Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5

While Saffy is away doing volunteer work, Eddie has obtained a posh new bathroom but the rest of the house is a mess. Ex-Spice Girl Emma Bunton, one of Eddie's new clients, visits; she was at school with Saffy and knows she hates untidiness, so she urges Eddie and Patsy to clean the house, which they do, in a way. When Saffy arrives home, Eddie thinks something has happened to her which doesn't tell the entire story.

Saffy is now twenty-five weeks into her pregnancy. She has decided that she wants to have the baby at home and has hired a midwife, who literally is Eddie's worst nightmare. Eddie has also decided that she wants nothing to do with the baby partly in not yet ready to be a grandmother. What Saffy has not yet divulged until now is the identity of the father, the baby which was indeed conceived in the old fashioned method of sexual intercourse, the father who was a fellow volunteer in Africa. What Eddie also guesses is that the father, John, doesn't yet know about the pregnancy, although Saffy has invited him over to tell him the news, she keeping the baby regardless of whether he wants to be a part of her or their lives. That meeting is against Eddie's objections if only because she and Patsy are having a book club meeting then at the house, the sole purpose of the club, at least from Eddie and Patsy's perspective, which is not to read books.

As Saffy progresses in her pregnancy, Eddie has a new pet project having nothing to do with the pregnancy at all: a panic room set up off the pantry. Regardless, Eddie uses the panic room to have a little fun with an unwitting Saffy. Concurrently, an excited Patsy, as a fashion consultant, has her first celebrity client, Minnie Driver, who wandered into the Jeremy showroom with a very specific goal in mind. The consultation will take place at the showroom Patsy has set up in the flat. The panic room and fashion consultation worlds will eventually intersect much to everybody's chagrin, except for one person who is able to take advantage of the "panic".

Following a promotion for Prince Charles' biscuits, Eddie becomes obsessed with the high life and pays 30,000 pounds for a weekend at a country house for herself and Patsy, though they soon get bored as there is nothing glamorous to do. They decide to go shooting which doesn't go as planned. Meanwhile, Saffy's friend Sarah becomes obsessed at Saffy's baby shower with last minute addition Emma Bunton and must be restrained from stalking her.

Saffy, one week overdue, is putting together her home birthing kit with Gran's "help". As usual, Edina and Patsy's activities at the house this day are somewhat incompatible with Saffy's as they and Katy Grin will soon be off to Royal Albert Hall where an excited Patsy will be hosting the Style Awards, she rehearsing in preparation. Saffy's water breaking brings the incompatibility of those two activities colliding together. Marshall and Bo, who Saffy had invited, and Katy each have their own goals resulting from the mayhem, with Patsy further having a new goal because of what she sees as the problem Saffy created. Saffy's problems only increase when the midwife can't get into the house, leaving the birth in the hands of those that are in the house, who, beyond the aforementioned, now also includes John and Justin.

Patsy and Eddie are excited about individual developments in their lives. With Patsy, a Japanese company has decided to re-release some of her old movies, what most besides Patsy and Eddie would consider soft-core porn. And Eddie has embarked on a thus far casual relationship, namely with Pete who was her first ever real boyfriend when they were children. That casual nature includes Eddie not wanting Saffy yet to meet him, despite he and Eddie getting together often at the house. The biggest item in Pete's life is that he, a junior balancing engineer at Abbey Road Studios in the 1960s, is in possession and thus is considered the owner of the lost The Beatles tapes. He is planning on having a party arranged by Eddie (meaning Bubble) at the house to unveil the tapes, which should make him extremely rich. Bubble's "favorite" person Elton John and Yoko Ono as guests (the latter albeit remotely), Patsy's movies, and Eddie and Patsy's exploits at Abbey Road affect what happens between Pete and Eddie, who is somewhat hoping that the relationship ends up being more committed, at least what their past hippie selves consider committed.

Jane's presence has taken over how the house operates, much to Eddie's chagrin in Saffy ensuring that Jane has a stable childhood unlike her own and associated that Saffy herself is not the mother that Eddie was. While John is a present father, they rely on Gran to provide them some much needed relief away from Jane, they not trusting Jane's care to Eddie alone or worse Eddie and Patsy. As Eddie has banned her mother from the house for something not related to Jane, Saffy has to decide what to do in she and John needing a much needed respite. Her decision is also in being unaware that Eddie and Patsy have their own designs on Jane for selfish reasons.

Patsy is angry when Eddy refuses to go away with her for Christmas, preferring to stay at home with the family and ordering a tree so large that Patsy gets her hair caught in it. Patsy collapses (from an unseen hand sticking a pin into an effigy of her) and is rushed to hospital, where at least she can spend Christmas on drugs. Eddy welcomes both her ex-husbands, Justin being quizzed on his sexuality by John, and Bo and Marshall promoting their slimming product, and a family Christmas is indeed the order of the day--until the hospital informs Eddy that "Miss Stone has died." As the identity of Patsy's ill-wisher is revealed, she recovers--only to choke on a piece of turkey back at Eddy's house.

Eddy wants to redecorate and seeks advice from interior designers Bettina and Max.