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Rocket Man Season 1 · Episode 2

Episode 2

1 hour Season 1 Episode 2

After Bethan One crashes into the sea, George decides to build a new rocket out of aluminium and starts collecting cans. But his enthusiasm for recycling blinds him to Barney and Diane's desperate bid to start a family – and he ends up in an embarrassing misunderstanding with his own daughter Angela. George has to be rescued by the RNLI after his rocket crashes into the sea. It's too heavy to fly and George decides the best option is to start all over again. He goes with Barney to try and get some aluminium sheets from Lloyd, who runs a scrap yard. There's only one problem – Lloyd wants £150 and they're both broke. The Old Carriage Works team are murdered by Angela's school at rugby but as Tom tidies the playing field, George realises he could collect aluminium cans to use for a new rocket. He persuades Pam to let him start a collection at school – in return for helping with a model rocket competition. George is in a buoyant mood after Mary gets him a meeting with a recycling plant, but it's a bad night for his babysitters Barney and wife Diane when they discover she's not pregnant – again. Later, George finds the pregnancy testing kit and thinks it's Angela's. After an embarrassing chat with his daughter, George confronts Ed. Meanwhile a depressed Barney visits a consultant, missing his appointment at the recycling plant. George is angry and Barney resigns, while Diane is also hiding something. As the misunderstandings multiply, can the friendships and space programme get back on track?

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Barney and Diane ask George to be their sperm donor and are thrilled when he appears to accept. But George is worried about finding a new HQ for his rocket after an explosion at Mission Control. They go to the carriage works, but things don't go to plan with either the rocket – or the plans for fatherhood. In the midst of an explosion at Mission Control, Barney asks George to donate sperm. George is shocked and also threatened with arrest for keeping hazardous chemicals in his shed. Desperate for a child, Barney tells an excited Diane he thinks George will help. George goes for extra lessons with Tom's teacher Pam in a bid to improve his reading, but his mind's really on finding the right mix of fuel for Bethan Two and a new place to carry out his rocketeering. Along with Barney, Huw, Lloyd and Tom, they head for the Aber Ivor Carriage Works where Shiner is on night security duty. He reluctantly lets them in. The next day, the men return and break into the welding shed while Tom distracts the day shift guard. Later, George goes to a dinner party with Mary, who is keen to become more than friends. Angela doesn't like it, and her mood isn't helped when Ed cancels their date because the lead singer's walked out of his band. George gets to the Carriage Works just in time to witness another explosion. In the aftermath, he agrees to donate sperm, soon regretting it when Angela hits the roof. Pam helps George make some important decisions - but when Carriage Works owner Eric Davies eventually lets him have his rocket back, George has to consider how he can track it in space to make sure his wife's ashes go where they are supposed to.

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