Episode
My Family: Loco Parentis
Overview
Ben and Susan have to go back to school for parenting classes as a result of Michael playing truant.
Details
- Series
- My Family
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2003-05-23
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Loco Parentis is Episode 10 in Season 4 of My Family. It aired on 2003-05-23. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 9: Sitting Targets
Susan decides that Ben should spend more time with Michael in case he turns into another Nick, and Janey leaves the grandparents to babysit Kenzo.
Episode 11: Canary Cage
The Harpers get a free holiday to Lanzarote, and even though Ben loses his luggage, he is happy enough to use his brand new digital camera as much as possible.
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Episode 8: Friday the 31st
Susan decides to enter enthusiastically into the spirit of trick or treat for the neighbourhood children, which Ben tries to ignore until the spirits get to him.
Episode 12: May the Best Man Win
Abi's father asks Ben to be his best man; this turns out to have been a bad move, as he hands over the running of the bachelor night to Nick.
Episode 7: Blind Justice
Susan gets hysterical blindness after seeing Michael in bed with a girl. Meanwhile, Ben is on dreaded jury duty and is hassled by an annoying busybody fellow juror, and Nick becomes a wrapping artist.
Episode 13: It's a Window Filled Life
After coming into contact with an infectious disease from Peru, the whole Harper household is placed under quarantine by Susan. How long will it be till they all drive each other mad?
Episode 6: Deliverance
Janey's baby is due and Susan insists on traveling to Manchester for the birth; it's a journey that throws up several blasts from the past.
Episode 5: Owed to Susan
After the Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original, he goes to great lengths to make it up to her.
Episode 4: Return of the Prodigal Prat
When the local newspaper accidentally lists Ben in the obituaries, he takes it as an opportunity to do absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, Susan wants to convert Nick's old room to a nursery, but Nick isn't having any of it.
Episode 3: The Great Escape
Normally, nobody in the Harper family would willingly set foot in Nick's flat, but when Susan's mother comes to stay, it suddenly seems more attractive.
Episode 2: They Shoot Harpers, Don't They?
Susan decides that she and Ben should take dance lessons, but they soon find it takes more than two to tango. Meanwhile, Michael decides to concentrate on his studies, but can he stop thinking about girls?
Episode 1: Fitting Punishment
Susan is looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild, but not to being a grandmother. Meanwhile, Nick wants to move back in and a new arrival at Ben's surgery has quite an impact.