My Hero (UK TV series)

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My Hero
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Genre Sitcom
Created by Paul Mendelson
Written by Paul Mayhew-Archer
Directed by John Stroud
Starring Ardal O'Hanlon
James Dreyfus
Emily Joyce
Hugh Dennis
Geraldine McNulty
Lou Hirsch
Philip Whitchurch
Lill Roughley
Tim Wylton
Composer(s)Philip Pope
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes51 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Geoffrey Perkins
Marcus Mortimer
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
Producer(s)John Stroud
Jamie Rix
Editor(s) Mykola Pawluk
Graham Hutchings
Running time30 minutes
Production company(s)Big Bear Films
Release
Original network BBC One
Picture format 16:9 (576i)
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release4 February 2000 (2000-02-04) – 10 September 2006 (2006-09-10)
External links
Website

My Hero is a British television sitcom, written and created by Paul Mendelson, that broadcast for six series on the BBC between 2000 and 2006. [1] The series follows the everyday adventures of a dim-witted Ultronian superhero known as "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon, and his human wife, Janet, played by Emily Joyce. "Thermoman" is a multi-powered superhero who originates from the planet Ultron. In an attempt to do his best to fit in with life on earth, he creates the human alias of George Sunday. However, due to his unfamiliarity with human life, his antics usually lead to many misunderstandings. Although Thermoman is intrinsically very intelligent, his problem understanding earthly customs makes him look like an idiot to people who don't know who he really is.

Television Telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images

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A sitcom, clipping for situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. This form can also include mockumentaries.

Paul A. Mendelson is an English television, film and radio scriptwriter.

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In 2006, O'Hanlon announced he was stepping down from his role as George Sunday. Following this decision, James Dreyfus was cast as an alter-ego of "Thermoman" for the sixth and final series. Although the series gathered consistent viewing figures, figures declined heavily following the appointment of Dreyfus, whose casting was deemed as " Doctor Who -esque" by Broadcast Magazine , [2] and the series was subsequently axed. [3]

James Dreyfus British actor

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<i>Doctor Who</i> British science fiction TV series

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human, from the planet Gallifrey. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need.

Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry. It covers a wide range of news and issues affecting the professional broadcast market in the UK. Broadcast has regular weekly sections covering news, commissioning, facilities, analysis, opinion, interview, platforms, production and ratings. Broadcast also often has a special feature covering an issue relevant to the industry. It is owned by Media Business Insight, a publishing, events and information business that also includes Screen International and Shots.

Across six series, fifty-one episodes were broadcast. The series was written by a team of writers, a trait that is typical of most American sitcoms. The main team of writers for each series included writer and creator Paul Mendelson, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Paul Alexander, James Cary, Simon Braithwaite, Gary Lawson, John Phelps, Ian Brown and James Hendrie. All fifty-one episodes were directed by John Stroud and filmed in front of a live audience at Teddington Studios in London. Location footage was often filmed in Pinner, London. [4] Each series featured a varying number of episodes, with the first and second series containing six episodes, series three through five containing ten episodes each and series six containing eight episodes. [5] The first series also included an additional Christmas Special. [6] Some of the episode titles are a play on the titles of famous novels and movies; for example, How Green Was My Ollie is a pun on the novel How Green Was My Valley , and The First Husbands Club is a pun on the movie The First Wives Club .

Paul Mayhew-Archer is a British writer, producer and script editor for the BBC.

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The series is regularly repeated on Gold in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the series was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia. Three of the six series have been released on DVD; two on Region 1 DVD and one on Region 2. [7] Fans have since petitioned the BBC to release the complete series on DVD. [8]

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The United Kingdom (UK), officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a sovereign country located off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state, the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.

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Cast

Ardal O'Hanlon is an Irish comedian and actor. He played Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero, and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise.

Emily Sian Joyce is an English actress best known for playing the role of Janet Dawkins in the BBC comedy series My Hero, between 1999 and 2006.

Lill Roughley is an English actress who has appeared on British television since the 1970s. Her notable roles include Alice in Mulberry and Ella Dawkins in My Hero. In the 1980s and 1990s, Roughley also worked often with Victoria Wood, playing a variety of roles in Wood's various comedy series for the BBC.

Characters

Main characters

George Sunday

George Eamonn Sunday (Ardal O'Hanlon) is an mild-mannered Irish health store shopkeeper, who is the alter ego of "Thermoman", a world-famous superhero who hails from the planet Ultron. He inherited his title from his father Seamus Sunday, the original Thermoman, who is retired. George owns a health food store, but tries to avoid attracting customers in order to avoid attention. Only his closest friends know his true identity. He often appears to be an idiot because of his unfamiliarity with Earth culture, and has a tendency to take things literally, such as allowing himself to get hit by a bus to cash in a life insurance policy without realising that he had to die. In the sixth series, he loses his body in a poker game, forcing him to assume a new alter ego, "George Monday". [9] George's late mother was Ulrich Sunday.

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Health food store type of grocery store that primarily sells health foods, organic foods and local produce

A health food store or health food shop is a type of grocery store that primarily sells health foods, organic foods, local produce, and often nutritional supplements. Health food stores typically offer a wider or more specialized selection of foods than conventional grocery stores for their customers, for example athletes and bodybuilders, people with special dietary needs, such as people who are allergic to the gluten in wheat or some other substance, or have diabetes mellitus, and for people who observe vegetarian, vegan, raw food, organic, or other alternative diets.

Thermoman has numerous abilities. He is able to both heat and freeze things with "Thermobreath", and smash things easily with super strength. The latter is also a weakness, being uncontrollable when he is tired. Other powers include flight, superspeed, X-ray vision, resurrection of the dead, time travel and an ability to smell natural disasters and crimes taking place anywhere in the world. "Invulnerability" allows Thermoman to cut off parts of his own body, such as his own head, and then replace it. However, this invincibility is only effective when Thermoman believes he's invincible. In one episode, he begins to doubt his ability and thus temporarily loses this power, gaining unwanted and uncontrollable invisibility instead. Invisibility occurs when he is afraid, and the amount of parts of his body that turn invisible depend on how frightened he is. Thermoman can control minds and erase memories by putting his finger to their foreheads, and by giving them a "thermoblast". "Total erasure" is achieved by staring at a person, with the side effect of causing them to lose their hair.

"Thermowelding" is the ability to weld a person's mouth shut; "Zip-it!" is a safer way of silencing people using a zipper; "Interspecies Interpreter", which allows Thermoman to communicate with animals excluding dung beetles; and "Miracle Spit", which is used to make plants grow quickly. As well as all of these powers, Thermoman on multiple occasions, orders additional trial powers from the magazine Superhero Monthly. Other psychic powers include picking lottery numbers before seeing them on television via a series of quick mental calculations he can carry out automatically - although he is forbidden by Ultronian law to use this information. He can also turn the television on and off and rewind it just by waving his finger.

George Monday

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George Monday, as portrayed by James Dreyfus

After losing his body in a poker game, George adopts the new pseudonym George Monday (James Dreyfus), who blends in to the local community by posing as a doctor at Northolt Health Centre, where he is hired by Dr. Piers Crispin (Hugh Dennis). Janet introduces Monday to her friends and parents as her new lodger, however rumour soon begins to spread that she is in a relationship with Monday, and that she has murdered her husband.

Janet Dawkins

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Janet Dawkins, as portrayed by Emily Joyce

Janet Dawkins (Emily Joyce) is a nurse at the Northolt Health Centre. She first meets Thermoman when he rescues her from death, after she falls into the Grand Canyon whilst on holiday. She subsequently begins to date George Sunday, unaware that he is in fact Thermoman. Although she loves George, she is frequently exasperated and confused by his behaviour.

Janet and George marry at the end of the second series, which also sees the birth of their first child, Apollo "Ollie" Sunday. Janet and George also have a daughter, Cassandra "Cassie" Sunday, who is born at the start of series five. Her mother, Ella, disapproves of her marriage to George, and often asks her to get rid of him and marry Piers instead. Janet is friends with health centre receptionist Mrs. Raven, while her boss, Piers Crispin, displays an obvious crush on her.

Apollo "Ollie" Sunday

Apollo "Ollie" Sunday (voiced by Finlay Stroud) is the son of George and Janet. He is born at the end of series two, and, like his father, possesses superhuman powers, although they are somewhat limited. The name "Apollo" was chosen by Ollie himself during a conversation with Tyler, and is meant to symbolise the link between two "heavenly bodies" (either Apollo 11 or Battlestar Galactica ). George originally wants to name him Pontius after Pontius Pilate, and Janet opted for Benjamin, until Tyler informed them that Ollie did not like either name. Despite being a baby, Ollie speaks fluent English and has a full set of formed teeth. By the fifth series, Ollie claims to know virtually all Earth languages. During this series, his character takes more of a back seat as he fights sibling rivalry wars with his newborn sister Cassie.

Cassandra "Cassie" Sunday

Cassandra "Cassie" Sunday (voiced by Madeline Mortimer) is the newest member of the Sunday family, born at the beginning of the fifth series. Her only superpower is that she can see into the future. This proved to be of little use, however, when she informs George that the population of the whole Northern Hemisphere is dead, forcing everyone to flock to Australia. However, it is soon established that she cannot distinguish between someone being asleep or dead.

Piers Crispin

Dr. Piers Crispin (Hugh Dennis) is the local GP at Northholt health centre, who also works as a television personality and is Janet's boss. He is often portrayed as being more interested in his public image than in his patients' welfare. He is widely known for his catchphrase "I am always here" and often describes himself as "Britain's Favourite TV Doctor", after winning the Best Daytime TV Doctor award in 1996. In an attempt to boost his image, Piers tries schemes such as releasing his own health drink, sponsoring a photogenic tiger cub in Bangladesh, writing a book, supporting a healthy eating campaign in schools, and even appearing on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! . He is also captain of the local cricket team, having been a former professional player before giving up to become a doctor. Despite being a qualified doctor, Piers once admitted he didn't know where babies come from.

Piers once revealed to Janet that he faked his A-Level results to get into medical school,a and is more concerned with his television career than anything else, quoting that he "will jump onto any bandwagon to prolong it". It is later revealed that his attitude towards his patients and colleagues stems from being bullied at school, being locked in a cellar by his domineering father, and his unfeeling mother favouring his brother, a talented boy scout. In the fifth series, it was revealed that Piers wanted to be a violinist, but his father didn't consent to it. His father strictly banned all music from the house for three years, and forced him to take up a career in medicine, even calling him "Doctor Crispin" as a child. Piers is also revealed to be a virgin, despite being forty-three years old and previously being married to a psychotic woman named Linda.

Hugh Dennis said of his role in the series; "Piers is a self-obsessed, incredibly vain egomaniac with no interest in anything except himself - he's a brilliant part to play!" [10]

Mrs. Raven

Mrs Raven (Geraldine McNulty), is the sociopathic, sadistic, misanthropic receptionist at the Northolt Health Centre. She has a sadomasochistic relationship with Arnie, has "demonic" triplets from a previous marriage (where she claims her wedding vows were "No retreat, no surrender".) Mrs, Raven often makes snide comments about people while they are present, and seems to pride herself on scaring away potential patients. She often gets the better of her boss, Piers usually through blackmail or similar methods. She is rarely overly mean to Janet, however, and the two women have oddly managed to form a genuine friendship. Mrs. Raven reveals to Janet that prior to being a receptionist, she was a prison warden.

Since the third series, she has assumed an on/off relationship with Arnie, who has been staying with her since moving to Northolt. During the course of the series, her first name is never revealed. She even refers to herself simply as "Mrs. Raven," such as in a fantasy she had about Thermoman in season three. Her triplets are also unnamed, and never seen, though Mrs. Raven keeps up a running commentary on their increasingly outrageous, obviously illegal and occasionally disturbing behaviour. She has made numerous references to her equally vicious sister, Doris, and their psychotic mother. She also has appalling personal hygiene, as remarked by Arnie.

She is often known to aid Piers in his schemes, in return for a cut of the profits, including filming Stanley Dawkins's "pregnancy" (which turns out to be a 2oz gallstone) for a live television broadcast; selling homemade booze; and arranging a stripper for Piers' cousin's stag night. She later reveals that her nasty behaviour towards Piers is "one of two things that gets her out of bed". [11] Piers often compares her to the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz and likens her to a female version of Hannibal Lector.

Arnie Kowalski

Arnie Kowalski (Lou Hirsch) is George's cousin and confidant. Originally a superhero himself named Polarman, he lost his powers because he began charging for his services. He is portrayed as being greedy, willing to do anything to make money, regardless of who it harms, including himself. In one episode, he gets his powers back from the Ultron Council, and becomes the new hero in town, in order to allow George to have a break from his duties and to spend more time with Janet. However, he soon has them taken away again when he is caught stealing from those he saved, including stealing the Crown Jewels from the Queen.

In the first series, he is implied to be a philanderer and it is revealed that he has fathered sixty-eight children. In this series, he lives in New York, where he owns a café, but in the second series, he moves to Las Vegas, where he owns a casino. In the third series, after losing all of his money, Arnie moves to Northolt. Following his move, Arnie begins to use British idioms. In an attempt to regain some of his wealth, Arnie tries a number of get rich quick schemes, including trying to start up a website for George's health shop with Tyler; filming a sitcom called "The Filth Channel" for Ultron, where he records his bedroom activities with on/off lover Mrs Raven; and starting a therapy group to help George get his invincibility back when he learns the truth about his powers.

Stanley and Ella Dawkins

Stanley (Tim Wylton) and Ella Dawkins (Lill Roughley) are Janet's meddlesome parents. Their relationship is tempestuous, getting off on a bad start from literally day one, as they argued on their honeymoon and spent the night apart. Mrs Dawkins is a typical mother-in-law, and has always thought Janet should have married Piers. She dislikes George, believing him to be an idiot and a loser. Stanley humorously complains all the time about his wife, and is rather suspicious of George and all other men who go anywhere near his daughter.

When George gains the mystic power of "Mascara", he reads Stanley’s mind and discovers that all he ever thinks about is killing Ella. He seems to be a bit more tolerant of George, as he has a few good times with him, mainly because it irritates Ella, making him a lesser target. Despite his dislike of them, George repeatedly attempts to get Stanley and Ella to like him. Janet, on the other hand, holds a deep grudge against them, due to their overbearing, controlling ways and their repeated abuse of George.

Tyler

Tyler (Philip Whitchurch) is Janet and George's eccentric scouse neighbour. Aside from family, he is the only person who knows George's real identity, but often seems to have his own even more bizarre ideas and theories about the universe. For instance, he often claims that Gandalf, Frodo, and other fictional characters are staying in his flat. George initially denies Tyler's claims that he is Thermoman, but later begins to accepts that Tyler knows (mainly because no one would believe him), and gives him a job as his assistant in the health shop, replacing his former assistant, Avril.

He is the only human who is resistant to George's memory-erasing thermoblast. Towards the end of the series, it is revealed much to the surprise of Janet, Tyler is only thirty-two years old. Tyler once reveals to George and Arnie that at five years old, he was sent to boarding school and was bullied repeatedly for ten years. Tyler often refers to George as "Master", and occasionally calls Janet "Mistress". Following Cassie's birth, Janet often ropes Tyler in as an impromptu babysitter. Tyler's surname is never revealed.

Sunday Family Tree


 
Ella Dawkins
 
Stanley Dawkins
 
 
 
 
Ulrich Sunday
 
Séamus Sunday
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Janet Dawkins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
George Sunday
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Apollo "Ollie" Sunday
 
Cassandra Sunday
 

Recurring characters

Avril

Avril (Moya Brady) is George's nervous health shop assistant in the first series. She has a crush on George and a major dislike of Janet. She also suffers from repeated breakdowns and shakes. She is cursed with a perpetual cold, which makes her position in a health shop a frequent source of ironic humour.

Ultron Postie

The Ultron Postie (Pat Kelman) is a postman from Ultron who delivers messages and gadgets to Thermoman from the high council. He often mysteriously arrives through the wall in George and Janet's bathroom.

Setting

Planet Ultron

Ultron is Thermoman's home planet and Superheroes are their greatest export. Ultron is never seen, apart from a few shots of the planet from space (although George once described the gravity and atmospheric pressure to be much greater than Earth), but many references are made to the planet and its unique culture throughout the series. Traditions include the grand ceremony of Betrothal; the great pig juggling ceremony; the time tunnel of tarxis, which re-aligns age hormones; the protocols of Talithos and Zanalar; and the pre-wedding mating ritual. Other less common traditions include the Ultron nose-pinch, which is the sign of true friendship between a male and a female; the sacred oath of allegiance and stance, which features Ultronians standing with their right arms on their hips and their left arms straight across with the hands pointing down; and Chang Ching, a combat to the death, where forfeiting results in being scattered to the corners of the universe in four separate packing cases.

Languages include "Zneet Znadder Zneet" (often shortened to "Zneet"), which is a typical Ultronian greeting; "Zneet Znadder Znithery Zneet", a happy Ultronian greeting; "You Great Nishdar", which is an Ultronian insult; and "Zneet Znadder Znooding Zneet", a greeting which is considered disgusting and illegal. Lying on Ultron is also punished by death. George states that Ultronians find physical beauty unnecessary and meaningless. Compassion, intelligence and decent morals are valued more than anything else, if an Ultronian is to find a spouse. George states the males on Ultron know their soulmates as soon as they meet them. He also states that Ultronian women are remarkably tall, almost Amazonian. His own sister is eleven feet tall. If an Ultronian male gets a female pregnant and they aren't married, the Ultronian male must have a Vasectomy, which is performed using two bricks and no anesthetic, unless they get married.

Ultron superheroes take a vow to protect all human life, and the superhero code forbids them injuring another human being. Section nine of the code covers illegal impersonation of a superhero for personal advancement, and for misuse of superpowers for personal gain. Heroes must transform in the bathroom. If a species falls below acceptable standards, they are "permanently excluded from the universe", in the worst possible case. In others, they punish the world that has not done particularly well by sending someone that they hate. George and Arnie quote various rules throughout the series, including "Always set the best possible example", "Never sneeze with your visor closed", "No superhero shall ever lend his name, image or reputation for commercial endorsement of any kind, including Kentucky Fried Chicken", and "Don't drink and fly". Aside from Planet Earth, the Ultrons' closest neighbours are the Zargons, a race of fish-like humanoids. According to George, Miss Zargon, winner of the Miss Universe contest, has "three of the loveliest noses in the galaxy." Several well-known humans on Earth are revealed to hail from Ultron, including Joan Collins, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Leonardo da Vinci, who are all in fact Ultronian natives who have found stardom on Earth.

Episodes

Overview

SeriesEpisodesFirst airdateLast airdate
1 74 February 200022 December 2000
2 622 December 200018 June 2001
3 107 June 200223 August 2002
4 108 August 200310 October 2003
5 107 January 200525 March 2005
6 821 July 200610 September 2006

Home media

In the United States, the series has been released on DVD via BBC Video; "Season One" was released on 16 January 2007, [12] while "Season Two" was released on 7 August 2007. [13] The sets are now currently out-of-print and no subsequent seasons have been made available on region 1.

In the United Kingdom, Series Three was the only series to receive a home video release. The "Complete Series 3" was released on VHS on 7 October 2002 via IMC Vision, [14] while two DVD sets, "Volume 1" (episodes 1–5 of Series 3), [15] and "Volume 2" (episodes 6–10 of Series 3) were also released on 7 October 2002. [16] [17] A DVD set containing "Complete Series 3" was additionally made available from IMC Vision on 14 May 2012. [18]

As of 2018, it has not been announced if My Hero will receive any subsequent series releases, or a complete series box set.

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