Me and My Girl was a 1980s British television

British television

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 situation comedy

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 starring Richard O'Sullivan
which centred on the challenges faced by a widower raising his adolescent daughter. It was broadcast on ITV between 1984 and 1988.

Plot

Created by Keith Leonard

Keith Leonard

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 and John Kane

John Kane (writer)

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, the show was made by London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television

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 for ITV

ITV

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 from 1984 to 1988. It starred Richard O'Sullivan as Simon Harrap and Joanne Ridley as Samantha. Simon runs an advertising agency called Eyecatchers and the series centres around his relationship with his daughter, his business partner Derek Yates played by Tim Brooke-Taylor

Tim Brooke-Taylor

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE is an English comic actor. He became active in performing in comedy sketches while at Cambridge University, and became President of the Footlights club, touring internationally with the Footlights revue in 1964...

 and a string of romantic liaisons.

Other writers included; Bernard McKenna

Bernard McKenna

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 who also served as Script Editor, Colin Bostock-Smith, Mike Walling

Mike Walling

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, and Ian Whitham.

The theme song was written and performed by Peter Skellern

Peter Skellern

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.

The opening sequence was filmed at Three Cliffs Bay

Three Cliffs Bay

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, Gower.

Main cast

• Richard O'Sullivan … Simon Harrap
• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  Tim Brooke-Taylor
  Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE is an English comic actor. He became active in performing in comedy sketches while at Cambridge University, and became President of the Footlights club, touring internationally with the Footlights revue in 1964...
  
   … Derek Yates
• Joan Sanderson
  Joan Sanderson
  Joan Sanderson was an English television and stage actress. During a long career she invariably played dragonish dowagers, stuck-up spinsters and suburban matrons.-Theatre:...
  
   … Nell Cresset
• Joanne Ridley … Samantha Harrap
• Leni Harper
  Leni Harper
  Leni Harper is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Maddie in Me And My Girl.Her breakthrough role was in a 1981 West End production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
  
   … Madeleine 'Maddie' Dunnock
• Sandra Clarke … Isobel McClusky
• Joanne Campbell
  Joanne Campbell
  Joanne Campbell was a British actress and drama therapist best known for playing Liz in the 1980s sitcom Me and My Girl and Josephine Baker on stage in This Is My Dream.-Career:...
  
   … Liz

Episode list

All episodes listed with their original ITV broadcast date.
Series 1

1. "I Love You Samantha" (31 August 1984)
2. "Design for Loving" (7 September 1984)
3. "The Ideal Husband" (14 September 1984)
4. "The Home Help" (21 September 1984)
5. "Jobs for the Girls" (28 September 1984)
6. "A Clean Slate" (5 October 1984)

Series 2

1. "Love and Kittens" (18 January 1985)
2. "Let's Talk Turkey" (25 January 1985)
3. "Sticky Fingers" (1 February 1985)
4. "The Kids Are Alright" (8 February 1985)
5. "Leaving On a Jet Plane" (15 February1985)
6. "Swings and Roundabouts" (22 February1985)
7. "You Take the High Road" (1 March 1985)

Series 3

1. "On Approval" (6 October 1985)
2. "Wild About Harry" (13 October 1985)
3. "Dangerous Corner" (18 October 1985)
4. "Goodbye Forever" (25 October 1985)
5. "A Woman of Taste" (1 November 1985)
6. "Put Yourself in My Place" (8 November 1985)
7. "Sam Who?" (15 November 1985)
8. "One Wild and Foolish Moment" (22 November 1985)
9. "Forty Years On" (29 November 1985)
10. "Picture of Harmony" (6 December 1985)
11. "An Inspector Calls" (13 December 1985)
12. "Nothing Like a Quiet Sunday" (20 December 1985)
13. "Faraway Places" (27 December 1985)

Series 4

1. "Love's Young Dream" (10 January 1987)
2. "Marriage in Haste" (17 January 1987)
3. "The Rhinoceros and the Pussycat" (24 January 1987)
4. "Poor Uncle Derek" (31 January 1987)
5. "The Lost Weekend" (7 February 1987)
6. "Kissing Cousins" (14 February 1987)
7. "French Leave" (21 February 1987)
8. "A Single Night of Love" (28 February 1987)
9. "Lost and Found" (7 March 1987)
10. "A Star is Gorn" (14 March 1987)
11. "Pulling Power" (21 March 1987)
12. "An Offer You Can't Refuse" (28 March 1987)
13. "Waiting for Adrian" (4 April 1987)

Series 5

1. "Like An Old Time Movie" (8 January 1988)
2. "Thinking About Fluffy" (15 January 1988)
3. "Question Time" (22 January 1988)
4. "A Couple of Rough Nights" (29 January 1988)
5. "Play Your Cards Right" (5 February 1988)
6. "Love Thy Neighbour" (12 February 1988)

Series 6

1. "I Wonder Who's Kissing Him Now?" (23 September 1988)
2. "My Second Best Friend" (30 September 1988)
3. "The Story of Foxy-Features and Melon-Head" (7 October 1988)
4. "Mundane Monday" (14 October 1988)
5. "Only the Lonely" (21 October 1988)
6. "When You're Smiling" (28 October 1988)
7. "A Bit of Overtime" (4 November 1988)

DVD release

Network

Network DVD

Network DVD is a DVD publishing company that specialises in classic British television. In particular, it has the rights to a number of well-known ITV programmes...

still has aspirations to release all six series of the show on DVD in the future.

DVD	Release date
The Complete Series 1	TBA
The Complete Series 2	TBA
The Complete Series 3	TBA
The Complete Series 4	TBA
The Complete Series 5	TBA
The Complete Series 6	TBA
The Complete Series 1 to 6 Box Set	TBA