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SERIES
1
1. PILOT - It’s just an ordinary day at the Northolt surgery. Dr Piers
Crispin, the publicity- mad TV doctor, still fancies Janet almost as much
as he fancies himself, Mrs. Raven, the sarcastic receptionist, is still
frightening patients and Janet’s mother has dropped in to wonder why her
daughter is bent on passing up such an eligible husband as Piers. Janet,
however, is trying to get back to normal after her recent holiday, during
which she was rescued by Thermoman when a freak gust of wind blew her into
the Grand Canyon. (Piers is jealous that she was in the news rather than
him.) Janet has fallen for Thermoman but never expects to see her
superhero savior again, so when an odd hypochondriac Irishman called
George Sunday visits her at the health center, at first she doesn’t make
the connection.
2. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO LUNCH - George Sunday has moved in with his
new girlfriend, nurse Janet Dawkins, though why on earth she is attracted
to the peculiar Irishman is beyond her colleagues. Piers can’t wait for
Janet to introduce George to her parents, knowing that George is bound to
make the wrong impression. Janet’s mother, Ella, disapproves of
everything Janet does and her father, Stanley, is pathologically
protective of his little angel so, understandably, both George and Janet
are very nervous when her parents arrive for Sunday lunch. George is under
strict instructions to try to behave ‘normally’, but he can’t resist
helping to cook the chicken and heat the soup with his breath. After that
disaster, George decides not to use his special powers to extinguish the
burning oven gloves…
3. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Thermoman is called upon to save Grimsby from
being destroyed by an abandoned Russian space station. Unfortunately, he
has his own domestic disaster to deal with first. He’s got Marmite over
the front of his Thermo-uniform. It may be 100 per cent Thermomium and
resistant to fire, flood, toxic waste and nuclear attack, but the Marmite
won’t shift. Janet insists on washing his costume, which not only makes
him late for his rescue mission but makes him itch like crazy due to an
allergic reaction to the washing powder. Piers becomes suspicious when he
sees Thermoman scratching himself on a news bulletin and seconds later
George appears in his surgery scratching all over. He insists on giving
George a medical, and when he discovers George has two heart beats and
superhuman eyesight, threatens to reveal Thermoman’s double identity
live on television unless George leaves Janet. A brainwipe seems to be the
only answer.
4. THERMOMAN'S GREATEST CHALLENGE - Thermoman’s repeated visits to
the health center to save Janet from a wasp sting or a spider are baffling
patients and staff. Piers thinks he’s made a new celebrity friend and
invites him to be guest of honor at the fund-raising party he has organized
to boost his own public image. Janet’s parents insist both
George and Janet attend the party so that George can personally thank
Thermoman for saving Janet from falling into the Grand Canyon. Not easy,
given that George is Thermoman. George hatches a cunning plan which
involves him meeting Thermoman in the toilets, but the fake rendezvous
doesn’t quite go as planned.
5. OLD MAN RIVERDANCE - George receives a visit from his father, the
original Thermoman, who now resides in the Dunrescuin’ home for retired
superheroes in Florida. George’s father, [Earth name] Seamus (Peadar
Lamb), is unhappy that his son is co-habiting with an Earth girl. Apart
from the smell, she is interfering with his work. On planet Ultron, a
father’s word is law, or risk intervention by the all-powerful Ultron
Council – a prospect George doesn’t relish having seen what they did
to his cousin Arnie Having given the couple two days to try to prove him
wrong, Seamus decides George must leave. But Janet has a plan: if Seamus
meets her own parents and hears how much they disapprove of George, this
should make Seamus jump to George’s defense. Fine in theory; in practice
the parents bond in mutual disapproval of their offspring’s
relationship. There is only one thing to do. If George wants to stay with
Janet, he must renounce his superhero status…
6. THE PARTY'S OVER - It’s Janet’s 30th birthday, but an earth girl
hitting the Big 3-0 means nothing to the Ultron male. So when Janet says
she doesn’t want to discuss it and then changes her mind, poor George
isn’t quite sure what to do. As always, he turns to his cousin Arnie for
advice. It’s decided that George should throw Janet a surprise birthday
party (although George doesn’t quite understand the concept). Disguised
in a hat and sunglasses, George visits the health center to invite
Janet’s work colleagues to the party. George flies Janet over to New
York to meet Arnie which should keep her out of the way while her friends
and parents get the party swinging in Northolt. Piers arrives with Zoe (a
runner from his TV show who he’s paid to accompany him) while Mrs. Raven
is busy fighting off amorous advances from Janet’s fried-brain neighbor,
Tyler. All seems to be going smoothly when George flies off to collect
Janet, but on arrival, he accidentally spills the beans about her surprise
party. Can George can come up with the perfect solution?
SERIES 2
1. CHRISTMAS - George tries to get into the spirit of Christmas by
creeping into the houses of Janet's parents, Mrs. Raven and her boss Piers
on Christmas Eve dressed as Santa to leave them all presents. This doesn't
go down as well as he had planned, and Christmas dinner is a bit of a
miserable affair – until George appears with the real Father Christmas
who has a special present. for everyone.
2. PARENTS - George ruins Janet's parents’ amateur dramatic
performance by shouting out as if it's a panto, so Janet tries to deflect
their anger by telling them the truth – that he is really superhero
Thermoman. Although Janet's mum and dad now love him, life gets more
complicated when everyone knows, particularly when Mrs. Raven tries to
offer him her body.
3. GIRLFRIEND - Disaster strikes at the heart of Thermoman's domestic
bliss when his long- lost fiancée, Xil, arrives from Ultron. Janet is
horrified to learn that George is bound by Ultron law to marry Xil, but
she is determined not to lose her man. George's cunning plans to dissuade
Xil don't work, neither do Janet's woman-to-woman powers of persuasion.
All seems lost, until Janet makes a discovery…
4. CAR - Thermoman's defrocked superhero cousin, Arnie, wants his
powers back. George agrees to intercede with the Ultron High Council on
condition that Arnie behaves himself and will take care of saving the
world while George saves up for a car for Janet. Sadly though, temptation
is too much for Arnie, and when he steals the Crown Jewels things have to
revert to the way they were. But Janet still gets her car in the end…
5. NEMESIS - A vengeful school mate, Rovi, comes to Earth intent on
making George (aka Thermoman) miserable. First he takes over Piers’ body
and makes Janet fall in love with him. Then he takes over as the world's
superhero. In a desperate attempt to win Janet back, Thermoman issues the terrible
challenge of Chang-Ching. Can he defeat Rovi/Piers and win back
Janet's love?
6. PREGNANT - When Janet discovers she is pregnant, Thermoman is over
the moon and gives her special powers to protect herself and the unborn
baby. Janet isn't keen at first, but as she gets used to being a superhero
she is even better at it than Thermoman!
7. WEDDING - Janet's dad is insisting that her baby be born in wedlock,
and Thermoman's bosses on Ultron are of the same mind. But as usual things
don't go smoothly for the world's favorite superhero as the baby starts
to arrive during the marriage ceremony.
SERIES 3
1. BABY TALK - Life is becoming increasingly stressful for George and
Janet Sunday. Keeping George's alter ego secret from Janet's parents is
difficult enough but with a new baby in the house who, to put it mildly,
takes after George rather more than Janet, it is becoming impossible.
2. ZERO TOLERANCE - Life at the health center takes an unexpected turn
when a desperate man turns up waving a gun and demanding access to the
drugs cabinet.
3. PET RESCUE - Ella and Stanley have the decorators in, so Janet has
volunteered to look after their dog, Biggles--much to George's disgust.
However, George is determined to overcome his aversion and bond with the
mutt.
4. THE OLDER MAN - It's George's birthday and, at 327 years old, he's
a mere spring chicken in Planet Ultron terms. But the lease on George's
earthly body has run out and he's starting to look his real age rather
rapidly…
5. PUTTIN' ON THE WRITS - It's just an ordinary morning in a
supermarket car-park - until Mrs. Raven has a run-in with a stack of
wayward trolleys and is tipped over the edge of the multi-story building.
It's Thermoman to the rescue--but when he refuses Mrs. R's kind offer of
Battenberg cake in return for saving her life, retribution is swift!
6. SHOCK, HORROR! - Baby Ollie has a temperature so George, instead of
concentrating on saving the world, keeps zooming back to the flat to check
on the baby. But all this dashing about is making George careless and it's
not too long before an unscrupulous journalist takes advantage of the
situation and obtains pictures of George in his Thermoman guise…
Suddenly it's all over the papers that Janet is having an affair with Thermoman.
7. LITTLE GREEN MAN - Janet thinks George is taking her for granted.
After all, most husbands would react rather badly after discovering their
wife in a compromising position with the handy man…George's response is
merely 'Why should I be jealous of a human when I can do it 15 times a
night?' But it's not long before George succumbs to jealousy.
8. MINE'S A DOUBLE - George has to attend a Super-Heroics Conference
which means leaving Janet at home alone, minding the baby. In their
wisdom, the Ultron Council provides a "George clone" with the
unlikely name of Hilary to keep Janet company. But while Hilary looks just
like the real thing, his character couldn't be more different…
9. A LITTLE LEARNING - George is devastated when Ella and Stanley ban
him from their 40th wedding anniversary party. The situation calls for
some drastic action. Admittedly George's attempts to make new friends via
the calling cards in telephone booths backfire somewhat but when he
obtains some magic pork scratchings which increase his brain power,
miraculous effects occur.
10. A DAY TO REMEMBER - It's a bad day for Planet Earth when George
accidentally erases his own memory, to the extent he can't remember who
Thermoman is, let alone that he is Thermoman. For Janet it's a dream come
true. George turns into a model husband who volunteers to change nappies
and take Ollie for strolls in the park - a first in the Sunday household!
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