Series 5 of Ghosts aired on 6 October 2023. The season is the final series of the show.
Cast[]
- Lolly Adefope as Kitty
- Mathew Baynton as Thomas
- Simon Farnaby as Julian
- Martha Howe-Douglas as Fanny
- Jim Howick as Pat
- Laurence Rickard as Robin/Humphrey
- Charlotte Ritchie as Alison
- Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Mike
- Ben Willbond as The Captain
Episodes[]
| # | Episode | Air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Fools" | 6 October 2023 | 501 |
| On April Fools' Day, most of the ghosts prank Alison as she wakes up by making her think she cannot see or hear them any more. Desiring revenge, she teams up with the equally hard-done-by Humphrey to get their own back, trying to prank each of the other ghosts one by one in order of gullibility before midday, but Pat remains stubbornly hard to fool owing to his years of experience as a scoutmaster. Meanwhile, Mike receives a visit from their insurance company to make a claim on the B&B fire and he realises how implausible the story behind it sounds. With midday passed and their insurance claim secured, Alison surprises Mike with one more piece of unexpected news: she is pregnant. | |||
| 2 | "Home" | 13 October 2023 | 502 |
| Mike is anxious about being a good father. After learning that many of Button House's antiques have lost their value due to damage, the Coopers decide to sell off land to raise money for when the baby comes. Only Fanny objects, with the other ghosts not being bothered about it due to the stretch of land in question being out of the way. After discovering that it is part of the green belt, the Coopers decide to sell it to a golf resort, however, Fanny's eulogising over Button House provides inspiration for Thomas' entry in a poetry competition with the theme of "Home". Meanwhile, Kitty becomes convinced that she is sharing Alison's pregnancy side effects while Pat and Julian debate the merits of north versus south. | |||
| 3 | "Pineapple Day" | 20 October 2023 | 503 |
| After a surveyor reveals that the land that the Coopers wish to sell can only accommodate a twelve-hole golf course, they try to negotiate with Barclay Beg-Chetwynde for the sale of additional land, although he attempts to drive a hard bargain. After Mike and Barclay are accidentally locked in the house's walk-in safe, Barclay agrees to a fair sale of his land after bonding with Mike (although Mike suggests to Alison that he engineered the situation to achieve said outcome). Meanwhile, after Alison discovers an accounts book from when Kitty died, she casually mentions how she died after drifting to sleep, raising the suspicions of the other ghosts. After investigating Kitty's death, during which both Kitty's jealous sister Eleanor and Lord Bummenbach, a visitor to Higham House who Kitty overheard was embezzling from the King, are suspected of killing her, the ghosts learn from Robin that she was killed by a venomous spider hiding in a pineapple presented as a gift; they also learn that, by Kitty's deathbed, Eleanor apologised for her harsh treatment of her. Also, several of the ghosts complain that Button House has not received a blue plaque dedicated to them; after Alison applies for one, it is dedicated to Henry VIII. | |||
| 4 | "En Francais" | 27 October 2023 | 504 |
| During a visit by a representative of the French-owned resort company that wishes to purchase the Coopers' land to sign off on the requisite paperwork, Mike tries to persuade her of his idea of opening up Button House as an unofficial members' bar, against Alison's advice. After hearing Mike's attempts to learn French, Robin reveals that he can speak fluent French, much to the amazement of everyone else. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Robin learnt French by listening to Lady Sophie Bone. Humphrey is outraged at this, although Robin states that he could only listen and Humphrey admits to his frustration with his marriage. After Mike accidentally triggers the company representative's nut allergy while demonstrating his idea, Robin and Humphrey help guide Alison to her epi-pen. Despite this, and the representative's translator thinking that Alison is mad after witnessing her talk to the ghosts, the sale goes through. Meanwhile, after the ghosts get into a rut with their normal activities, they decide to play quiz-show-style games adapted to their disembodied states and limited knowledge bases, with limited success. | |||
| 5 | "Carpe Diem" | 3 November 2023 | 505 |
| On the 'Annie-versary' (the day Annie moved on to the afterlife), Robin predicts that one of the ghosts will ascend as well before midnight that day. Kitty attempts to help reunite Humphrey's head and body; Fanny attempts to achieve several 'bucket list' activities; Thomas laments his failure to leave a legacy; Julian attempts to pull one of the plague ghosts (having ruled out Kitty and Fanny); Pat attempts to get everyone together to practise line dancing; Robin gets his affairs in order; and the Captain reveals the circumstances of his death, saying that he died of a heart attack after sneaking into an exclusive VE Day party by pretending to be a decorated officer, all to see his former lieutenant, Havers. Meanwhile, the Coopers attempt to have one more spontaneous night of fun before the baby arrives, by meeting with Obi and his new girlfriend Brenda. | |||
| 6 | "Last Resort" | 10 November 2023 | 506 |
| Inspired by Mike's proposal of opening up an informal members' bar at Button House, the resort company wishes to buy Button House to convert it into a golf resort. Abhorred by the idea, the ghosts attempt to charm or reason with Alison to decline the offer. During this, Pat and Robin argue over who has the best chance of wooing their favourite weather presenter; Kitty struggles to keep secret the gender of the Coopers' baby (which she discovered after accidentally passing through Alison's stomach); and Mike and Thomas attempt to console Obi after Brenda seemingly breaks up with him, although it is later revealed that she was only having difficulties with her phone. After Alison overhears Julian saying that he was responsible for her near-death experience and thus her ability to see ghosts, she decides to accept the offer. The ghosts demand that Julian apologise to Alison so that she does not go through with it. However, instead of apologising, Julian says that while he is ashamed of his actions, he does not regret them since they enriched Alison's life and the ghosts' afterlives; moved, Alison decides to decline the offer. Later, it is revealed that Kitty does not really know the baby's gender, believing that it is a boy after seeing its umbilical cord. | |||
| 7 | "A Christmas Gift" | 25 December 2023 | 507 |
| In the run up to Christmas, and with newborn Mia to look after, Alison and Mike are struggling to dislodge Mike's mother Betty after having stayed to help for the last seven weeks. Unfortunately for them, the ghosts, enamoured with the child because she can see them, are caught on the video baby monitor by Betty, who thus comes to believe that the house is haunted by ghosts. Despite attempting to convince her otherwise, Betty instead surprises the pair with a priest to perform an exorcism on the house, but this has no effect on the ghosts. Concluding that they have been interfering with Alison and Mike's lives as much as Betty had, the ghosts convince the pair to sell the house to the hotel firm. Several decades later, Button House has become an upscale hotel, with the basement converted into a sauna, to the delight of the Plague ghosts. An elderly Alison and Mike book into their "usual suite" that they have continued to visit annually, where Alison greets the ghosts once again as she enters. | |||
Trivia[]
- The opening title sequence had been amended, and depicts Mary moving onto the afterlife, by zooming up past the top of the screen.