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Don't Wait Up

Season 1 1983

  • 1983-10-25T00:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 3h 30m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Two doctors, estranged from their spouses, become roommates...but they also happen to be father and son! Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy? No, but they do it anyway.... Tom Latimer is a young and hard working general practitioner who has managed to survive an expensive and nasty divorce. Now he lives in an apartment while his ex lives in their beautiful home. And things get worse for Tom when his father, dermatologist Toby Latimer, arrives at Tom's place with the news that he and Tom's mother will also be getting divorced” and that he's moving in! It's shades of The Odd Couple as father and son must learn to tolerate one another's idiosyncracies.

7 episodes

Series Premiere

1983-10-25T00:00:00Z

1x01 Episode One

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode One

  • 1983-10-25T00:00:00Z30m

Hard-working GP Tom Lattimer, in the midst of a divorce, is not exactly pleased when his father announces his own divorce and moves in.

1983-11-01T00:00:00Z

1x02 Episode Two

1x02 Episode Two

  • 1983-11-01T00:00:00Z30m

When Tom's mother comes round for drinks and imbibes too much, Tom offers her Toby's bed for the evening, which sets up a most embarrassing situation.

1983-11-08T00:00:00Z

1x03 Episode Three

1x03 Episode Three

  • 1983-11-08T00:00:00Z30m

Working hard to reunite his parents, Tom is appalled when Toby brings his attractive young receptionist Madeline home after an evening out at Covent Garden.

1983-11-15T00:00:00Z

1x04 Episode Four

1x04 Episode Four

  • 1983-11-15T00:00:00Z30m

Toby has bought a new Rolls-Royce, which he lends Tom when Tom's mini is stolen. But the Latimer men are about to be without transportation: the Rolls is stolen as well.

1983-11-22T00:00:00Z

1x05 Episode Five

1x05 Episode Five

  • 1983-11-22T00:00:00Z30m

Tom's suggestion to Toby for a temporary receptionist is not well received. Meanwhile, Toby appears on television to talk about private practice and manages to offend everyone.

1983-11-29T00:00:00Z

1x06 Episode Six

1x06 Episode Six

  • 1983-11-29T00:00:00Z30m

When Toby stays out all night long, Tom surmises that he as spent the night with a woman—when in fact Toby had been in hospital, working with a colleague who suffered a heart attack.

1983-12-06T00:00:00Z

1x07 Episode Seven

1x07 Episode Seven

  • 1983-12-06T00:00:00Z30m

Tom's plans for his parents' reconciliation seem on course when Toby invites Angela away for a romantic weekend—but Angela storms home when she learns who sponsored the weekend.

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