Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 (2011)

Mum and Dad are having a clear-out, and Dad's been ordered to chuck away all his tatty, old magazines. "Why do you keep all this crap?" says Mum. "It's not crap, " says Dad, "they're collectibles." Dad tells Jonny to secretly hide his magazines in his car and look after them back at his flat. Meanwhile, neighbor Jim has been using the family's toilet, as he mysteriously broke his own loo. Jim keeps interrupting dinner with a call to nature, and Adam has to keep letting him in. Dad has forgotten that he asked a man off ebay to come and pick up their old sofabed, and ...

Peering through the window Adam and Jonny are amazed to see Martin looking at his privates with a magnifying glass but do not like to say anything. After dinner,Martin,anxious that Adam should have a girl-friend,pays him twenty pounds to go on a Jewish internet dating site but Adam is more keen to listen to a jingle he has written for a local firm which is to be played on the radio. Unfortunately none of the house radios seem to work so the family pile into the car,only for Adam to find that mot of the jingle has been cut. Eventually the family discover why Martin is ...

Jackie's plain-speaking mother comes to dinner,getting her hair caught in the car door,and instantly antagonizes her daughter by telling her that the new curtains of which Jackie is so proud are horrible. And when Martin drops the dinner on the floor and scoops it back in the dish,nobody dares tell Grandma. As the two women row Adam and Jonny repair to the pub,where they meet Jim and have to help him carry his drunken dog home. Adam gets everybody back on good terms though his practical joke almost kills Grandma who,after a glass of reviving spirits,finds the curtains...