Bram and Alice is a sitcom heavily based in aqwardness and absurdity. Alfred Molina is Bram Shepard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, womaniser and generally self-centred and greedy man. Alice O’Connor, a young hopeful novelist herself, discovers that he is her father. Tentatively she decides to move in with him, and a relationship that is to be far from smooth begins...

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Bram is finding Alice is more difficult to live with than he thought, proving Paul (who says “it won’t work” whenever he can) right. Bram’s carefully executed scheme to seduce the new attractive neighbour is foiled by Alice’s unknowing hand, who then accidentally ties him up to write a newspaper review he didn’t want to. Alice has also brought a cat to live with her, a cat which seems resolute that it must distract Bram from his writing. He hides the cat downstairs amongst many other cats owned by a neighbour and enjoys a few minutes peace.

Later, downstairs from Bram’s flat in the bar, Bram tries to assure his friends that Alice is a mature girl who “isn’t looking for a Daddy”. His point falls through the moment they see her boyfriend – her “Billy” is even older than Bram. They stare, dumbfounded, as she cheerfully tells them that he’s taking her to the Zoo.

Later on, Bram is desperately attempting to finish his review. Alice is making a lot of noise looking for her cat, and so he turns and shouts at her. Upset, Alice informs him that, not only did her boyfriend dump her and her cat go missing, but it is her birthday. Feeling an unusual pang of conscience, Bram sends Paul to retrieve the cat, ignoring Paul’s terrible allergy to the animal. After some difficulty Bram returns Alice’s cat and good feeling resumes between them. Paul, however, has not had such a nice time, and skulks back into the apartment with a sore back, tousled hair and runny nose.

Whilst waiting for the elevator, Bram meets Buddy Royal and takes an instant dislike. Buddy doesn’t seem to notice, proudly telling him all about his “Big and Wide” store, stocked with endlessly tasteless jumpers for the larger man.

Alice is appalled at Bram’s level of debt and sets out to clear up his finances and ensure he stops his pattern of overspending. Paul is getting more and more fed up with Alice’s existence, feeling that she’s taking everything that is his. Overhearing a conversation about DNA samples, Paul makes a few clumsy attempts to get a few drops of blood from Alice, hoping to use a DNA test to prove she isn’t his daughter.

Bram is drinking with his friends when Buddy enters the pub. He amusingly mutters
“Oh god, not him. Maybe if we all lie down he’ll just sniff us and move on.”, but changes his tune when he hears that Buddy lost a lot of money in a poker game the night before. He arranges another poker game that evening at his home, hoping to score some easy cash from Buddy. That evening Bram is on a winning streak, and stays in the game as the stakes get higher and higher…