'Little namby-pamby darlings just off their potties' is Corporal Marsh's affectionate description of the new intake of National Servicemen at RAF Skelton. Basic training commences, and the battle is on...
It's kitting-out day for 'C' Flight, although no sooner does Ken have his kit than he loses it. Jakey is doing a brisk trade in ladies' hankies... until he sells a box to Marsh.
It's medical inspection day for the new recruits. Jakey has a scheme to get himself out of the RAF — and fast.
It's their first time out of the camp, and the lads are looking forward to the delights of the local hop. When Jakey chooses the wrong blonde to make a pass at, Marsh's sex life gets a nasty jolt...
Corporal Marsh has been leaning on AC2 Matthew Lilley rather hard. Incensed by his Christian forgiveness, he nails his boots to the floor of the hut.
Ken, Jakey, Lilley, Leckie and two others are detailed for picket duty. Their cluelessness is worsened by the old-timer in charge of the picket, Sgt. Dobson, getting drunk, and the AOC planning a snap inspection.
The first 36-hour pass! Only Jakey, Ken, Leckie and Lilley are left, hoping to pass Marsh's inspection. The arrival of Agnes, Lilley's sister, helps them on their way —but can't avert their fate when they go AWOL...
'C' Flight RAF Skelton enjoy a morning on the rifle range and an afternoon flight in an RAF transport plane — which reveals Cpl. Marsh's yellow streak...
Severe bad weather and a fuel shortage result in coke rationing, and 'C' Flight are incensed by Marsh's habit of stealing their hut's supplies.
When Jakey gets a letter from his mother telling him of his granddad's imminent eviction, he takes matters into his own hands... by going AWOL.
It's Field Exercise Day: 'C' Flight are dropped 15 miles from camp with no map and told to make their way back. With the RAF regiment out to stop them, it doesn't look like they'll make it — to Marsh's glee.
Ken has fallen for Mrs. Fairfax. Marsh makes a bet with Leckie as to his success, and thinks he's onto a sure thing. But it soon seems Leckie has backed the right man.
Cook-Corporal Jenner is an important man at RAF Skelton, although his wares aren't to the liking of the erks. When Lilley is set up to make a complaint, Jenner and Marsh have a fitting punishment for him...
When a rugby team is formed, Marsh's attempts to crash both the rugger and the social barriers at RAF Skelton are not entirely successful.
The erks are back, and basic training is nearly over — which means the Inter-Flight Competition. Marsh urges them on, but they are unknowingly helping him towards promotion. Revenge is sweet — and rapid!
Basic training ends and the time arrives for trade training selection, which will set the fate of 'C' Flight. Ken, Jakey, Lilley and Leckie show various preferences — but Squadron Leader Bush has his own ideas.
Ken, Jakey, Lilley and Leckie arrive at their new camp, RAF Midham, to start training as nursing attendants. Life seems to be looking a little rosier with no Corporal Marsh around to blight it for them.
Jakey, Ken, Lilley and Leckie are settling down at RAF Midham under Squadron Leader Baker. Meanwhile, Corporal Marsh awaits the arrival of his wife, Alice. Events overlap with dire consequences...
Marsh and Alice are discovering the difficulties of life in a caravan. Then he and four erks have a brush with Squadron Leader Baker concerning parts of the body.
When Marsh gives a swimming lesson, Bruce gets into deep water — until Corporal Wendy wades to his rescue...
Flt Sgt Wells has his work cut out trying to turn the erks into qualified nursing attendants. Alice is amazed at the stakes her husband has placed on a hand of cards.
Two things dog the lads in Room D6 at RAF Midham; they have an undesirable new room-mate, and Lilley tends to faint at the sight of anything 'medical'.
On a jolly in Blackpool, the lads discover Alice Marsh's secret. But Ken and Lilley come unstuck when they try to reunite her with Cpl. Marsh.
Squadron Leader Baker has prepared a 'crash' exercise for his nursing students — with an extra challenge that doesn't quite go according to plan.
It's the day of the final exam for the trainees. There are some bad cases of nerves among the lads, but Marsh has his own ideas on ensuring success...
The exams are all over. Who's passed? Who's failed? And where are the lads to be posted?
RAF Hospital, Druidswater, has some new arrivals. Ken, Jakey, Leckie and Lilley, back from Malta, have joined the staff. And then there's an incoming VIP patient...
Corporal Marsh is installed as a patient in Private Ward D, and four lads are detailed to look after him.
Corporal Marsh is making a rapid recovery, and will soon be due for posting — which means, as Alice points out, the loss of their luxurious new digs.
Marsh is now on the hospital staff, and all set to terrorise the lads. But things can get lost, even in a morgue — with embarrassing results for the Corporal...
AC1 Rankin is obsessed with becoming a bandsman. When Group Captain Ruark details Marsh and the lads to take him for an EEG test, crisis ensues — until Jakey has a bright idea involving a trombone.
Marsh makes a surprise visit to Matthew Lilley's home village. We learn what really happened in Labrador —and Matthew undergoes a radical personality change...
'Operation Greenfly' is a survival exercise involving the marooning of selected RAF personnel on a bleak Scottish island. Naturally, Ruark chooses Corporal Marsh and the four lads. Marsh has other plans..
Only four members of 'C' flight are unlucky enough to spend Christmas at RAF Skelton. Christmas is bad enough away from home for the first time; Christmas with Marsh as a demonic Santa is just plain misery.
