Middle aged Londoner Sid Abbott works as a sales rep, but spends most of his time exasperated by the antics of his two children, Mike an 18 year old unemployed art student and 16 year old school girl Sally. Sid likes nothing better than booze, birds and sleeping in on Sunday, but thanks to his teenage children and his wife Jean trying to motivate him, the generation gap turns into a chasm.Sid James, star of the successful Carry On film series, stars in this phenomenally popular 70s Thames sitcom. James personifies the character of a pipe-chewing Londoner attempting to survive the antics of his troublesome children, frustrated at his attempts to understand them.