Full House – Nostalgia Central

1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 6 (UK)
20 x 30 minute episodes

Created by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Full House (not to be confused with the 1987 American sitcom of the same name starring John Stamos and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) revolved around two couples who decided to share a house.

The Hatfields – Paul (Christopher Strauli) and his wife Marsha (Sabina Franklyn, the daughter of the Schhh . . . you know who man, William Franklyn)  – have been married for three years and are living with Paul’s mother. They are desperate for a place of their own. But there’s a snag . . . money.

Murray (Brian Capron) and Diana (Natalie Forbes, who played Lorraine Chase’s Swedish flatmate in The Other ‘Arf) – are in a similar predicament. Although they are unmarried, they also want their own place, but they can’t afford to buy on their own.

It seems like a good idea for the four to team up and get a joint mortgage.

Paul does things by the book and draws up a list of guidelines and rules to help the two couples “get along” together.

Everything else is done via his diary – and if an event is not recorded in his little black book, then it just doesn’t happen.

Murray and Diana eventually marry and – in the final series – the birth of a little McCoy is imminent.

Paul Hatfield
Christopher Strauli
Marsha Hatfield
Sabina Franklyn
Murray McCoy
Brian Capron
Diana McCoy
Natalie Forbes
Mr Cottisloe
Richard Caldicot

Episodes

First Time Buyers | And Mother Came Too | Promises, Promises | It’s Only Money | Little Secrets | Such Sweet Sorrow || Baby Talk | Where There’s a Will | Home Is Where the Art Is | It’s a Steal | Semper Fidelis | TV or Not TV | The Mating Game | May the Best Man Win || It’s in the Book | All Play and No Work | The Facts of Life | Old Scores | If at First You Don’t Succeed | And Baby Makes Five

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