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Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) is the widowed Sarah France. Though her deceased husband has left her well-cared for financially, he has also left her alone to deal with something rather more of a handful: a demanding, cunning mother and a prickly, adolescent daughter. Joan Sanderson (Please Sir) is the devious Eleanor, whose lot in life does not include making things easier for her daughter Sarah. As for the angst – ridden teenage daughter Clare (Janine Wood – Krakatoa: The Last Days), who is desperate to leave home and establish her independence, provided that Sarah is there to tidy up the messy aftermaths…

With scripts by the multiple BAFTA – winner Simon Brett (Rosemary and Thyme) and director Peter Frazer – Jones (Man About the House, George and Mildred) at the helm, After Henry regularly attracted 14 million viewers, and remains a memorable sitcom well worth revisiting.

• The Older Man: Sarah hears from her mother’s geriatric gossip network that Clare is secretly meeting an "older man" and feels that she has to find out what’s really going on...
• Phone Calls: Sarah thinks she has finally found the perfect way to stop her mother from snooping in her part of the house. Unfortunately, she hasn’t reckoned with Eleanor’s deviousness.
• The Teapot: Eleanor is undecided about the terms of her will, and, of course, sees this as a wonderful opportunity to play her daughter off against her granddaughter.
• Security: A lapse of security forces Sarah to install a burglar alarm, but Eleanor - needless to say - has other ideas as to how their property should be protected.
• Romantic Complications: Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of both her daughter and her mother as she has to listen to endless confidences about their love-lives...
• The Birthday: A major celebration is approaching for Eleanor, and Sarah has secret plans for making the occasion memorable. But is it actually possible to keep anything secret from her mother?