Father Dear Father - Complete Series - 8-DVD Box Set

Father Dear Father - Complete Series - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$115.99

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1125 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
William G. Stewart

Written By:
Brian Cooke
Johnnie Mortimer

Actors:
Patrick Cargill ..... Patrick Glover (45 episodes, 1968-1973)
Ann Holloway ..... Karen Glover (45 episodes, 1968-1973)
Natasha Pyne ..... Anna Glover / ... (45 episodes, 1968-1973)
Noel Dyson ..... Nanny (45 episodes, 1968-1973)
Dawn Addams ..... Georgie Thompson (26 episodes, 1971-1973)
Ursula Howells ..... Barbara / ... (14 episodes, 1968-1973)
Joyce Carey ..... Patrick's Mother (12 episodes, 1968-1973)
Sally Bazely ..... Georgie / ... (10 episodes, 1968-1969)
Jeremy Child ..... Timothy Tanner (7 episodes, 1972-1973)
Patrick Holt ..... Bill Mossman / ... (5 episodes, 1968-1970)
Michael Segal ..... Ian Smythe / ... (5 episodes, 1968-1971)
James Appleby ..... Milkman / ... (4 episodes, 1970-1973)
Tony Britton ..... Bill (4 episodes, 1972-1973)
Donald Sinden ..... Philip Glover (3 episodes, 1969-1972)
Richard Fraser ..... Army officer / ... (3 episodes, 1969-1971)
Lane Meddick ..... George / ... (3 episodes, 1969-1971)
Richard O'Sullivan ..... Howard / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1973)
Ballard Berkeley ..... Col. Battersby / ... (3 episodes, 1970-1973)
Brian Godfrey ..... Dumbo / ... (3 episodes, 1970-1973)
Richard Wattis ..... Domestic agency manager / ... (3 episodes, 1970-1973)
Roy Denton ..... Minor Role / ... (2 episodes, 1968)
Paddy Glynn ..... Julia / ... (2 episodes, 1969-1971)
Carmel McSharry ..... Mrs. O'Brien (2 episodes, 1969)
Desmond Cullum-Jones ..... Bomb disposal officer / ... (2 episodes, 1969-1971)
Roger Avon ..... Boat Owner / ... (2 episodes, 1969-1972)
Kenneth Edwards ..... Fawcett / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1970)
Diana King ..... Norah Smythe (2 episodes, 1970-1971)
Beryl Reid ..... Beryl Pretty / ... (2 episodes, 1970-1971)
Robert Webber ..... Bookshop Customer / ... (2 episodes, 1970-1971)
Hugh Paddick ..... Fanshawe / ... (2 episodes, 1971-1973)
Robert Raglan ..... Mr. Fletcher / ... (2 episodes, 1971-1973)
Frank Duncan ..... Auctioneer's assistant / ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972)
Elspet Gray ..... Doctor / ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972)
James McManus ..... Porter / ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972)
Brian Nolan ..... Removal man's mate / ... (2 episodes, 1971)
David Lander ..... Customs officer / ... (2 episodes, 1972-1973)
Allan Stirland ..... Frank (2 episodes, 1972)
Elizabeth Adare ..... Maggie (unknown episodes)

Synopsis:

Patrick Glover (Cargill), a writer of trashy thriller novels finds himself bringing up his two irrepressible daughters, Karen (Anne Holloway - Emmerdale Farm, Two A Penny) and Ann (Natasha Pyne - Van der Valk, The Taming of the Shrew), following his divorce from their mother, Barbara. Cue misunderstandings caused by the age and gender gap, as sixties dolly-birds Ann and Karen get up to mischief - much to the consternation of their father. Holding it all together is the put-upon housekeeper, Matilda 'Nanny' Harris (Noel Dyson - Coronation Street, The Ronnie Barker Yearbook) and the family's St Bernard dog, H G Wells. Written by screenwriting legends Brian Cooke (Man About the House) and Johnnie Mortimer (Never the Twain) and directed by William G. Stewart (Bless this House, Fifteen to One), Father, Dear Father ran for an impressive seven series between 1968 and 1973, and all 45 episodes are included in this complete-series set alongside the feature film version made in 1972.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: The Proposal
Original Air Date-5 November 1968
Patrick is worried that he is losing control of his daughters, so he decides to seek advice from a Priest who tells him they need a woman's influence. Patrick from this, decides he needs to remarry, so he asks Georgie to marry him. However this doesn't have the desired result, as his daughters decide to move out if Patrick get's married, to get out of their way. This makes Patrick change his mind on marriage and he tries to break the news gently to Georgie, who after a phone call from Anna and Karen about Patrick's desire to get out of the wedding, decides to play a trick on Patrick and go ahead with the wedding.
Season 1, Episode 2: Pussies Galore
Original Air Date-12 November 1968
Anna and Karen are looking after a cat for their friend Andrew, but because Patrick is allergic to cats keep it a secret from Patrick. Nanny finds out however and discovers that the cat is in fact female and pregnant. Patrick overhears snippets of this conversation and makes his mind up that one his daughters is pregnant to a boy named Andrew or Tom.
Season 1, Episode 3: The Return of the Mummy
Original Air Date-19 November 1968
Patrick's ex wife Barbara has left Bill and has arrived unexpectedly at Patrick's house, wanting to stay for a couple of days. When Bill comes looking for Barbara, Patrick is worried that Bill will take Barbara's stay the wrong way and take his anger out on him, so he decides to hide Barbara's stay from Bill.
Season 1, Episode 4: Publish and Be Damned
Original Air Date-26 November 1968
Karen has written a fictional adult book about the family with the "added colour" being provided by her sister Anna, which has embarassed their father Patrick because the girls have sent it it out to numerous publishers including Patricks. Patrick goes on a mission to track down each of the copies to destroy them and talk one adult material publisher out of publishing the book.
Season 1, Episode 5: It Won't Be a Stylish Marriage
Original Air Date-3 December 1968
Anna has decided to marry her boyfriend for the week Cyril, but when Nanny is asked by Anna to soften Patrick up about the idea, Patrick misunderstands and thinks it is Nanny who is going to get married. When Cyril arrives for drinks Patrick is surprised to find a very young man, but Patrick finally catches on it is Anna who wants to get married which Patrick is strongly against.
Season 1, Episode 6: I Should Have Danced All Night
Original Air Date-10 December 1968
Patrick is being secretive about where he is going at nights and the girls fear that he may be the Hampstead Heath Romeo,who makes unwanted advances to lone women. It turns out that he is taking dancing lessons secretly so that he can impress Georgie at the literary ball but unfortunately he trips and sprains his ankle and has to sit the dancing out.
Season 1, Episode 7: The Lost Weekend
Original Air Date-17 December 1968
Patrick is planning to spend the weekend in Brighton with Georgie - which means he will miss Anna's first night in 'The Sound of Music'. Nanny complicates things by leading Patrick's mother to believe he is going to visit her. Patrick cancels the visit to mother but uses her as an excuse whilst he heads for Brighton with Georgie. However a mix-up over suit-cases means that he ends up back in London for Anna's stage performance.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Unhappy Birthday
Original Air Date-27 May 1969
Patrick gets it into his head that he is terminally ill after his doctor, Nanny and the girls all begin to act in a very secretive manner. He develops a cold and goes to bed but further reading convinces him he is dying. In fact the secrecy was due to the fact that it is his birthday,which he had forgotten,and a surprise party is being held for him. He is about to join in when Dr. Fraser tells him he has German Measles and must return to bed.
Season 2, Episode 2: We Can't Afford a Carriage
Original Air Date-3 June 1969
The girls want to buy a second hand car but Patrick,beset by bills,tells them to earn the money themselves so Anna gets a job as a Bunny girl in a night-club. By coincidence Patrick visits the club with an old army friend and is shocked to see Anna there. His efforts to grab her are misunderstood and he is thrown out. He ends up buying the car.
Season 2, Episode 3: Show Me the Way to Go Home
Original Air Date-10 June 1969
Anna leaves home and moves into a tiny,dingy bedsit. Patrick comes to visit and,due to a misunderstanding,thinks she lives in the flat down stairs,occupied by Julia and Justin,a married couple. Patrick takes the phone number without his daughter knowing and when he phones and Justin answers,assumes she is living in sin.Eventually Anna returns home.
Season 2, Episode 4: Thinner Than Water
Original Air Date-17 June 1969
The Glovers go to donate blood and Patrick is horrified to discover that he has a different blood group to his daughters,which clearly intimates that he is not their father. He suspects his ex-wife Barbara of infidelity and tries to obtain clues from Barbara's new husband Bill and a couple of her old flames but eventually finds out that the donor cards got mixed up and he is the girls' father after all.
Season 2, Episode 5: Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Original Air Date-24 June 1969
Whilst touring in Ireland,Philip,Patrick's actor brother,finds a baby left outside his dressing-room and asks the Glovers to look after it while he tries to trace the mother.However a jealous husband is convinced that Philip is the father.Further confusion reigns when Patrick orders a cot for the child and,when a man from whom he is buying a boat,rings up,assumes he is from the shop selling the cot and asks for instant delivery. All is solved when the O'Briens,the baby's parents turn up,saying they only put the baby down for five minutes and were amazed when it disappeared though the boat shows up anyway.
Season 2, Episode 6: Divorce English Style
Original Air Date-1 July 1969
Mr. Byrde,the family solicitor,contacts Patrick. He is concerned that Patrick and Barbara may not be legally divorced,due to an oversight in the procedure, and asks to see them both. Barbara's current husband Bill misunderstands and assumes that Barbara wants to divorce him and get back with Patrick but the missing document is eventually found,proving the divorce was completed.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: This Is Your Wife
Original Air Date-12 May 1970
Mr. Shulz,an American movie mogul,wants to make a film out of one of Patrick's books. However,he is a very religious man who does not hold with divorce so that,when he and his wife come to Patrick's for dinner,the host has to supply a Mrs. Glover. Barbara initially refuses but a friend of Georgie,Jo,agrees to the masquerade. All is going well until Barbara,who has had second thoughts,turns up,claiming to be Patrick's current wife - and,trying to be helpful, Nanny also claims to be married to Patrick.
Season 3, Episode 2: One Dog and His Man
Original Air Date-19 May 1970
Annoyed that his dog,H.G.,has chewed up the manuscript of his latest book,Patrick gives him away to Ian,his publisher,earning the disapproval of Nanny and his daughters,who are shocked that he was so callous. When Ian's house is burgled,the police work out that it was the dog who let the burglars in so Ian returns him to Patrick,though the girls and Nanny have also lined up other dogs for him.
Season 3, Episode 3: It's Never Too Late
Original Air Date-26 May 1970
When Patrick's mother reminds him that Karen never had a proper christening,Patrick - and Barbara - decide to rectify this and go to see their local vicar. The vicar is expecting a couple who are about to get married and assumes this is Patrick and Barbara. In their innocence they answer all his questions,unaware that they are at cross purposes. The big day arrives and the vicar is about to marry Patrick and Barbara when Bill,long jealous that Barbara wants her ex-husband back,clouts Patrick. Ultimately the misunderstanding is resolved and the christening proceeds.
Season 3, Episode 4: Nobody's Indespensible
Original Air Date-2 June 1970
Nanny has met a gentleman friend - Mr. Bolton - and he has asked her to marry him. However she feels that,if she was to leave the Glovers,they would be unable to cope without her and so,to help Nanny decide,they go out of their way to show that they can do without her.She is about to resign when she tumbles to their deception and agrees to stay with them, tearing up her letter of resignation - actually a cheque for five hundred pounds - and makes them a nice steak and kidney pie
Season 3, Episode 5: The Suitable Suitor
Original Air Date-9 June 1970
Patrick is disapproving of the type of boy with whom Anna is mixing and wants to encourage her to date clean-cut young Matthew Brockbank,whom he invites to dinner. Unfortunately Matthew's mother,to whom he is very close,also turns up and,due to Patrick's efforts to leave the youngsters alone,she gets the idea,as do his daughters,that he wants to marry her.
Season 3, Episode 6: A Man About the House
Original Air Date-16 June 1970
Patrick is off on holiday so Anna and Karen invite their artist friend Leslie to stay after he has rowed with his wife. When Patrick comes back earlier than expected and Nanny tells him they have a guest called Leslie,he assumes it is a woman. Leslie has to drag up as a female but Patrick sees through the ruse and asks him to paint his portrait before returning to his wife,with whom he has patched things up.
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: The Last of the Red Hot Mommas
Original Air Date-15 June 1971
Patrick is concerned for his mother,living on her own in Herne Bay,sixty miles away and asks her to stay. To his amazement she has a very active social life,staying out until all hours with different gentlemen friends and,when she asks him to go out with her,he just can't stand the pace.He overhears her tell Nanny that she's doing it on purpose to stop his worrying about her and soon after she goes home to Herne Bay.
Season 4, Episode 2: An Affair to Forget
Original Air Date-22 June 1971
Patrick's married accountant Leo has had a fling with Felicity and Leo's wife Muriel has found a photo of Felicity signed and with kisses. To take the heat of him Leo gets Patrick to pretend that Felicity is his girl-friend and a dinner party is arranged where Muriel and Leo will be 'introduced' to Patrick's new squeeze. Unfortunately Georgie also turns up,as does Felicity's husband. Fortunately Muriel is wise to and tolerant of her husband's philandering ways.
Season 4, Episode 3: Housey Housey
Original Air Date-29 June 1971
Patrick returns from holiday to find a council letter saying a new flyover will be built through his garden. In fact the decision has already been scrapped but Patrick tells the council he disagrees with their plan and also puts the house on the market,a prospective buyer being a vicar and his wife who want to home unmarried mothers in the house. When Miss Pretty and Mr. Fanshawe come from the council to find out why Patrick seems to be supporting the flyover he assumes they are the vicar and his wife and tells them the flyover will be a good thing. Having convinced them to go ahead with the original plan he must dissuade them when the real vicar arrives.
Season 4, Episode 4: The Reluctant Runaway
Original Air Date-6 July 1971
This time it's Karen who wants to leave home and get a place of her own but,as she is only seventeen she needs her father's permission and Patrick refuses to give it. In a fit of rebellion she 'moves out' but is actually much closer than Patrick imagines and ultimately decides that she wants to stay at home after all.
Season 4, Episode 5: Come Back Little Sheba
Original Air Date-13 July 1971
Patrick gives up smoking and,to prevent temptation,hides his smoking accessories in a cupboard drawer. He agrees to look after his agent Ian's pet hamster Sheba whilst Ian goes on holiday but unfortunately Sheba escapes and goes missing. To coax her back again Patrick gets a male hamster Nigel but he too disappears. In despair as Ian is about to return Patrick decides he needs a smoke,opens the cupboard drawer and finds the two hamsters - and their offspring - inside it.
Season 4, Episode 6: A Domestic Comedy
Original Air Date-20 July 1971
Nanny will be away for some time in Scotland seeing her sister,so Patrick asks a domestic agency to send a replacement.The girls feel that Patrick needs a new lady in his life and contact a computer dating agency who send a Miss Armitage round. An innocent Patrick assumes she is Nanny's replacement,thereby antagonizing her. As a result Patrick makes the two girls perform the domestic duties until Nanny returns.
Season 4, Episode 7: The Naked Truth
Original Air Date-27 July 1971
Patrick feels his work has caused him to neglect his daughters and wants to see Anna in her new play,a performance of 'Romeo and Juliet,but it contains nudity and Anna is not keen for Patrick to see her. A ploy involving sending all his clothes to the cleaners fails and,having learned the truth,Patrick demands Anna pull out of the play. She is replaced by an understudy but Patrick is no less impressed when he finds out who that is.
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Proposed and Seconded
Original Air Date-13 September 1971
Recovering from a hangover Patrick mishears when Georgie says he accepted her - business - proposal,and assumes they are getting married,which pleases him. Nanny has won money on the premium bonds and when she is described as 'the lucky woman' the girls presume that she is getting married to their father with more confusion arising when the vicar turns up and everybody takes it for granted that Nanny is Mrs. Patrick Glover.
Season 5, Episode 2: The Life of the Party
Original Air Date-20 September 1971
Following a misunderstanding with their grandma the girls have no venue for their planned party so they take their opportunity when Patrick suddenly announces he is going to a literary conference. Barbara is misunderstood when she says she is going for a bath and not to Bath and ends up mixed bathing in the shower with a young man.
Season 5, Episode 3: Nothing But the Tooth
Original Air Date-27 September 1971
Beset by tooth-ache Patrick is persuaded to ring his dentist - but the dental surgery has been replaced by a plumbing firm,causing a cross-purposes phone conversation. Georgie gets Patrick to see her dentist,who turns out to be Karen's terminally clumsy boy-friend. And the plumber has a nasty surprise as well for Patrick.
Season 5, Episode 4: An Explosive Situation
Original Air Date-4 October 1971
By mistake Patrick buys a box of odds and ends at an army auction,including a hand grenade,which he does not realise is live until he has pulled the pin. He throws it away but H.G. retrieves it and he has to call the army bomb disposal unit for an explosive finish.
Season 5, Episode 5: A Book for the Bishop
Original Air Date-11 October 1971
'Snotty', an old school friend of Patrick, and now a high church bishop, gets in touch with him. He is heading an anti-pornography crusade the Clean Up London Campaign,and wants Patrick to help him out by counting the number of bare breasts on show in the media and reporting back to him. Indeed an offer he can hardly refuse.
Season 5, Episode 6: A Case for Inspector Glover
Original Air Date-18 October 1971
Patrick is researching for his latest thriller novel and goes to the local police station to inquire whether finger prints would be left after a person has been strangled. Some time afterward he receives a number of threatening letters and assumes that somebody believes him to be an actual murderer. This is certainly a case for Inspector Glover.
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: Cardboard Cassonova
Original Air Date-13 June 1972
A misconstrued telephone conversation from his agent Georgie leads Patrick to believe that he is to be cited as the guilty party in a divorce for an incident which happened many years earlier but has now come back to haunt him. He decides to remedy the situation but only succeeds in getting himself into further trouble.
Season 6, Episode 2: Brother Dear Brother
Original Air Date-20 June 1972
Patrick slips whilst visiting his brother Philip in hospital,falls down a laundry chute and ends up as a patient on the same ward. The brothers' charts are accidentally switched and Patrick bears the wrath of the disapproving mother of Philip's girl-friend before taking another tumble down the same laundry chute.
Season 6, Episode 3: The Opposite Sex
Original Air Date-27 June 1972
With his daughters away for a few days, Patrick is looking forward to some quiet and peaceful time on his own with no female interruptions. However when Georgie, Barbara and his mother all contact him in succession ,each one of them seeking his help and advice, he ends up with a house full of women after all.
Season 6, Episode 4: Unacustomed as I Am
Original Air Date-4 July 1972
An old school friend of Patrick,Basil,asks him to give a speech at the school's founders day and a nervous Patrick practices by speaking into a tape recorder. On the day Patrick is persuaded to play for the school cricket team and is hit in the throat by a ball,losing his voice.Basil suggests he mime to his speech on the tape recorder but Nanny has been using it to exercise her singing voice.
Season 6, Episode 5: Feud Glorious Feud
Original Air Date-11 July 1972
Karen and Anna fall out over Tim,an advertisement photographer,who Patrick initially meets dressed as a tramp for a fancy dress party,leading Patrick to believe he is a down-and-out. The girls patch things up and Tim pays Patrick to pose as a tramp for a photo shoot when the hired actor fails to show. Unfortunately for Patrick,a policeman mistakes him for the real thing.
Season 6, Episode 6: The Engagement
Original Air Date-18 July 1972
Anxious to marry Anna, Tim wants to please Patrick and invites him to lunch at a restaurant but leaves his wallet on the table. When Patrick goes looking for him the manager assumes he is trying to run off without paying and makes him wash dishes,thereby missing a garden party at Buckingham Palace. At least Patrick agrees to the wedding.
Season 6, Episode 7: Father of the Bride
Original Air Date-25 July 1972
Tim is severely hung over after his stag night and Patrick gets him some head-ache pills. Unfortunately he mixes them up with sleeping pills,making the groom even drowsier. After walking him up and down Patrick and Bill get him to the church on time but after the wedding there is further bad news meaning that the happy couple will have to stay with Patrick until they can find their own place.
Season 7
Season 7, Episode 1: Flat Spin
Original Air Date-2 January 1973
Returning from their honeymoon Anna and Tim see a flat that is suitable but they are four thousand pounds short of the price. Patrick supplies the difference but,fearing the young couple will refuse his charity,claims it's a legacy from recently deceased Uncle Emlyn in Wales. They send a wreath for his funeral - but then Uncle Emlyn turns up,wanting to know what is going on.
Season 7, Episode 2: Home and away
Original Air Date-9 January 1973
Bill has a younger girl-friend,Gloria,whom he is seeing at a holiday cabin and asks Patrick to keep his secret. Having mistaken a charity collector for Gloria,and attempted to hide her in a closet, Patrick has to pretend that she is his date,and not Bill's, for Barbara's benefit, ending up with her girdle.
Season 7, Episode 3: It's in the Book.
Original Air Date-16 January 1973
After reading a book on self-assertiveness Patrick tells Tim that,if he wants a raise,he should be more forceful but,when Tim tells his boss,Mr. Fletcher,he'll leave if he doesn't get the pay rise,Fletcher,who has also read the book,calls his bluff and lets him go. Patrick gets everybody to ring the office to give the impression Tim is indispensable and he gets his job back but, sadly, has got the impression he is so in demand he can go elsewhere.
Season 7, Episode 4: Right Hand Man
Original Air Date-23 January 1973
Film mogul Muswell Lemming is coming to talk about filming one of Patrick's books. Unfortunately,whilst discussing a theoretical literary situation involving handcuffs,Patrick and Tim get handcuffed together and,after various attempts to get free,are like that when Lemming arrives so Tim has to hide behind the sofa. Fortunately Nanny has a bright idea.
Season 7, Episode 5: Pop Around the Clock
Original Air Date-30 January 1973
Karen and Howard are going to a weekend pop festival where they will be camping. Patrick gets the impression they are going to get married and can only afford to live in a tent. Bill and Barbara are happy to go to the festival and arrive in hippy clothes at the same moment as the wedding cars and the wedding cake arrive.
Season 7, Episode 6: In All Directions
Original Air Date-6 February 1973
Rather than go on a big family holiday the Glovers decide that each couple will go somewhere on their own but begin to regret it and ultimately they all change their tickets in order to have a mass trip to Tenerife. The airport is fogbound but when the fog clears Patrick discovers that his passport has expired so that ultimately they all end up in Frinton-on-Sea.

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