SUMMARY:  In this BBC sitcom from 1976, the Whiffbottoms are an average working-class family dealing with a proto-punk son, an American-accented cat their youngest son insists can talk, and the sexual peccadilloes of the family patriarch.

SUMMARY:  It turns out that Margaret knows that Duffy can talk... and Duffy has dirt on her. They both have something the other wants. Margaret forgives George for impregnating his students, but Vicky isn't so forgiving. It turns out there are two other impregnated girls, Vivian and Jenn, staying with the family. Mickey's mother, Mrs. Rattleton comes by to take him home, and Joe accompanies him; they're going to eat raw ham and shoot heroin. Timothy is angry at Duffy for not speaking in front of the family and making him look like a loon. An odd voice says, "Destroy" - but only Timothy hears it. Apparently, his John Thomas knob is talking to him. Meanwhile, the Vicar comes 'round for a chat with George. Apparently everyone knows about his sexual liasions with his students... that's perfectly okay... but advises George to give Margaret a bit more attention and affection. Mrs. Rattington, meanwhile, exhorts Margaret to tell George about "the appointment." But how can she tell her husband that she feels like a man trapped in a woman's body? George reaffirms his love for Margaret, and they're a happy family once more... but for how long?

SUMMARY: Duffy reminds a harried Margaret, tired from taking care of all the underage girls her husband has impregnated who are now living with them, that he knows about her "old job." She doesn't notice that there seem to be TWO Duffys. The cats meet each other and confirm they both "know about the thing." Meanwhile, Margaret has no extra money for Vicky's school dance. She may have to go back to the "old job," but George won't have any of that feminist guff. Also meanwhile, Sara's friend Mary tells her, "My baby's going to kill your baby," while Timothy confides in his friend Graham. "You must take the third baby!" commands Timothy's John Thomas knob while Graham listens, leading to a misunderstanding with an aroused Vicar. Adding to the confusion, Joe and Mickey arrive with their new punk rock girlfriends, Lucy and Nancy, who are moving in. And finally, George has impregnated yet another one of his students... the creepy Emily. "Things are gonna start getting REALLY weird," she promises.

SUMMARY: The Duffys may not be cats... but then again, they might be the same cat.  Margaret is introduced to Mrs. Rattleton's transgender friend, Peggy, who encourages her go to through with her plans to become a man.  George is brought up before Headmaster Gilmore, who implores him to be "master of his domain" and stop impregnating his geometry students... but he ends up bringing home Polly, yet another girl impregnated with Whiffbottom seed.  Polly's another creepy one; she, Mary and Emily declare the "trinity" to finally be complete.  Polly reports to Headmaster Gilmore... who declares that everything is going according to plan.

SUMMARY: As the Duffys ponder their dual existence and Tim bemoans his talking todger, George and Margaret go out for a night on the town, and Joe, Mickey and their punk girlfriends go out for a punk orgy. The evil girls threaten the good girls, who decide to ask the Vicar for advice. On their date, Margaret, with the support of Mrs. Rattleton and Peggy, tells a shocked George about her intended sex change. The evil girls visit Headmaster Gilmore, and threaten him when he won't tell them what comes next. They say they're in charge now that they're pregnant, and demand to meet a "Mr. Cloots." The headmaster says that's not possible. The punk girls break up with Joe and Mickey, waking up an irritated Vicky, who pours out her heart to Mickey... who offers unexpected comfort, and offers to help her get a job. Vicky is touched. George brings home Mildred, yet another pregnant schoolgirl. That makes seven. George begins to despair. Meanwhile, the Vicar has armed the good girls...

SUMMARY: As George despairs, Duffy-Two is panicked that his other self seems to have disappeared into a rift in reality.  Mickey takes Vicky to her first day of work at the sewage factory.  George advises a heartbroken Joe to go to the ends of the earth to find Lucy and get her back, so he takes off for the punk club.  Meanwhile, it transpires that Graham has been spying on the Whiffbottoms for Headmaster Gilmore, who is shocked to learn there's a new, seventh schoolgirl.  The evil girls arrive and force the reluctant Headmaster to take them to meet Mr. Cloots.  Elsewhere, Tim has run away from home, and won't come back until he figures out if he's mad or not.  He is spied upon by Sasha, a Russian cat... who can also talk.  Duffy and Sasha are acquainted. Sasha claims not to know anything about the rift in reality or Duffy's double, but obviously knows more than she's saying.  At church, the good girls learn paramilitary techniques from Vicar McVicar in order to stop the coming apocalypse.  At the punk club, Joe and Lucy happily reunite, but Nancy is left alone, wondering where Mickey is.  Back at home, Margaret announces to a devastated George that she'll be living at Mrs. Rattleton's for a while.  And elsewhere, Headmaster Gilmore introduces the evil girls to the boss, the frightening Mr. Cloots... and they scream in terror as he removes his mask.

SUMMARY: Amidst more chaos at the Whiffbottom household, they discover that Tim has run away, and everyone splits up to look for him while Mickey, at Joe and Lucy's encouragement, goes off to find Nancy, who they say misses him.  Meanwhile, Mr. Cloots is unhappy to find that there's a seventh pregnant schoolgirl.  She must be dealt with... as must Tim's talking todger.  Elsewhere, as Duffy and Sasha discuss Duffy's odd interdimensional duplication, Mickey runs into Tim and convinces him to go home.  However, they are intercepted by Mr. Cloot's creepy henchman, Mr. Anaconda, who kills Duffy and kidnaps Tim.

SUMMARY: Nancy goes to the Whiffbottoms to try to find Mickey, while Jenn is convinced her baby's dead... it's not kicking. As the Vicar insists gender reassignment is a sin. and Sara begins to show signs of bloodlust, we find that Timothy and Graham are held hostage by Mr. Cloots and his associates.  Mr. Cloots sends his henchmen to find Sasha and eliminate Graham and Mildred... and also to find George, saying it's time they became reacquainted.   He then offers to make all of Timothy's wishes come true.  Back at the Whiffbottom home, Sara and Vicky reconcile, while George blames Margaret for Tim running away and Nancy and Mickey finally reunite.  Mickey's got Sasha in tow, and he tells everyone about Duffy's death and Tim's kidnapping.  Suddenly, Timothy arrives... and he's been turned into a girl.  Back in Mr. Cloots' lair, Tim's talking John Thomas knob, now held in a jar by a gloating Mr. Cloots, desperately calls for help.

SUMMARY: BBC7 airs a trailer teasing the shocking events coming up in the final four episodes of Cool Side of the Pillow.  SEE! Mr. Cloots try to force Headmaster Gilmore to eat Tim's severed, sentient John Thomas knob!  SEE! Vicar McVicar face off against Mr. Anaconda!  SEE! a romance blossom between the magically transgendered Tim, now a girl, and his best mate, Graham.  SEE! Vicky begin to date Mr. Cloots just to rebel against her parents!  SEE! THE FINAL FOUR EPISODES OF... COOL SIDE OF THE PILLOW!

SUMMARY: Mr. Cloots and his cronies invade Margaret's dreams... she's not an ordinary woman, and they need to learn more.  Margaret dreams of her desire to change her gender. George is faceless and doesn't love her. The female Tim offers her his John Thomas knob.  Vicky is shagging Mr. Cloots and says she's more woman than her mother will ever be.  The pregnant schoolgirls say that George impregnated them because Margaret isn't woman enough.  Margaret, goaded beyond endurance, briefly transforms into a man, though she's still in denial. Sasha and the late Duffy appear to her and tell her they need her to kill Headmaster Gilmore, assuring her it's a metaphor; it's just a dream. She does so, and finds it satisfying to do so... and then suddenly awakens to find it's all real, and Headmaster Gilmore is dying at her feet, much to the shock of the rest of the family... to say nothing of Margaret herself.

SUMMARY: George is drinking for breakfast, devastated by the wreckage of his life, when he is sobered by finding the body of Headmaster Gilmore and learning that Margaret killed him.  Peggy and Lizzie exhort Margaret to flee to Switzerland and have the operation.  George protests, but Joe stands up for his mother, seeing how sad she is.  The Vicar arrives and finds the body... and George, stepping up to defend his wife, takes the rap.  He gives Margaret money for the operation and sends her on her way.  Mr. Cloots - arm in arm with Vicky - arrives with Mr. Anaconda and the evil girls.  He and George know one another - George helped him a long time ago.  Now it's George's turn to help him.  Join us next time when you'll hear Tim say, "Dad? How did all this start?"

SUMMARY: It is revealed that George met Mr. Cloots on the field of war.  Back then, Peggy was Pete, and wanted to be a woman, and George was a virgin.  Mr. Cloots appeared to give them their wishes.  Pete became Peggy, while George was granted a magical John Thomas knob.  Mr. Cloots has since used that magical John Thomas knob to start the apocalypse, and a Baby War is nigh.  Meanwhile, somewhere in Switzerland, Margaret meets with the ambiguously-gendered Dr. Luftergraun.  Both she and George remenisce about the day they met and fell in love.  But now, it's time for Margaret to love herself.  She goes in for the gender reassignment operation.  Back in England, Duffy suddenly rushes into the Whiffbottom home, reincarnated as a human, and he has several prophecies.  "I foresee a plane of fire and destruction! Young Tim will steal the third baby! The pregnant girls shall make war! The Vicar and Mr. Anaconda shall face one another in mortal combat! Some are going to find courage where there was none - others will only find despair. There are those who are not as they appear to be. Some will reveal their true selves, while others will be utterly lost. And the one named Mickey will arm wrestle Mr. Cloots for the fate of all mankind!"  But what about George?  "George," confides Duffy, "you're the one who sacrifices everything."  Join us next time when you'll hear all the pregnant girls say: "My water just broke!"

SUMMARY: As everyone comes to grips with Duffy's prophecies, which he says were imparted to him by his boss, a Mr. Lords, the girls go into labor, and Joe helps with the delivery.  As the apocalypse begins, George is consumed with guilt.  Mickey goes to find Mr. Cloots to meet his destiny, over Nancy's objections.  Peggy reveals that she's Mickey's father.  Margaret arrives home, now a man, and goes with Peggy and Lizzie to rescue Vicky from Mr. Cloots.  Duffy, upon finding that Mildred's baby is the third baby born, tells Tim he must throw the baby into the seas of fire and despair, and that Margaret is an ancient, evil being who has conspired with Mr. Cloots.  At Mr. Cloots' lair, the evil girls are also giving birth. Vicky is horrified by what Mr. Cloots has done to her family. He's the worst boyfriend ever! Margaret arrives with her friends and tells Vicky to come home. She resists: "I don't have to do what you say." Margaret says that's true... but she doesn't have to do what Mr. Cloots says, either.  She's a woman now and can make her own choices.  Mr. Cloots ducks out, and the women pursue him.  Meanwhile, George sees his school sucked into the earth, into the pit of fire and despair.  Enter Mr. Lords. God, apparently, is an American. George asks his forgiveness, but Mr. Lords makes him realize that it's Margaret whose forgiveness he needs.  Mr. Lords tells him he can't take things back, but he can move forward... if he's willing to truly sacrifice.  As they leave, Tim and the others arrive, pursued by Mr. Cloots, and Tim throws the third baby into the pit. Graham gets Tim's John Thomas knob back from Mr. Cloots. Enter Mr. Lords, who says that the prophecy must be fulfilled. Mickey arm wrestles Mr. Cloots.  If Cloots wins, Apocalypse. If he loses, he must return to the pit.  Mickey nearly loses, but Nancy arrives to cheer him on, buoying him up with her love.  Mickey wins, and Mr. Lords throws him into the pit.  The world is saved.  But there's one more thing that needs saving... George and Margaret's marriage.  George arrives, transformed into a woman.  He promises to give their love everything he has to give for the rest of his life.  They tearfully reconcile as Duffy sings "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman."  The narrator tells us of the future good fortunes of the Whiffbottoms and friends, and the inevitable bad ends for the evildoers.  Jenn even ends up working for Mr. Lords.  And George and Margaret?  They lived out their days devoted to each other's happiness.  And every night, as they went to sleep, they laid their heads down on... the cool side of the pillow.