Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5

While Saffy is away in Africa doing voluntary work, Eddy has obtained a posh new bathroom but the rest of the house is a mess. Ex-Spice Girl Emma Bunton, one of Eddy's new clients, visits; she was at school with Saffy and knows she hates untidiness, so she urges Eddy and Patsy to clean the house, which they do--in a way. When Saffy arrives home, Eddy thinks that she has put on weight, which she has: she's pregnant.

Saffy is visited by an ante-natal midwife who takes a dislike to Eddy, causing her to have nightmares in which the baby--who resembles the midwife--is trying to stab her. Patsy's contribution to the pregnancy is to give Saffy advice on abortions. The elegant "Plum" arrives for the women's book club but the main topic tends to be celebrity gossip magazines and little is accomplished. But when the baby's father John arrives and Eddy sees that he is a Black student Saffy met in Africa who now lives in London, she is overjoyed to be the grandmother of a mixed-race baby.

Eddy has installed a panic room in the house in case of burglars, but she panics herself when Patsy brings home a demanding Minnie Driver, whom she is hoping to dress in a collection of designer clothes and become her stylist. After Patsy wrestles Eddy for a necklace Minnie wants, they fall into the panic room and manage to get themselves locked in while Minnie makes off with the clothes. After playing Trivial Pursuit with Saffy through the video camera, they get out and are surprised to learn they have only been shut in for a short while and not for days.

Following a promotion for Prince Charles' biscuits, Eddy 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 and bag a pheasant, but it is still alive and Eddy hasn't the heart to kill it, so she releases it in Hyde Park. Meanwhile, Saffy's college friend Sarah becomes obsessed at Saffy's baby shower and must be restrained from stalking her.

Saffy is preparing for her home birth and Patsy is getting ready for an awards ceremony, but Saffy's water breaks all over Patsy's expensive dress, which is further ruined when Mother tries to iron it, which allows Katy Grin to gleefully take Patsy's place at the ceremony. When John accidentally causes a power cut, Bo and Marshall seize their chance to steal the newborn baby as part of their Christian Adoption scheme to sell children to film stars who don't want to be seen pregnant. However, in the confusion they leave with the placenta, and Eddy proudly welcomes granddaughter Jane (although she'd prefer to name her Lola).

Eddy is dating Pete, who was a recording engineer at Abbey Road and has some previously unreleased tapes of the Beatles. Eddy gives a party to showcase them--insulting Elton John at the same time--but the result is a disappointment since Patsy accidentally pressed the recording button while she was in the studio; the Beatles' tracks have been completely wiped and all that can be heard is Eddy singing along to them, recorded over them.

After Mother gets banned from the house following the mess when she brought her friends over for a "Cocoon" spa day in the bathroom, Saffy is without a babysitter while she spends the day with John and reluctantly acquiesces when Eddy tells her she wants to be a responsible grandparent and mind Jane (or even Lola) for her. She and Patsy take the baby for a photo shoot at the zoo and almost end up swapping her for a baby chimp. However, after a session in the baby-changing toilet Eddy happily brings home her charge--and discovers that it's the wrong child.

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. She calls on interior designers Bettina and Max, for advice.