Season 4 • Episode 6
LatestNanny Parker's invitation to lunch in Cheltenham includes Sam. The visit goes very well - but not the journey back to London.
Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and Nick's cockney father Sam. Much of the humour arises from the fact that the mismatched Daphne and Sam are forced by circumstances to share the flat below that occupied by their children.
Acting
Angela Thorne and Michael Elphick's delicious mutual loathing.
Writing
Setup pays off across seasons like perfectly timed dominoes.
Production
That flat layout is practically another character.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Elphick was so convincingly working-class that viewers wrote in assuming Angela Thorne's snobbery was real off-screen too.
The show perfectly captured Thatcher-era Britain's crumbling class certainties—Daphne's posh anxiety mirrored real upper-middle-class panic.
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