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Episodes: All (101)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9
Year: 2000  |  2001  |  2002  |  2003  |  2004  |  2005  |  2006  |  2007  |  2008  |  2009


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Serpent's Tooth

Original Air Date—19 September 2000
While Nick chats up a girl on the internet, Michael's bought a pet rabbit which soon weaves its way into the family.

Season 1, Episode 2: Pain in the Class

Original Air Date—26 September 2000
Michael is being bullied by a classmate, and Susan discusses the issue with the boy's parents. Meanwhile, Janey is determined to get a tattoo.

Season 1, Episode 3: Droit de Seigneur Ben

Original Air Date—3 October 2000
Ben learns a patient's son is making advances toward his daughter. Susan has tickets to the opera.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Last Resort

Original Air Date—10 October 2000
Ben takes Susan away for her birthday, and Nick is left in charge.

Season 1, Episode 5: Farewell to Alarms

Original Air Date—17 October 2000
Susan wants a burglar alarm. Nick wants to become a stripper.

Season 1, Episode 6: Death Takes a Policy

Original Air Date—24 October 2000
As one of Susan's tour group dies unexpectedly, she decides that the family needs life insurance. Nick agrees, but only in order to win favour with his new girlfriend - a life insurance salesperson!

Season 1, Episode 7: Awkward Phase

Original Air Date—30 October 2000
Michael's on his first date and asks Nick for the facts of life. Meanwhile, Nick breaks his father's chair and Janey has her eye on a £98 pair of jeans.

Season 1, Episode 8: Much Ado About Ben

Original Air Date—7 November 2000
Ben is rushed to hospital after turning white and is forced to reveal that he took Viagra. Placed on a low-carb diet, he turns to Brigitte's guru for help. Meanwhile, Susan's yoga teacher has fallen out with her husband and the class takes place in the Harpers' house.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: All Roads Lead to Ramon

Original Air Date—31 August 2001
Nick needs a job and Susan volunteers to hire him to work with her. Meanwhile Ben inadvertently calls Janey a prostitute as the two discuss her boyfriends.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Unkindest Cut

Original Air Date—7 September 2001
Susan thinks she has become pregnant and Ben is disappointed about the prospect of having another child. When they realize it was a false alarm, Susan decides that the answer is surgery - on Ben!

Season 2, Episode 3: Parisian Beauty

Original Air Date—14 September 2001
A French exchange student causes havoc with the Harper men. Nick joins a science experiment. Michael must sleep in Nick's room with interesting results.

Season 2, Episode 4: Trust Never Sleeps

Original Air Date—21 September 2001
When Susan finds that Janey doesn't trust her, she lets her have a teenage party alone while she is in Oxford with Ben. However the two lose confidence and return, only to be trapped in their bedroom when the guests arrive. When Ben needs to use the toilet, and the one in their bedroom is broken, things only get worse!

Season 2, Episode 5: Death and Ben Take a Holiday

Original Air Date—28 September 2001
When Aunt Margaret dies, Ben has to travel to Leeds for the funeral with Nick. However, things descend into chaos as the two have to share a bed in a hotel! Worse still, Susan has acquired some "flu medicine" from one of Janey's friends.

Season 2, Episode 6: Driving Miss Crazy

Original Air Date—5 October 2001
Ben feuds with his neighbor, Mr Casey, and the two become involved in a lengthy battle for moral supremacy. Meanwhile, Janey has her driving test but cannot find a responsible adult to practice with.

Season 2, Episode 7: I Second That Emulsion

Original Air Date—12 October 2001
The Harpers quarrel over new home decor. Nick takes jobs as a piano tuner and assistant at the hardware shop. Janey and Stupid Brian's relationship reaches a new stage.

Season 2, Episode 8: Age of Romance

Original Air Date—19 October 2001
Susan is disapproving of Nick's new girlfriend, Amanda, and invites her to dinner to express her feelings on the matter. Things become heated, however, when Susan realizes that she's married! Meanwhile, Michael has a new computer, and Janey feels neglected.

Season 2, Episode 9: Get Cartier

Original Air Date—26 October 2001
Ben fears for his life when he becomes dentist to the mob but Susan doesn't seem to mind. Her opinion changes, however, on seeing Michael selling off the mob's gifts by phone. Meanwhile, it's their anniversary, and Susan's determined to find what Ben bought her.

Season 2, Episode 10: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Original Air Date—2 November 2001
Susan sends Janey in her place to visit her mother, where Janey finds out a family secret. Meanwhile, Michael stands in his school elections and Ben is on a quest to find excitement in his family tree.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Last Supper

Original Air Date—9 November 2001
Susan invites her American boss to discuss the direction the company is heading; however, when she begins to argue with him, his "acid reflux" is triggered. When he suffers a heart attack, Susan feels guilty and is determined to confess.

Season 2, Episode 12: Ben Wants to Be a Millionaire

Original Air Date—16 November 2001
When Ben meets one of his old school-friends he considers the idea of investing some money, and asks him for advice. Meanwhile Nick tries to sell his body parts on eBay!

Season 2, Episode 13: Breakable

Original Air Date—30 November 2001
Nick's decision to form a Motorcycle Stunt Display Team leads to him winding up in hospital with numerous injuries. However, he soon enjoys being able to call a nurse at the press of a button! Meanwhile Susan decides that Ben needs to tell Nick that he loves him.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey

Original Air Date—6 September 2002
Janey goes to university in Manchester, and an all out battle ensues over her room.

Season 3, Episode 2: Shrink Rap

Original Air Date—13 September 2002
Ben and Susan attend an auction at Michael's school, where they successfully bid on a couple's therapy session. Meanwhile, Ben tries to avoid a former patient.

Season 3, Episode 3: Desperately Squeaking Susan

Original Air Date—20 September 2002
Ben's cousin's daughter Abi is invited to dinner. Nick becomes a magician.

Season 3, Episode 4: Of Mice and Ben

Original Air Date—27 September 2002
Abi wants to make a documentary of a "normal married couple", and there's a rat in the walls.

Season 3, Episode 5: Imperfect Strangers

Original Air Date—3 October 2002
Janey calls home from university in crisis. Ben and Susan have a romantic adventure.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

Original Air Date—10 October 2002
The Harpers experience competitive family strife over an amateur nativity play. Michael has girl difficulties. Ben has a toothache.

Season 3, Episode 7: Waiting to Inhale

Original Air Date—17 October 2002
Michael is invited into a girl's room. Ben and Susan find a joint.

Season 3, Episode 8: Misery

Original Air Date—24 October 2002
Susan visits Janey at University. Michael wants to go to Greece. Nick has a new job.

Season 3, Episode 9: Auto Erotica

Original Air Date—7 November 2002
Susan wants to go away for her and Ben's wedding anniversary. Nick wins a car in a poker game. Michael finds some underwear.

Season 3, Episode 10: A Handful of Dust

Original Air Date—21 November 2002
It's Ben's birthday, and Janey comes for a visit with a friend.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Lost Weekend

Original Air Date—28 November 2002
Michael is off for a higher maths fun weekend, and with everyone else gone Ben and Susan have the weekend alone.

Season 3, Episode 12: Ghosts

Original Air Date—5 December 2002
The house may be haunted. Nick opens a mini-cab business. An old flame of Susan's looks her up.

Season 3, Episode 13: One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest

Original Air Date—12 December 2002
Nick and Ben reach a turning point. Michael tries to buff up.

Season 3, Episode 14: Ding Dong Merrily...

Original Air Date—25 December 2002
It's Christmas at the Harpers, Janey comes home with a gift for the holidays, and Nick has an idea for a holiday business.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Fitting Punishment

Original Air Date—21 March 2003
A new arrival at Ben's surgery leads to problems. Nick studies to becomes an extra. Michael gets very involved with the cadet force.

Season 4, Episode 2: They Shoot Harpers, Don't They?

Original Air Date—28 March 2003
Susan cons Ben into taking dance lessons. Michael is on a downward slide academically.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Great Escape

Original Air Date—4 April 2003
When Susan's mother comes to stay, Nick's flat suddenly becomes more attractive. Susan finds a condom in Michael's wallet.

Season 4, Episode 4: Return of the Prodigal Prat

Original Air Date—11 April 2003
When the local paper announces Ben's death, he takes advantage of the situation by avoiding things he doesn't want to do. Meanwhile, Nick finds out his bedroom is to be converted into a nursery, and decides to do something about it.

Season 4, Episode 5: Owed to Susan

Original Air Date—18 April 2003
Ben joins a poetry group when Susan discovers that a poem he wrote her years ago was not original and demands another. Nick participates in a drug trial.

Season 4, Episode 6: Deliverance

Original Air Date—25 April 2003
Susan insists on traveling to Manchester for the birth of Janey's baby, and the journey triggers flashbacks of Nick's birth.

Season 4, Episode 7: Blind Justice

Original Air Date—2 May 2003
Susan becomes temporarily blind after a discovery at home. Ben has jury duty.

Season 4, Episode 8: Friday the 31st

Original Air Date—9 May 2003
Susan gets into the spirit of Halloween.

Season 4, Episode 9: Sitting Targets

Original Air Date—16 May 2003
Susan decides Ben should spend more time with Michael. Nick juggles multiple women. Janey's baby comes for a visit.

Season 4, Episode 10: Loco Parentis

Original Air Date—23 May 2003
Ben and Susan have to go back to school for parenting classes. Roger becomes friends with Abi.

Season 4, Episode 11: Canary Cage

Original Air Date—30 May 2003
Ben loses his luggage on a free holiday to Lanzarote, Spain. A new camera causes complications.

Season 4, Episode 12: May the Best Man Win

Original Air Date—6 June 2003
Abi's father asks Ben to be his best man, and Ben contracts with Nick to give the stag night party. Michael has to do the dishes.

Season 4, Episode 13: It's a Window-Filled Life

Original Air Date—13 June 2003
Roger is contagious. Nick goes into business with a python. Michael fires a rocket launcher through a window.

Season 4, Episode 14: Sixty Feet Under

Original Air Date—25 December 2003
After doing some Christmas shopping, the Harpers find themselves stuck in an underground train that has broken down.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Reloaded

Original Air Date—12 March 2004
A clip show featuring scenes from the previous 49 episodes.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Mummy Returns

Original Air Date—19 March 2004
Janey returns home. Susan lies to the police. Michael becomes born again. Abi confuses nature with naturism.

Season 5, Episode 3: You Don't Know Jack

Original Air Date—26 March 2004
Michael's new friend likes Susan.

Season 5, Episode 4: What's Up, Docklands?

Original Air Date—2 April 2004
Ben and Susan flat-sit for some friends.

Season 5, Episode 5: Luck Be a Lady Tonight

Original Air Date—16 April 2004
Susan tries to find a date for Roger to make Abi jealous.

Season 5, Episode 6: First Past the Post

Original Air Date—23 April 2004
Susan decides to run for the council. Ben enters a crossword contest. Michael gets a pet.

Season 5, Episode 7: My Will Be Done

Original Air Date—30 April 2004
Ben starts thinking about his will. Nick takes a job at a funeral home.

Season 5, Episode 8: My Fair Charlady

Original Air Date—7 May 2004
Susan employs a cleaner. Abi learns the dictionary.

Season 5, Episode 9: The Mouthtrap

Original Air Date—14 May 2004
When one of Ben's patients admits to murdering his wife, Susan tries to expose the killer.

Season 5, Episode 10: While You Weren't Sleeping

Original Air Date—21 May 2004
Problems in the bedroom threaten to drive Ben and Susan apart.

Season 5, Episode 11: Dentist to the Stars

Original Air Date—28 May 2004
One of Britain's best loved heartthrobs visits Ben's surgery. Susan is fired.

Season 5, Episode 12: A Wife Less Ordinary

Original Air Date—4 June 2004
Susan and Janey agree to switch lives for a week. Roger embraces the "cowboy way".

Season 5, Episode 13: The Book of Love

Original Air Date—11 June 2004
Susan attends a neighbor's book club. Janey works for Ben. Abi wants Coldplay tickets.

Season 5, Episode 14: Going Dental

Original Air Date—18 June 2004
Ben seeks a new partnership in Harley Street. Susan decides to write a novel. Ben takes Janey to a dental conference.

Season 5, Episode 15: Glad Tidings We Bring

Original Air Date—24 December 2004
Janey's announcement makes the Harpers more festive, but complications, of course, set in, beginning with her fiancé

Season 5, Episode 16: Comic Relief Special

Original Air Date—11 March 2005

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: ...and I'll Cry If I Want To

Original Air Date—25 December 2005

Season 6, Episode 2: Bliss for Idiots

Original Air Date—10 March 2006
Ben's rejection by a club causes him to join a secret society, Susan's favorite author visits, Michael pilfers to impress a girl, and Abi taxes Roger's limited Welsh.

Season 6, Episode 3: The Spokes Person

Original Air Date—17 March 2006
When an old acquaintance turns up boasting of her perfect life, Susan is on a mission to prove her own life is better. Meanwhile, Ben angers cyclists with his rant on a radio programme, and Abi is influenced by the wrong chef.

Season 6, Episode 4: Dentally Unstable

Original Air Date—31 March 2006
While Ben is away at a dental conference, his locum charms the women -- even when they find out he's taken. Michael, meanwhile, has sold the family address for a tidy profit.

Season 6, Episode 5: Living the Dream

Original Air Date—7 April 2006
Ben, yearning for a boat, and facing mounting costs for two schools, looks for an easy fix when Roger tells him of a new company -- an all he has to do to get rich is push home products door to door.

Season 6, Episode 6: An Embarrassment of Susans

Original Air Date—14 April 2006
Ben decides to buy the property next door and turn it over for a profit, but circumstance... and Ben... get in the way. Elsewhere, Susan believes she's found the perfect mate for Michael, but there's an eerie familiarity to the girl.

Season 6, Episode 7: And Other Animals

Original Air Date—21 April 2006
Michael's gone for the weekend and Janey's moving back to her flat, so Susan fills the hole in her heart by adopting yet another stray. Elsewhere, Abi begins to question whether Roger is really interested in her.. or any females.

Season 6, Episode 8: The Art of Being Susan

Original Air Date—28 April 2006
Ben's away for the week, and Susan's mother comes to help... or torment; love hits several of the family in different forms as Michael processes a break-up, Roger screws up his courage to ask a question, and Susan and Grace manage to find admirers.

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 0: The Heart of Christmas

Original Air Date—25 December 2006

Season 7, Episode 1: The Ego Has Landed

Original Air Date—6 April 2007

Season 7, Episode 2: Four Affairs and a Funeral

Original Air Date—13 April 2007

Season 7, Episode 3: Once More with Feeling

Original Air Date—20 April 2007
Ben and Susan renew their wedding vows, much to Ben's disappointment.

Season 7, Episode 4: Dutch Art and Dutch Courage

Original Air Date—27 April 2007

Season 7, Episode 5: Susan of Troy

Original Air Date—4 May 2007

Season 7, Episode 6: One of the Boys

Original Air Date—11 May 2007

Season 7, Episode 7: Abi Ever After

Original Air Date—18 May 2007

Season 7, Episode 8: Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do

Original Air Date—25 May 2007

Season 7, Episode 9: Life Begins at Fifty

Original Air Date—8 June 2007

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 0: Ho Ho No

Original Air Date—26 December 2007

Season 8, Episode 1: The Parent Trap

Original Air Date—11 April 2008
Ben takes delivery of a neighbour's large, plasma-screen television and falls in love with it, but it seems that Michael's current love interest may be expecting a delivery too.

Season 8, Episode 2: Let's Not Be Heisty

Original Air Date—18 April 2008
Ben's attempt to pay money into his bank unhappily coincides with someone else's decision to take some out... with the aid of sawn-off shotguns. When he decides to act as The Negotiator things look bleak for the hostages.

Season 8, Episode 3: Cards on the Table

Original Air Date—25 April 2008
Ben's poker school is costing him a fortune, while Susan's visit to the fortune-teller reveals that something far more deadly is on the cards.

Season 8, Episode 4: The Wax Job

Original Air Date—2 May 2008
Ben decides to sell his dental practice and takes up a hobby which he finds even more boring, while Susan's move up the ladder at the art gallery leads to more than one fall.

Season 8, Episode 5: Neighbour Wars

Original Air Date—9 May 2008
Having run over Mr Casey's dog some years ago, Ben now compounds the misdemeanour by running over Mr Casey himself. Casey plays the sympathy card for all it's worth and it seems that it may be worth quite a lot.

Season 8, Episode 6: Can't Get No Satisfaction

Original Air Date—16 May 2008
Michael and Alfie's internet dating doesn't go quite according to plan; and Kenzo's piano playing may leave a lot to be desired, but will Ben's attempt to get his old band together prove a bigger hit?

Season 8, Episode 7: The Abi Habit

Original Air Date—23 May 2008
According to Susan, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder; while Janey looks like having it thrust upon her, for Abi, it looks like being a longer term commitment.

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 0: Have a Unhappy Christmas

Original Air Date—24 December 2008

Season 9, Episode 1: Bully for Ben

Original Air Date—2 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 2: Bringing Up Janey

Original Air Date—9 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 3: A Very Brief Encounter

Original Air Date—16 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 4: The Psyche of Mikey

Original Air Date—19 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 5: A Difficult Undertaking

Original Air Date—19 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 6: Dog Dazed

Original Air Date—23 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 7: It's Training Men

Original Air Date—30 April 2009

Season 9, Episode 8: The Guru

Original Air Date—7 May 2009

Season 9, Episode 9: Kenzo's Project

Original Air Date—14 May 2009

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