"Despite giving up coffee and alcohol, taking up colonic irrigation and Buddhist chanting, Edina is panicking about a fashion show she's organizing, Princess Diana has turned down an invite, and the only celebs who can be bothered to attend are Sinitta and Anne Robinson."

"Edina needs to get slim quickly as she's expecting a visit from old friend, Penny Casper-Morse, who used to tease her about her weight. She contemplates a regular fitness routine, but then Patsy suggests something much easier... liposuction."

"Edina and Patsy go on holiday to France but the luxury they've booked turns out to be the ramshackle cittage. Unable to negotiate the local shops, Edina calls up Saffy for help. Bubble turns up, too, with news that Edina's interior design business has hit problems."

"Banned from attending Saffron's college open day, Edina sulks in her brand new isolation tank. But she's got a few tricks up her Lacroix sleeves yet."

"Eddie is turning 40 and Saffy organizes a quaint family get-together for her involving Mother, Justin (Saffy's father), Justin's lover Oliver, Marshall (Eddie's son Serge's father) and his new wife Bo. However, Eddie has developed a complex about her age and refuses to participate in the celebrations."

"Patsy actually visits her place of work, a fashion magazine where she is the 'Executive Fashion Director'. She takes on the job of organizing a fashion piece for a morning television show but when all the models drop out and refuse to wear the clothes, Patsy is forced to suck up to Saffy and Mother to get them to appear on the show. Meanwhile, Edina has a date with long-lost boyfriend Hamish."

"Patsy is caught having an affair with a politician and is pushed into the tabloid spotlight which reveals her true age. Eddie stubs her toe and \"requires\" surgery. Patsy joins her in hospital for moral support - and a facelift."

"Eddie's father passes away and she is more concerned about how much weight she has put on and Saffy is horrified at her mother's selfishness regarding the death. It soon makes Eddie realize that she is also going to die and she goes out and spends hundreds of thousands of pounds on art that she doesn't want, just so she can leave something behind when she dies."

"Patsy agrees to put a Fashion spread in her magazine of the product Edina is promoting called \"POPSPEX\", and they both go to Marrakesh for the photo shoot. Saffron wants to go with them to help her university studies but Patsy ends up selling her to white slave traders."

"Edina's old friends, Bettina and Max, are coming to stay with her. Eddie remembers them as being notoriously minimalistic who have no need for possessions and she tries to make the house presentable, eventually telling Patsy to leave. Patsy is hurt by this and leaves to find herself a new best friend. Meanwhile, when Bettina and Max arrive they have their baby with them and are loaded with bags and baby stuff, turning Eddie's house into the inside of a laundry basket."

"Edina discovers that the alimony payments from her ex-husbands, Justin and Marshall, have stopped. Does this mean she will be very poor? After consulting her accountant and much badgering from Saffy, Edina decides to make some sacrifices in her exuberant lifestyle to better herself, only to make matters worse by ending up in court."

"Patsy burns down Eddie's kitchen with her cigarette when she falls asleep. Forced to live out of the sitting room, Eddie and Patsy plan a night out which suits Saffy as she is having a boy around to watch a documentary. Unfortunately for all, Mother accidentally locks them in the sitting room and Eddie tries to open up to her daughter and talk to her about sex and her birth, despite Patsy's comments."

"Having burnt down Edina's kitchen, Patsy and Edina set out to find the perfect door handle - in New York. While they're there, Patsy persuades Edina to go in for body piercing."

"It's New Year's Eve and Edina and Patsy are awaiting the arrival of Patsy's long-lost sister, Jackie, so that they can go clubbing. But their plans are thwarted and Saffy's quiet night in with Dad, Gran and Sarah is ruined. Kate O'Mara guest-stars."

"After a copy of Razzle is discovered in Serge's old bedroom, the conversation turns to sex, and Patsy persuades Edina to host an orgy. Meanwhile, Saffy and her friends plan a genetics lecture."

"Edina seems set to sweep the board at the imminent PR awards - especially as she has paid for them - but her rival has other ideas. Meanwhile, Saffy enjoys a romance with her psychology lecturer."

"Saffy moves out, so Patsy moves in - but can her friendship with Edina take the strain? Eddy teams up with a US PR agency to retain top client Lulu, and Patsy is offered a job in New York."

"Edina heads to a retreat to find herself, while Patsy goes to work in New York. With Saffy away at university, only Mother remains in the house, alone with the Shopping Channel. Will the gang ever meet up again?"

"Saffy enjoys a romance with Paolo, while Patsy and Eddy embark on a skiing holiday - at the wrong end of the season, to the wrong end of Val D'Isere."

"Edina has a near-death experience and comes back reborn, while Saffy gets ready to walk down the aisle, with or without her mother's help."

"Patsy has had injections to freeze her wrinkles, and persuades Edina to undergo the same procedure before her planned appearance on This Morning. Saffy wants to get a job so that she can leave home."

"Edina rocks out with Marilyn Manson and makes a move on an aristocratic gardener. Meanwhile, Mother makes it in the movies."

"Patsy and Eddy go on a photo shoot to Paris for a 'generation flex' feature in which old and young mingle. Patsy teams up with supermodel Erin O'Connor and Eddy reluctantly teams up with Saffy."

"Eddy goes on a detox diet in a desperate attempt to lose weight. Saffy gets picked up by an old schoolfriend. Patsy tries life without a fringe."

"Saffy's first play, \"Self Raising Flower,\" based on her life is opening at the local theatre and Eddie worries that it will portray her as a bad mother, which of course it does."

"Edina's company is losing clients to her rival, Claudia Bing, and Patsy seems to be going through the menopause."

"Patsy, now chief buyer for a new designer shop, goes to New York Fashion Week to find ideas but her plans are subverted by Edina's search for Saffy's long departed older brother and their encounter with social counsellor Goldie. Meanwhile Bo and Marshall are running a Christian TV show and Saffy has been observing the world from inside a cupboard to help her career as a writer."

"Patsy and Eddy are forced to clean up the house in preparation of Saffy returning from Iraq. When Saffy returns, she has a big announcement."

"Eddy and Patsy organize a book club to meet famous people, but no one is interested in reading anything except celebrity gossip magazines. Eddy has recurring nightmares about Saffy's midwife, who delights in teasing her about them. She's very unhappy about the expected grandbaby until she learns the father is black... after all, a mixed-race baby is the greatest accessory, the \"Chanel of babies.\""

"When Eddy converts her bomb shelter into a panic room, she and Patsy accidentally get locked in and, not knowing the access code, have to wait until the system resets and the door opens."

"Edina and Patsy spend the weekend at a snooty lodge in the country and become so bored, they create their own version of fun. Meanwhile, Saffy has her friends, Emma and Sarah, over for a baby shower and Sarah becomes obsessed with Emma. The weekend ends with Emma getting a restraining order and an unexpected turn of events for Sarah."

"The big day has finally come and Saffy goes into labor. Everyone is there except the midwife who is unable to get into the house after the power goes out because the doors, which lock electronically, cannot be opened without electricity."

"Edina's 'new' boyfriend Pete, who she and Patsy knew growing up, works at Abbey Road Studios and uncovered some \"lost tapes\" of the Beatles. They throw a party to play them in public for the first time and things don't quite go as planned. Elton John does a cameo."

"Saffy grudgingly agrees to let Eddy babysit Jane while she and John go to lunch, but as soon as they're gone, Eddy whisks her off to the zoo where Patsy has arranged for her to be part of a photo shoot with famous photographer, Jean-Paul Gaultier. Saffy's anger at her mother is softened when Eddy confides she and Jane bonded; that is, until Saffy makes a shocking discovery."

"Patsy is angry when Eddy refuses to go away with her for Christmas, preferring to stay at home with the family and ordering a tree so large Patsy gets her hair caught in it. Patsy collapses - due to an unseen hand sticking a pin in an effigy of her - and is rushed to hospital, where at least she can spend Christmas on drugs. Eddy welcomes both her ex-husbands, Justin being quizzed on his sexuality by John and Bo and Marshall promoting their slimming product, and a family Christmas is indeed the order of the day - until the hospital informs Eddy that 'Miss Stone has ..."

"Eddy wants to redecorate. She calls on interior designers Bettina and Max, for advice."

"Absolutely Fabulous is back! In the first of three new episodes written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, with Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks and June Whitfield, there\u2019s an awful lot of catching up to do. First of all there\u2019s a homecoming for one of them who\u2019s been \u2018away\u2019 for quite some time. She arrives at the Monsoon household with a new \u2013 slightly scary \u2013 best friend. Her presence could be either a blessing or a disaster, raising questions of identity that could even involve a certain person owning up to her real age \u2026 if she can remember it."

"Edina has some crucial questions to answer, including: Has she still got it? And could a new client destroy her relationship with Saffy or make it stronger? With fewer and fewer clients and a daughter who despises her, it\u2019s business as usual but, when Eddy and Patsy meet a famous French film star whom Saffy hugely admires, Eddy hopes that the job of taking her on as a client could bring a new-found respect, and some much-needed income. The problem is that her client\u2019s talents aren\u2019t everything they seem to be\u2026"

"The award-winning sitcom returns for a new episode. Edina forgets that the Olympics are on, until it gets her closer to her idol."