Eric's son Brian has part as sheep number six in the school Nativity but he's never been on stage before, how will he react to the pressure.

Eric, disturbed by Maria, the au pair, and her boyfriend romping next door, thinks everyone is sexually active apart from him and plunges him into a stressful depression. A former girlfriend rings and his problems melt away.

Eric's severely allergic daughter Claire dreams of having a pony and going to the gymkhana, but finding her a pony is the easy bit.