For Love or Mummy
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1981
Timothy Lumsden meets a girl at his amateur dramatics society and determines to go on a riverboat shuffle with her, despite all his mother's attempts to prevent him.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1981
Timothy Lumsden meets a girl at his amateur dramatics society and determines to go on a riverboat shuffle with her, despite all his mother's attempts to prevent him.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1981
The latest girl in Timothy's life has a jealous boyfriend who doesn't take kindly to him trying to steal her away.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1981
Timothy tries to stop his godson being bullied at school.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1981
Timothy makes a determined effort to find himself a flat.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1981
Timothy wants to go to the cinema, but his mother wants him to spend his evenings painting.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1981
Timothy's sister Muriel comes to stay and tries to persuade him to go home with her.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1982
Timothy tries to arrange his parents' second honeymoon, so that he can have a party at home in their absence.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1982
Timothy is suffering from bouts of sleepwalking, which could cause trouble as the annual interview for promotion is just around the corner.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: May 6, 1982
Timothy's handsome cousin Brinsley comes to stay - and supplants Timothy in Mother's affections.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: May 13, 1982
Mother is out to get Aunt Esme's money for Timothy, and Timothy has encounters with a garage owner and his dogs.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: May 20, 1982
Timothy, after some initial complications, is asked to be best man at his friend Frank's wedding. He ends up in trouble as a result of trying to encourage the idea of marriage in spite of his parents.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: May 27, 1982
With Frank 's wedding impending, Timothy sets his cap at bridesmaid Liz. Will our hero get his head out of the railings in time? Will he forget the ring? And if he gets married, will Mother come on the honeymoon?
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1982
Following Timothy Lumsden, a bachelor librarian who lives with his parents. Tim goes in search of the Golden Rabbit and finds a girl.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1982
Timothy is a bachelor in his forties who lives with his parents. Tim goes away for the weekend - and plans a holiday.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1982
Tim tries to help Freddie's son - who thinks Tim is a wally. Tim plays Bottom in the local drama society's production of a Midsummer Night's Dream.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1982
The library van breaks down and Tim gets some interesting news from three old ladies. With great cunning he sets off for a job interview - only to find that his mother comes too.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1982
It's Timothy's mother birthday and he arranges a special treat - a meeting with an old friend.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1982
Tim collapses and ends up in Casualty where he manages to muddle up his charts and convinces himself he's going to die. He records his last confession.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1985
In this tale St George rescues the damsel and settles for co-existence with the dragon.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: May 5, 1985
Timothy dips his toe in the antique trade and Father traps his finger in the pianola.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: May 12, 1985
Timothy tries to find an adult book - but finds himself in a brown paper wrapper instead.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: May 19, 1985
Timothy is a bachelor who lives with his parents. Suspicion and jealousy stalk suburbia.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: May 26, 1985
The breaks go Timothy Lumsden's way until he's snookered behind the washing machine.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Jun 2, 1985
Timothy Lumsden meets the bearded lady and things get hairy.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: May 10, 1986
Tim gets tied up in a bedroom farce when he tries his hand as a writer.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: May 17, 1986
Tim is prompting on the local production of Hamlet but his mind is elsewhere. Father has disappeared and Mother threatens to start a new life with Uncle Claud. How will it all end?
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: May 24, 1986
Tim pursues his piano teacher, Miss Clanger, while trying to solve the riddle left in a note from his dead Uncle Barstable.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1986
Dead and buried at 43! Shy, retiring Tim won't make a clean break and sets out to prove he's still as lively as a kitten.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1986
Fenella lives on a narrow boat and runs a children's theatre. Tim is like a puppet in her hands, but who's pulling the strings?
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1986
Timothy Lumsden finds out that life just isn't the same without him.
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1987
An escaped convict, a female mud wrestler, vicars, tarts and a French maid, not forgetting the bootleg whisky, find their way into Timonthy's home. And then an Inspector calls!
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1987
Tim meets up with Jennifer, a girl from his past. Muriel is eager to play cupid and arranges a meeting for them. Mother attempts to scupper their plans.
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1987
Timothy attends an assertiveness training programme, and asserts himself with his mother; the results are rather surprising.
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1987
Mother makes Tim promise not to marry once she's dead. He does not believe she will die before he marries, so agrees. But shortly afterwards she appears to have committed suicide.
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1987
As his wedding day approaches, Tim discovers that marriages are not necessarily happy ever after.
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1987
Tim is about to break free from Mother's apron strings in order to tie the knot with Jennifer. Everything is organised. Father is back from Australia and Frank is Best Man. But will Mother let Tim go that easily?
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Sep 5, 1988
Muriel persuades Timothy that his only hope of escaping from Mother is to buy his own cottage.
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1988
Timothy is given a lucky charm with amazing powers. He soon discovers that his mother, not fate, is shaping his destiny.
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1988
Timothy demonstrates how gullible he is when he meets up with an old friend.
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1988
Timothy finds his dream girl but his mother blackmails him into standing her up.
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1988
Timothy shows Mother, Father and Pippa round his new home. Mother gets a chance to put Pippa off Timothy for life.
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1988
It is Timothy's last day at home and, after overcoming his mother's attempts to stop him, he flies away!