Meet the Larkins - the put-upon but crafty Alf (BAFTA winner David Kossoff – The Mouse that Roared), his domineering wife, Ada (Peggy Mount - You’re Only Young Twice), aimless son Eddie (Shaun O’Riordan), daughter Joyce (Ruth Trouncer) and her American ex-GI husband Jeff (Ronan O’Casey), an unemployable writer of stories for cowboy comic ‘The Bullet’. They all live in a state that falls somewhat short of domestic bliss at 66 Sycamore Street, in a suburb of London, next to inquisitive neighbour Hetty (Barbara Mitchell) and her family.