My Family (2000)

Name: My Family
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Gabriel Thomson, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Keiron Self

Comedy

Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or job centre, Janey is as sharp as a tack and 16 going on 25, while Michael is a very bright, computer-nerdish 12 year old who is just discovering girls.

IMDb rating: 7.5 (11,336 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 ↑ +0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 11
Streaming (US): Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 11 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2000)

7.69 avg 8 episodes 7.6 → 7.6 29 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Serpent's Tooth	7.6	193
2	Pain in the Class	7.5	154
3	Droit de Seigneur Ben	7.8	136
4	The Last Resort	8.3	149
5	Farewell to Alarms	8.2	150
6	Death Takes a Policy	7.2	132
7	Awkward Phase	7.3	131
8	Much Ado About Ben	7.6	131

Season 2 (2001)

7.93 avg 13 episodes 7.9 → 8.1 29 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	All Roads Lead to Ramon	7.9	137
2	The Unkindest Cut	7.7	128
3	Parisian Beauty	8.2	144
4	Trust Never Sleeps	8.6	144
5	Death and Ben Take a Holiday	8.3	137
6	Driving Miss Crazy	7.6	126
7	I Second That Emulsion	8.0	127
8	Age of Romance	7.9	123
9	Get Cartier	7.9	123
10	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	7.8	130
11	The Last Supper	7.6	123
12	Ben Wants to Be a Millionaire	7.5	116
13	Breakable	8.1	121

Season 3 (2002)

7.95 avg 14 episodes 8.0 → 8.6 29 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey	8.0	116
2	Shrink Rap	7.8	113
3	Desperately Squeaking Susan	8.0	105
4	Of Mice and Ben	7.8	105
5	Imperfect Strangers	8.1	99
6	The Second Greatest Story Ever Told	8.1	111
7	Waiting to Inhale	7.8	99
8	Misery	8.2	105
9	Auto Erotica	7.8	102
10	A Handful of Dust	7.7	104
11	The Lost Weekend	7.2	96
12	Ghosts	8.1	105
13	One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest	8.1	100
14	Ding Dong Merrily...	8.6	123

Season 4 (2003)

7.68 avg 14 episodes 7.7 → 7.9 29 min avg

Rebound

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fitting Punishment	7.7	106
2	They Shoot Harpers, Don't They?	7.4	105
3	The Great Escape	8.2	111
4	Return of the Prodigal Prat	7.8	106
5	Owed to Susan	8.2	110
6	Deliverance	7.0	103
7	Blind Justice	7.9	104
8	Friday the 31st	7.7	110
9	Sitting Targets	7.6	99
10	Loco Parentis	7.1	98
11	Canary Cage	7.7	111
12	May the Best Man Win	7.4	103
13	It's a Window-Filled Life	7.9	106
14	Sixty Feet Under	7.9	111

Season 5 (2004)

7.61 avg 16 episodes 6.7 → 7.8 29 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Reloaded	6.7	78
2	The Mummy Returns	7.6	97
3	You Don't Know Jack	7.6	95
4	What's Up, Docklands?	7.7	103
5	Luck Be a Lady Tonight	7.6	95
6	First Past the Post	7.2	90
7	My Will Be Done	7.8	94
8	My Fair Charlady	7.5	89
9	The Mouthtrap	7.7	89
10	While You Weren't Sleeping	7.9	84
11	Dentist to the Stars	7.6	86
12	A Wife Less Ordinary	7.6	89
13	The Book of Love	7.6	90
14	Going Dental	8.2	97
15	Glad Tidings We Bring	7.7	90
16	Comic Relief Special	7.8	53

Season 6 (2005)

7.37 avg 8 episodes 7.3 → 7.5 29 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	...and I'll Cry If I Want To	7.3	77
2	Bliss for Idiots	7.5	92
3	The Spokes Person	7.6	86
4	Dentally Unstable	7.4	83
5	Living the Dream	6.9	85
6	An Embarrassment of Susans	7.5	84
7	And Other Animals	7.3	80
8	The Art of Being Susan	7.5	85

Season 7 (2006)

7.71 avg 10 episodes 7.5 → 7.4 28 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Heart of Christmas	7.5	85
1	The Ego Has Landed	7.7	90
2	Four Affairs and a Funeral	8.3	92
3	Once More with Feeling	7.6	85
4	Dutch Art and Dutch Courage	8.0	81
5	Susan of Troy	8.3	99
6	One of the Boys	7.5	95
7	Abi Ever After	7.5	85
8	Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do	7.3	81
9	Life Begins at Fifty	7.4	80

Season 8 (2007)

7.53 avg 8 episodes 7.7 → 7.3 41 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Ho Ho No	7.7	83
1	The Parent Trap	8.0	75
2	Let's Not Be Heisty	7.6	82
3	Cards on the Table	7.3	77
4	The Wax Job	7.4	73
5	Neighbour Wars	7.5	75
6	Can't Get No Satisfaction	7.4	74
7	The Abi Habit	7.3	74

Season 9 (2008)

7.15 avg 10 episodes 7.7 → 6.7 37 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Have a Unhappy Christmas	7.7	76
1	Bully for Ben	7.2	76
2	Bringing Up Janey	7.3	72
3	A Very Brief Encounter	7.4	71
4	The Psyche of Mikey	7.1	68
5	A Difficult Undertaking	7.0	70
6	Dog Dazed	6.8	69
7	It's Training Men	7.1	66
8	The Guru	7.2	73
9	Kenzo's Project	6.7	74

Season 10 (2009)

7.29 avg 9 episodes 6.8 → 7.3 32 min avg

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	2039: A Christmas Oddity	6.8	92
1	Wheelie Ben	6.9	77
2	The Son'll Come Out	7.2	87
3	Desperately Stalking Susan	7.6	71
4	The Melbourne Identity	7.4	73
5	He's Just Not That Into Ben	7.4	69
6	Slammertime	7.6	70
7	Ben Behaving Badly	7.4	69
8	Mary Christmas	7.3	57

Season 11 (2011)

6.87 avg 11 episodes 6.9 → 6.7 28 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Janey's Choice	6.9	69
2	Labour Pains	7.2	69
3	Accusin' Susan	6.9	68
4	Germs of Endearment	6.8	66
5	Harper v Harper	7.0	67
6	Relationship Happens	6.5	67
7	'Booked	6.9	68
8	A Decent Proposal	6.8	65
9	Darts All, Folks	7.0	63
10	Susan for a Bruisin'	6.9	60
11	A Night Out	6.7	75

My Family (2000)

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