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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)

S04E05 – Owed To Susan

Domestic sitcom. Susan finds out the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original.
  • Episode Summary

    • Roger arrives bearing Kiwi, and is promptly offered bacon for breakfast, which Ben would have liked. Susan explains he is interested in Abi. Abi has to race off to work and Susan tells Roger she knows he is interested in someone and he gets the wrong impression and thinks Susan means her! She tells Roger how to make a play for Abi. She tells him how Ben had written this wonderful poem when they were courting and she recites it. As Susan nears the end Roger starts to recite the poem. Ben hadn’t written it at all. Susan is very unhappy. Nick has decided to dedicate his body to science, and he is testing tablets which may cause memory loss. Ben is concerned until he realises Nick may forget where he lives. In bed later that night Susan explains that she is terribly hurt about the poem, and that their entire marriage is based on a lie. Ben says it is based on many lies. She asks for a new poem, from Ben, and tells him they won’t make love until she sees it. We see Ben in the surgery trying to compose a poem, without much success. He is blaming Roger for starting all this, and suggests Roger writes the poem for him. Roger refuses. Nick has forgotten who Michael is because of taking the tablets. Michael asks him to repay the money he owes him. Nick pays him, he waits another 20 seconds and asks him again, Nick pays him again. Ben enters and Michael tells Nick he is the television repair man. Ben confesses to Susan he can’t write the poem, but he has really tried. Susan is dressed in a negligee, she is dressed to tempt him but won’t let Ben near her. Nick enters and still thinks Ben is the TV repair man. The following morning, Nick is taking polaroid's of everyone, to remind himself of who everyone is and he is also writing important messages on his body so he doesn’t forget things. Abi suggests he attend the poetry class with her. Later that evening he is at the poetry class, and keeps interrupting everyone’s poems. Finally it is the turn of the crazy lady at the back to say her poem, she simply screams and falls on the floor! Ben likes that one! Susan makes Michael carry the exercise bike up to the bedroom. She needs a release. Ben is still trying to write the poem in the surgery, when the crazy lady at the back from the poetry class turns up unannounced to seduce Ben. Roger enters while she is stripping! He rushes out leaving Ben to somehow ask the lunatic to get dressed and leave! Roger and Susan have been jogging together. When the phone rings, and it is the crazy lady, saying she wants her husband, Susan thinks it is the wrong number and hangs up. She rings again, and Nick answers it. Finally Ben returns with the poem written and wants to read it to Susan. Susan just wants sex. Ben insists he reads it all after all the effort he has put in to it. We see Nick in bed with Vanessa! We cut back to see Ben still reading the poem and Susan on the bike again!
  • Cast

    • Character

      Actor

      Ben Harper
      Robert Lindsay
      Susan Harper
      Zoë Wanamaker
      Nick Harper
      Kris Marshall
      Michael Harper
      Gabriel Thompson
      Abi Harper
      Siobhan Hayes
      Roger Bailey Jr.
      Keiron Self

      Character

      Actor

      Vanessa
      Frances Barber
      Teacher
      Simon Ludders
      Girl in Cafeteria
      Naomi Frederick
      Giles
      Aled Pugh
      Janice
      Marian Pashley
  • Team

    • Role

      Name

      Director
      Dewi Humphreys
      Writer
      Jim Armogida
      Writer
      Steve Armogida
      Producer
      John Bartlett
      Exec. Producer
      Fred Barron
      Exec. Producer
      Don Taffner

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