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Norfolk seaside resort Thurnemouth is home to three retired couples, bossy Joyce and her easy-going husband Alan, ultra-conservative John and sensible Maureen and nervous Carol, who, with boring Trevor, is rebuilding the marriage after a separation. Only Alan is looking forward to seeing flash Mick, widower of Jean, whose funeral they are all attending, and who arrives from Spain with Lithuanian trophy wife Elena and tales of the wonderful life to be had by Brits seeking the sun. In fact it is all a lie as Elena tells Trevor, as Mick has lost their money and she is about to leave him. Everybody troops into the church for the funeral ceremony - which is interrupted by Joyce's phone as her son rings to say that she is a grandmother.
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Joyce organizes a fortieth wedding anniversary party for Carol and Trevor, inviting John and Maureen and Maureen's bibulous, wheelchair-bound mother Joan. Before setting out to the restaurant Carol confesses to Maureen and Joyce that she finds Trevor boring and plans to leave him. The women tell their husbands, all of them agreeing to keep it from Trevor. However Trevor's announcement that he plans to take Carol to Barbados to renew their wedding vows means that nobody need say anything as Carol takes him up on his offer.
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The resort celebrates its history on Thurnemouth Day with Trevor dressing as Lord Nelson to cut a ribbon. Maureen takes him to get his costume, offering - unwanted - marital advice. Joyce attempts to get Carol into her choral society in order to impress Trevor but is denied her chance by the choir mistress. She gets revenge but as a result is thrown out of the society. John goes to collect Joan but ends up mending her toilet whilst Alan engages a geriatric builder to help lay his patio but ends up doing all the work himself.
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Joyce is retiring and Alan is throwing a party for her at home - though she would prefer it to be in a country hotel. Homesick for London Maureen invites new residents Sara and Dan who have moved from the capital with their children, but the children have food allergies and break Joyce's garden gnome so she lets them know what she thinks of them as well as telling Alan how disappointed she is with her party. John's tribute video impresses her but better still is the news that poor family finances mean she need not retire after all.
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Maureen and John are moving Joan from sheltered accommodation to a care home. Maureen's brassy sister Pauline arrives to 'help' but scares the men-folk with her predatory nature and almost scuppers the move. With finances tighter than she thought Joyce wants to down-size and invites an estate agent to value the house. She is anxious to keep the news from the others but when they all turn up at the house she is forced to cancel the valuation rather than admit the truth.
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The three couples take their usual summer holiday at the Hollingers hotel's 6os weekend. Maureen loves it, unlike Joyce but things get worse when it appears that Alan only booked two rooms so the men are segregated from the women. Carol however enjoys herself when she meets old friend Dennis, with whom she spends all her time whilst Trevor surprises when he opts for the climbing wall as his activity - though he does get stuck. Tis will be a weekend they will not forget - or repeat.
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The three couples are at Calais returning from a Christmas market in Cologne but, thanks to Alan's incompetence, they miss the train. Carol goes missing after mixing drink and medication whilst Joyce has to rescue the passports. A temporary truce involves the menfolk bonding with their German counterparts before the boomers prepare to spend Christmas together - though not exactly as they had planned.
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Somewhat reluctantly the other couples help Trevor celebrate his birthday at a rainy camp site where a charity cycle race and the efforts of the irritating Chris to persuade Trevor to buy his caravan cause discord among the menfolk. The wives however are charmed by handsome young Swede Hawkan, who has a penchant for older women - and, unfortunately an ulterior motive for befriending them.
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Alan is unimpressed by new neighbours Matt and Seb, who use his skip without asking but is persuaded by Joyce to join her and their friends at the couple's house-warming party. Here Maureen is in her element and Carol and Trevor re-discover the joys of sex but Alan is convinced that the lads have stolen a family heirloom from the skip and his efforts to reclaim it lead to humiliation and an accusation of trying to steal Matt and Seb's dog.
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Joyce and Alan persuade their friends to accompany them to their granddaughter's naming ceremony though daughter-in-law Suze and her mother Sally are not appreciative of Joyce's gifts. Alan does not help by blowing the electrics whilst Trevor is perturbed to discover that Carol is writing an erotic novel and Sally's husband Vaughan makes John a tempting offer . Indeed misunderstandings abound before the final ceremony takes place.
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Alan's friend Mick turns up in his camper van, from Spain, having split with his wife and encourages Alan to pack in his hated job at the garden centre - as well as persuading John and Maureen to indulge in role play to spice up their marriage. Joyce asks him to leave - with surprising results - though ultimately it is Mick who helps everybody to put things right before he moves on.
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For his birthday party John insists on a murder mystery theme with fancy dress, leading to Carol and Trevor turning up in ecclesiastical garb and Joyce and Alan as somewhat resentful servants. Maureen adopts an aristocratic persona but is interrupted by calls from the mysterious Diego, who turns out to be part of John's present though Trevor and Carol suspect otherwise. Alan must retrieve an incriminating gift and Trevor separate reality from role play before all is resolved.
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Maureen's mother Joan announces that she is marrying Roy, who is twenty years her junior, and invites the three couples to their wedding at n expensive hotel. Here they learn that Roy has been married four times before and they also suspect he is marrying Joan for her money and are surprised to learn that he is very wealthy. However come the morning of the wedding both Joan and Roy have admissions to make before the nuptials can go ahead.
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