That's My Boy (1981 TV series)


That's My Boy is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on ITV from 23 October 1981 to 4 April 1986.
The series was written and created by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton, who later wrote My Husband and I, which also starred Mollie Sugden. It was produced for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television, and although set in London, was filmed in and around Harrogate in North Yorkshire.

Cast

When Ida Willis gets a new job as housekeeper to Robert Price and his wife Angie, she moves into their London flat and soon discovers that Robert is the son she gave up for adoption when he was a baby, and she proceeds to call him Shane, the name she gave him when he was born. Other characters include Ida's troublesome brother Wilfred and Robert's adoptive mother Cecilia Price, an upmarket widow with whom Ida doesn't get on. In the fourth series they moved to the Yorkshire village of Little Birchmarch, where Ida befriends Robert's mousy receptionist, Miss Parfitt.

Episodes

Series 1 (1981)

Series 2 (1983)

Christmas Special (1983)

Series 3 (1984)

Christmas Special (1984)

Series 4 (1985)

Series 5 (1986)

DVD releases

All five series are now available individually from Network DVD.
SeriesYearRegion 1 Region 2
The Complete Series 11981N/A23 August 2010
The Complete Series 21983N/A24 January 2011
The Complete Series 31984N/A21 March 2011
The Complete Series 41985N/A4 July 2011
The Complete Series 51986N/A28 May 2012
The Complete Series 1–51981–198624 June 20085 March 2018

A complete VHS collection of That's My Boy was also released.
ITV3 started repeating the series on 10 February 2020.
A single episode of That's My Boy has been released in the UK as part of a DVD compilation called Classic ITV Christmas Comedy.