Derek : Season 1

When a documentary team visits the retirement home where he works,kindly,simple, middle-aged Derek is delighted as he loves reality TV - especially Secret Millionaire - and has 35,000 autographs. Douglas,his co-worker and landlord,is less impressed. In the course of the day Derek falls into a pond,sets up his friend Hannah with a date with a handsome visitor and takes the death of a resident to heart.

It's Derek's 50th birthday; what better way to celebrate than with a party at Broadhill retirement home? Derek knows exactly what he wants: JLS, Susan Boyle and Stacey Solomon for music, and vol-au-vents, sausage rolls and chicken Kiev for food. And there's a new addition to the staff: community service worker Vicky, who's convinced she looks like Victoria Beckham.

It's a day like no other at Broadhill retirement home... Derek is watching Dougie fix a table's wobbly leg until he finds a baby bird that's fallen from a tree. Derek, desperate to save the bird's life, rushes inside to announce the emergency and asks Hannah to call Rolf Harris or Bill Oddie. Later, Derek and some of the residents attend a jumble sale, and then it's date night for Tom and Hannah, but she's forgotten.

Derek decides to sell some of his autographs in order to raise money for the retirement home. But the shop that sells autographed photos isn't overly impressed by Derek's collection - mainly because he can't actually remember who the signatures belong to. An outing to the beach for some of the residents means a blissful afternoon in the sunshine, while Kev leaves his mark at the seaside by writing rude words on crabs with a pen. Retirement Home manager Hannah stays behind to welcome a new resi

Broadhill retirement home wants to host a cabaret show and Derek forms an entertainment committee to discuss plans for the evening. Kev wants to produce a play of the Duran Duran film script he wrote in '98 with the staff and residents cast as the band. A new community service worker called Deon, played by Doc Brown, joins the home. He's a keen rapper, but the elderly residents aren't exactly his usual audience. On show night Dougie is forced to join the other 'Duran Duran' band members on st

In the final episode of the series, Hannah has received a phone call from a man claiming to be Derek's estranged father; an alcoholic who abandoned him when he was very young. Derek and his mother never spoke about him because it upset her too much, and Derek still finds it hard and says he doesn't want to meet him. Meanwhile, a much-loved resident is in decline, which sets in motion a sequence of events culminating in the appearance of an unexpected visitor.