Man Down

- Season 2

(2015)

With his father dead Dan now finds his life dominated by his fearsome Aunt Nesta, who comes to stay. Feeling middle-aged and unable to woo colleague Emma he visits a gym where he meets the delightful - and much younger - Lottie, who is happy to be his date. Thanks to Nesta he has unnaturally black dyed hair and his efforts to appear to be a trendy drug dealer fall flat, due to barmaid Jo and his prostate pills. Lottie is understanding but Dan needs a lot more if he can carry on seeing her.

When a rival teacher delivers a smash-hit school assembly as part of Communities Week, Dan ropes in his drama class and a war veteran in a bit to outdo him. At home, Dan is beginning to regret taking in upset divorcée Brian.

Alarmed by his lack of political correctness, headmistress Miss Lipsey sends Dan on a diversity awareness course. Meanwhile, at the beauty salon Jo comes up with the idea of combining two celebrity looks into one incredible makeover.

After an unwelcome appraisal of his teaching ability, fate conspires to put Dan directly into the path of his childhood nemesis. Jo comes up with a new money-making scheme and Brian is desperate to be published in the local paper.

When pupil Dennis's uncle who is his sole guardian is hospitalized Dan volunteers to look after him for a weekend to impress Emma. Dan grudgingly accepts Nesta as the second mandatory adult but takes a reluctant Dennis cycling with him rather than hunting with her and recruits Jo and Brian for an adventure game which Dennis finds extremely boring. However the lad is suitably impressed when they end up accidentally attending a criminal's lavish funeral.

When Dan learns that Jo is going to marry a digger-driving rapper from the "pagan backwater" of The Heath he thinks that it will make him look good by comparison. He plans to use his best man's speech to try and impress Miss Lipsey.