Set in a run-down Victorian house, it followed the misfortunes of Rigsby and his tenants Alan, Philip and Miss Jones - the object of his affections.

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Separated by razor wire from a busy road, it is a clean but slightly run-down patchwork of pastel-colored bungalows that house 70 orphaned, abandoned or abused children, from newborns to kids age 6.

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He could run a hose down from the house, and, yes, he had put a hot-water line through the basement out to the back, and, in the dead of winter, with his 50 amp heater running and a drain in the middle of the concrete floor, he could wash his MG convertible, dreaming of tomorrow and his escape.

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