Keeping Mum
- 1997 – 1998
- Ended
- Comedy · Family
- ~30m / ep
- 2 seasons
Sitcom about an elderly woman who's starting to find her memory wandering while being watched over by her son and his wife.
Latest: Season 2 · 1998
View all seasonsE1. The Picnic
Apr 16, 1998 · 30m
Peggy wants to go on a picnic so Richard and Tina take her in the car, dragging Andrew along. Since it's raining hard they go to a stately home, where Peggy gets chatting to a group of old people visiting from a home. When she gets counted in with their number and driven back to the home Andrew must go and retrieve her.
E2. The Card Game
Apr 23, 1998 · 30m
Andrew invites three friends round for an evening of card games and Peggy is put out that he doesn't want her to join in. When the cards go missing he assumes that she has taken them in order to gain attention - which she duly does and he is annoyed that the friends take more interest in her than him.
E3. The Budgie
Apr 30, 1998 · 30m
After being caught in the middle of an argument between Peggy and Richard, Andrew hopes that looking after a friend's budgie will be a tonic for his mother, to take her mind off things. All starts very well but unfortunately she feeds it on chicken and accidentally kills it. She buys a replacement but will this fool Andrew?
E4. The Aunt
May 14, 1998 · 30m
Andrew invites Peggy's sister Marj to come and stay in the hopes that she can keep his mother company, thus allowing him more time with his girl-friend Wendy. Unfortunately the visit is not a success as the two sisters have never got on and old rivalries surface. Furthermore Wendy accuses Andrew of spending too much time with his mother and he is in danger of losing her.
E5. The Sign
May 21, 1998 · 30m
Peggy wonders where her late husband may have gone and when told that he is in heaven she decides top book her own place next to him by doing good deeds for the local church. Unfortunately the local church doesn't want her good deeds and Andrew has to tell her.
E6. The Thief
May 28, 1998 · 30m
Peggy is caught stealing a clock from her neighbour, Mr. Powell. She claims that it was originally hers but Powell stole it from her. He denies it. Andrew and Richard are confused as to how Powell would have ended up with Peggy's clock but, since she won't return it, Andrew buys it from Mr. Powell. Then he sees the inscription on the bottom of the clock that clears up matters.
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