Such Rotten Luck
Series One
1. The Little Grey Man
Writer Woodhouse Carter is struggling for good ideas while in discussion with his friend Seamus at the pub. He arrives home to wife Gila to discover she has hired a cleaner who has ulterior motives for the work, as she aspires to be a writer and is aiming to gain experience. Woodhouse meanwhile sets about writing a biography of Wolf Heinrich Garber while Gila's parents continue to question whether Woodhouse has any talent for writing and if he should not instead do "something more useful". Woodhouse also tries to get Gila involved in his writing, though she quickly takes the hump over his correcting her and dislike of his apparent patronisation.