Single Father - Season 1 (2010)

Rita Tyler,a school teacher,is knocked off her bicycle and killed by a police car during a high speed chase,leaving her photographer husband Dave to look after their three children and Lucy,her 15-year old daughter from her first marriage. He is angry,suicidally driving his motor bike at dangerous speeds in the rain and almost coming a cropper himself. In the weeks following the death he finds himself at odds with Lucy,who is skipping school and who sets out to find her birth father. Despite help from Anna,Rita's adopted sister, and her solicitor husband Robin,the ...

Dave finds his kiss with Sarah hard to get out of his head,even dreaming about it. However there are more pressing matters as he rows with Anna,later making up,for giving the kids mobile phones,and discusses with mother-in-law Beatty the need to track down Lucy's natural father. From Rita's old university diaries he locates him as being Stuart Pike,who,in fact,knew about Lucy as Rita kept in touch with him. But he is still occupied with Sarah and they go to bed together when all his children except little Evie are with his ex-wife Michelle. However Evie sees them ...

Dave and Sarah wonder how much Evie saw and whether she will tell anybody. Dave goes to Edinburgh to see Stuart and visits his affluent family home. Stuart is a lawyer and believes he can get better compensation from the police for Rita's death than brother-in-law Robin,who agrees. Stuart's attitude towards Rita is very casual and a paranoid Dave wonders whether Stuart may be the father of more of Rita's children than one and considers a paternity test. He takes Lucy to meet Stuart in Edinburgh,and Sarah turns up. She has finished with Matt.