My Family - Episode Guide

Ben is puzzled to hear his wife Susan and daughter Janey are seeing another dentist.

Ben and Susan learn that Michael has attracted the unwanted attention of a school bully.

Ben sets his daughter up on a blind date with the son of one of his wealthiest clients.

Ben takes Susan to one of their old romantic haunts for her birthday, but things don't go well.

Susan becomes worried about crime and she thinks that a burglar alarm is the answer.

Ben and Susan worry about their mortality and buy life assurance from Nick's girlfriend.

Nick wants a job, Janey wants new jeans and Michael wants advice for his first date.

Ben finds out that his son is taking Viagra.

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 wonder if they're too old to have another child. What if it turns out like Nick?

Preparations are afoot for the arrival of a French exchange student. Meanwhile, Ben meets a prospective employee.

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.

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.

Ben's new assistant can't look at blood and his neighbour has DIY problems. Meanwhile, Janey's preparing for her driving test.

Janey's love life scuppers decorating plans.

Ben and Susan are not happy about Nick's new girlfriend.

Ben suspects that one of his patients is a mobster after he gives him an expensive watch.

Ben is horrified when Michael announces his intention to stand in the school election - as a Tory.

Susan gets more than she bargained for when she invites her American boss to the house for dinner - he dies!

Ben goes to a reunion of old school friends and finds someone he never liked is now a millionaire.

Nick plus motorbike doesn't equal tranquillity.

With Janey going off to university, vacuum cleaning the house becomes an issue for everyone.

Ben and Susan take part in Michael's school fundraising auction. Ben quickly regrets making a pledge when he spies a former patient.

Susan invites cousin Abi to stay for moral support in an otherwise male household. Ben worries his peace and quiet will be disturbed.

The Harpers star in a documentary about family life as part of Abi's latest college assignment.

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 stage is set for a night full of surprises - of one kind or another.

Susan's feathers are ruffled when Nick lands the plum part of Jesus in an amateur theatrical production, leaving Susan to play the rather less demanding part of Shepherd Number Two. Ben, meanwhile, has an extremely painful toothache to contend with, and is wary of entrusting his dental needs to any other dentist.

Susan is worried that the studious Michael is being led astray by a more adventurous classmate, and asks Ben to have a friendly chat.

Janey is appalled when her mother comes to visit at university - especially when she begins to reminisce about her own student days. Meanwhile, Ben's plans for a relaxing round of golf do not go according to plan, and Nick lands a job as a female impersonator.

Nick wins an old car in a poker game, and intends to break it up for parts. Ben takes it over and decides to restore it to its former glory, but proves to be as good an engineer as Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a dentist.

Ben gets a surprise when his birthday is forgotten.

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.

When Susan mentions she has come across an old flame, it causes problems between her and Ben.

Nick decides to get his own flat. Unfortunately, as always for Ben, every silver lining has a cloud.

Nick invites a lonely pensioner to stay for Christmas.

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.

Susan decides that she and Ben should take dance lessons, but they soon find that it takes more than two to tango.

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.

The local paper has announced that Ben has died. Could it be true, he wonders?

The Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original.

Janey's baby is due, and Susan insists on travelling to Manchester for the birth. The journey throws up several blasts from the past.

Janey's baby is due and Susan insists on travelling to Manchester for the birth. The journey turns into a trip down memory lane for Ben.

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

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

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.

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

The Harper house is quarantined because Roger is contagious. Nick goes into business with an 18ft python.

After a shopping trip, the Harpers face the prospect of spending Christmas stuck on the London Underground.

A bedroom argument between Ben and Susan prompts some reflections on their family life.

More problems for Ben - Janey comes back home, Susan lies to the police, Michael's become born again and Abi confuses nature with naturism.

Michael has a new friend in school and Susan has a new admirer. Unfortunately - or, for Ben, amusingly - they are one and the same.

Ben and Susan decide to help out some friends by flat sitting their brand-new Docklands apartment.

In order to awaken Abi's interest, Susan suggests Roger should make her jealous and, despite Ben's protests, tries to find a date for him.

With a mixture of civic pride and sense of community, Susan decides to run for the council. As a result of this and Michael's new pet, Ben is tempted to run for the hills.

Ben starts thinking about his will, Susan thinks about his funeral, and Nick takes a job with a funeral director.

When Susan employs a cleaner, she turns out to be such a treasure that she takes over the cooking as well. Susan, however, is not so amused.

One of Ben's patients, while under anaesthetic, admits to killing his wife. Susan, currently overdosing on murder mysteries, decides to turn sleuth in an effort to expose the killer but then gets involved in a cover-up of her own.

There are problems in the bedroom which threaten to drive Ben and Susan apart. Abi thinks this may be her fault but she develops her own problems as Janey becomes her personal shopper.

One of Britain's best-loved heartthrobs visits Ben's surgery and although the mere mention of his name makes Susan go weak, Ben is unimpressed.

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.

While Susan attends a neighbour's book club, Michael runs a booking agency exclusively for Roger. Ben finds himself with a new assistant who is too close to home.

Susan forsakes Ben's dental conference to write her novel, while Ben seeks a new partnership in Harley Street but ends up with more partners than he had bargained for.

Christmas in the Harper household means something special to everyone. For Susan it's the ultimate control opportunity; for Ben, the ultimate nightmare. Nick is having a typically unusual Christmas, Michael's girlfriend is getting much too serious, and Janey comes home with something unexpected which nobody actually wants.

The Harpers' family Christmas looks like being even more fearsome than usual for Ben, as Susan is giving grandson Kenzo a third birthday party to remember - but one which Ben will prefer to forget.

Ben is unhappy with his lot, but is even less happy with Susan's book-writing house guest. Perhaps the Brotherhood of the Cockerel has the answer.

Ben starts a one-man anti-cycling campaign which causes chaos in the household and Susan compounds it with her fund-raising efforts.

Janey starts an affair with a dentist whose charm rapidly captivates the rest of the females in the Harper household, while Michael's latest scam eventually puts everyone at risk.

When is pyramid selling not pyramid selling? When Ben says so, apparently.

Susan tries to fix Michael up with a new girlfriend called Suzanne, but the similarities do not end with the name. Ben starts a career as a property developer, but squatters may make him regret it.

With Nick still away, Michael joining the army, and Janey getting her stuff out of the attic, Susan is feeling deserted. Then a stray dog appears and tries to become man's best friend. Unfortunately, the man he chooses is Ben.

With Ben away, Susan is invited to dinner by a wealthy art collector. Her mother, Grace, is gathering a collection of her own, and Roger is summoning up the courage to pop the question to Abi.

Ben would do anything to get out of Christmas at home. Michael and Alfie make the most of an empty house and Janey learns that it's tough being a mum.

An unusual request from a couple whom Susan and Ben met on holiday leads to chaos in the Harper household, and Susan finally discovers who Kenzo's father is.

A death in the dentist's chair is not very good for business, or, as Ben discovers, for your private life either.

Susan wants to renew her wedding vows with Ben, which is no problem for him - he just doesn't want to renew his vows with her.

When a handsome millionaire reappears in Susan's life, Ben succumbs to jealousy when they share a hotel bedroom.

Michael succeeds in placing the whole family on The Weakest Link, but Anne Robinson is about to raise more difficult questions than expected.

Roger's mother visits London to meet future daughter-in-law, Abi. An old drinking mate from Ben's youth has changed much more than he had expected.

As Roger and Abi's wedding approaches fast, all bets are off as anything can still happen, and probably will, before the accident-prone couple's marriage is consecrated.

When some old friends of Susan and Ben are having marriage trouble, Susan sets out to prove that a trouble shared is a very dangerous thing.

Susan is accused of shoplifting and, worse still, she has to put up with Ben's defending her.

Susan's scheme to lure Ben to a country house for a Christmas for two and then 'surprise' him with the family on Christmas Day is doomed. Only the turkey is left unscathed.

Ben takes delivery of a neighbour's plasma screen television and falls in love with it, but it seems that Michael's current love interest may be expecting a delivery of something smaller but more problematic.

Ben's attempt to pay money into his bank coincides unhappily with someone else's decision to take some out - with the aid of sawn-off shotguns. When Ben decides to act as the negotiator things look bleak for the hostages.

Ben's poker school is costing him a fortune, whilst Susan's visit to the fortune teller reveals that something far more deadly is on the cards.

Ben decides to sell his dental practice and take up a hobby which he finds even more boring, while Susan's move up the art gallery ladder leads to more than one fall.

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 its worth - and it seems that it may be worth quite a lot.

Michael and Alfie's internet dating does not go quite according to plan. Kenzo's piano playing may leave a lot to be desired, but will Ben's attempt to get his old band back together prove a bigger hit?

According to Susan, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. While Janey looks like having it thrust upon her, for Abi it seems like being a longer term commitment.

Ben's efforts to buy Susan's Christmas present get him into trouble, and Susan's letter from The Palace means a change of holiday plans for everyone.

Ben joins the young Harpers for a pub quiz, which leads to some awkward questions being asked.

Janey wants to keep her new man under wraps, while a suspicious Ben tries to expose an affair between Susan and a client.

Susan asks Ben to help an old girlfriend of hers through a divorce, but nearly precipitates her own.

When Ben and Susan discover that Michael is seeing a therapist, they decide to try a bit of analysis themselves.

Ben's uncle dies, but his inheritance may not live up to expectations.

Susan decides to get another dog but, as ever, it is Ben who ends up in the doghouse.

An undercover assessor for Cavitex, posing as a patient, leads to Ben having to attend a retraining course.

Ben's old friendship with a celebrity dentist causes problems, while Susan finds a new friendship at an Albanian airport.

Kenzo's school project about the family gives everyone a chance to look at some of the crazier moments in the Harper history.

It is December 2039, and the Harpers are gathering together to celebrate Christmas. With a 'greed gift exchange', a rival cousin and a Nativity play battle, there may not be too much room for peace and goodwill.

When the local council insists that Ben is disabled, what can he do but play along with it until the wheels start coming off?

Michael's news comes as a bit of a shock to Ben, but Susan has more of a shock at Ben's reaction.

Ben forgets about Valentine's Day, but discovers that Susan has a more attentive admirer.

A young Australian backpacker catches Janey's eye, but is Ben's chip just on his shoulder or off the old block?

Ben goes clubbing with Michael but soon finds himself more than slightly out of his depth.

The Harpers face a robbery and a simple case of mistaken identity, and are amazed at how quickly Ben can make new friends.

Ben volunteers to look after one of Janey's elderly care clients for an evening; what could possibly go wrong?

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the Harpers - except that Christmas does not look like being very merry for one little girl. And, whilst it may be a new year, Ben sees a chance to renew an old battle with his next-door neighbour.

Kenzo's father is back on the scene. This is fine by Ben, but Susan has other ideas. And does anyone care what Janey thinks?

'New jobs for all' seems to be the slogan, as Ben is tempted to join 'management', and Susan and Janey find themselves in competition for the same monkey.

Kenzo seems to be the victim of a revenge campaign by Michael's old art teacher, and Susan finds herself caught up in a sexual harassment case at work.

Ben and Susan's trip to Spain starts out being an anniversary present from Janey and Michael, but then they discover that they all have to pay for it.

Ben and Susan decide to go their separate ways, but will they end up in the same place?

Ben and Susan go off to a couples' retreat for a weekend - at which they prove to be less than ideal guests - leaving Janey and Michael vying for the affections of Michael's new boyfriend. But the triangle proves to be more Bermuda than eternal.

An old flame of Susan's makes an appearance while Ben is away on a dental outreach programme, and she may just get her fingers burned.

While the Harper family attends Grace's funeral, Susan has a visitor from beyond the grave with an offer she can hardly refuse.

Ben discovers that he is not quite the darts player his father was, and Susan discovers that her new personal trainer is not quite fit for purpose.

Susan wants to look her best for an impending school reunion. When she is asked to give the keynote address, however, she decides that her best may need some help. Unfortunately, Ben is on hand to administer the 'Cavitox'.

An eventful night out is had by all, as Janey and Susan go to a hen night, and Roger goes on a blind date. And Ben, who should be at home looking after Kenzo, spends more time out than he bargained for.