EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS

Episode One: "The Au Pair"
Adam (MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE) and Jessica (VICTORIA HAMILTON) are exhausted, incapable of stringing three words together let alone attempt anything complicated like sex. They realise they need more childcare. Adam suggests they ask his Dad Donald (GEOFFREY PALMER) to help out. Still struggling for cartoon inspiration, Adam befriends a mouse, winning him over by serving him a range of fine cheeses. Jessica points out that mice spread diseases, although she admits it probably isn’t deliberate. Adam is uneasy when a seedy man in a uniform turns up on the doorstep armed with all manner of revolting poisons. Donald is a twitching wreck after his day out at the Zoo with the children Nicola (LIBERTY MORRIS) and Luke (JAKE FITZGERALD) so it’s time to start interviewing potential
au pairs...

Episode Two "Books"
Adam, a successful cartoonist with a strip in a national newspaper, admits that the stresses of having a young family mean the only book he reads nowadays is "Pingu Buys A Fish." Intent on restoring Jessica’s faith in his intellect, Adam forms an all-male Book Group to rival his wife’s, boasting that he and his men-friends will read longer books, quicker. Adam’s truculent father Donald (who considers the Radio Times "bloated and pretentious"), brother Mark and wayward friend John struggle to digest "The Name Of The Rose". Meanwhile, three-year-old Luke keeps wetting the bed and Jessica hits on a novel way of dealing with the problem. sadly, this involves her and Adam wearing nappies...

Episode Three: "Learning to Cook"
Mark has met a great looking model and is thinking of settling down. Adam suggests Donald cook a family meal. It’s time his father made his choice: lonely old grouch who pays for sex, or active sociable gentleman with cookery skills and an interest in the world. Meanwhile Jessica, worried about Adam’s taste in clothes, secretly disposes of much of his dodgy wardrobe. When he goes on another fashion spree at the local MiniMart, Jessica decides it’s time she did his clothes shopping for him. He agrees - on condition he can buy her some new clothes. The cookery lessons begin, and whilst Donald is breaking Jessica’s spirit as only the elderly can, Mark is determined to show his girlfriend just how happy
family life can be...

Episode Four: "Scary Drawings"
In between drawing cartoons, Adam’s daily routine of working from home includes having lunch with his father, "enhancing" household appliances, and idly trying on his wife Jessica’s clothes. But Adam is becoming lonely and unproductive, so Jessica draws up a helpful list of do’s and don’t. Cross-dressing is a don’t. Adam tries to knuckle down but, increasingly uninspired and crabby, he decides to take his drawing board and sit in with other people at their workplace... Meanwhile six-year-old Nicola is expressing herself rather more fluently, by drawing psychotically violent pictures. It doesn’t take Jessica long to realise that the roots of their daughter’s scary imagination might not be a million miles from home.

Episode Five: "Finding Dad a Girlfriend"
Adam wonders when he and Jessica are going to try for a third baby, so they can have a proper family and form their own group, like the Corrs. But uglier. Uncertain, Jessica agrees reluctantly to "have thing without using a you-know" for one night only, and let nature decide. Donald is grouchier than ever, possibly because he hasn’t had a ladyfriend since his wife left him for a younger, nicer, better looking man. Adam helps his father at the dating game. Step one: a list of eligible females who might like grumpy old men. Step two: massive rejection, by Maria, the no-nonsense owner of the restaurant they eat in every lunchtime. But never underestimate an old dog...

Episode Six: "The Ex-Files"
A good-looking man comes into the travel agency where Jessica works. She is stunned to see it is her ex-boyfriend Richard, newly divorced. They chat and she somehow omits to mention her husband and children. Adam discovers that his wife has planned to meet up with an old lover without telling him. He is distracted, however, by having a living room full of huge bouncy bricks which he is looking after for Luke’s nursery’s fete. Adam cheers himself up by building an elaborate rocket out of the bricks. He quizzes his wife angrily about her old boyfriends, but finds himself thinking about his ex-girlfriend Barbara, with her long blonde hair and impossibly long legs...