Paul Calf and his sister Pauline are Hell’s first family. Previously featured in Coogan’s Three Flights, Two Weddings and a Funeral, everybody is back: Fat Bob, Mum, Julie, little baby Petula Dusty and Grandma. Already down on his luck, Paul accidentally falls foul of local villains.

Meet Gareth Cheeseman, an obnoxious salesman at a weekend conference where the delegates are on the lookout for sales, sex and software. Within 48 hours, Gareth has destroyed two lives, three cars and a perfectly good suit.

Perfectionist Ernest Moss is a 1960s general repair man who could bore for England. But when his unique talents are put to the test in the face of a new property development in the village, he becomes Ottle’s saviour.

Club singer and legendary nice guy Mike Crystal discovers he has a Jekyll & Hyde nature when he pretends to be his own agent, fooling even the club manager.

Guy Crump and his half-brother Stuart are trivia obsessed and intent on re-enacting a children’s quiz show they lost back in 1975 – at all costs.

The emotionally crippled custodian of Little Ottle’s smallest museum is pushed over the edge when the building is taken over and turned into a steak house.