Series from 1998
The down-to-earth Royles - Jim, Barbara and their grown-up daughter Denise - sit on the settee and put the world (or at least the street) to rights. A…
It's not Jim's day. The annual telephone bill arrives and someone has called Aberdeen. But who, and whatever for? The inquisition is endless. It also hits him that the date is approaching for Denise's impending wedding to aspiring Manchester mobile disco owner, Dave Best. All Jim can see ahead is expense, expense and more expense.
Over a gourmet meal of pork chop, chips, beans and tea, the subject under discussion yet again is Denise's impending wedding. Jim grumbles non-stop about having to foot the entire bill, because the groom's father has been on disability for 12 years. Denise, meanwhile, thinks Dave is not interested enough in the wedding.
It's Sunday afternoon, which means Nana is round for the day. Everyone is congregated in the kitchen, if they are not in the lounge. Nana is looking forward to her stout, while Denise tries on her wedding dress. But nothing stands in the way of The Antiques Roadshow.
Denise has a hangover but claims it is migraine, brought on by stress from the forthcoming wedding. Today is Jim's birthday and there's a cake from the bakery, family photographs and Pomagne to mark the occasion. Later they will be celebrating down the Feathers, but Denise needs to borrow a fiver to buy her dad a drink.
Jim and Barbara are getting ready for bed when they hear Denise and Dave come in. Denise is rowing with Dave, accusing him of flirting with the well-endowed Beverley Macca. As far as she's concerned, the wedding is off. The family solution is cups of tea all round, laced with whisky and a dollop of sympathy, the men siding with Dave and Barbara with Denise.
It's the morning of the wedding and it's not just Denise's nerves that are on edge. Jim has diarrhea and a constipated Nana warns the Royle bride that 'it's all downhill from here.' Will everything go ahead as planned?
