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Home to Roost (TV Series)

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Original title

Home to Roost

Year

1985

Running time

30 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

David Reynolds

Screenwriter

Eric Chappell

Cast

Music

Peter Knight

Producer

Yorkshire Television (YTV), Yorkshire Television (YTV)

Genre

TV Series. Comedy | Family Sitcom

Synopsis

TV Series (1985–1990). 4 Seasons. Generation-gap comedy about 18 year old Matthew Willows who, seven years after his parents divorce, turns up on his father Henry’s doorstep and announces his intention to live with him. Matthew claims that he can no longer live with his mother because he doesn’t get on with her new boyfriend. The truth of the matter is that mum, Sue, threw the youngster out because he was displaying all the annoying traits that his father displayed during their marriage.

Writer Eric Chappell, whose pen produced the classic Rising Damp, once again turned in four series of sparkling scripts aided and abetted by some fine acting by the main protagonists, Reece Dinsdale as Matthew and the ever excellent and sadly missed John Thaw as Henry. The two men are constantly at loggerheads, being birds of a feather whose personalities often clash head on. There were occasional visits from other members of the Willows family, and Thaw’s real-life wife, Sheila Hancock, turned up in one episode as his on-screen ex, but mainly it was down to father and son to provide the laughs.

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Home to Roost (TV Series)

1985

David Reynolds