As part of Thomas’ April Fools day prank, Alison starts stripping in front of him to show her affection, only for her to reveal April Fools written on her t-shirt. After failing to get the ghosts to do a haunting for a group of paranormal enthusiasts, Alison and Mike tries to do a faux haunting of their own in hopes to earn money. Mary finally opens up about how her earlier centuries as a ghost, with the help of her friend Annie, taught her to speak her mind, Kitty shows the Captain how to enjoy doing nothing, and Thomas struggles to get over his infatuation with Alison.

However, after Humphrey reattaches himself, she immediately loses any passion for Humphrey's body and breaks off their relationship. Mike adapts to his new job as a line manager, but becomes agitated at Julian when he instigates a misunderstanding with Mike's boss. Artistic License – Space: A lunar eclipse is shown as the moon being covered up, like a solar eclipse. En Francais" shows the other side of Humphrey's marriage; while in the present he moans that he wasn't able to connect with his wife Sophie, this episode reveals that he left her alone for vast swathes of time with only her maid to talk to. She has been published in Vice, Vogue India, Refinery29, Mashable, i-D, Little White Lies, HuffPost and The Daily Beast among other titles.Meanwhile, Mike receives unexpected help from Julian while trying to film a video to promote Button House. Scoutmaster Pat is in a melancholy mood as he prepares for a visit by members of his living family for his 'death day': his widow (who is now married to the man with whom she had an affair), Pat's son, the son's girlfriend, and the couple's baby boy. As part of Alison’s April Fools Day prank on Julian, she leaves a laptop for Julian to use to the Samantha Fox photos.

Initially believing the ghosts to be an after-effect of her accident, Alison eventually accepts the truth and confronts them. Though they do have some rocky moments throughout the series such as almost ruining Sam and Claire’s wedding.Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Some people who die, such as Alison's distant relative the last Lady Button, do this, while others become ghosts. Series 5, released all at once on iPlayer on 6 October 2023, received particularly high praise from critics with five star reviews in The Telegraph and The Guardian. Subverted with Thomas, who wants Alison to leave her husband, kill herself and spend eternity with him, all of which is soundly rejected. Rickard also appears as the head of Sir Humphrey Bone – A Tudor nobleman who accidentally decapitated himself in 1575 after being mistakenly accused of his wife's plot to assassinate Elizabeth I. Little do they know, Button House is also home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries, unable to leave the grounds and resigned to squabbling with each other for eternity: Robin (Rickard), a caveman and the oldest of the ghosts; Mary (Katy Wix), an eccentric woman burned as a witch during the Stuart era; Kitty ( Lolly Adefope), an excitable and naive Georgian aristocrat; Thomas (Baynton), a melodramatic and easily-infatuated Romantic poet; Lady Fanny (Howe-Douglas), the repressed and overbearing Edwardian-era owner of the house; The Captain (Willbond), a pompous, World War II-era military officer; Pat (Howick), a friendly scout leader who was accidentally shot in the neck with an arrow by one of his scouts; Julian (Farnaby), a slimy Conservative MP who died as the result of a scandalous sex mishap; and Headless Humphrey (head - Rickard; body - Yani Xander), a beheaded Tudor nobleman who, due to his own clumsiness, spends most of his time trying to reunite his head and his body.

However, after being tempted by Julian into taking a sneak peek at the Christmas presents Alison bought all the ghosts, Pat is disheartened after watching his family apparently mock him. While drunk, Alison admits to Thomas that if he was alive, they were the same age and she wasn't with Mike, something might have happened between them. Inheritance Backlash: Alison inherits a massive stately home; unfortunately it's not only haunted but needs so much work done to make it inhabitable, let alone possible for it to become a hotel, that she and Mike lose money in the process. When she dies in the first episode at the age of 99 and moves on into the afterlife shortly after, Alison Cooper comes to inherit the house.Jackie Clune as Gwen – A tourist who visits Button House to find proof that ghosts are real, after Lady Button appears in a photo which circulates online.