My Family

of...

To be fair, I remember the only other one that I remember watching a lot when I was a kid was My Family.

You know, the one with Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker, which was...

I remember when I was a lot younger on a...

Maybe it was a Friday night.

I can't remember.

It would be like an episode of Only Fools and Horses than an episode of My Family or the other way around.

I can't remember.

It's a worldwide show, but the, the...

There were TV shows, you know, um, My Family or-

Yeah

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I hope you are all well.

[upbeat music] My special guest today is Nick Phillips, a prolific television director who, as well as 20 hard-hitting episodes of The Bill, his many directing credits include Brookside, Casualty, Coronation Street, EastEnders, and the sitcoms Barbara, Birds of a Feather, Desmond's, Goodnight Sweetheart, and My Family.

[upbeat music] Working in the screen trade since 1968, Nick got his drama directing debut on LWT's The Gentle Touch, the first police procedural with a leading female detective, DI Maggie Forbes, played by the late great Jill Gascoine.

I interviewed Nick last year to capture his memories of working on The Gentle Touch for Best of British Magazine.