Manchild

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This is an article for the Manchild comedy series. For the Catholic rapper and frontman of Mars ILL, see manCHILD.

Manchild is a British television comedy / drama series that ran for two seasons of seven fifty-minute episodes each on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003.

The show starred Ray Burdis (Gary), Nigel Havers (Terry), Anthony Stewart Head (James) and Don Warrington (Patrick) as four successful fifty-something men dealing with life after divorce, a succession of (younger) girlfriends, and the problems of how to spend their wealth.

A new version is in production at present for American viewer. Staring James Purefoy, Kevin Smith, John Corbett and Paul Hipp.


Manchild also is a definition, meaning a man who exudes many child-like qualities, but mainly refers to adult immaturity, and someone who refuses to grow up. A male suffering from 'manchildness' tends to be interested in adolescent pursuits that would most likely bore the adults in his life as they have already progressed on in life.