Susan decides it's time to 'Cavitox'!
My Family
Show summary:
Comedy about Ben, a dentist, and his family. They don't exactly get along well.
Comedy about Ben, a dentist, and his family. They don't exactly get along well.
It is a sad week for Susan as her mother's funeral is held. There she is in for a shock, meeting her estranged father who she hasn't seen for 30 years. However, he takes a dislike to Ben at the wake and offers £2,000,00...
Whilst Ben is away on a course Susan is persuaded by Janey to go on the Facebook social network,which leads to her meeting up again with charming ex-boyfriend Paul Tremaine. He takes her for a drink and says romantic thi...
Susan drags a reluctant Ben along to a Keep Your Marriage Fresh weekend,where his anarchy and their mutual antipathy get them thrown out by the hippie in charge. Back at the house Michael gets dumped by boyfriend Matt,wh...
Ben and Susan have yet another row after he refuses to attend her godparents' anniversary party so they decide on a trial separation,taking it in turns to live in the house alone. Ben moves in with Roger,ruining his love...
Janey and Michael give their parents a Spanish holiday as an anniversary present but Michael has used Ben's credit card to finance it and needs to replace the money quickly so he contacts 'Cash In the Attic',finding that...
With Ben on a course Susan works late at the art gallery with handsome young Chris,whose advances she spurns. Next day he accuses her of sexual harassment and she has to attend a course.Janey advises her on how to call h...
Susan gets an audition as a presenter of a pre-school TV show alongside a puppet monkey after a producer hears her reading to children in the library. There is however one other applicant -Janey - resulting in dirty tric...
Ben is overjoyed when Mark,Kenzo's wealthy,successful father reappears and encourages him to propose to Janey. Susan,on the other hand,believes that Craig's feelings for her daughter are sincere and gives him her blessin...
Ben volunteers to look after one of Janey's elderly care clients for an evening; what could possibly go wrong?
Ben forgets about Valentine's Day, but discovers that Susan has a more attentive admirer.
To a shock to Ben and Susan, Michael comes out as gay. Also much to Ben disapointment a friend of Michael named Scott moves in with the Harpers.
When the local council insists that Ben is disabled, what can he do but play along with it until the wheels start coming off?
Abi voluntarily takes a vow of chastity, meanwhile Janey's the one for whom sex seems to be off the cards.
Michael and Alfie try to find love on an internet dating website. Meanwhile Ben tries to reform his old band.
After running over his neighbours dog some years ago, Ben manages to go one better by running over his neighbour.
Misfortune is on the cards for Ben and Susun as Ben goes to a poker school and Susan visits a fortune teller.
A bank heist goes from bad to worse for the hostages when Ben tries to act as negotiator.
Much to Ben's distress, Susan starts acting very strangly...Last in the series.
Some friends of Ben and Susan's are getting divorced. Could this spell problems for their own marraige too?
It's the day before Roger and Abi's wedding but, for this accident-prone couple, until the marriage is solemnised, anything can happen and probably will.
Roger's mother visits to meet her future daughter-in-law. An old drinking mate from Ben's youth has changed much more than he had expected.
Micheal has secretly entered the whole family into a popular TV game show including his Grandmother and her latest husband Brad. The resulting family squabble may fuel a few insults by Anne Robinson, but will the insults...
A handsome millionaire art collector reappears in Susan's life and Ben feels jealous when the two of them share a hotel bedroom.
Susan wants to renew her wedding vows to Ben but there's a problem. She also wants Ben to renew his vows to her. Meanwhile, Abi and Roger are celebrating the fact they've set a day for their wedding, it's a Saturday, but...
Ben attempts to hide the fact an elderly man died of natural causes in his dentist's chair, unfortunately the man left a trial of promiscuity which proves even harder to cover up. Meanwhile Abi and Susan try to 'shake th...
Susan has organised a dinner date with the Mortons, a couple she and Ben met on holiday. Just as they are leaving the house, a mysterious but very familar-looking man arrives, asking for Janey.
Ben pretends to be ill to get out of Christmas, but when Susan insists he go to the doctor, they decide to run tests because of high blood pressure. Ben then enjoys his private room, but he is soon sent to a NHS ward, as...
Ben is away and Susan is invited to dinner by a rich art collector. Her mother, Grace, gathers a collection of her own, and Roger is trying to find the courage to pop the big question to Abi.
Susan adopts a stray dog. Ben accidentely donates a priceless family heirloom to Goodwill. Abi suspects that Roger is gay.
Ben purchases the house next-door in hope of making quick money by furnishing it and then selling it on. However, he encounters a large problem when squatters take over the house. Susan attempts to play Cupid, when she i...
After Roger shows off his brand new, expensive watch to Ben, Ben and Susan both get caught up trying to sell 'Pyramus' products, believing that they will be super rich in doing so, and that they will consequently be able...
Ben is away at a conference, so smooth-talking locum Tony covers. Janey immediately falls under his charm, but her and Susan very shortly discover that he is married. However, despite both of them knowing that Janey must...
Ben starts a one man anti-cycling campaign that causes chaos in the household. An old acquaintance of Susan, Hilary, visits, boasting about her family, which makes Susan even more determined to fare better at fundraising...
'Doctor' Buck, an American author, stays over at the Harpers, which again angers Ben. Elsewhere, Michael spends time with a woman, who is impressed by artefacts he supposedly found in his garden, and Roger is also trying...
Susan attends a neighbour's book club; Michael runs a booking agency exclusively for Roger; Ben books a seat on the sofa, but gets a new assistant too close to home.
Susan is bored with her lot and opts to run her life as a single girl again; Janey takes the opportunity to try running the home with a husband who is less than perfect; and Ben just runs away.
A filmcrew comes to town to film a new film which contains many famous british actors. Ben and Roger fight to perform surgery on the British Heartthrob who wants a 'normal classic' dentist. This leads to Roger geting tic...
Susan is increasingly annoyed at Ben's consistent snoring while she is trying to get to sleep and suggests 'alternative' ways to deal with the ordeal, however it doesn't seem to work and leads to a separation of beds. Bo...
Ben buys Susan the 33 DVD Boxset of Inspector Morse and then tells her of his rich patient who confesses to killing his wife while he was being sedated.
Susan then tries to figure out the mystery behind Mr Addis a...
Susan feels that she doesn't have enough time to do the housework while holding down her job, therefore decides to interview as many cleaners as possible to find the correct one. She then decides on Martha who not only d...
The prospect of imminent death often concentrates the mind and the prospect of Ben's is no exception. After visiting 4 different websites, Ben is now convinced he has just a year left to live and decides to write his wil...
Ben becomes jealous of Roger winning a £20 gift voucher on the Times Crossword puzzle and tries to prove to himself that he can do crosswords as quick as Roger but Susan demands Ben's full attention and support after ...
Susan tries to play the role of 'matchmaker' for Roger while Ben is trying to teach Roger how to 'chat up' the ladies. Roger then gets a call girl to try and make Abi jealous but it ends up costing him a fortune to keep ...
Ben and Susan decide to help out some friends by flat sitting their brand-new Docklands apartment.
Ben has taken a dislike to Michael's geeky friend Hubert. He's therefore relieved when Michael acquires a new, and much cooler, school mate Jack. Michael is soon dressing trendily and hanging out with the cool kids at sc...
In this new series, more problems for Ben appear - Janey comes back home, Susan lies to the police, Michael's become born again and Abi confuses nature with naturism!
Susan is lying in bed, bored and depressed, with a broken leg, after Ben accidentally reversed the car into her. When Ben comes upstairs to see how she is they end up discussing their family, which depresses them both. T...
Ben, Susan, Nick and Michael are on the tube after doing some Christmas shopping, and due to signalling problems the train cannot move. Michael gets a girlfriend called Claire (Sydney Stevenson), Nick makes money by sell...
The Harper house is quarantined because Roger is contagious. Nick goes into business with an eighteen-foot python, while Michael gets to grips with a rocket launcher.
Abi's father asks Ben to be his best man, which turns out to have been a bad move
The Harpers get a free holiday to Lanzarote, and even though Ben loses his luggage, he is happy enough to use his brand new digital camera as much as possible.
Ben and Susan have to go back to school for parenting classes as a result of Michael playing truant.
Susan decides that Ben should spend more time with Michael in case he turns into another Nick. Janey leaves the grandparents to babysit Kenzo
Susan decides to enter enthusiastically into the spirit of `trick or treat' for the neighbourhood children, which Ben tries to ignore until the spirits get to him
Susan witnesses something so shocking, she becomess hystericly blind, she tries to hide it from Ben, but to no avail.
Janey's baby is due, and Susan insists on travelling to Manchester for the birth. The journey throws up several blasts from the past.
The Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original.
When the local paper announces Ben's death, he sees it as an opportunity to avoid doing all the things he doesn't want to do.
Ben has neglected to fix the broken toilet seat and winds up having his mother-in-law under his roof while she recuperates from a nasty fall from the throne. Nick as usual, finds a way to exploit the situation.
When Roger shows some talent at acting, Susan decides to jump on the bandwagon and takes dancing lessons...and a 'wine tasting' class! Michael is disappointed when he gets a B in an exam.
Susan is looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild, but not to being a grandmother. Nick wants to move back in. And a new arrival at Ben's surgery has quite an impact.
When Janey comes home for Christmas, she's pregnant and Susan wants to know who the father is. However, Janey refuses to tell her, but does tell Ben, who then lies to Susan about the father. Meanwhile, Nick starts a Chri...
Nick decides to get his own flat but, as always for Ben, every silver lining has a cloud
A name from the past comes back to haunt Susan, who is determined to dampen the old flame - but not before Ben gets singed
When the children go away for the weekend, Ben and Susan finally have some time to themselves. Unfortunately, it has been so long since that happened that they have absolutely no idea how to spend it
Ben is annoyed when he discovers that his family have forgotten his birthday, but has slightly more to worry about when Janey arrives with her 'lesbian girlfriend', Katie! Is Janey really gay or has she got an ulterior m...
When Nick wins an old car in a poker game, he wants to use it for parts but Ben tries his best to restore it to it's former glory...sadly with little success. Will he and Susan ever get to Dorset for their anniversary we...
When Susan, much to Janey's disgust, comes to visit her in University, Ben plans (and looks forward to) a golfing weeekend. As you'd imagine, He, Susan, Janey...and the poor university student in the showers... get more ...
Michael has got his eye on a lovely girl in his class, but his mother Susan doesn't approve of his choice. She is even less pleased when she finds a joint in his super-secret sock drawer.
Before she and Ben co...
The Harpers experience internal competition regarding a nativity play when both Nick and Susan audition for parts - Who will get a leading part and who will be a shepherd?! Also Ben is suffering from a severe toothache b...
After being ushered away from the university by Janey and her two male friends, Susan and Ben decide to book into a local hotel under fake names and pretend to meet eachother again as strangers. As you'd expect, it all w...
Abi has to make a video project about family life and decides to film the Harpers...Ben and Susan ruin the film though! Also, Ben and Susan were terrorised by a rat that they heared on the other side of a wall!
Susan, still missing Janey, decides that she needs some female company and so invites Abi, the daughter of a hated cousin of Ben's, to dinner. Ben, as usual, is against her idea. Abi turns out to be the most accident-pro...
Susan finds a letter on Micheal's desk inviting her and Ben to a school auction - Michael doesn't want them to go because he thinks his parents are too embarrassing. Ben also says no but Susan goes and so forces Ben to! ...
Ben and Susan look forward to a night out in a town where nobody knows their names when they visit daughter Janey, who is away at university. Booking into a hotel under the names of Johnny Studd and Delores de Large, the...
Ben goes to a reunion of old school friends and finds someone he never liked is now a millionaire.
Susan gets more than she bargained for when she invites her American boss to the house for dinner - he dies!
Ben is horrified when Michael announces his intention to stand in the school election - as a Tory.
Ben suspects that one of his patients is a mobster after he gives him an expensive watch.
Ben's new assistant can't look at blood and his neighbour has DIY problems. Meanwhile, Janey's preparing for her driving test.
The Harpers go to Leeds for Aunt Margaret's funeral. Chaos ensues thanks to reservation problems, Nick's encounters with a maid and Susan's pills.
Parents Ben and Susan reluctantly agree to let Janey have a party whilst they are away on holiday, but they secretly plan to sneak back.
Preparations are afoot for the arrival of a French exchange student. Meanwhile, Ben meets a prospective employee.
Ben discovers that all Janey's suitors are part-time tutors, while Susan finds employing Nick is not for the faint-hearted.
Ben and Susan worry about their mortality and buy life assurance from Nick's girlfriend.
Susan becomes worried about crime and she thinks that a burglar alarm is the answer.
Ben takes Susan to an old romantic haunt for her birthday, but things don't go well.
Ben sets his daughter up on a blind date with the son of one of his wealthiest clients.
Ben and Susan learn that Michael has attracted the unwanted attention of a school bully.
Ben is puzzled to hear his wife Susan and daughter Janey are seeing another dentist.
