The BEST episodes of My Family
Every episode of My Family ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Family!
My Family is about the life of the Harpers, a fictional middle-class English family, who live in 78 Lancaster Road, Chiswick, London. Ben, a dentist, and Susan, a tour guide who later works for an art gallery, have three children, Nick, Janey and Michael, all of whom cause problems in their own way. While Susan is a control freak, Ben prefers to leave the children to it and tries not to get involved.
#1 - A Very Brief Encounter
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/2009
Susan asks Ben to help an old girlfriend of hers, Mona, through a divorce, but nearly causes her own when Mona tells Ben some surprising tales about Susan. Elsewhere, Roger is feeling down until Janey intervenes.
#2 - Abi Ever After
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2007
It's the day before Roger and Abi's wedding, but for this accident-prone couple, anything that can go wrong probably will, before the marriage is solemnized.
#3 - Neighbour Wars
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/9/2008
Having run over Mr Casey's dog some years ago, Ben now compounds the misdemeanour by running over Mr Casey himself. Casey plays the sympathy card for all it is worth - and it seems that it may be worth quite a lot.
#4 - Cards on the Table
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/25/2008
Ben's poker addiction is costing him a fortune, while Susan's addiction to seeing a clairvoyant turns out to be far worse when a horrible prediction is revealed to her.
#5 - Susan of Troy
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2007
Michael succeeds in placing the whole family on `The Weakest Link', but Anne Robinson is about to raise more difficult questions than expected.
#6 - A Difficult Undertaking
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/2009
Ben's uncle Norris dies, leaving him less than he expected, and instead Susan benefits. Later, the wake is held at the Harpers, but will it go smoothly?
#7 - Return of the Prodigal Prat
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/11/2003
When the local newspaper accidentally lists Ben in the obituaries, he takes it as an opportunity to do absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, Susan wants to convert Nick's old room to a nursery, but Nick isn't having any of it.
#8 - Ben Wants to Be a Millionaire
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/2001
Ben goes to a reunion of old school friends and is horrified to find that someone he never liked is now a millionaire. Elsewhere, Nick has found a new unconventional way of earning money.
#9 - Misery
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/2002
Janey is appalled when her mother comes to visit her at university - especially when she begins to reminisce about her own student days. Meanwhile, Ben's plans for a relaxing round of golf do not go according to plan.
#10 - Ghosts
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/2002
After signing up on a social networking site, Susan starts getting messages from an old flame. Meanwhile, Michael finds out their house is cursed and Abi is convince it is haunted.
#11 - The Great Escape
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2003
Normally, nobody in the Harper family would willingly set foot in Nick's flat, but when Susan's mother comes to stay, it suddenly seems more attractive.
#12 - May the Best Man Win
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/6/2003
Abi's father asks Ben to be his best man; this turns out to have been a bad move, as he hands over the running of the bachelor night to Nick.
#13 - Shrink Rap
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/2002
Ben and Susan take part in Michael's school fundraising auction. However, Ben quickly regrets making a pledge when he spies a former patient with severe halitosis bidding for a double session in his dentist's chair.
#14 - Dog Dazed
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/23/2009
Susan decides to get another dog but when she is considered unsuitable to adopt by the dog adoption assessor, Susan loses her cool, and as a result, it is Ben who ends up in the doghouse.
#15 - It's Training Men
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/30/2009
An undercover assessor for Cavitex, posing as a patient, leads to Ben having to attend a retraining course, and to make matters worse, Roger is also attending.
#16 - The Lost Weekend
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/2002
When the children go away for the weekend, Ben and Susan finally have some time to themselves. Unfortunately, it's been so long since that happened, that they have absolutely no idea how to spend it.
#17 - Trust Never Sleeps
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/2001
Parents Ben and Susan reluctantly agree to let daughter Janey have a party whilst they are away on holiday - and plan to sneak back unnoticed into the house and check up on the children, just to be on the safe side.
#18 - Much Ado About Ben
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/2000
Susan finds Viagra in her son's trousers and confiscates it, Janey tries to get Marilyn Manson tickets, Susan lets her yoga instructor give lessons at her house and Ben is put on a diet.
#19 - Fitting Punishment
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/21/2003
Susan is looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild, but not to being a grandmother. Meanwhile, Nick wants to move back in and a new arrival at Ben's surgery has quite an impact.
#20 - Canary Cage
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/30/2003
The Harpers get a free holiday to Lanzarote, and even though Ben loses his luggage, he is happy enough to use his brand new digital camera as much as possible.
#21 - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/2002
Susan's feathers are ruffled when Nick lands the plum part of Jesus in an amateur theatrical production, leaving Susan to play the rather less demanding part of Shepherd Number Two. Ben, meanwhile, has an extremely painful toothache to contend with, and is wary of entrusting his dental needs to any other dentist.
#22 - Loco Parentis
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/23/2003
Ben and Susan have to go back to school for parenting classes as a result of Michael playing truant.
#23 - Four Affairs and a Funeral
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/13/2007
Ben talks Roger into helping him move the body of a patient who died in his dental chair; Abi and Susan suspect Roger and Ben are having affairs.
#24 - Living the Dream
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/7/2006
Following Roger's advice, Ben and Susan join a pyramid scheme, despite Michael's warnings. Meanwhile Roger seems to have an unlimited cash flow, but where is he getting all that money?
#25 - First Past the Post
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2004
With a mixture of civic pride and sense of community, Susan decides to run for the council. As a result of this and Michael's new pet, Ben is tempted to run for the hills.
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