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- 1996–19981h 14mTV-147.5 (192)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn GlenisterStarsPatricia RoutledgeDerek BenfieldDominic MonaghanA spunky sextegeneration and her teenage runaway assistant join forces to form their own detective agency and investigate the death of an elderly pensioner.
- DirectorJohn GlenisterStarsPatricia RoutledgeDerek BenfieldDominic MonaghanA deaf-mute young man out bird-watching watches a couple necking in a car, but amusement turns to horror when he witnesses a murder.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsPatricia RoutledgeDerek BenfieldDominic MonaghanWhile vacationing in Tuscany Hetty is hired by a local restaurateur whose son has been kidnapped, possibly by Mafioso who have been mailing him the boy's fingers.
- DirectorRobert TronsonStarsPatricia RoutledgeDerek BenfieldDominic MonaghanWhen Robert's uncle and childhood hero commits suicide by hanging himself in his home, Hetty investigates and finds witchcraft may be involved.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashGeoffrey HughesAfter receiving the phone bill Jim is on the warpath: Who has been calling Aberdeen? Cheryl and Denise are looking in the catalogue for jackets, and Jim buys some jeans off Twiggy.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonJim Royle is getting more and more worried about finding the money to pay for his daughter's wedding.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonBarbara's mum Norma, known as Nana, comes for Sunday tea and to see Denise in her wedding dress. Nana's reminiscing about the old days and long-dead friends sends the usually lazy Jim into the kitchen to do the washing-up, where he is joined by the other menfolk for small talk, though they return to watch "Antiques Roadshow" on TV and place bets on the items' asking prices. Jim agrees to see Nana home on the bus, but makes such a big deal of it that Dave offers to take her in his van.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonIt's Jim's birthday and the Carrolls from next door come in to join the celebration. A family photo is taken, though Antony wants to appear in profile; he has a black eye after fighting with the Beswick brothers. Jim annoys Denise by implying that Cheryl is fat and Barbara annoys Jim by talking about an old boyfriend, but he is happy to take her to the pub to celebrate--providing that she brings her purse.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonDenise and Dave come in from the pub where Dave has had a gig with his mobile disco. Denise is drunk and angry, claiming that Dave has been flirting with buxom Beverley Macca, but Dave takes Jim and Antony into the kitchen and explains that nothing happened. After speaking to her parents Denise calms down and the family has a sing-song to Jim's banjo playing.
- DirectorMark MylodStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashGeoffrey HughesDenise and Dave's wedding day finally arrives. The menfolk are in the kitchen, Jim practising his speech, Twiggy offering to sell knock-off tracksuits at the reception, and Antony being teased about his new haircut. Nana is put out because nobody will take her home for her comfortable shoes, but she does have 36 films in her camera. Antony hopes to move into Denise's room when she moves out. Alone in the house after the others have left for the church, Jim is uncharacteristically tender in assuaging Denise's nerves.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonDenise and Dave turn up and announce that Denise is pregnant. If it's a girl, they'll name her Whitney, and if it's a boy, they'll name him Dave, after Dave, or Keanu. Barbara cries tears of joy, while Jim merely comments on the waste of money for a pregnancy testing kit. Antony is sent to the shop to buy a bottle of pomagne to celebrate. Denise is not happy that Antony has told outsiders her news, whilst Barbara and Mary from next door both recall how useless their husbands were when they were giving birth.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashGeoffrey HughesJim invites Twiggy to Sunday lunch, but after he leaves, he moans about him accepting. Nana turns up and prattles on about illnesses, funerals, and Richard "Branston," to intolerant Jim's annoyance, while Dave and Denise bicker: he wants her to stop smoking during her pregnancy; she is annoyed that he will not move his moped out of what will be the baby's room. At least Antony is happy: he has a girlfriend, Emma.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonDave and Denise arrive to give Jim and Barbara a boring account of their visit to the ante-natal clinic. They all discuss Antony's girlfriend Emma, who may be only 17 and 'a tiny little thing' but she has her own car. When Antony comes in, he announces that he is part of a rock band called Exit, which Jim finds hilarious. He is less amused that Barbara has invited Nana to stay following her cataract operation.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonNana is now staying with the Royles, and Jim, churlish as ever, makes no bones about his animosity to her after she walks off with the remote control and accidentally turns off the video. When Barbara announces that she is staying another week, he is not pleased, but the last straw is her obsessing about a television show with a man dressed like a chicken. Antony's band has split up and Emma is going to the cinema with a platonic male friend, but the entire family turns on Jim when he tries to suggest to Antony that she is two-timing him.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonStressed out by menopause, her bakery job, and--especially--Jim's meanness and selfishness, Barbara confides in Denise before storming out of the house. Denise angrily confronts her father, but Jim only brings up Denise's own laziness and carries on watching 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'. When Barbara returns, he does make a cup of tea (with her help) and even offers to prepare the next evening's meal--until he discovers that it clashes with his darts night.
- DirectorSteve BendelackStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashGeoffrey HughesFamily, friends and neighbours gather at the Royle home for Antony's 18th birthday and to meet his new girlfriend, Emma. Dave brings an unwanted gift into the house and Jim, of course, gets his banjo out.
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsRobert LindsayZoë WanamakerKris MarshallWhile Nick chats up a girl on the internet, Michael's bought a pet rabbit which soon weaves its way into the family.
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsRobert LindsayZoë WanamakerKris MarshallMichael is being bullied by a classmate, and Susan discusses the issue with the boy's parents. Meanwhile, Janey is determined to get a tattoo.
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsRobert LindsayZoë WanamakerKris MarshallBen learns a patient's son is making advances toward his daughter. Susan has tickets to the opera.
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsRobert LindsayZoë WanamakerKris MarshallBen takes Susan away for her birthday, and Nick is left in charge.
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsRobert LindsayZoë WanamakerKris MarshallSusan wants a burglar alarm. Nick wants to become a stripper.
- DirectorCaroline AherneStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonDenise and Dave bring 10-month-old David Keanu Best to visit his grandparents. Predictably, most of the child-minding is left to Dave, rather than his lazy wife, which perturbs Barbara. Antony's friend Darren is also visiting, having been caught trying to steal a fridge/freezer from work. He is delighted when Denise starts to breast-feed Baby David, though Jim is disgusted. The family discuss David's future while Dave announces that he will build him a toy farmyard.
- DirectorCaroline AherneStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonIt's Saturday and Jim and Barbara have had Baby David stay overnight with them so that his parents could go to the karaoke at their local, The Feathers. Now both Denise and Dave are hungover, so Barbara fixes them bacon sandwiches. They see Joe and Mary from next door getting out of a taxi--returning from hospital after Joe cut his finger grating cheese--a fact that doesn't surprise Jim. The baby starts to cry and Antony is sent upstairs to pacify him while the others slip out to the pub.
- DirectorCaroline AherneStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashGeoffrey HughesTwiggy comes round to help Jim decorate the living-room. He tells Jim about Dave's problems with the police. Dave turns up and tells Jim and Twiggy about Darren's new girlfriend who looks like Tina Turner.
- DirectorCaroline AherneStarsCaroline AherneCraig CashSue JohnstonNana's friend Elsie has died, and when she and Barbara return from the funeral she is drowning her sorrows with brandy. But at the same time she goes on about all the things that she will be taking from Elsie's flat for herself. This annoys Jim, who calls her The Living Dead. Barbara declares that she will not be cooking dinner, so she sends Antony to buy fish-and-chips, which pleases Cheryl because it's a break from her diet. While everybody else is downstairs, Jim goes up and talks through Baby David's baby monitor, pretending to be Elsie's ghost telling Nana to keep her thieving hands off her possessions.