7.8 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 37 First episode date 23 October 1981 Number of episodes 37 Genre Sitcom | 7.7/10 IMDb No. of series 5 Running time 30 minutes Final episode date 4 April 1986 Network ITV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Pam Valentine &
Michael Ashton Starring Mollie Sugden
Christopher Blake
Jennifer Lonsdale Cast Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake, Harold Goodwin, Deddie Davies, Tim Barrett Similar My Husband and I, Home to Roost, You're Only Young Twice, Duty Free, Only When I Laugh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That's My Boy is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on ITV from 23 October 1981 to 4 April 1986.
Contents
The series was written and created by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton, who later wrote My Husband and I (1987-88), which also starred Mollie Sugden. It was produced for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television.
Cast
Plot
When Ida Willis (Mollie Sugden) gets a new job as housekeeper to Dr. Robert Price (Christopher Blake) and his wife Angie (Jennifer Lonsdale), she moves into their London flat and soon discovers that Robert is the son she gave up for adoption when he was a baby, and she proceeds to call him Shane, the name she gave him when he was born. Other characters include Ida's troublesome brother Wilfred (Harold Goodwin) and Robert's adoptive mother Mrs. Cecilia Price (Clare Richards), an upmarket widow with whom Ida doesn't actually get on. In the fourth series they move up north to the Yorkshire village of Little Birchmarch, where Ida befriends Robert's mousy receptionist, Miss Parfitt (Deddie Davies).
DVD releases
All five series are now available individually from Network DVD.
A Complete VHS collection of That's My Boy has also been release but is very rare.
A single episode of That's My Boy has been released in the UK by Network as part of a DVD compilation called Classic ITV Christmas Comedy.