Collectaholics

Mel and Mark meet Stuart whose love of all things railway has led to him building a life-size railway station in his back garden to house his 1,000-piece collection of signs, but his passion doesn't stop there. Stuart has three collections.

Mel and Mark meet Nigel, the animal lover with a penchant for all things stuffed. His boyhood dream of owning animals preserved by taxidermy has now extended to more than 500 pieces, and he has everything from fish and foxes to polar bears and lions.

Mark and Mel meet James, whose lifelong obsession with `Star Wars' means that his children have to climb over heaps of his 35,000-piece memorabilia collection just to get into their beds. With no room for display, piles of brown boxes have consumed the family home.