User Reviews

When you think about American sitcoms adverts usually mean that episodes run for 22 or 23 minutes which often makes for snappy, tight episodes. OFAH perhaps suffered a little in the early days of having to fill a full half-hour slot. I can imagine many of the early episodes being much better if just a few minutes were trimmed. Not entire scenes, just a few jokes removed here and there.

It's interesting that we still, at this point in the series, haven't seen anything of the flat apart from the main sitting-room.

This is a better episode than any of the first season, I would say. The second half is a good example of the show raising its standards from the previous season.

We also get to see the love between the family where Rodney is about to take the hit for Del. Even though Del is often so horrible to him there is a strong brotherly bond and it is this sense of strong family connections and friendships that made this such a loved show.

Rodney dates a police woman much to the horror of Del and Granddad.

This is an excellent episode that builds on the prior set-up of Rodney's penchant for uniforms. Not only does he defy Del and Granddad's wishes by taking Sandra to the pictures but he brings her back to Nelson Mandela to meet the family.

The above situation as a concept is funny, but the jokes that arise and the events that unfold are done brilliantly. Del, Rodney and Granddad are hilarious as they fumble about the flat trying to hide its contents from one of the 'old bill'. Kate Saunders as Sandra works well as a comedy straight man and her personality (and voice) is almost a foreshadowing of Rodney's eventual true love Cassandra.

Great episode from the Granddad era.

The first series of the show was ok, there's one or two very strong episodes, but there was certainly a need back in 1982 for it to improve as the BBC axe was looming.

Thankfully episodes like this spared it.

This is wonderful stuff, with lots of lovely interplay between Del and Rodney, with the actors now much more comfortable in their roles.

It is let down by a rather abrupt ending though.