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Friday Night Dinner - Season 1

Series: Friday Night Dinner

4.5

(145)

Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2011

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

For the Goodman family, Friday night dinner is a big deal. Adam and his brother, Jonny, view Friday night dinner as a necessary annoyance. Necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with Mom and Dad. Dad slugs ketchup straight from the bottle, Mom is obsessed with Masterchef and even Grandma likes to wear her new bikini around the house.

Related Subjects

Comedy

Episodes

1. 01-THE SOFABED

25m

Mom and Dad are having a clear-out, and Dad's been ordered to throw away all his old magazines. Dad has forgotten that he asked a man off eBay to come and pick up their old sofabed, and when the man turns up, Mom is livid that her meal is ruined. But this is nothing compared to the problem of getting the sofabed down the stairs.

2. 02-THE JINGLE

25m

When Adam and Jonny come home to find Dad secretly peering into his underpants with a magnifying glass, they're desperate to find out what he's looking at. Meanwhile, Adam's first ever jingle is going to be on the radio. Mom is so proud. Unfortunately, none of the radios work in the house.

3. 03-THE CURTAINS

25m

The boys bring Grandma home for dinner but Grandma gets her hair stuck in the window of Jonny's car. When they eventually arrive, Mom shows the family the new curtains. An argument follows about whether the new curtains are actually yellow rather than cream. Meanwhile, Dad drops Mom's beef casserole all over the kitchen floor.

4. 04-THE DRESS

25m

When Mom finds out that Dad didn't throw away his old boxes of science magazines in their clear-out, she goes mad. So Dad builds a bonfire and promises he'll burn them all. But secretly Dad is only pretending to burn them in the bonfire, instead squirrelling the boxes off to his shed in the garden.

5. 05-THE MERCEDES

25m

It's Adam's birthday. As he arrives home, a silver Mercedes almost runs him over. Inside, is Sheila Bloom who is famously obsessed with her Mercedes, and after some catty remarks about Adam's car, she speeds off. This leads Dad to make a surprising confession before he tries to cook dinner for the first time ever.

6. 06-THE DATE

25m

Adam comes home to find the house looking immaculate, with classical music playing in the living room, Mom's posh bowls on the dinner table, Dad in a smart suit, and most mysteriously - five sets of knives and forks laid out. Something major is up. What is Mum up to?