80's comedy soap set in the north of England in the 1930's. Bradley Hardacre (Timothy West), owns the coal mine & almost everything else in the local town. His insatiable greed & lust for power, women & money knows no bounds. By contrast, the Fairchilds, at the other end of the social spectrum, live in a small house at the bottom of a hill, overlooked by the Hardacre's. When the children of both families start to discover each other, the stage is set for class war