1x1 - Episode 1

May 5, 2003

MRS CHAN gets robbed. Her screaming wakes up GUCCI, who is taking a nap at Honey Cave. GUCCI speeds to her help. Exercising her “hand-seizing lock”, she captures the robber before the police arrive. The police are impressed by her martial artistry. HELENA reveals that GUCCI used to be a cop. Each morning, GUCCI burns incense as offerings to the gods, praying that she will one day reunite with her brother FU who has gone missing for over twenty years. Just when the KIMs are having dinner together, LAU KAM arrives with a handful of luggage, claiming that he has rented a flat.

1x2 - Episode 2

May 6, 2003

SARAH and GUCCI blame each other for the mistakes they made when signing the contract with KAM. KAM insists he will not leave the premises, praising the hospitality of the KIM family and putting the place on par with a five-star hotel. Just as others rake their brain to find a solution, they overhear KAM’s mentioning of a revenge scheme on the phone. GUCCI alert the police. KAM casts a hostile gaze on the family with his hand sliding down the pocket…

1x4 - Episode 4

May 8, 2003

KAM claims he works as an extra in the television station, but in fact, he plays a corpse. TODAY tells him that she is a promising talent of the TV station’s actors’ training school, but KAM holds her up to ridicule, calling her a professional extra. An over-the-hill movie star GEORGE MAN, affectionately known as Brother Eleven, is cast in a minor role but manages to steal the limelight from the lead actor. His arrogance angers the director and the cast, who decide to get back at him. KAM misses his bus home, and hatches a plan when he sees GEORGE. KAM sings out GEORGE’s famous tune “Brother Eleven” loud and makes a compliment on his car. His sweet-talking indeed works. GEORGE lets KAM sit behind the wheel. Agonizing on an empty stomach, GEORGE sees KAM preparing noodles next door and decides to pay him a visit. The KIMs frown at the uninvited visitor……

1x5 - Episode 5

May 9, 2003

CHRIS helps out at Honey Cave as both HELENA and AH WONG are taking a day off. CHRIS chances on ATHENA during an errand. ATHENA mocks him for working as a humble delivery boy, but he is not prepared to stomach her insult. Back at Ka Yan Company, ATHENA treats everyone to tea after receiving a call. The person at the other end has just brought her the news of the closing down of CHRIS’s ballet company. Eavesdropping on CHRIS’s telephone conversations, GUCCI mistakes that he is willing to take up a job that offers a meager ,000 monthly salary. ATHENA returns to the office but her colleagues act strangely. Dumbfounded, she learns that CHRIS is to join Ka Yan.

1x6 - Episode 6

May 12, 2003

On his first day at work, CHRIS treats everyone to Honey Cave egg tarts. SUGAR embarrasses MARCO by asking why he never offers his co-workers the sweet treat. KELLY comes to his defense, to his comfort. The KIMs gather around the dining table, awaiting CHRIS’s return from the mainland. KELLY questions ATHENA’s real intention of posting CHRIS to the mainland, accusing her of depriving him from contacts with his clients. ROGER inquires about CHRIS’s performance and asks ATHENA to offer more chances to the newcomer. But ATHENA has a tough task installed for CHRIS…

1x7 - Episode 7

May 13, 2003

GEORGE unwittingly learns of HELENA’s doubts over FRANCIS’s sexual orientation. HELENA even harbors the suspicion that GEORGE has been raising his son as a girl. Troubled, GEORGE turns to TAI TSUN for advise. TAI TSUN believes FRANCIS might have adopted an alternative lifestyle during his studies in England. FRANCIS meets KELLY when she is trying on some clothes. His hands are roaming freely on KELLY’s body. TODAY accuses him of taking liberties with KELLY under the phony license of homosexuality. But the three women present are unconvinced. KITTY walks past a bridal shop and fantasizes about her future husband…KITTY and KAM walk side by side on the street. KITTY cries out loud at KAM and accuses him of theft.

1x8 - Episode 8

May 14, 2003

TODAY is displeased with KELLY that she goes on a shopping spree and spends a fortune with her credit card but bars MARCO from owing one. Angered by the comment, KELLY throws away the shoebox that keeps MARCO’s favorite robot. The shoebox turns out to the one that houses SARAH’s dearest possession — a puppet given to her by her late brother KAM WAH!

1x9 - Episode 9

May 15, 2003

TODAY reveals that KELLY is the person who threw away SARAH’s shoebox. KELLY pleads for pardon but SARAH is unforgiving. She dashes to the kitchen to grab a kitchen knife. When things cool down, they learn the secret held between GUCCI and the shoebox.

1x10 - Episode 10

May 16, 2003

SARAH and GUCCI are busy preparing their diet meals. But GUCCI’s determination is shaken by TSUN and HELENA’s sumptuous feast. She pours her tasteless porridge away. TODAY is drilling on her two-line dialogue, while GUCCI is happy announcing a five-pound weight loss. To help TODAY with her rehearsal, GUCCI volunteers to play a gunshot victim. Everyone praises her fine performance but she fails to get up…. In front of the women, KITTY expresses her eagerness to get married, even if it means becoming a stepmother. GUCCI asks KAM why he doesn’t have a girlfriend. He believes that women are born to control men and the consequences of approaching one are disastrous. KITTY and KAM meet again in a department store. The encounter costs KAM a fortune!

1x11 - Episode 11

May 19, 2003

ROGER urges his daughter YEE to return to England and finish her studies in fashion design. YEE refuses as she has landed a job at V&C as a fashion designer, but ROGER opposes vehemently as he knows that her boss is a lascivious man. He talks her into working at Ka Yan and promises that he will keep their relationship a secret.

1x12 - Episode 12

May 20, 2003

MARCO has received several wedding invitations. KELLY suggests that he wraps credit card gifts nicely and gives them as presents to the newly-weds. MARCO feels it is not right. TODAY says sarcastically that MARCO will leave an impression so deep that the couples will remember his stinginess till the day of their divorce. GUCCI suspects that a cheery SARAH is dating someone, but others are not so convinced. Outside a bank, GUCCI sees to her horror that SARAH, holding a passbook in her hands, is getting on a taxi with a man heading to a “love motel” in Kowloon Tong. GUCCI tells her three children and KELLY of her shocking encounter. News on the television tells of a swindler who targets housewives as his victims. The suspect is none other than the man in SARAH’s company. Just now, SARAH returns home with tears filling her eyes.

1x13 - Episode 13

May 21, 2003

TODAY attributes her new radiant look to a certain whitening cream she bought from a non-authorized dealer sale. She tells a disappointed KELLY that the store is now closed down. KELLY gets wind that a certain whitening cream is sold at a cut-rate price and takes MAY along. TODAY joins the bargain hunt. KELLY jeers at TODAY and tugs with her for the face cream. The two women make a scene. YEE is folding paper planes of her design sketches on the rooftop. CHRIS unfolds the planes and praises her sketches. But a dejected YEE thinks otherwise.

1x14 - Episode 14

May 22, 2003

Without wearing any makeup, KITTY takes the trash out. She bumps against KAM and loses her keys. KAM thinks she is an old lady and apologizes like mad to a not-so-amused KITTY. She confesses to a chance encounter with her ex-boyfriend. The KIMs can hardly believe their eyes when a handsome and rich ALEX drives a flashy car to pick her up.

1x15 - Episode 15

May 23, 2003

KELLY finds out that ALEX is in fact a married man. She cannot bear to hide it from KITTY. But KITTY acknowledges the news matter-of-factually and says that she already knows it. Saddened by her desolation, KELLY and the other two women seek to settle scores with ALEX and threaten to make his life miserable if he ever cheats KITTY of money and love. Just then, KITTY shows up. ALEX takes out a ring and gives it to KITTY. She is overjoyed while the two women are shocked. KELLY scolds her for taking the insult but KITTY explains that ALEX’s wife has passed away. SEVENTH SISTER learns of an office assistant opening at her boss ROGER’s company and recommends KAM to him.

1x16 - Episode 16

May 26, 2003

On his first day of work, KAM munches on his colleagues’ snacks, breaks down the copier and air-conditioner, covers up his negligence and shows no shame. Upon learning that the company upstairs has laid off almost half of their staff and finding that KAM has been looking over their belongings, they suspect that KAM is in fact spying for the boss.

1x17 - 劉錦是欽差大臣

May 27, 2003

1x18 - 陳嬌是富家女

May 28, 2003

1x19 - 玉露、隔美反目

May 29, 2003

1x20 - 阿日跟阿美鬥氣

May 30, 2003

1x21 - 陳嬌逼阿美釣金龜婿

June 2, 2003

1x22 - Episode 22

June 3, 2003

GUCCI chances on YUEN YING and finding her the ideal daughter-in-law candidate, she uses every trick in her bag to match her up with CHRIS. ROGER dispatches CHRIS to Yuen’s Company to negotiate new deals and promises to take everyone on a trip when the deal comes through. CHRIS pays a visit to Yuen’s and is shocked by YING’s highhanded management style.

1x23 - Episode 23

June 4, 2003

CHRIS and KELLY are about to present their proposal at Yuen’s but YING suggests they do it some other day as CHRIS keeps coughing. Fresh fruit baskets keep flooding in at the news of his falling ill. CHRIS is appalled to learn that his colleagues’ only concern is their promised trip. GUCCI arranges a cycling trip to the countryside for YING and CHRIS, but the trip ends with discord as YING falls down the bike under CHRIS’s supervision. CHRIS pays another visit to Yuen’s, and this time round, YING agrees to take their proposal into consideration. The staff at Ka Yan jumps for joy.

1x24 - Episode 24

June 5, 2003

Yee learns unwittingly that CHRIS has administered the “beauty ruse” to trick Ying into signing the deal and frowns at CHRIS’s tactic. Dressed in his best suit, CHRIS attends Yuen’s annual dinner. FRANCIS volunteers to style CHRIS’s hair but rather carelessly sprays hairspray onto his face. Within seconds, his face goes bright red with rashes.

1x25 - Episode 25

June 6, 2003

CHRIS returns home and finds the house decorated with round objects that symbolize marital bliss. Though embarrassed, he is appreciative of GUCCI’s gesture. GUCCI asks MARCO and TODAY to spy on CHRIS in the office. To decline YING’s affections for him, CHRIS asks YEE to pose as his girlfriend. He also offers to treat everyone to dinner as compensation. YING shows up at the KIMs and reveals her plan to leave Hong Kong. She asks to talk with CHRIS alone on the rooftop. Everyone is concerned with CHRIS’s safety.

1x26 - Episode 26

June 9, 2003

KAM is a lazy, do-nothing at work but he serves KITTY like a slave. KITTY spends her days aimlessly as she waits for Alex’s news. Just as she is about to give up hope, Alex appears and proposes to her. She cannot make up her mind and seeks the counsel of MAY, KELLY and TODAY. The three women put Alex through tough tests but their union is ultimately destiny’s will.

1x27 - Episode 27

June 10, 2003

KITTY gets back to KAM for ruining her marriage by stealing the toilets rolls from the gent’s toilet. SARAH gives GEORGE a hard time when he buys steamed rolls from Honey Cave. An over-the-hill actor WU YING visits GEORGE at Honey Cave and invites him to Hollywood to make a film. Overjoyed, GEORGE arranges for journalists to come for a photo session just as WU YING’s son takes his father back to the mental asylum. GEORGE is embarrassed, but SARAH is laughing hard.

1x28 - Episode 28

June 11, 2003

The following day, GEORGE goes to work with a swollen face. He loses his role and starts acting strangely, even barking like a dog. The KIMs and SHEKs are concerned, believing that SARAH has a role to play in his weird behavior. KAM volunteers to investigate into the matter and learns his lesson the hard way.

1x29 - Episode 29

June 12, 2003

GEORGE tries to organize his own fan club, and designates KAM as the president. KAM seizes the chance to swindle GEOGRE. The entire SHEK family is mobilized to track down a JOE, a longtime GEORGE fan, to replace KAM, and finds out that JOE is none other than SARAH.

1x30 - Episode 30

June 13, 2003

While SARAH points her finger at someone’s irresponsible acts, GUCCI suspects that she had been dumped. One day, GUCCI chances on SARAH at the airport and deduces that PANG is the illegitimate son of SARAH and GEORGE. FRANCIS finds the possibility of having a new mother and brother very disturbing. FRANCIS meets SARAH and addresses her “mother”. This puzzles her deeply. She finally yields to their plead and offers her side of the story. Everyone laughs at the “humiliation” she suffered back then.

1x31 - Episode 31

June 16, 2003

MARCO falls ill. KELLY tries to help by offering him a secret concoction, which further worsens his condition. The KIMs are displeased with MARCO’s subservience but he doesn’t seem to mind. He accompanies KELLY to KITTY’s home and labors for her with no complaints. The KIMs decide to boycott him.

1x32 - Episode 32

June 17, 2003

KELLY makes a vow in front of her colleagues that she and MARCO will marry in three days. MARCO, however, is evasive and even avoids seeing her. Sensing something wrong, KELLY turns to a fortune-teller, who tells her that this is a bad year to marry and anyone who does so will lose everything to bad luck. Her colleagues plead that she takes her vow back but she is reluctant and unwilling to. KELLY overhears something that MARCO seeks to conceal from his family and her. KELLY fears that he suffers from an incurable disease.

1x33 - Episode 33

June 18, 2003

KELLY finds out that ,000 has gone missing from a joint account with MARCO and goes to the KIMs to seek the truth. MARCO confesses that he has lent the money to an old school friend SHING KWAN for his wedding. KELLY launches her secret investigation of KWAN, and thus instigates KWAN, who fumes at MARCO and threatens to ease their friendship. MARCO goes all the way to gain KWAN’s forgiveness of KELLY. They go to withdraw money from the bank but finds only is left in the account.

1x34 - Episode 34

June 19, 2003

The following day, MARCO asks KELLY the whereabouts of the money and KELLY tells him that she has lent it to a friend. Ignoring MARCO’s hostile look, KELLY suggests they break up. KELLY loses her life’s bearing without MARCO by her side but her ego prevents her from making up with him. MARCO’s melancholy also makes life miserable for the KIMs.

1x35 - Episode 35

June 20, 2003

Complaining that she has no dates after work, KELLY forcibly takes YEE and KITTY as her mahjong mates. MARCO is mad at KELLY’s phony dates. CHRIS, FRANCIS and others take MARCO to a bar to drink his sorrows away, but everyone gets drunk except MARCO. KELLY lashes out at MARCO in her nightmare and is called by others a “vicious woman.” KELLY asks for MARCO’s forgiveness the next day but he appears not hearing her apologies and shoves her away.

1x36 - Episode 36

June 23, 2003

YEE wears big fashion labels every day and arouses much attention among her colleagues. But YEE claims that her clothes are forgeries. KITTY and others want to purchase clothes through YEE, and ROGER senses troubles. CHRIS is displeased with the feeble explanations YEE offers for being late for work and forgetting to bring design sketches to an important meeting. CHRIS decides to fire her. She faints at the scene.

1x37 - Episode 37

June 24, 2003

CHRIS realizes that he has wrongly blamed YEE when a nurse sends back the sketches and is overwhelmed by a feeling of guilt. YEE complains to ROGER, but ROGER thinks that the company is too small an arena for two capable persons and asks her to return to England. YEE’s lousy mood results in a loss of an order amounting to millions of dollars. ATHENA badmouths her in front of ROGER, who asks CHRIS to sack YEE. CHRIS listens to YEE’s explanation, and he can’t bring himself to fire her after learning that she is the breadwinner of the family.

1x38 - Episode 38

June 25, 2003

CHRIS and YEE join hands to win the bid, thus sparing YEE from her ill fate. To draw inspirations for her work, YEE stays temporarily with the KIMs. GUCCI revamps her appearance and assumes the air of an educated person. Ever since YEE’s stay at the household, KAM feels awkward about every move he makes. One day, he wakes up and finds himself on the roof, believing it to be some supernatural forces at work.

1x39 - Episode 39

June 26, 2003

Nobody at the KIMs believes in KAM’s encounter with ghosts. One night, while heading to the bathroom, TODAY sees to her horror a woman with long hair walking past her. Her screaming wakes KAM up, but KAM finds himself tied up in his bed. The KIMs cannot be more relieved when KAM asks to move out. CHRIS probes into the matter by recording events at night on a camera but meets YEE’s fists and kicks. It is then known to all that YEE sleepwalks.

1x40 - Episode 40

June 27, 2003

KELLY returns from her business trip and brings the KIMs souvenirs. YEE grabs the presents for herself and infuriates KELLY. Fearing that her place will be usurped by YEE, KELLY makes life difficult for her by snatching the crystal plate a client gave her and showing it off to the KIMs. YEE breaks a glass tumbler. KELLY mistakes it to be the crystal plate and engages YEE in a fight. MARCO is pushed down and lands on the broken glass amid the chaos.

1x41 - Episode 41

June 30, 2003

KELLY realizes that she has wrongly blamed YEE when CHRIS discerns the broken pieces are just glassware. ROGER reminds CHRIS of the importance of securing the order from A&B. FRANCIS overhears their conversations and learns that CHRIS has pledged to see the deal come through as condition to save YEE from getting the axe though YEE has no knowledge of it. FRANCIS asks if CHRIS likes YEE, but he denies it. YEE drags CHRIS to the rooftop in the small hours and talks enthusiastically about her latest inspiration — swapping of clothes among family members. CHRIS praises her originality. CHRIS and YEE go and sign a contract with A&B. The company staffs make life difficult for CHRIS, asking him to try on the clothes himself. CHRIS quietly bears the humiliation but YEE glowers at him. FRANCIS asks again if CHRIS fancies YEE, but CHRIS only says that YEE has a huge burden to shoulder, and asks him to keep the truth from her……

1x42 - Episode 42

July 1, 2003

TODAY works as a part-time model at Ka Yan and makes sharp criticisms on FRANCIS’s tonal designs. FRANCIS rebuts her and derogates her work as amateurish. The two are at odds. TODAY announces her rights to decide, dispute, and be independent. The KIMs take it as her momentary tantrum and abide it. The family pool their money to buy lottery tickets but TODAY decides to act alone, claiming that she will buy a manuscript of the famous playwright FIFTEENTH SON OF EAST SEA if she hits the jackpot. Having won the third prize, GUCCI splits the money among the family. Each member buys a present and neglects TODAY. Dejected, TODAY is at once surprised and overjoyed when GUCCI gives her the much sought-after manuscript. She flips through the script and is stunned to see that the contents are repetitions of the first scene. GUCCI has bought her a counterfeit!

1x43 - Episode 43

July 2, 2003

GUCCI comes upon a picture of TSUI, TODAY’s producer, and photos in which TODAY strikes sexy pose. KAM mentions that TSUI has a liking for taking nudity. Dumbfounded, GUCCI storms the studio and puts the session to a halt. CHRIS beats up TSUI in a fit of anger. But things turn out to be a big misunderstanding.

1x44 - Episode 44

July 3, 2003

TODAY criticizes FRANCIS’s frog T-shirt pattern as banal. But MARCO and CHRIS point out that the frog T-shirts are massive hit in a Southeast Asian country because frog is seen as a lucky charm. The king even writes FRANCIS a letter to offer his compliments. TODAY receives a call from TSUI, who offers her the leading role in his new movie. TODAY is elated and treats everyone to seafood. MARCO hurries to the banquet with the ominous news that the king is furious at the red color FRANCIS used for the fog, which turns a blessing into a curse. The king not only cancels the order but also prohibits TODAY from shooting her new film on location.

1x45 - Episode 45

July 4, 2003

TODAY and the three women work out at the gym and chance on FRANCIS. The old feuds play tricks on each other. KELLY suggests that they find TODAY and FRANCIS a common enemy so that they can turn feud into alliance. KAM is the unanimous choice. TODAY returns home one day and sees MICHAEL waiting downstairs with a bouquet of flowers. Her joy is cut short when FRANCIS returns and MICHAEL declares his love for him, forcing his lips on his. TODAY demands MICHAEL’s explanation. His words infuriate both TODAY and FRANCIS so much that they punch him on his face.

1x46 - Episode 46

July 7, 2003

MARCO and KELLY visit the “Love Bell” and find TODAY and FRANCIS paying obeisance before it. The news reaches a worrying GUCCI. But the truth is finally revealed — she only gets close to FRANCIS to prepare for her homosexual part in her next film.

1x47 - Episode 47

July 8, 2003

CHRIS introduces KITTY to his client ELTON, but ELTON takes MAY fancy and invites her to a cruise trip. MAY makes it clear that she doesn’t like ELTON and will not go to the date. The KIMs wonder what type of guys MAY falls for. MAY hurdles the railing in the middle of the road to retrieve a seemingly worthless plastic watch. TODAY witnesses the incident and believes the watch is a love keepsake. TODAY returns home and finds out that the watch once belonged to CHRIS and arrives at the conclusion that MAY has a crush on CHRIS.

1x48 - Episode 48

July 9, 2003

KAM is running an errand when he meets an elderly woman begging on her wheelchair and decides to give her a hand. GUCCI happens to walk past the place. She brands KAM an unfilial son as neighbors scorn KAM for pressing his mother into begging. KAM’s kind act towards the old lady ironically earns him a good beating. GUCCI suggests the family have an outing to the Hong Kong Botanic Garden. But her eagerness is not matched by her three children. CHRIS and MARCO tempt TODAY with money so that she will company the mother to the outing. TODAY flops at her last scene. To help her immerse in the role, the director and the assistant do a clever trick but get TODAY very drunk on set.

1x49 - Episode 49

July 10, 2003

CHRIS and MARCO return home and realize that TODAY has failed to show up at the outing. The four hear laughter coming out from GUCCI’s room and are stunned when GUCCI and KAM walk out together. The siblings plan to take GUCCI out but GUCCI has set a date with KAM for having Big Bowl Feast in Yuen Long. The siblings are stunned.

1x50 - Episode 50

July 11, 2003

Alarmed by KAM’s lipsalving GUCCI on the phone and learning from SARAH that GUCCI is on the way to the bank to close her time deposit account, the siblings follow KAM hot on his heels to the ferry pier. There, GUCCI hands over to KAM a huge envelope filled with notes. The siblings snatch the envelope and rip it open. The mystery is solved as they see for themselves that the envelope is filled with nothing other than paper money offerings.

1x51 - Episode 51

July 14, 2003

CHRIS, MARCO, and TODAY feel ill at ease as SARAH suspects that she is plagued with a series of illnesses. GEORGE mistakes her for a fat woman and makes her flush in embarrassment. He also boosts about nurturing and giving the first break to TSE SAU MAN, who now makes it to Hollywood. SARAH takes some medicine stealthily at night, thus confirming the siblings’ belief that she suffers an illness she intends to keep dark.

1x52 - Episode 52

July 15, 2003

Prior to the visit of NG MEI LAI, CHRIS’s major client, the staffs at Ka Yan put away little ornaments of love to avoid offending the single woman. While discussing the design sketches with CHRIS, LAI is upset by YEE’s courteous manners toward FRANCIS and storms out. In order to secure LAI’s contract, FRANCIS is forced to either adopt an alias or resign from his job

1x53 - Episode 53

July 16, 2003

CHRIS and others look for clues as to why SARAH falls out with KITTY. KELLY takes out a college annual and finds out that their friendship dates back to high school years. KITTY acts business-like towards KELLY and MARCO deliberately, while CHRIS searches desperately for a solution. KITTY challenges SARAH to a tennis match, and in the court, the two women explain why their friendship turned to feud. It all began from “The Old Virgin” contest….