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My Family : Season 4
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Air date: 21 Mar '03 - 14 episodesBen Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or job centre, Janey is as sharp as a tack and 16 going on 25, while Michael is a very bright, computer-nerdish 12 year old who is just discovering girls.
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List of Episodes (14)
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My Family (2000)
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1. Fitting Punishment
21 Mar '03Susan 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.
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2. They Shoot Harpers Don't They?
28 Mar '03When 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.
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3. The Great Escape
04 Apr '03Ben 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.
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4. Return of the Prodigal Prat
11 Apr '03When 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.
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5. Owed to Susan
18 Apr '03The Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original.
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6. Deliverance
25 Apr '03Janey's baby is due, and Susan insists on travelling to Manchester for the birth. The journey throws up several blasts from the past.
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7. Blind Justice
02 May '03Susan witnesses something so shocking, she becomess hystericly blind, she tries to hide it from Ben, but to no avail.
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8. Friday the 31st
09 May '03Susan 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
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9. Sitting Targets
16 May '03Susan decides that Ben should spend more time with Michael in case he turns into another Nick. Janey leaves the grandparents to babysit Kenzo
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10. Loco Parentis
23 May '03Ben and Susan have to go back to school for parenting classes as a result of Michael playing truant.
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11. Canary Cage
30 May '03The 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.
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12. May the Best Man Win
06 Jun '03Abi's father (guest star Anthony Stewart Head) asks Ben to be his best man, which turns out to have been a bad move
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13. It's a Window Filled Life
13 Jun '03The 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.
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My Family (2000)
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14. Sixty Feet Under (2003 Christmas Special)
25 Dec '03Ben, 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 selling bottled water and Susan starts decorating the carriage. Abi, Roger, and an Albanian man (Samuel Gough) are busking as a Romanian folk band, while Nick brings Richard Whiteley to see Ben and Susan. However, when the problem is fixed, the driver (Nigel Lindsay) refuses to move
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