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The Best Episodes of My Family

Every episode of My Family ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of My Family!

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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One

Best Episodes Summary

"Trust Never Sleeps" is the best rated episode of "My Family". It scored 8.5/10 based on 134 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/2001. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death and Ben Take a Holiday".

  • Trust Never Sleeps
    8.5/10134 votes
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    #1 - Trust Never Sleeps

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/2001

    Parents Ben and Susan reluctantly agree to let daughter Janey have a party whilst they are away on holiday - and plan to sneak back unnoticed into the house and check up on the children, just to be on the safe side.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death and Ben Take a Holiday
    8.3/10128 votes
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    #2 - Death and Ben Take a Holiday

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/2001

    Susan, Ben and the children travel to a family funeral in Leeds. In addition to reservation problems at the hotel, Nick's shameless liaisons with the hotel maid and Susan's inappropriate behaviour at the funeral add up to a fraught weekend.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Fred Barron

  • The Last Resort
    8.2/10137 votes
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    #3 - The Last Resort

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2000

    Ben decides to take Susan back to one of their old romantic haunts for her birthday, but instead, romance comes back to haunt them. Meanwhile, at home, Michael is left alone by his siblings.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Farewell to Alarms
    8.2/10138 votes
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    #4 - Farewell to Alarms

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2000

    Susan insists that they purchase an expensive, over-the-top burglar alarm after Brigitte thinks her van has been stolen, but it fails to serve its purpose. Also, Nick's career takes an unexpected turn.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Great Escape
    8.2/10104 votes
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    #5 - The Great Escape

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2003

    Normally, nobody in the Harper family would willingly set foot in Nick's flat, but when Susan's mother comes to stay, it suddenly seems more attractive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Four Affairs and a Funeral
    8.2/1083 votes
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    #6 - Four Affairs and a Funeral

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 4/13/2007

    Ben talks Roger into helping him move the body of a patient who died in his dental chair; Abi and Susan suspect Roger and Ben are having affairs.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Susan of Troy
    8.2/10100 votes
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    #7 - Susan of Troy

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2007

    Michael succeeds in placing the whole family on "The Weakest Link", but Anne Robinson is about to raise more difficult questions than expected.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Parisian Beauty
    8.1/10133 votes
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    #8 - Parisian Beauty

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/2001

    Preparations are afoot in the Harper household for the arrival of Sylvie, a French exchange student. Nick is keen to establish entente cordiale, but Janey is wary of the Parisian beauty. Meanwhile, Ben meets a prospective employee who does little to put him at ease.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I Second That Emulsion
    8.1/10116 votes
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    #9 - I Second That Emulsion

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/12/2001

    The Harpers plan to redecorate their house, however, with Nick taking instructions from "The Naked Chef" rather too literally, and Janey's boyfriend spending the night in her room without her parents' permission, it appears that work will never get started.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Misery
    8.1/1095 votes
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    #10 - Misery

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/2002

    Janey is appalled when her mother comes to visit her at university - especially when she begins to reminisce about her own student days. Meanwhile, Ben's plans for a relaxing round of golf do not go according to plan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghosts
    8.1/1097 votes
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    #11 - Ghosts

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/2002

    After signing up on a social networking site, Susan starts getting messages from an old flame. Meanwhile, Michael finds out their house is cursed and Abi is convince it is haunted.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Owed to Susan
    8.1/10110 votes
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    #12 - Owed to Susan

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 4/18/2003

    After the Harpers' marriage is threatened by Susan's discovery that the love poem Ben wrote to woo her was not an original, he goes to great lengths to make it up to her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
    8.0/10119 votes
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    #13 - 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/2001

    When an over-friendly patient gives him an expensive watch, Ben jumps to the conclusion that he is a gangster and is determined to get rid of the gift. Meanwhile, Susan searches the house for her anniversary present.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Breakable
    8.0/10112 votes
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    #14 - Breakable

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/2001

    Nick buys a motorcycle for his new business endeavour but not surprisingly, things do not go according to plan. Janey gets a new job in hopes of being discovered by film producers, and Susan tries to convince Ben to soften up.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Imperfect Strangers
    8.0/1089 votes
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    #15 - Imperfect Strangers

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/2002

    Ben and Susan look forward to a night out in a town where nobody knows their names when they visit daughter Janey, who is away at university. Booking into a hotel under the names of Johnny Studd and Delores de Large, the stage is set for a night full of surprises, of one kind or another.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Second Greatest Story Ever Told
    8.0/10109 votes
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    #16 - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/2002

    Susan's feathers are ruffled when Nick lands the plum part of Jesus in an amateur theatrical production, leaving Susan to play the rather less demanding part of Shepherd Number Two. Ben, meanwhile, has an extremely painful toothache to contend with, and is wary of entrusting his dental needs to any other dentist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest
    8.0/1091 votes
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    #17 - One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/2002

    Ben gets his hopes up that finally one of his kids will move out when Nick decides to get his own apartment; unfortunately, as always for Ben, every silver lining has a cloud.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Unkindest Cut
    7.9/10116 votes
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    #18 - The Unkindest Cut

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/2001

    Ben and Susan face the surprise prospect of parenthood for the fourth time - a situation which is neither wholly desirable nor planned.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey
    7.9/10106 votes
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    #19 - Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/2002

    Ben claims Janey's room for his Scalextric set when she leaves for university. Meanwhile, Nick secures a job at the local supermarket, and ends up bringing his work home with him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Desperately Squeaking Susan
    7.9/1096 votes
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    #20 - Desperately Squeaking Susan

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/2002

    Susan has taken to asking an increasingly disturbed Michael for advice on make-up and clothes now that Janey has left for university. The arrival of Ben's cousin's daughter in the Harper household could provide a solution - but Ben is reluctant to give up the peace and quiet he has spent his entire married life longing for.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blind Justice
    7.9/10102 votes
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    #21 - Blind Justice

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/2/2003

    Susan gets hysterical blindness after seeing Michael in bed with a girl. Meanwhile, Ben is on dreaded jury duty and is hassled by an annoying busybody fellow juror, and Nick becomes a wrapping artist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dutch Art and Dutch Courage
    7.9/1074 votes
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    #22 - Dutch Art and Dutch Courage

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2007

    Handsome millionaire art collector James Garrett reappears in Susan's life and Ben feels jealous when the two of them share a hotel bedroom. Elsewhere, Roger is dealing with his own jealous feelings.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Droit de Seigneur Ben
    7.8/10124 votes
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    #23 - Droit de Seigneur Ben

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/2000

    When Janey is set up on a date with the son of one of Ben's patients, things go horribly wrong. Also, Susan gets tickets for the opera but Ben is less than enthusiastic.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Fred Barron

  • All Roads Lead to Ramon
    7.8/10124 votes
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    #24 - All Roads Lead to Ramon

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/2001

    When Susan tries to help out a chronically unemployable Nick, her plan turns out to be disastrous, Janey brings a different boy home every day, and Ben has problems with his assistant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Driving Miss Crazy
    7.8/10114 votes
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    #25 - Driving Miss Crazy

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/2001

    Ben is distressed as he faces trouble at work in the shape of his new assistant, who cannot stand the sight of blood. His troubles do not get any easier when he arrives home and must face the trauma of his neighbour's DIY antics. Meanwhile, Janey's preparations for her driving test end with an unforgettable lesson with her dad.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A