2point4 children is a British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porter family; a normal family faced with abnormal situations.
The show was originally broadcast on BBC1 from 1991 to 1999, and ran for eight series, ending in a special Millennium edition that would be the last owing to the untimely death of Gary Olsen. It is now repeated on G.O.L.D. and UKTV.
The title of the show refers to the once...
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2point4 children is a British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porter family; a normal family faced with abnormal situations.
The show was originally broadcast on BBC1 from 1991 to 1999, and ran for eight series, ending in a special Millennium edition that would be the last owing to the untimely death of Gary Olsen. It is now repeated on G.O.L.D. and UKTV.
The title of the show refers to the once average size of a UK family, although Andrew Marshall has indicated that father Ben could be considered almost another child, hence "point four".
Although set in the fictitious Chepstow Road, Chiswick, most of the exterior scenes of the house and street were filmed in Meon Road, Acton; and earlier on, Duke Road in Chiswick.
The first three series have been released on DVD by Eureka Video, but after insufficient sales the publisher does not intend to release any more. Despite poor DVD sales, the programme (which owes something of a debt to the...
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