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EPISODES

  • Series 1

    • 01 - The Serpents Tooth
    • 02 - A Pain In The Class
    • 03 - Droit De Seigneur
    • 04 - The Last Resort
    • 05 - A Farewell to Alarms
    • 06 - Death Takes a Policy
    • 07 - The Awkward Phase
    • 08 - Much Ado About Ben
  • Series 2

    • 01 - All Roads Lead to Ramon
    • 02 - The Unkindest Cut
    • 03 - Parisian Beauty
    • 04 - Trust Never Sleeps
    • 05 - Death & Ben Take a Holiday
    • 06 - Driving Miss Crazy
    • 07 - I Second That Emulsion
    • 08 - The Age of Romance
    • 09 - Get Cartier
    • 10 - Tis A Pity She's A Whore
    • 11 - The Last Supper
    • 12 - Ben Wants A Millionaire
    • 13 - Breakable
  • Series 3

    • 01 - Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey
    • 02 - Shrink Rap
    • 03 - Desperately Squeezing Susan
    • 04 - Of Mice & Ben
    • 05 - Imperfect Strangers
    • 06 - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told
    • 07 - Waiting To Inhale
    • 08 - Misery
    • 09 - Auto Erotica
    • 10 - A Handful of Dust
    • 11 - The Lost Weekend
    • 12 - Ghosts
    • 13 - One Flew Out of The Cuckoo's Nest
    • Ding Dong Merrily (Christmas Special)
  • Series 4

    • 01 - Fitting Punishment
    • 02 - They Shoot Harper's Don't They
    • 03 - The Great Escape
    • 04 - Return of The Prodigal Prat
    • 05 - Owed To Susan
    • 06 - Deliverance
    • 07 - Blind Justice
    • 08 - Friday The 31st (Halloween)
    • 09 - Sitting Targets
    • 10 - Loco Parentis
    • 11 - The Canary Cage (Lanzarote)
    • 12 - May The Best Man Win
    • 13 - It's A Window Filled Life
    • Sixty Feet Under (Christmas Special)
  • Series 5

    • 01 - My Family Reloaded 'Special'
    • 02 - The Mummy Returns
    • 03 - You Don't Know Jack
    • 04 - What's Up Docklands?
    • 05 - Luck Be A Lady Tonight
    • 06 - First Past The Post
    • 07 - My Will Be Done
    • 08 - My Fair Charlady
    • 09 - The Mouthtrap
    • 10 - While You Were Sleeping
    • 11 - Dentist To The Stars
    • 12 - A Wife Less Ordinary
    • 13 - The Book of Love
    • 14 - Going Dental
    • 15 - Glad Tidings We Bring (Hour Long Christmas Special)
  • Series 6

    • 01 - ...and I'll Cry if I Want To
    • 02 - Bliss for Idiots
    • 03 - The Spokes Person
    • 04 - Dentally Unstable
    • 05 - Living the Dream
    • 06 - An Embarrassments of Susans
    • 07 - And Other Animals
    • 08 - The Art of Being Susan
  • Series 7

    • The Heart of Christmas (Hour Long Special)
    • 01 - Ego Has Landed
    • 02 - Four Affairs and a Funeral
    • 03 - Once More with Feeling
    • 04 - Dutch Art and Dutch Courage
    • 05 - Susan of Troy
    • 06 - One of the Boys
    • 07 - Abi Ever After
    • 08 - Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do
    • 09 - Life Begins at Fifty
  • Series 8

    • Ho Ho No (Hour Christmas Special)
    • 01 - The Parent Trap
    • 02 - Let's Not Be Heisty
    • 03 - Cards on the Table
    • 04 - The Wax Job
    • 05 - Neighbour Wars
    • 06 - Can't Get No Satisfaction
    • 07 - The Abi Habit
  • Series 9

    • It's a Gift (Christmas Special)
    • Harpers and Queen (New Years Special)
    • 01 - Bully for Ben
    • 02 - Bringing Up Janey
    • 03 - A Very Brief Encounter
    • 04 - A Difficult Undertaking
    • 05 - The Psyche of Mikey
    • 07 - Dog Dazed
    • 08 - It's Training Men
    • 09 - The Guru
    • 10 - Kenzo's Project
  • Series 10

    • The Fight Before Christmas (Hour Long Special)
    • 01 - Wheelie Ben
    • 02 - The Son'll Come Out
    • 03 - Desperately Stalking Susan
    • 10 - The Melbourne Identity
    • 05 - He's Just Not That Into Ben
    • 06 - Slammertime
    • 07 - Ben Behaving Badly
    • 08 - Mary Christmas
  • Series 11

    • 01 - Janey's Choice
    • 02 - Labour Pains
    • 03 - Accusin' Susan
    • 04 - Germs of Endearment
    • 05 - Harper vs. Harper
    • 06 - Relationship Happens
    • 07 - Facebooked
    • 08 - A Decent Proposal
    • 09 - Darts All Folks
    • 11 - A Night Out
    • Neighbour Wars II (Hour Long Special)

S02E03 – Parisian Beauty

Ben wonders if the French student the Harpers have taken in is coming on to him.
  • Episode Summary

    • Janey has a French exchange student coming to stay. Michael is horrified to discover that he will be staying in Nick's room. Nick is not sleeping as part of a science experiment. Ben comes home from the usual miserable day at work and wants to relax, but Susan has other ideas and has planned some French entertainment. Unfortunately she has rented Gigi and he must suffer it for the 22nd time. When Sylvie meets the family, she is a big hit especially with Michael and Nick. Nick as usual takes it to the extreme by dressing as a French Existentialist. Sylvie is not very impressed. Nick gives Michael tips on how to survive his stay in his bedroom. Michael looks very frightened and is not relishing the experience. Ben and Susan discuss their incompatibility, when Nick who is still trying to stay awake, wants to play Monopoly. Michael comes in as well as he can't sleep in the pit that is Nick's room. Ben is enjoying the fact that Sylvie is laughing at his jokes. Until she becomes too tactile and tells him how much she likes English men. Ben looks slightly perturbed and Nick decides that dressing up, as a French man is perhaps not the best way to impress Sylvie. Sylvie has bought Susan a beautiful Harrod's. Janey thinks Sylvie is a creep and expresses her displeasure to Ben. Nick dresses up a typical Englishman, with pipe and smoking jacket to impress Sylvie. Nick asks Ben advice on Sylvie, Ben is uncomfortable, as he believes Sylvie is interested in him. Nick sets fire to himself with the pipe and Sylvie puts him out. Susan is concerned that Janey doesn't like Sylvie, Ben tells Susan that he is more worried that Sylvie likes him too much, Susan finds this hilarious. Ben is getting more and more paranoid about Sylvie. Nick's room seems to be having a strange affect on Michael. Sylvie rings Paris and is overheard saying that someone is mignon! Ben is now very worried. He tries to talk to Susan again about Sylvie, but gets more ridicule. He is so upset that he has a crafty cigarette. Nick talks to Ben again about Sylvie and he gets the impression that Sylvie is after Ben. Ben goes to Sylvie's room to sort it out. Sylvie asks Ben's opinion on a negligee and finally Ben realises that the negligee is for Susan. Ben is made to suffer for his mistake, but the attention is taken away from when Janey realises that Sylvie is after Brian. Which results in a girl fight and girl chase, much the delight of Nick, Michael and Brian. Sylvie has gone back to Paris and Susan feels that it has been a waste of time. Nick is dreaming about the girl fight, and Janey insults him in perfect French, so perhaps it was not a complete waste after all.
  • Cast

    • Character

      Actor

      Ben Harper
      Robert Lindsay
      Susan Harper
      Zoë Wanamaker
      Nick Harper
      Kris Marshall
      Michael Harper
      Gabriel Thompson
      Janey Harper
      Daniela Denby-Ashe
      Sylvie
      Beatriz Baharda

      Character

      Actor

      Mr. Hillard
      Christopher Ryan
      Brian
      Kevin Bishop
  • Team

    • Role

      Name

      Director
      Dewi Humphreys
      Writer
      Andrea Solomons
      Producer
      John Bartlett
      Exec. Producer
      Fred Barron
      Exec. Producer
      Don Taffner

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