Stressed Eric

Eric Feeble is a middle-class divorced father of two who resides in London. Eric is endlessly at his wits end - stressed out with his family, colleagues, and life in general.

His two children Claire and Brian cause him nothing but stress, and his drunken nymphomaniac live-in au pair Maria does nothing to alleviate poor Eric of any of it. Eric's ex-wife, Liz, involves herself in every kind of "rights" act imaginable, and seems more interested in fighting the ever changing causes the looking after her own children.

Then of course there are his next-door neighbours, the wealthy, successful and snobbish Perfect family, who provide him a constant and painful view of what his life could be.

At the end of each episode, a throbbing vein in Eric's head bursts out and chokes him....