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- Whilst Mary is eagerly anticipating the Nesbitts' twentieth wedding anniversary Rab is tempted into an affair with Susan, the leader of his AA group. When Susan discovers that Rab is married she throws him over. Will Mary have him back in time for the anniversary celebrations?
- A drunken, ranting Rab C. Nesbitt spends a night in the cells with a silent, suicidal cell-mate. To make things worse the policeman guarding them tells Rab that his miserable life has driven him to the end of his tether and produces a gun to kill them all.
- Glasgow is named European City of Culture, playing host to international artistic acts and Rab and Jamesie get into the spirit by starting a fight with a Peruvian folk band, for which they get sentenced to ten days in Barlinnie prison. On release Jamesie organizes his own 'sub-culture' tour, showing the seamy side of Glasgow, whilst Rab and his sons inadvertently expose the weaknesses of the city council to a pair of visiting European ambassadors.
- Govan is consumed with grief when its answer to Edith Piaf,Marilou Devine, dies in a bizarre stage accident. Rab, however, is immune to the mass mourning, having been sentenced to Community Service for his twenty-third drunk and disorderly charge. Assigned to gardening work for the unhygienic, eccentric old recluse Mr. McCutcheon, Rab eventually strikes up a friendly rapport with the old man and even inspires him to tidy his house up.
- To thank Mary for looking after them her elderly neighbours give the Nesbitts and the Cotters the use of their cottage by Loch Lomond. Unfortunately it is falling apart, with planes flying overhead and a pub run by hostile Englishmen. After disgracing themselves at the Ceilidh Rab and Jamesie have to be brought home by the mountain rescue team but Rab does have a brief moment to wax lyrical about his country.
- When Rab re-encounters long-lost brother Gash,he recalls their unhappy childhood with a violent father who never recovered from losing his job as a tram driver and who was about to beat Gash up for winning university admission before Rab stepped in, causing father to drop down dead. The experience traumatised Gash, now a mental hospital resident.
- The Nesbitts and the Cotters are enjoying an idyllic holiday in the Lake District but the mood is soured when a chemical company dumps radiation waste in a local stream, causing an explosion which hospitalises Gash. Rab is spurred on to become an environmental campaigner taking on the polluters.
- Rab and Jamesie move into a squalid flat after they row with their spouses. A philosophical Rab recalls their schooldays back in 1962 with a sadistic teacher who told Rab he'd be dead in the gutter before he was forty and the sweet, sparky Isobel,Rab's first love. In the harsh modern world Jamesie returns to Ella after she overdoses and Rab goes back to Mary.
- A group of Devil worshippers move in next door to Rab and when he protests they curse him. He has a series of accidents and ends up in hospital. Mary and Gash both sign up to religious sects before Gash and Burney join the satanists. This is the last straw for Rab,who takes appropriate action against his warlock neighbour.
- The Nesbitts win on the football pools but need to borrow from a loan shark until their winnings arrive. They book into a plush hotel with the Cotters,whose marriage they are trying to save, and Rab gives Jamesie money to enable his pregnant bit on the side to afford an abortion. Unfortunately he is unaware that Jamesie has betrayed him and stolen his winnings,leading to a beating from the loan shark.
- Mary's brother Shug comes to Govan to spend his redundancy money on a shop selling square pies. This is a bad plan as the local Mafia, in addition to drugs and prostitution,are heavily into pies and have started a turf war because of them. Shug falls foul of the Lord of the Pies, who destroys his shop and captures his delivery man,Rab, pointing a gun at his head. For once Rab is grateful to hear a police siren.
- The local bi-elections take place once again in Govan. Much to the irritation of the string vested philosopher.
- With riots on the streets of Govan,Rab jobless and Gash buying drugs from the ice cream man Mary is a bag of nerves but smug right wing councillor Sandy McKean is no help when she seeks his advice, leading her to take the law into her own hands. When McKean has her arrested Rab and Gash show him the real meaning of family values.
- To Hard-drinking Govan resident Rab C. Nesbitt, there is no magic to Christmas when you have no money and he cannot share his long-suffering wife Mary or teenage sons Burney and Gash's enthusiasm for the festive season, preferring instead to comment cynically to camera on its commercial trappings. The ultimate betrayal is seeing neighbour and best friend Jamesie Cotter working as a department store Santa, which leads to a fight and a spell in gaol for Rab. True he gets home in time for Christmas but finds the atmosphere so cheerless he prefers to go back inside for the holiday.
- Mary gets a cleaning job with the lecherous Mr Friel, who can't stop touching her. Fearing that she may dump him, Rab invests in 'Stay Hard' cream, a fact which Mary, already overwhelmed by sex mad men,is not in a position to appreciate. Fortunately Davina, the new transgender barmaid, is on hand to put Mr Friel in his place.
- Rab and Jamesie are excited to be invited to Big Barney's birthday booze-up, a selective affair because of the volumes of drink involved, and are disappointed to find a drastic change has come over Barney,so that the party is not what they expected. Meanwhile local-boy-made-good Shug returns to Govan and organizes a far more enjoyable knees-up for the ones not invited.
- After fifteen years of marriage the Cotters are still childless and Ella feels broody but Jamesie is impotent. Against doctor's advice Rab agrees to be a surrogate father but then it is revealed that Ella is also barren but when she sees the perpetually pregnant Isa she is almost grateful.
- Rab is informed by his GP that he must give up alcohol or he will only have less than a year to live.
- Mary wins a holiday for four to Spain. Leading the Nesbitt's to join the Cotter's on their first holiday abroad.
- When Gash runs away from home, Rab is forced to travel down to London to find him. Which means having to stay with Mary's brother 'Shug' and his wife Phoebe.
- When Mary finally leaves him and moves in with her parents. Rab has to learn to fend for himself. Which proves only to be the start of his problems.
- During a domestic argument Mary stabs Rab in the back and when the social worker makes a home visit Burney and Gash start breaking furniture over each other's heads, leading to their being taken to a sadistic care home. After Rab and Mary prove that they are fit parents and win the boys back they visit the social worker,where they witness another 'domestic'.
- Jamesie falls foul of Govan's answer to Hannibal the Cannibal, Young Young McGurn, after dating his daughter Tracey,unleashing his psychotic family on the Cotters and Nesbitts. When Young Young takes Jamesie to the top of a high rise and threatens to push him off Rab is chosen by the police as the go-between in exchange for quashing his court fines. Once on top of the building he makes a surprising discovery about McGurn.
- Rab stops a grumpy,ungrateful wino from drowning himself and takes him home to stay with the family. As a result they catch the man's lice and Rab is accused of having a lodger so his benefits are cut. When the unwelcome guest refuses to leave Rab realises that he has been conned and brings in a hitman to get rid of him.
- With Mary in hospital for an operation Rab and Jamesie take Burney and Gash to Blackpool to take their minds off things. Predictably the mercenary boys prefer to spend the day with Mary's wealthy brother Shug and his wife, leaving Jamesie to lead Rab in the pursuit of two London girls. In Rab's case it is a poignant encounter, making him grateful for what he's got, the more so when he and the newly-discharged Mary meet the venomous old woman who was in the bed next to Mary.