Bob, who married Eddie's old flame Pat, with whom he now runs the Melville pub. They invite Eddie to attend a charity auction. Eddie's wife Margie is not keen on his going but having discovered a lump while in the shower, she agrees he should go on his own. He gets drunk and, to impress Pat, bids a large sum of money for signed snooker balls. He wins the bid but really can't afford the money he stumps up via his credit card. The next day he has a minor prang in the cab. The police are called and he ends up getting fined. He returns to the Melville to see if he can return the balls and Pat offers him sex out of pity, but he refuses because he loves his wife. There is a happy ending however, for he has become a local hero following a story in the free paper about his bid, and Margie's lump is not malignant. They go out to celebrate.

Demolition man Charlie is married with teenage children. When he must spend some time away from home for his latest job, however, he struggles to resist the advances of a homosexual colleague. He decides to come clean about his encounter when he is attacked by homophobic thugs and has his wallet stolen.

Stressed-out homemaker Cath Hanley, trying to give up smoking, is doing her best to bring up her three children while her husband is in prison awaiting trial on drugs charges. The final straw comes when her son Ian is arrested for a taxi driver's accidental death; in fact, Ian is innocent. He and his cousin Gary Parr, about to join the Navy, were out on the town when Gary was sick and the taxi driver got aggressive. Gary banged the man's head in the taxi door, killing him, but Ian is prepared to take the rap to allow his cousin to join the Navy. Cath is appalled and comes into conflict with her sister Jan, Gary's mother, who is defensive of her son and also jumpy because she has given up smoking. The two sisters fall out before the final resolution.

Life could not get any worse for depressed postal carrier Wayne Taylor. His wife has left him, taking their two children and the dog, and his efforts at speed-dating with a woman with a bad stutter, leave much to be desired. He does his back in when he slips on a fish-and-chip carton, making his round more painful. He decides that he must get away to the sunnier climes of Greece; to this end he opens some of the letters addressed to wealthier areas on his round and steals any money he finds in them, which leads to another postal carrier being suspected. He is spotted by Damien, a 15-year-old school truant, who is illiterate yet canny enough to know what Wayne is doing and get himself cut in on the scam. Wayne derives some positive in helping the boy learn to read, but their friendship is considered unhealthy by some, and all the time Wayne is feeling more and more guilty about his actions. Will he ever make it to Greece?