At Home with the Braithwaites - Episode Guide

It's Alison Braithwaite's 40th birthday and her youngest daughter, Charlotte, gives her a ticket for the first ever Euro-lottery. Alison wins the jackpot: £38 million! She decides she wants to do something worthwhile with the money. She asks accountant, Pauline, and old friend, Marion, to help her set up a charity. Alison says she will tell her family about the win. She's just not ready to tell them yet.

Alison maintains her silence about her good fortune, with good reason when her daughters demand a share of some money she has been given by her mother. Alison recruits friends Pauline and Marion to help her sets up a charity, the Jane Crowther Trust, with her friends Marion and Pauline, so she can put the winnings to good use. Meanwhile, selfish husband David's affair with Elaine develops over a game of Scrabble.

Alison makes progress with her charitable trust plans. David plans to spend a night with Elaine, but ends up in more trouble than he expected when he finds it hard juggling the lies he is telling. Sarah is a success in her school play, however, when she reveals her true feelings for her drama teacher, she gets a nasty surprise when he turns out not to be gay, but to have a girlfriend and a new baby. Virginia gets mugged but reveals to her mother that she is a lesbian. Alison, on impulse, reveals her secret regarding her lottery win to Virginia, with dire consequences.

David ends his affair with Elaine, but too many people know about his shenanigans for him to keep it under wraps. Virginia takes revenge on Megan, and Sarah plays truant so she can be with Phil.

David and Alison are struggling to keep a lid on their secrets, while Sarah decides to come clean about falling pregnant.

With newspaper interest reaching fever pitch, Alison is forced to admit to her family that she won the £38million and used it to set up the charitable trust. Apart from Charlotte, they all want to get their hands on as much as the cash as possible. Meanwhile, Sarah comes to a decision about the baby.

Alison Braithwaite's £38 million win on the Euro Lottery is now no longer a secret, and the family has set up home in a mansion. David's affair with Elaine is over and he's revelling in the wealthy lifestyle. But for the rest of the family, things aren't quite so good: Sarah is pregnant, Charlotte is bullied at school, Viriginia is having trouble with her relationships. For Alison, though, the affair was a bitter blow: how can David prove his fidelity (with a little help from the girls), and what will happen when his brother Graham comes to the house-warming party?

Alison has decided to call the divorce off. The girls organise a surprise second honeymoon for their parents in the Lake District - in the same hotel where they spent their first. But Virginia has also invited Graham and his wife Helen - and Alison has a secret to reveal about him; is this the end of the Braithwaites' marriage. Back at home, the girls need cheering up after a terrible day, but during a food fight, Sarah goes into labour, and it's up to Virginia to be her birth-partner - until the child's father, Phil, turns up.

While David returns to the old house, Graham tries to woo Alison, but she'll not be persuaded that easily - will she? Tamsin sways Virginia into revealing their relationship, but she is no way prepared for the thunderous reaction, and ends up in a passionate kiss with Megan. Phil and Sarah go into Leeds to get married in secret, but afterwards, she has second thoughts. But what she sees at the old house is a surprise, and David has a surprise to tell her about her mother too.

The Braithwaite family seems fragmented for good, as Sarah and baby William move in with David. Charlotte's determination to get the family back on track involves a appearance on a TV quiz show, but Alison refuses point blank - they're no longer a 'normal' family. There's an expensive offer for Virginia to make to Megan in the aftermath of the drunken previous night and Alison finally meets up with Graham. He tells her he's in love with her too, but she refuses to have an affair with him and put another woman through that sort of pain. But he and Helen are getting a divorce, so she relents, and they begin seeing one another. But someone is watching them.

David has hired a private detective to follow Alison - and his worst fears have been realised. He confronts her about the affair and asks if they can get back together. But Alison and Graham are planning to get married. As a parting shot, David drops a bombshell about his brother: perhaps Graham's motives aren't as romantic as they seem. When Sarah catches David and Elaine together, she swallows her pride and returns to her mother. And there's another shock for Virginia when unsuspecting Mike arrives to tell her that Megan has left him - can she cover up her re-kindled affair to Tamsin, or will she find herself alone? Alison has an announcement to make to the girls: Graham is moving in.

Charlotte goes missing, but when she is found in David's attic, she asks Alison to tell Graham to leave the mansion. Alison's caught in a dreadful dilemma - should she compromise her love for Graham for the sake of her children? And how will Helen help her? Meanwhile at the Trust, over a quarter of a million pounds has gone missing and to everyone's shock, Pauline is the prime suspect. When Graham returns to the mansion demanding to be allowed in, Charlotte takes matters into her own hands.

David is forced to rescue Graham from a mine shaft on the Moors, but afterwards they fight - with fatal consequences; David and Virginia share the terrible secret. Pauline has been arrested, and Alison can't be sure about her innocence, so Marion resigns in disgust. When Alison is told that Graham has 'skipped town', she decides to leave the country and look after herself. But there's more terrible news in store, when Megan makes a decision, Virginia's guilty secret is revealed and she disappears. David and Alison are thrown together by this crisis and David realises that Alison's the only person he can trust, so he confesses his terrible secret - he's killed his own brother.

Alison is struggling to deal with David's news when Tamsin phones - Virginia has fallen into the river in York - is it attempted suicide? Alison and David rush to see her. Later, Alison and David discuss what to do about Graham. They agree to wait until after Sarah's wedding before going to the police. But Sarah is still not sure she wants to go ahead with the wedding and Phil, having picked up on her reluctance, calls the wedding off. Virginia and Tamsin, now reconciled, dash back from hospital - Virginia's due to be a bridesmaid. On the way, Virginia gets a call on her mobile. From Graham. Everything's turned upside down for the family. Can the family emerge unscathed from the chaos? Or is it too late?

More stylish absurdity with the Lottery (and award)-winning Braithwaites. This third series of spectacular family turmoil is set two months after the second, and although the reunited family is at relative peace, you won't be surprised that the harmony lasts about as long as a wine gum. Alison is knighted at Buckingham Palace for services to charity, but in one of several hilarious ground-swallowing moments, rebellious daughter Virginia pulls her trademark used-tissue face and announces she is going to be a father because her girlfriend Tamsin is pregnant. There's nothing quite like this soapy drama. It's well-driven by the female characters, and although the language may have taken a downward turn since last year, it successfully flits from farce to pathos and back again before you know it. Rich, for the time being.

This week, the Lottery-winning family from Yorkshire enjoy a peaceful picnic on the Dales. Only joking. As usual, the barmy Braithwaite army is the catalyst for an hour of furious drama. David accepts that Alison is having his brother's baby, while Sarah gets steamy in the stockroom with her teacher, Daniel. Virginia and Tamsin see their relationship splashed across the tabloids and Charlotte has a scrap at school. Also, the family attend baby William's christening (just), and Pauline quits the charity. Never a dull moment, then and, to top it all, the Euro Lottery want their money back. You may want to check your pulse in ad breaks. David comes up with one last solution to try to save his marriage. Meanwhile, Sarah's affair with Daniel lands her in trouble with Megan.

The Braithwaites were stunned that the Eurolottery was taking Dame Alison to court because her underage daughter illegally bought her winning lottery ticket. But everyone reckons she'll get off if she lies about who bought the ticket. And, as her viperish daughter Virginia points out, she's very good at lying. However, the whole vile, selfish family falls to pieces when events take a surprising turn. This is a powerful, engrossing episode, although there's a fantasy sequence involving Virginia that jars rather than enhances. A heavily pregnant Alison takes the stand at the High Court after the press finds out that her under-age daughter bought the winning ticket.

Virginia and Sarah get a shock when they discover each other's 'dirty' secrets tonight. And, of course, Megan's tangled up in it all. Alison and David are reconciled by a death in the family, but the funeral brings and unwelcome visitor. Sarah exacts a daring and inventive revenge on teacher Daniel.

Will Megan's involvement with Virginia lead to disaster? Can Alison resist Graham? Graham returns and attempts to get back with Alison who resists him despite the suspicions of David and Charlotte, while Tamsin finds Virginia with Meagan.

David and Graham hide in an inn where the owner tries to steal the bank money but has a heart attack instead, while Alison goes into labor.

Alison has become a new mother and is ready to divorce David amicably, but things go awry when his old flame Elaine reappears. Meanwhile, Alison has decided not to talk to Virginia and Meagan who are planning to marry and are currently living together.

Alison responds to David's demands for half her money by kicking him out of the house and getting gardener Nick Bottomley to change all the locks. She adds insult to injury by repossessing his treasured Porsche for good measure, while Virginia begins to question the wisdom of a long-term relationship with Megan. 

David and Alison decide to have one last go at resolving the divorce out of court, while as her wedding day dawns, Megan discovers what Virginia's been up to with old flame Tamsin. As the guests arrive, Alison realises one of the bridesmaids is missing - and Nick the gardener springs a surprise as well.

Alison is forced to sell the mansion and suffers the added indignity of having to tell Nick she's moving out and can no longer afford to employ him. Sarah tries to sabotage Phil's impending marriage to Ciara, while Megan ends her relationship with Virginia and wastes no time in embarking on an amorous liaison with David : which proves to have fatal consequences. 

Virginia tries to cope with Megan's death, while Alison not only finds herself accused of murder, but suffers the added indignity of seeing her relationship with Nick splashed all over the tabloids. Sarah shares a passionate moment with ex-husband Phil, while Charlotte asks boyfriend Jordan to help her lose £38million

Charlotte's larcenous plan goes wrong and Virginia shocks everyone with a new look. On the romantic front, Sarah confronts her feelings for Phil as his wedding to Ciara goes ahead, and Alison agonises over whether to seek happiness with hunky gardener Nick, next-door neighbour Mike or husband David.