Show Details:
Start date: Jan 1989
End date: Dec 1994
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): Channel 4 (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 71 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
End date: Dec 1994
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): Channel 4 (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 71 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
Credits:
- regulars:
- Norman Beaton as Desmond Ambrose
- Carmen Munroe as Shirley Ambrose
- Ram John Holder as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant
- Gyearbuor Asante as Matthew
- Geff Francis as Michael Ambrose
- Kim Walker as Gloria Ambrose
- Justin Pickett as Sean Ambrose
- Robbie Gee as Lee Graham
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | ||||
| 1. | 1-1 | 05 Jan 89 | French Lessons | |
| 2. | 1-2 | 12 Jan 89 | The Offer | |
| 3. | 1-3 | 19 Jan 89 | Expansion Plans | |
| 4. | 1-4 | 26 Jan 89 | Hello Aunty Susu | |
| 5. | 1-5 | 02 Feb 89 | A Surprise for Porkpie | |
| 6. | 1-6 | 09 Feb 89 | Sad News | |
| Season 2 | ||||
| 7. | 2-1 | 22 Jan 90 | The Treatment | |
| 8. | 2-2 | 29 Jan 90 | 'Old De Front Page | |
| 9. | 2-3 | 05 Feb 90 | 'Old De Front Page Again | |
| 10. | 2-4 | 12 Feb 90 | Veronica | |
| 11. | 2-5 | 19 Feb 90 | A Microwave, Five Men and a Nappy | |
| 12. | 2-6 | 26 Feb 90 | Reunion | |
| 13. | 2-7 | 05 Mar 90 | Porkpies | |
| 14. | 2-8 | 12 Mar 90 | For Love or Money | |
| 15. | 2-9 | 19 Mar 90 | Stop the World, I Want to Get Off | |
| 16. | 2-10 | 26 Mar 90 | Here Comes De Sun | |
| 17. | 2-11 | 02 Apr 90 | Kung You | |
| 18. | 2-12 | 09 Apr 90 | Aunty Susu | |
| 19. | 2-13 | 16 Apr 90 | Thirty Year Itch | |
| Season 3 | ||||
| 20. | 3-1 | 28 Oct 91 | The Head Hunter | |
| 21. | 3-2 | 04 Nov 91 | The Peckham Pimpernel | |
| 22. | 3-3 | 11 Nov 91 | A Day In The Life | |
| 23. | 3-4 | 18 Nov 91 | Smokeless Fuming | |
| 24. | 3-5 | 25 Nov 91 | Relative Strangers | |
| 25. | 3-6 | 02 Dec 91 | Vanity Merchants | |
| 26. | 3-7 | 16 Dec 91 | The Waiting Game | |
| 27. | 3-8 | 16 Dec 91 | Driving Me Crazy | |
| 28. | 3-9 | 06 Jan 92 | Daydreams | |
| 29. | 3-10 | 13 Jan 92 | Dobbin | |
| 30. | 3-11 | 20 Jan 92 | The Prodigal | |
| 31. | 3-12 | 27 Jan 92 | Too Young | |
| 32. | 3-13 | 03 Feb 92 | The Roots Tradition | |
| Season 4 | ||||
| 33. | 4-1 | 05 Oct 92 | All Things Bright | |
| 34. | 4-2 | 12 Oct 92 | Flats, Lies And Videotape | |
| 35. | 4-3 | 19 Oct 92 | Growing Pains | |
| 36. | 4-4 | 26 Oct 92 | Lee's Journey | |
| 37. | 4-5 | 02 Nov 92 | Calypso | |
| 38. | 4-6 | 09 Nov 92 | The Kid | |
| 39. | 4-7 | 16 Nov 92 | Too Red Eye | |
| 40. | 4-8 | 23 Nov 92 | Susu Again | |
| 41. | 4-9 | 30 Nov 92 | Can't Buy Me Love | |
| 42. | 4-10 | 07 Dec 92 | Art Attack | |
| 43. | 4-11 | 14 Dec 92 | Go With The Flo | |
| 44. | 4-12 | 21 Dec 92 | My Two Sons | |
| 45. | 4-13 | 28 Dec 92 | The Godmother | |
| Season 5 | ||||
| 46. | 5-1 | 27 Sep 93 | A Class Act | |
| 47. | 5-2 | 04 Oct 93 | Shimmer And Shine | |
| 48. | 5-3 | 11 Oct 93 | Halcyon Days | |
| 49. | 5-4 | 18 Oct 93 | Lollipop Man | |
| 50. | 5-5 | 25 Oct 93 | Partnership | |
| 51. | 5-6 | 01 Nov 93 | Fairy Tales | |
| 52. | 5-7 | 08 Nov 93 | Love Match | |
| 53. | 5-8 | 15 Nov 93 | Coughs And Sneezes | |
| 54. | 5-9 | 22 Nov 93 | Kiss Of The Spiderman | |
| 55. | 5-10 | 29 Nov 93 | Two Lads And A Lady | |
| 56. | 5-11 | 06 Dec 93 | Shirley's Sermon | |
| 57. | 5-12 | 13 Dec 93 | A Matter Of Life And Death | |
| 58. | 5-13 | 20 Dec 93 | The Patter Of Little Feet | |
| Season 6 | ||||
| 59. | 6-1 | 26 Sep 94 | Do Me A Favour | |
| 60. | 6-2 | 03 Oct 94 | Hatchet Job | |
| 61. | 6-3 | 11 Oct 94 | Georgetown Dreaming | |
| 62. | 6-4 | 17 Oct 94 | Demon Barber II (Turbo) | |
| 63. | 6-5 | 24 Oct 94 | Love Letters | |
| 64. | 6-6 | 31 Oct 94 | Planning Permission | |
| 65. | 6-7 | 07 Nov 94 | The Speech | |
| 66. | 6-8 | 14 Nov 94 | Judgement Day | |
| 67. | 6-9 | 21 Nov 94 | The Return Of Hyacinth Green | |
| 68. | 6-10 | 28 Nov 94 | Heavy Traffic | |
| 69. | 6-11 | 05 Dec 94 | When The Cat's Away | |
| 70. | 6-12 | 12 Dec 94 | A Sign Of The Times | |
| 71. | 6-13 | 19 Dec 94 | O Little Town Of Peckham | |