7 Season
45 Episode
Father, Dear Father - Season 4 Episode 5
Patrick gives up smoking & puts the ashtrays & cigarettes in a cupboard draw to avoid temptation. Ian & Norah are going to Spain for three weeks & would like Patrick to mind their Hampster Sheba while they're away. Due to a faulty catch on the cage Sheba escapes. Patrick & the family search for Sheba but can't find her. Patrick calls in Mr Piper a ""Hampster Hunter"" who suggests tearing up the carpet & ripping up the floor boards. Patrick decides to buy a male hampster to try and entice Sheba from her hiding place.However Nigel the male hampster escapes just as Sheba did. With time running out & the Smythes on their way home, Patrick rips up the carpet & floorboards but still no trace of the two missing hampsters. As Norah & Ian walk in the front door Patrick can't stand it any longer and has to have a cigarette. There in the bottom draw of the cupboard he finds Nigel,Sheba & their family.!! a BIG thank you to LB who made this synopsis possible.
- Year: 1973
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: ITV1
- Keyword: london, england, daughter, family, single father, novelist, sitcom
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- Cast: Patrick Cargill, Dawn Addams, Natasha Pyne, Noel Dyson, Jeremy Child, Joyce Carey
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