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Bridget & Eamon are the typical unhappily married 80s Irish couple. They live somewhere in the Midlands with their indeterminate number of children. Chain-smoking Bridget has notions. She wants the lifestyle from the pages of Woman's Way but wouldn't want to think about how much it would cost to heat South Fork.
2016
Eamon's always spending the money from the Trocaire box so Fr. Gabriel is keeping an eye on him this year. Meanwhile Bridget hosts a tupperware party that goes disastrously wrong when highly illegal condoms are delivered instead.
The couple are chosen to be on the poster for the forthcoming divorce referendum, but Phelim returns home from America with some shocking news about their marriage.
The National Lottery could be the answer to the couple's financial troubles, but when they form a syndicate with their neighbours and their numbers come up, Bridget is unhappy about the win.
Bridget has to get one for the first time ever when her husband loses his job, while - with nothing to do - Eamon accidentally joins the IRA.
Bridget & Eamon are getting the channels in, even the dirty one - Channel 4. But when the TV licence inspector calls to the door, Bridget puts the house into lockdown. How long can they hold out with Bridget's supply of cigarettes running out?
Bridget is a finalist in the Housewife of the Year competition and when Eamon hears there's a year's supply of free gas if she wins, he goes to extreme lengths to make sure she takes home the prize. But will it be enough to beat the reigning champion?
2017
Bridget's mother has a new young foreign boyfriend and Bridget is going to lose her inheritance unless she can break them up
The duo takes over the airwaves when they start a pirate radio station in their front room.
Bridget has joined the local camogie team, but a jealous Eamon decides he wants to play too
Eamon has got a VHS video recorder and the whole town want to rent it, but in trying to satisfy the demand for films, he and Bridget accidentally star in their own blue movie.
Bridget's job working on the Census gives her information to blackmail half the town, but Eamon has bigger ideas.
There's two free seats on the bus to Lourdes, but how far will Bridget go to make sure she gets to go this year? All she's missing is someone that needs to be cured.
Bridget works out that with the widow's pension and life assurance Eamon would be worth more dead than alive.
Jennifer Maguire
Bridget
Bernard O'Shea
Eamon
Sharon Mannion
Concepta
Colum McDonnell
Frank
Eleanor Tiernan
Dolores
Edwin Sammon
Fr. Gabriel
Norma Sheahan
Noreen
2016
Bridget and Eamon make new best friends with Barbara and Mikey, a visiting American couple. But why would anyone want to be friend with them? They must have a secret motive... only time will tell.
Eamon runs for the local election helped by Billy the builder, but when Bridget runs against Eamon, the battle between husband and wife becomes personal.
When Eamon discovers a talent for cutting hair, Bridget sets up a salon in the Good Room. Bridget's friends rush to get their hair cut by Eamon, ignoring Bridget.
When Bridget and Eamon miss a phone call, they have no way of knowing who it was from. Can they find out before the news of the missed call spreads out of control?
The couple start a lucrative business when the holy statue in their front room begins to move every hour, but Fr Gabriel is not so sure it is a real miracle.
The sun is out. The Irish Summer has started and it’s not going to last so better get out there fast. But maybe using cooking oil as sun tan lotion means all that sudden sun exposure can’t be good for Bridget & Eamon?
It’s St. Stephen’s Day and Eamon’s Mammy has called over to make Bridget’s life even more miserable. When Bridget accidentally kills her with an electric carving knife, can they hide the body from all the neighbours, and the Gardaí, that have called over to watch the big film on the telly? Guest starring Katherine Lynch as Eamon’s Mammy.
2018
Held at gun point by paramilitaries Jimmy and Martin, and with their TV broken and house surrounded Bridget, Eamon and their neighbours must act out popular TV shows to keep the IRA entertained and stay alive. They might just get away with it as long as Jimmy doesn’t ask them to perform “Dirty Dancing”…
Bridget accuses Eamon of being no fun in front of everyone, so when the lead singer of his 1970s rock band turns up in town, he decides the time is right for a reunion gig.
When Eamon is barred from the pub, he decides to cook up his own home brew based on an old family recipe. But drinking it causes serious consequences. Foster and Allen guest star.
A new dating agency finally gives Eamon the opportunity to get rid of his unwanted best friend Frank - but his perfect match turns out to be a huge surprise.
A bitter fight breaks out between Eamon, Bridget and her mother over who owns a possibly priceless vase. Comedy, guest starring Deirdre O'Kane.
When Bridget goes into hospital, Eamon mistakes a random woman as his wife and she moves in, leaving the real Bridget making an epic journey home to reclaim her place by his side.
The couple are forced to take in a lodger but soon become convinced that the woman in question is actually an alien from their favourite sci-fi TV show. Last in the series.
