Series One (2007)
| # | Episode | Writer/s | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Stuck In The Middle With You" | Fred Barron | 12 January 2007 (2007-01-12) |
| Ann (Samantha Spiro) decides to go to Africa for 8 weeks to help after a flood, so her ex-husband Jimmy agrees to move into the former marital home to look after their children. However, Diana also moves in as she has no trust in Jimmy. Jimmy gets annoyed when he discovers Ann has gone to Africa with her boss and boyfriend Dr. Howard Banks, then gets a parking ticket and finally gets home to discover that Molly, who has pulled a sickie, is nowhere to be seen. This makes Jimmy and Diana realise that Molly and Alex need both of them. | |||
| 2 | "Silence of The Clams" | Andrea Solomons | 19 January 2007 (2007-01-19) |
| Jimmy lets Molly and Alex have a party, but he has to make sure that Diana doesn't find out. Siobhan suggests that he takes Diana out to a restaurant on that evening. At the restaurant, Diana sees one of her colleagues Laurence, with who she has been having an affair, with a young female, so she pretends that she and Jimmy are going out. Meanwhile, Alex turns the party into a fancy-dress party and while he has his eye on Wendy (Shana Swash), Molly fancies Josh (Robert Knox). However, the party ends when Diana goes into the house suspecting something has happened. | |||
| 3 | "Lock Back In Anger" | Fred Barron | 26 January 2007 (2007-01-26) |
| When Jimmy's van is stolen, Diana insists on new locks as his keys were in the van. However, Jimmy is hesitant. When he and Siobhan go to the house to introduce her to Molly and Alex, they discover no one is in and Diana has had the locks changed. Jimmy then decides to break in via the back, but the police are called and he is taken down to the police station. Diana, Molly and Alex then have to come back from the opera to identify him, and there they meet Siobhan. | |||
| 4 | "Ripped Off" | James Hendrie and Ian Brown | 2 February 2007 (2007-02-02) |
| Diana has lost the school timetables she had drawn up for the whole year and is frantically trying to redo them. When Jimmy gives her a second-hand laptop he has bought from Kev, she plans the timetables on it. However, Jimmy soon has to get rid of the laptop because the person who Kev got it from wants it back, so Diana loses all the information again. Meanwhile, Siobhan persuades Jimmy to allow her to practise her waxing skills on him and Alex wants a pair of terrapins. | |||
| 5 | "School of Hard Knocks" | James Hendrie and Ian Brown | 9 February 2007 (2007-02-09) |
| When Jimmy says to Diana he will make an arch in his house, he has to cancel his weekend in Brighton with Siobhan, but discovers she had made other plans as she knew he would cancel. Jimmy then constructs the arch with Alex's help, in an attempt to teach him to stick at things, after he gets a letter from Alex's school telling him he has potential but no attention span. Meanwhile, Diana tries to make Molly throw away a t-shirt that says "Slut Queen". | |||
| 6 | "Let's Get Quizzical" | Katie Douglas | 16 February 2007 (2007-02-16) |
| Jimmy and Kev lose for the tenth consecutive time in the pub quiz to Siobhan and her two friends. The next week Jimmy gets Diana to join his quiz team. They win after a tie-break question against Siobhan's team. However, when Diana later discovers her answer was wrong she goes to give the money back to Bobby at the pub. There she and Siobhan start talking. They then get drunk and spend the whole evening chatting to each other. Jimmy is annoyed by this and the following day he tries to stop them being friends, but ends up insulting Siobhan. | |||
| 7 | "Out of Africa" | Dan Tetsell | 23 February 2007 (2007-02-23) |
| Ann's partner Dr. Howard Banks (Alexander Armstrong) arrives from Africa on a brief visit to raise funds for the relief work. Jimmy instantly dislikes him, but the rest of the family like him. Howard tells Diana that he and Ann want Molly and Alex to go and live with them in Africa. Diana and Jimmy agree this can't happen, and while Jimmy is having an argument with Howard, Diana tells the children that Howard and Ann want them to live in Africa, and they both quickly dispel the idea. Meanwhile, Molly has got a job working at a chip shop but she hates it and soon wants to leave. |
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