B&B (TV series)

"B&B" was a one off season English television programme, aired in 1992, following the lives of a father and daughter and their struggle to get their newly established BnB business working.

Produced by Thames Television; the show was originally aired on CITV and starred Kevin Whately, best known for his performance as "Lewis" in Inspector Morse, and Scottish actress Katy Murphy.

Plot

The series started with Steve Shepherd, played by Kevin Whately, becoming fired from his job in a local architechral firm for disagreeing with his boss' Ian McNeice blue prints for a local amusement arcade. Unemployed and with a daughter, Alice, to care for Shepherd decides to turn his large home into a B&B for financial support. Shepherd's former boss, Horace Gilbert, becomes aware after his dismissal that Shepherd's house lies right in the middle of his proposed development site and that the removal of his former employee and his home is needed to go ahead with construction. Meanwhile Shepherd's B&B is doing well and one of his guests, Billie Golden; a street busker, played by Katy Murphy, reveals to him that she has no money and cannot pay her bill. In attampt to help her Shepherd offers her continued room and board for an unpaid working position at the B&B.

When Gilbert's ligitermet attempts to remove Shepherd from his house fail he moves onto Billie, offering her her dream motorbike in return for flooding the B&B rendering it inhabitable and when this also backfires he decides to resort to arson and attempts to burn the property to the ground. However Gilbert's secretary gets wind of what he is planning and realises he has gone too far and reports him to the police and he is arrested in the act.