Home to Roost - Season 1 - Eps 1: A New Life
Divorced office worker Henry Willows is content in his uneventful life, one of his few domestic contacts being Enid, who comes in to clean for him. However his ordered existence is shattered when his seventeen year old son Matthew arrives on his door-step, having previously lived with Henry's ex-wife. Matthew claims that he was fed up at his mother's house and was keen to see his father again. A call to the ex-wife uncovers another story. Matthew was thrown out and told to move in with his father. Henry is about to find out why.
About Home to Roost
Title: Home to Roost
First Air Date: 1985-04-19
Last Air Date: 1990-01-19
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.3/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 28
Network: ITV1
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is forty-something, who has been divorced from his wife for seven years and is perfectly happy living alone in London. That is, until his youngest child, Matthew arrives to live with him, after being thrown out by his mother. The plots generally revolved around Henry's annoyance at having his solitude disturbed, and the age gap clash. Henry employed two cleaners throughout the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell.
Cast
Reece Dinsdale
Matthew Willows
John Thaw
Henry Willows
