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2point4 Children (1991 - 1999)
Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 3 September 1991 - 30 December
1999
Number of Seasons: 8
Total Number of Episodes: 56
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:
CREDITS
see individual episodes for credits
SUMMARY
Bill and Ben Porter, their children Jenny and David and their unmarried
friend Rona seem perfectly normal suburbanites. But anything strange
is going to happen, they're likely to happen to the Porters and they
find themselves involved with aliens abductions, angels and strange
supernatural forces.
CAPSULE REVIEW
One of the most consistantly entertaining and certainly the strangest
of the BBC's sitcoms from the 1990s, 2point4 Children was an ofter inspired
slice of surrealism that pitched what seemed at first sight to be just
another sitcom family into a strange world of guardian angels, curses
and alien visitations. Nothing was quite what it seemed and the quality
of both the gags and the strangeness was maintained through to the end.
EPISODES
SEASON ONE
Leader of the Pack (3 September 1991)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (10 September 1991)
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Shopping (17 September 1991)
Love and Marriage (24 September 1991)
Dirty Bowling (1 October 1991)
Young at Heart (8 October 1991)
SEASON TWO
I'm Going Slightly Mad (15 September 1992)
Bedtime for Bonzo (22 September 1992)
One Night in Bangkok (29 September 1992)
Hormones (6 October 1992)
The Skeleton in the Cupboard (13 October 1992)
Bird on a Wire (20 October 1992)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (27 October 1992)
SPECIAL
Misery (22 December 1992)
SEASON THREE
The Secret Diary of David Porter (7 September 1993)
When the Children are Asleep (14 September 1993)
Badger's Bend (21 September 1993)
Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown (28 September 1993)
Beam Me Up, Scotty (5 October 1993)
Whoopee, We're All Going to Die (12 October 1993)
SPECIAL
Babes in the Wood (20 December 1993)
SEASON FOUR
The Parent Trap (5 September 1994)
Family Plot (12 September 1994)
Fortuoisty (19 September 1994)
Curiosity Killed the Cat (26 September 1994)
Frenzy (3 October 1994)
You Only Live Twice (10 October 1994)
SPECIAL
Relax-ay-voo (26 December 1994)
SEASON FIVE
Greed (2 October 1995)
We'd Like to Know a Little Bit About You for Our Files (9 October 1995)
The Deep (16 October 1995)
Mayday (23 October 1995)
Seven Dials (30 October 1995)
The Truth is out There (6 November 1995)
SPECIAL
Porky's (24 December 1995)
SEASON SIX
Dog Day Afternoon (14 November 1996)
The Lady Vanishes (21 November 1996)
Vertigo (28 November 1996)
The Trouble With Harry (5 December 1996)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (12 December 1996)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (19 December 1996)
And Now the Screaming Starts (20 December 1996)
SPECIAL
Two Years Before the Mast (26 December 1996)
SEASON SEVEN
Perfect Day (26 February 1998)
When Saturday Comes (5 March 1998)
Malcolm X (12 March 1998)
The Sweet Hereafter (19 March 1998
48. When Did You Last See Your Father? (26 March 1998)
The Italian Job (2 April 1998)
The Heart Has Its Reasons (9 April 1998)
SEASON EIGHT
Fame (16 November 1999)
Enter the Dragon (23 November 1999)
Sticky Fingers (30 November 1999)
After the Fox (7 December 1999)
Carry on Screaming (14 December 1999)
The Millennium Experience (30 December 1999)
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributors: BBC; UK Gold
AWARDS
1992
British Comedy Awards, UK
Best New TV Comedy - nominated
KEYWORDS
angels, children, families, sitcom, teenagers
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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