university between the fourth and fifth series. Amanda "Mandy" Mosgrove (Matilda Thorpe) was Michael's PA. In episode two of the sixth series, Michael proposed to her and she accepted. She was due to marry Michael towards the end of the series. There was no episode of them getting married as the series had finished during the planning stages of the wedding. In the spin-off series, Porkpie it was revealed that Mandy had married Michael, her surname having become Ambrose. Beverley McIntosh (Joan Ann Maynard) was a good friend of Shirley's, Michael's godmother and the local gossip, providing a prudish, old-fashioned viewpoint and always wore a hat that resembled a tea cosy. She often spoke about her ailments and the medication she had to take, as well as having to prepare her husband's Cuthbert's red mullet - which he later revealed, in his only appearance, that he did not like. The couple had four children: three sons and a daughter, Merlene. Doreen Wilma Pleshette (Mona Hammond), usually referred to as Auntie Susu, was Shirley's ignorant sister, Porkpie's dream girl and later fiancée. She preferred to be called "Susu" rather than her birth name, but the family, in particular Shirley, would call her Doreen whenever angry with her. In the fourth series, Susu was deported back to Jamaica; however, she was still engaged to Porkpie. In the final series of the spin-off show Porkpie, Susu had turned up out of the blue from Jamaica, after finding out about Porkpie's Lottery win in the West Indian Times newspaper. She claimed to have married an Englishman back in the Caribbean so that she could get a passport to go to England to marry Porkpie. Porkpie later found out that she had run away with all her current husband's savings, sold his electric wheelchair and stolen his passport so that he could not pursue her, and that she only came to England to marry him and claim half of his fortune. Prior to her engagement to Porkpie, she was married to (and divorced from) Maxwell, with whom she had several sons. Vince (Count Prince Miller) was another assistant in the shop in the final series. He was also the drummer in the Georgetown Dreamers. Burt (Sol Raye) was a member of The Georgetown Dreamers, a band that Desmond, Porkpie and Vince played in. Andrew "Spider" Webb (Robert McKewley) was Sean's best friend and had an