For a previous CBS

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 sitcom of the same name, see That's My Boy (1954 TV series)

That's My Boy (1954 TV series)

That's My Boy is a largely forgotten 1954-1955 CBS situation comedy television series based on the 1951 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis film of the same name....

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That's My Boy is a British

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired on ITV

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 from 1981 to 1986. Starring Mollie Sugden

Mollie Sugden

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, it was written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton, who later wrote My Husband and I, which also starred Mollie Sugden. It was made for the ITV

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 network by Yorkshire Television

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Cast

• Mollie Sugden
  Mollie Sugden
  Isobel Mary 'Mollie' Sugden was an English comedy actress best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1985. She later reprised this role in Grace & Favour, which ran from 1992 to 1993...
  
   - Ida Willis
• Christopher Blake
  Christopher Blake
  Christopher Blake was an English actor and screenwriter who is best remembered for starring in the British sitcom That's My Boy alongside Mollie Sugden.- Early life:...
  
   - Dr. Robert Price
• Jennifer Lonsdale - Angie Price
• Clare Richards - Mrs Price (series 1 to 4)
• Harold Goodwin
  Harold Goodwin (English actor)
  Harold Goodwin was an English actor born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England.Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years...
  
   - Wilfred Willis
• Deddie Davies
  Deddie Davies
  Deddie Davies is a Welsh character actress.She is most familiar to television viewers for comedy roles in a host of series, including The Rag Trade, That's My Boy and Chance in a Million. She usually appears in meek, spinsterish roles...
  
   - Miss Parfitt (from series 4)
• Thelma Whiteley - Mrs Cross (series 5)

Plot

Ida Willis, an interfering housekeeper

Housekeeper (servant)

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, is employed by Dr. Robert Price and his wife, Angie, and moves into their London

London

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 flat. However, she soon discovers that Robert is the son she gave up for adoption

Adoption

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 when he was a baby, and she proceeds to call him Shane, the name she gave him when he was born. Other characters include Ida's troublesome brother Wilfred, and Robert's adoptive mother, Mrs. Price, an upmarket widow with whom Ida does not get on. In the fourth series, they move to the Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 village of Little Birchmarch, where Ida befriends Robert's mousy receptionist, Miss Parfitt.

Series One (1981)

1. "Live as a Family" (23 October 1981)
2. "Settling In" (30 October 1981)
3. "Happy Birthdays, Robert" (6 November 1981)
4. "Is It Catching?" (13 November 1981)
5. "Driven Apart" (20 November 1981)
6. "Think Thin" (27 November 1981)

Series Two (1983)

1. "Only When It Hurts" (7 January 1983)
2. "Wakey Wakey" (14 January 1983)
3. "A Holiday Romance" (21 January 1983)
4. "A Brush with the Law" (28 January 1983)
5. "Down Under" (4 February 1983)
6. "To Catch a Thief" (11 February 1983)
7. "Go Jump In The Fountain" (18 February 1983)
8. "Invitation to the Wedding" (25 February 1983)

Series Three (1984)

1. "Where There's a Will" (27 April 1984)
2. "Baby Blues" (4 May 1984)
3. "The Big Night Out" (11 May 1984)
4. "Light and Shade" (18 May 1984)
5. "Unfair Dismissal" (25 May 1984)
6. "Dirty Linen" (1 June 1984)
7. "Ring If You Need Me" (8 June 1984)

Series Four (1985)

1. "Moving Out" (18 January 1985)
2. "Moving In" (25 January 1985)
3. "What Seems to be the Trouble?" (1 February 1985)
4. "Friendship View Marriage" (8 February 1985)
5. "Hello Young Mothers" (15 February 1985)
6. "The Phantom of the Farmyard" (22 February 1985)
7. "Surprise, Surprise" (1 March 1985)

Series Five (1986)

1. "Digging In" (21 February 1986)
2. "Drugs on the Market" (28 February 1986)
3. "Jezebel" (7 March 1986)
4. "Something To Love" (14 March 1986)
5. "The Bypass" (21 March 1986)
6. "Happy Anniversary" (28 March 1986)
7. "Two Lonely People" (4 April 1986)

DVD releases

The first four series have been released on DVD between August 2010 and July 2011, so far. The fifth (and final) series "plus a 5 disc set of the complete series" are scheduled to follow at some point.

	Series	Year(s)	Region 1 (Canada)	Region 2 (UK)
	The Complete Series 1	1981	N/A	23 August, 2010
	The Complete Series 2	1983	N/A	24 January 2011
	The Complete Series 3	1984	N/A	21 March 2011
	The Complete Series 4	1985	N/A	4 July 2011
	The Complete Series 5	1986	N/A	TBA
	The Complete Series 1 - 5	1981- 1986	June 24, 2008	TBA

A single episode of That's My Boy has been released in the UK by Network

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as part of a DVD compilation called "Classic ITV Christmas Comedy".