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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)

S06E02 – Bliss for Idiots

An American author comes to visit the Harpers, angering Ben.
  • Episode Summary

    • Susan has found her bliss spot, in a book by her favourite author. It’s a book on lifestyles. Dr Buck, the American author is coming over to talk to Susan’s book club and staying at the Harper’s. Michael is off to a museum with the school, and Ben’s application has been turned down by yet another expensive Golf Club. Alfie has discovered the effects of caffeine. Ben fits a wealthy business man, Hoxton-Jones, in for an appointment, and tells him he is finding life a struggle. Hoxton-Jones tells him how to improve his lot. He suggests Ben join his society, the Brotherhood of the Cockerel. He explains how to progress from a Chick to the Big Cock. Roger and Abi flirt, and Roger starts to woo her speaking Welsh, it seems to be working. The author’s arrival is imminent as Ben returns with a Brotherhood box of necessary items for his initiation. Buck arrives and Susan is besotted. Dr Buck analyses Ben and his Brotherhood, and flirts with Susan. Ben thinks Dr Buck is a charlatan, Susan is still besotted. Ben tells her he has heard Dr Buck shouting about his divorce. It would appear he is not so nice after all. Michael brings his attractive but older lecturer home from the school trip and impresses her with his archaeological collection. Alfie helps Ben to practice for the initiation by teaching him to walk and squawk like a cockerel. We see subtitles as Roger continues to woo Abi in Welsh. Susan and Buck leave for the book club. Michael’s lecturer finds out he has been planting his artifacts from his school display case in the back garden and she stalks out. We see the last part of the initiation ceremony, Hatchling Harper swears the oath of allegiance. Ben is admitted to the fraternity, the members strip off and it turns into a gay disco party. Susan’s dreams are shattered when Dr Buck makes a pass at her. Ben arrives and decides to assert his masculinity. Ben manages to throw himself out of the bedroom window.
  • Cast

    • Character

      Actor

      Ben Harper
      Robert Lindsay
      Susan Harper
      Zoë Wanamaker
      Michael Harper
      Gabriel Thompson
      Abi Harper
      Siobhan Hayes
      Roger Bailey Jr.
      Keiron Self
      Paul Shearer
      Mr Hoxton-Jones

      Character

      Actor

      Colin Stinton
      Dr. Buck Bukowski
      Olivia Hallihan
      Holly
      Rufus Jones
      Delegate at Phone Booth
  • Team

    • Role

      Name

      Director
      Dewi Humphreys
      Writer
      Brian Leveson
      Writer
      Paul Minett
      Producer
      John Bartlett
      Exec. Producer
      Don Taffner
      Exec. Producer
      Tom Leopold

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