PC Penrose joins the local police force in small town and gets under wings of Sergeant Flagg, who shows him the ropes. Soon young and naive Penrose learns that his job is more complicated than he thought.
Small grocer’s shop on the corner of the street like many others in Yorkshire. The stingy owner, Arkwright, who sees costs everywhere, especially in his nephew Granville, who delivers the orders and demands to eat every day!
Series centered around snobbish Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet") and her tormented husband Richard as they do everything Hyacinth thinks is needed to keep the neighbours convinced they are the upper class.