Trivia / My Family

• Banned Episode: Although The BBC haven't officially released a statement about it, it's unlikely that the episode "Mary Christmas" will ever be rebroadcast or available on BBC iPlayer thanks to guest star the late Rolf Harris being convicted for child sex offences in 2014.
  • "Blind Justice" as mentioned below.
• Creator Backlash: Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker reportedly flat-out refused to shoot one episode because they thought the script was just that awful. Lindsay even publicly referred to the show as "dross" while it was in production.
• Dawson Casting: In the first series, 18-year-old Nick was played by 27-year-old Kris Marshall; and 15-year-old Janey by 21-year-old Daniela Denby-Ashe. Marshall has stated in interviews that the fact that he is much older than Nick made it harder to play the character.
• Missing Episode:
  • The episode "Blind Justice", in which Susan is temporarily blinded from shock after catching Michael in bed with a girlfriend, is no longer broadcast because it is considered offensive to blind people. It's still available on the Series 4 DVD and BBC iPlayer, and as of 2022 has been broadcast on W.
  • The two episodes from the 2010 series which the BBC didn't broadcast until the next series (see Screwed by the Network, below), although they were present on the DVD.
  • The first episode of series 5 was not present on the DVD, presumably because it was largely a clip show, although there were some new scenes.
• Money, Dear Boy: Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker repeatedly said that they were fed up with the poor quality of the show's writing and that whichever series was being filmed at the time would be their last series, until they finally called it quits after series 11; this trope is almost certainly the reason why they kept coming back.
• Screwed by the Network: The 2010 series ended early, with the last two episodes never shown, for no reason and with no indication of when they'll be shown.
  • One was shown as the opener for the 2011 series, with the other airing later in the run.
  • The 2011 run suffered from this; it missed a week due to tennis and the order of the episodes were consequently moved about. The result is that the final episode was originally meant to be shown second and aired half an hour earlier (with the prime slot given over to the 4th series of Outnumbered).
• The Other Darrin: Susan's mother and Ben's cousin Richard both had changes of actor throughout the show's run.
• Spared by the Cut: Kris Marshall wanted Nick to be killed off, but the writers decided it would be better for him to have moved away.
• You Look Familiar: As mentioned above, Chris Ryan appears in Series 2 and 4 as separate characters.

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