Season 3
9 episodes
60 min. per episode
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A returning veteran confronts a fractured family, igniting a battle for love and redemption amidst 1970s societal upheaval.
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Harriet has moved to Holland to take up a teaching job. With the tenement blown up Harvey and Lou end up in a doss-house but Harvey gets himself and Nan a flat in a house owned by Jewish refugees the Gottliebs. Lou contracts tuberculosis and Maggie blames Harvey for leaving him behind. Rita, working behind the bar in a hotel, is romanced by a charming ex-RAF type who turns out to be murderer Neville Heath.
With Lou in a sanatorium Maggie starts to train in nursing. Harvey gets a letter from Harriet to say she is engaged to another man but Rita quickly recovers from her ordeal with the murderer when Monty returns from Liverpool and pays her to host card schools. Harvey comforts landlady Frieda Gottlieb after her synagogue is fire-bombed in reprisals for the King David hotel in Israel. In gratitude she gets her brother to bake Stanley a birthday cake.
Denied time off work to attend the Labour party Conference in Brighton with fellow councillor, solicitor Dick Elliott,Harvey quits his job but gets offered work by Dick as well as hearing a German address the delegates. Maggie moves into a nurses' home when Monty fills the prefab with his black market wares but also gives notice after being bawled out on the wards whilst Stanley learns to box and turns the tables on a bully at his new school.
After a visit from Monty's pregnant girlfriend Rita dumps him and goes out with the charming, urbane Leo Brandon, who has employed Maggie in his hat shop, only to be told that he is gay. Maggie is also dated by the well-spoken, well-educated Tom. Harvey starts work with Dick and his father in their law firm, falling foul of officious chief clerk Ryder but persuading the firm to act for the Gottliebs in their efforts to free a young Jewish friend arrested by the British for trying to enter Palestine..
Having thrown Tom over for Lou, Maggie is devastated when a letter arrives from Scotland to say that Lou is now dating his convalescent nurse, though Nan gets a letter bearing good news. The last member of the family for whom she once worked has died, leaving her an old car. With Frieda to supervise Nan drives Maggie, Stanley and Harvey back to the house where she worked, where Harvey and Frieda kiss and Harvey learns a secret from Nan's past. However the car breaks down so Nan sells it. Rita agrees to stay friends with Leo and buys into a hair-dressing salon whilst Stanley wins a school essay competition with a story based on Nan's little secret.
Upon being demobbed, RAF serviceman Harvey Moon returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen.