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• regulars:
• Belinda Lang as Bill Porter
• Gary Olsen as Ben S. Porter
• Clare Woodgate as Jenny Porter [ 1-2 ]
• Clare Buckfield as Jenny Porter [ 3+ ]
• John Pickard as David Porter
• Julia Hills as Rona
• Kim Benson as Christine Atkins
• Ray Polhill as the Biker [ 1 ] / Angel [ episodes 007 & 013 ]
• Leonard O'Malley as Gerry [ 1 ]
• Alex Kew as Declan [ 8- ]
• recurring characters:
• Sandra Dickinson as Aunt Tina
• Barbara Lott as Auntie Pearl
• Liz Smith as Bette and Aunt Belle
• Tom Roberts as Tony [ 3-5 ]
• Annette Kerr as Dora Grimes [ 3- ]
• production:
• Andrew Marshall, writer
• Richard Boden, director [ 1-5 ]
• Nick Wood, director [ 6-7 ]
• Dewi Humphries, director [ 8 ]
• Bill and Ben seem at first sight a typical couple, married with children Jenny and David and unmarried man-loving family friend Rona. Further developments show, however, that they are prone to situations of an increasingly bizarre nature, belying the ironic implications of the show's title.
• Also involved periodically are Ben's assistant, the aggressive Christine, his sister Tina, a fluffy fussy travesty of femininity, Bill's mother Bette and her sister Belle, Ben's father Frank, Rona's Auntie Pearl, Ben's arch enemy and plumber-trickster Jake the Klingon, snotty neighbours Dora and Leonard Grimes, and prospective in-laws Harry and Laura Carson.
• Clare Woodgate left the show after two series, changed her name to Georgina Cates and headed for Hollywood.
• Series creator Andrew Marshall wrote all episode descriptions for this episode guide.

                            Original
  Episode #     Prod #      Air Date   Titles
_____ ______ ___________  ___________ ___________________________________________


Season 1

  1.   1- 1                 3 Sep 91   Leader of the Pack
  2.   1- 2                10 Sep 91   Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  3.   1- 3                17 Sep 91   When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Shopping
  4.   1- 4                24 Sep 91   Love and Marriage
  5.   1- 5                 1 Oct 91   Dirty Bowling
  6.   1- 6                 8 Oct 91   Young at Heart

Season 2

  7.   2- 1                15 Sep 92   I'm Going Slightly Mad
  8.   2- 2                22 Sep 92   Bedtime for Bonzo
  9.   2- 3                29 Sep 92   One Night in Bangkok
 10.   2- 4                 6 Oct 92   Hormones
 11.   2- 5                13 Oct 92   The Skeleton in the Cupboard
 12.   2- 6                20 Oct 92   Bird on a Wire (1)
 13.   2- 7                27 Oct 92   Thank Your Lucky Stars (2)

Special

       S- 1                22 Dec 92   Misery

Season 3

 15.   3- 1                 7 Sep 93   The Secret Diary of David Porter
 16.   3- 2                14 Sep 93   When the Children are Asleep
 17.   3- 3                21 Sep 93   Badger's Bend
 18.   3- 4                28 Sep 93   Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
 19.   3- 5                 5 Oct 93   Beam Me Up, Scotty
 20.   3- 6                12 Oct 93   Whoopee, We're All Going to Die

Special

       S- 2                20 Dec 93   Babes in the Wood

Season 4

 22.   4- 1                 5 Sep 94   The Parent Trap
 23.   4- 2                12 Sep 94   Family Plot
 24.   4- 3                19 Sep 94   Fortuoisty
 25.   4- 4                26 Sep 94   Curiosity Killed the Cat
 26.   4- 5                 3 Oct 94   Frenzy (1)
 27.   4- 6                10 Oct 94   You Only Live Twice (2)

Special

       S- 3                26 Dec 94   Relax-ay-voo

Season 5

 29.   5- 1                 2 Oct 95   Greed
 30.   5- 2                 9 Oct 95   We'd Like to Know a Little Bit About You for Our Files
 31.   5- 3                16 Oct 95   The Deep
 32.   5- 4                23 Oct 95   Mayday
 33.   5- 5                30 Oct 95   Seven Dials
 34.   5- 6                 6 Nov 95   The Truth is out There

Special

       S- 4                24 Dec 95   Porky's

Season 6

 36.   6- 1                14 Nov 96   Dog Day Afternoon
 37.   6- 2                21 Nov 96   The Lady Vanishes
 38.   6- 3                28 Nov 96   Vertigo
 39.   6- 4                 5 Dec 96   The Trouble With Harry
 40.   6- 5                12 Dec 96   The Man Who Knew Too Much
 41.   6- 6                19 Dec 96   The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1)
 42.   6- 7                20 Dec 96   And Now the Screaming Starts (2)

Special

       S- 5                26 Dec 96   Two Years Before the Mast

Season 7

 44.   7- 1                26 Feb 98   Perfect Day
 45.   7- 2                 5 Mar 98   When Saturday Comes
 46.   7- 3                12 Mar 98   Malcolm X
 47.   7- 4                19 Mar 98   The Sweet Hereafter
 48.   7- 5                26 Mar 98   When Did You Last See Your Father?
 49.   7- 6                 2 Apr 98   The Italian Job
 50.   7- 7                 9 Apr 98   The Heart Has Its Reasons

Season 8

 51.   8- 1                16 Nov 99   Fame
 52.   8- 2                23 Nov 99   Enter the Dragon
 53.   8- 3                30 Nov 99   Sticky Fingers
 54.   8- 4                 7 Dec 99   After the Fox
 55.   8- 5                14 Dec 99   Carry on Screaming
 56.   8- 6                30 Dec 99   The Millennium Experience