Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary, unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them... However, things start to go wrong early in the day when Walter's business partner Arthur almost let's slip the news of the party. The day continues to go downhill from there with the happy couple falling out over Ada's new blonde wig, Walter is losing the money he was using to buy Ada's present and then finding it has been spent on a new coat and Ada hearing that Walter has been knocked down by a car... and that's just the start of it. 'For the Love of Ada' was spawned from the TV series of the same name, shown on ITV from 1970 to 1971.