| # |
Episode |
Writer/s |
Original airdate |
| 1 |
"Stuck in the Middle with You" |
Fred Barron |
12 January 2007 |
| Ann (Samantha Spiro) decides to go to Africa for 8 weeks to help flood, so her ex-husband Jimmy agrees to move into the former marital home to look after their children. However, Diana also moves in as she has no trust in Jimmy. Jimmy gets annoyed when he discovers Ann has gone to Africa with her boss and boyfriend Dr. Howard Banks, then gets a parking ticket and finally gets home to discover that Molly, who has pulled a sickie, is nowhere to be seen. This makes Jimmy and Diana realise that Molly and Alex need both of them. |
| 2 |
"Silence of the Clams" |
James Hendrie and Ian Brown |
19 January 2007 |
| Jimmy lets Molly and Alex have a party, but he has to make sure that Diana doesn't find out. Siobhan suggests that he takes Diana out to a restaurant on that evening. At the restaurant, Diana sees one of her colleagues Laurence, who she has been having an affair with, with a young female, so she pretends that she and Jimmy are going out. Meanwhile, Alex turns the party into a fancy-dress party and while he has his eye on Wendy (Shana Swash), Molly fancies Josh. However, the party ends when Diana goes into the house suspecting something has happened. |
| 3 |
"Lock Back in Anger" |
Jim Armogida and Steve Armogida |
26 January 2007 |
| When Jimmy's van is stolen, Diana insists on new locks as his keys were in the van. However, Jimmy is hesitant. When he and Siobhan go to the house to introduce her to Molly and Alex, they discover no one is in and Diana has had the locks changed. Jimmy then decides to break in via the back, but the police are called and he is taken down to the police station. Diana, Molly and Alex then have to come back from the opera to identify him, and there they meet Siobhan. |
| 4 |
"Ripped Off" |
Katie Douglas |
2 February 2007 |
| Diana has lost the school timetables she had drawn up for the whole year and is frantically trying to redo them. When Jimmy gives her a second-hand laptop he has bought from Kev, she plans the timetables on it. However, Jimmy soon has to get rid of the laptop because the person who Kev got it from wants it back, so Diana loses all the information again. Meanwhile, Siobhan persuades Jimmy to allow her to practise her waxing skills on him and Alex wants a pair of terrapins. |
| 5 |
"School of Hard Knocks" |
James Hendrie and Ian Brown |
9 February 2007 |
| When Jimmy says to Diana he will make an arch in his house, he has to cancel his weekend in Brighton with Siobhan, but discovers she had made other plans as she knew he would cancel. Jimmy then constructs the arch with Alex's help, in an attempt to teach him to stick at things, after he gets a letter from Alex's school telling him he has potential but no attention span. Meanwhile, Diana tries to make Molly throw away a t-shirt that says "Slut Queen". |
| 6 |
"Let's Get Quizzical" |
Jim Armogida and Steve Armogida |
16 February 2007 |
| Jimmy and Kev lose for the tenth consecutive time in the pub quiz to Siobhan and her two friends. The next week Jimmy gets Diana to join his quiz team. They win after a tie-break question against Siobhan's team. However, when Diana later discovers her answer was wrong she goes to give the money back to Bobby at the pub. There she and Siobhan start talking. They then get drunk and spend the whole evening chatting to each other. Jimmy is annoyed by this and the following day he tries to stop them being friends, but ends up insulting Siobhan. |
| 7 |
"Out of Africa" |
Fred Barron |
23 February 2007 |
| Ann's partner Dr. Howard Banks (Alexander Armstrong) arrives from Africa on a brief visit to raise funds for the relief work. Jimmy instantly dislikes him, but the rest of the family like him. Howard tells Diana that he and Ann want Molly and Alex to go and live with them in Africa. Diana and Jimmy agree this can't happen, and while Jimmy is having an argument with Howard, Diana tells the children that Howard and Ann want them to live in Africa, and they both quickly dispel the idea. Meanwhile, Molly has got a job working at a chip shop but she hates it and soon wants to leave. |
| # |
Episode |
Writer/s |
Original airdate |
| 8 |
"Web of Deceit" |
James Hendrie and Ian Brown |
7 September 2007 |
| Diana, Molly and Alex return from a holiday in Africa but Jimmy forgets to pick them up from the airport and they return to a dirty house and Siobhan in Jimmy's bed. Molly is annoyed with Jimmy and Diana says the reason why is on Molly's blog, which Jimmy eventually reads. When he then tells Siobhan that the reason Molly is annoyed is that she does not like Siobhan sleeping in his bed, she goes round and talks to Molly. When Molly then works out that Diana and Jimmy have been reading her blog she writes on it that she is going to a rave in Hampshire to send them on a wild goose chase. |
| 9 |
"Rose Tattoo" |
Jim Armogida and Steve Armogida |
14 September 2007 |
| Jimmy accidentally sees Diana naked in the shower, and cannot get the image out of his mind. When Molly asks for a tattoo, Diana admits to Jimmy that what he thought was a birthmark on her leg, is in fact a tattoo of a rose she had done 30 years ago. They then decide to try reverse psychology and let Molly have the tattoo, but this does not work. However, due to her age Molly is refused a tattoo by the tattoo artist. Meanwhile, to Alex's horror a personality test says that he should become an accountant. |
| 10 |
"Tell Tale" |
Jim Armogida and Steve Armogida |
21 September 2007 |
| Jimmy holds a poker night, at which Diana beats him after Alex tells her Jimmy's tell and makes him do a monkey impression. Diana later tells Siobhan Jimmy's tell, which she then uses to test whether he is lying to her. The following night, Alex tells Jimmy what Diana's tell is, and he uses this to discover that Diana is having a relationship with Philip, who she had said was her bridge partner. Also, Mollie gets a new outfit to impress her friends at the school photo while Alex rents a tuxedo. |
| 11 |
"Meet the Parent" |
Katie Douglas |
28 September 2007 |
| Siobhan's father David (Nicky Henson) comes round to meet Jimmy and he, David, Siobhan and Diana go out to dinner. Diana and David get on well and go out together the following night. However, when David sends Diana lots of presents, she wants to end the relationship. Jimmy is worried that if she does this, he will not want him and Siobhan to continue their relationship. So Jimmy tries to tell him what Diana thinks, but David misunderstands and thinks Jimmy is talking about him and Siobhan. Diana then tells David herself. Meanwhile, Mollie wants to look good to impress a boy and Alex is drawing up the family tree if Diana and David marry. |
| 12 |
"Love and War" |
Andrea Solomons |
5 Ocobrt 2007 |
| On the 11th anniversary of her husband Patrick's death, Diana goes with Jimmy and the children to visit his grave. However, 12 red roses have already been placed on the grave and Diana immediately suspects that Patrick had an affair during their marriage. She wants to find out who the other woman was, and Jimmy finds out from the florist (Tracey Wilkinson) who sent the flowers. Jimmy then visits the lady (Di Botcher) and discovers that lady's son-in-law had placed the flowers on the wrong grave, her flowers were meant for her husband also called Patrick. Also, Siobhan goes back to college and Molly and Alex argue. n Jimmy says to Diana he will make an arch in his house, he has to cancel his weekend in Brighton with Siobhan, but discovers she had made other plans as she knew he would cancel. Jimmy then constructs the arch with Alex's help, in an attempt to teach him to stick at things, after he gets a letter from Alex's school telling him he has potential but no attention span. Meanwhile, Diana tries to make Molly throw away a t-shirt that says "Slut Queen". |
| 13 |
"When She Came Back" |
James Hendrie and Ian Brown |
12 October 2007 |
| Ann (Samantha Spiro) returns from Africa, and Howard has just asked her to marry him. Soon she tells Jimmy to moves out and takes away Diana's spare key so she can look after the children herself. Molly and Alex both soon miss Jimmy and Diana, while Jimmy has to sleep at Kev's flat. Jimmy later persuades Ann to go back to Africa like she wants to. Meanwhile, Molly is upset after being dumped by Shane while Alex pretends he has a broken leg to get out of PE. |
| 14 |
"Ride of the Valkyrie" |
James Hendrie and Ian Brown |
19 October 2007 |
| Diana's friend Pam Greerson (Georgie Glen) offers Diana exclusive German concert tickets if she finds her a builder. Jimmy needs the money so he agrees, but Kev believes that there is something suspicious about Pam, but Jimmy dismisses him. Just after being paid by Pam, the Police arrive and arrest her for fraud. Meanwhile, Alex runs for head prefect but when he wins he is disqualified after being caught bribing people meaning Molly's friend Ellie wins. |
| 15 |
"Just Say No" |
Katie Douglas |
26 October 2007 |
| After attempting to lift a bag of sand for a bet with Kev at work, Jimmy gets a hernia and is taken to hospital, where all the nurses are friends of Ann's and dislike him. After the operation, he recovers at home and gets a high on painkillers. During the high, he writes letters to people, including one to Siobhan proposing to her. Later, he has to try and tell her he did not mean to propose, only to discover that she knew this anyway. Meanwhile, Alex thinks he has become telepathic. |
