Keep it in the Family

Not a million miles away from Father Dear Father, except the lead character Dudley Rush (Robert Gillespie) is a cartoonist and ventriloquist rather than a novelist, and he's not divorced. He and his wife Muriel (Pauline Yates) still have two irrepressible young daughters living under the same roof. Susan (Stacy Dorning) is a teenager, while Jacqui (Jenny Quayle, later Sabina Franklin) is in her 20s, yet dad struggles to keep track of their wacky adventures and disapproves of all the men who turn up to visit them. There's even a literary agent, Duncan (Glyn Houston) who contributes to the madcap mayhem! It's a huge laugh round at the Rush home! Five series were made between 1980 and 1983.