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My Family

Season 4 2003
TV-PG

  • 2003-03-21T00:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Ben 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.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2003-03-21T00:00:00Z

4x01 Fitting Punishment

Season Premiere

4x01 Fitting Punishment

  • 2003-03-21T00:00:00Z30m

Susan is looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild, but not to being a grandmother. Meanwhile, Nick wants to move back in and a new arrival at Ben's surgery has quite an impact.

Susan decides that she and Ben should take dance lessons, but they soon find it takes more than two to tango. Meanwhile, Michael decides to concentrate on his studies, but can he stop thinking about girls?

2003-04-03T23:00:00Z

4x03 The Great Escape

4x03 The Great Escape

  • 2003-04-03T23:00:00Z30m

Normally, nobody in the Harper family would willingly set foot in Nick's flat, but when Susan's mother comes to stay, it suddenly seems more attractive.

When the local newspaper accidentally lists Ben in the obituaries, he takes it as an opportunity to do absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, Susan wants to convert Nick's old room to a nursery, but Nick isn't having any of it.

2003-04-17T23:00:00Z

4x05 Owed to Susan

4x05 Owed to Susan

  • 2003-04-17T23:00:00Z30m

After the Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original, he goes to great lengths to make it up to her.

2003-04-24T23:00:00Z

4x06 Deliverance

4x06 Deliverance

  • 2003-04-24T23:00:00Z30m

Janey's baby is due and Susan insists on traveling to Manchester for the birth; it's a journey that throws up several blasts from the past.

2003-05-01T23:00:00Z

4x07 Blind Justice

4x07 Blind Justice

  • 2003-05-01T23:00:00Z30m

Susan gets hysterical blindness after seeing Michael in bed with a girl. Meanwhile, Ben is on dreaded jury duty and is hassled by an annoying busybody fellow juror, and Nick becomes a wrapping artist.

2003-05-08T23:00:00Z

4x08 Friday the 31st

4x08 Friday the 31st

  • 2003-05-08T23:00:00Z30m

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.

2003-05-15T23:00:00Z

4x09 Sitting Targets

4x09 Sitting Targets

  • 2003-05-15T23:00:00Z30m

Susan decides that Ben should spend more time with Michael in case he turns into another Nick, and Janey leaves the grandparents to babysit Kenzo.

2003-05-22T23:00:00Z

4x10 Loco Parentis

4x10 Loco Parentis

  • 2003-05-22T23:00:00Z30m

Ben and Susan have to go back to school for parenting classes as a result of Michael playing truant.

2003-05-29T23:00:00Z

4x11 Canary Cage

4x11 Canary Cage

  • 2003-05-29T23:00:00Z30m

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.

2003-06-05T23:00:00Z

4x12 May the Best Man Win

4x12 May the Best Man Win

  • 2003-06-05T23:00:00Z30m

Abi's father asks Ben to be his best man; this turns out to have been a bad move, as he hands over the running of the bachelor night to Nick.

Season Finale

2003-06-12T23:00:00Z

4x13 It's a Window Filled Life

Season Finale

4x13 It's a Window Filled Life

  • 2003-06-12T23:00:00Z30m

After coming into contact with an infectious disease from Peru, the whole Harper household is placed under quarantine by Susan. How long will it be till they all drive each other mad?

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