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The first three series' of the popular BBC comedy. The Porters may just be an average family. Head of the household is Ben (Gary Olsen), a dedicated central-heating engineer and easy-going husband and father. Mainstay of the household is Bill (Belinda Lang), a full-time working wife and mother. In the few odd moments she gets time to think, she wonders whether life would be better if she were more like her long-time friend Rona (Julia Hills), who has had more men than Imelda Marcos has had shoes. Daughter Jenny (Georgina Cates) is a typical teenager, into boyfriends, pop music and vegetarianism, and there's David (John Pickard), the youngest member of the family and a chip off the old block. As Bill and Ben struggle with the demands of modern life, their offspring rush headlong through adolescence, increasingly embarrassed by their parents' chaotic lifestyle. Episodes comprise: 'Leader of the Pack', 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', 'When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Shopping', 'Love and Marriage', 'Dirty Bowling', 'Young at Heart', 'I'm Going Slightly Mad', 'Bedtime For Bonzo', 'One Night in Bangkok', 'Hormones', 'The Skeleton in the Cupboard', 'Bird on a Wire', 'Thank Your Lucky Stars', 'The Secret Diary of David Porter', 'When the Children are Asleep', 'Badger's Bend', ' Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown', 'Beam Me Up, Scotty' and 'Whoopee, We're All Going to Die'. |
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Interactive Menus\Other Documentary: Tribute to Gary Olsen, 'Misery' - The Christmas Special |