The premise was simple: the humorous scenarios caused when Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker), a black West Indian conservative, and his family move next door to the family home of Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst), a white English socialist bigot.
Like 'Till Death Do Us Part', the racism shown by both characters was meant to make people laugh at such prejudices, but the show ended up being labelled racist itself, due to its politically incorrect handling of such issues.