"The fortunes of the MacDonalds have always been up and down, but now Paul, Archie's brother, is newly installed as master of Glenbogle. Can this town come to terms with the new monarch?"

A woman disguises herself as a young boy to help her father escape from the police in pre-war Paris; three British Army veterans find adventure on India's North-West frontier, helped by a young Indian water boy; a WW II drama about a submarine mission to Tokyo Bay and the lives of the sailors on board; an easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar....