The Great Outdoors

- Season 1

(2010)

Maddeningly efficient Christine joins a walking club run by boring know-all Bob,his lonely assistant Tom and reluctant hiker daughter Hazel. Hazel is annoyed when Victor,a boy from her school, joins the group as she had told her friends that she was on work experience with Stella McCartney.Victor has only come along as he is besotted with Hazel but married Sophie has designs on his body. After Bob has got them all thrown out of a recently gentrified pub he reluctantly accepts Christine as his deputy.

Christine's reliance on technology angers Bob,who,having made a fool of himself rowing with a farmer who bars the walkers from his land,confiscates everybody's mobile phones. Sophie makes a play for Victor,observed by Hazel,but feels guilty when husband Joe reads her a love poem and presents her with 'Mama Mia' tickets. Christine and Bob combine to try and defeat the farmer but Tom's intervention does not help.

There is mutiny by the sea in Dorset when Bob must give in to the majority desire to walk the coastal path,rather than go inland to see a burial mound. Tom fails to find buried treasure,Hazel's friends drive by,discovering her secret and Sophie berates Joe for his bad handling of their money. However,Christine gives the couple financial advice,Hazel and Victor brave out her friends and,after a temporary split into two camps, Christine and Bob bury their differences, the most important thing being love of the Great outdoors.