- My Hero (series 4)
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My Hero Series 4 is the fourth series of My Hero which aired between August 8 2003 & October 10 2003.
Episodes
# Title Writer(s) Director Original airdate Code 24-401 "A Sporting Chance" Paul Mayhew-Archer John Stroud August 8, 2003 ICEC483X As a peace-loving Ultronian, George knows nothing of the psychology of competition. So when Piers asks George to join his cricket team, George hasn't a clue what he's in for.
After a crash course on the rules of cricket from Janet, George takes the field and decimates his own team with his over-zealous fielding, then surprises everyone by scoring a near-impossible 24 runs off the last 4 balls.
Finally George knows the sweet taste of victory and becomes horribly attracted to it, beating Piers at everything from tennis to swimming!25-402 "The Living Dead" Paul Mayhew-Archer John Stroud August 15, 2003 ICEC481J George buys a Life Insurance policy and immediately walks under a bus to cash in his new policy. Even though George is perfectly fine after his encounter with a bus (being a superhero he is, of course, indestructible), he subsequently suffers from a heart attack (due to a heart defect that causes his two hearts to stop for a few minutes) in the health centre, and Janet has to explain to everyone that her husband is dead.
It is not long, however, before George is feeling trapped by his non-existence- Janet in particular is frustrated at her parents' attempts to set her up with Piers - and George and Janet hatch a plot to bring him back to life at his own funeral. However, there is a slight problem when George has another heart attack just as he's about to be cremated, and so is unable to wake up during his funeral (and simultaneously discrediting Piers as a doctor). Fortunately, they get out of it by George claiming that he has been away for a week and it was actually his twin brother Seamus who died while attempting to play a joke on everyone.
Meanwhile, Mrs Raven has begun to experiment with hypnotherapy, but hypnotizes everyone into giving her extra money, as well as making Piers cluck like a chicken whenever someone says 'Three' in his presence, Stanley quote That is my gift, and that is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spiderman from Spider-Man when he hears 'One', and Ella ask Stanley to ravish her whenever she hears 'Two'. and for Four, Arnie, Ella, Piers and Stanley perform "YMCA". For Ten, Arnie, Ella, Piers and Stanley perform "The Birdie Dance".26-403 "Taking the Credit" James Cary John Stroud August 22, 2003 ICEC490F George doesn't have the hang of managing domestic finances. Never having seen a credit card before, he goes on a massive spending spree and is highly impressed with the Welfare State that literally gives him money to do so.
When the bills arrive, Janet finds out what has been happening but it is too late. Janet is forced to take advantage of Ollie's ubertalent of correctly predicting the Lottery numbers. But it isn't long before Thermoman draws the attention of the Lord High Arbiter of Abuses of Power (who, despite his great power, is barely a few inches tall). Janet squashes him with a rolled up newspaper after deciding she's had enough of his 'moaning'. When asked 'Why didn't the Ultron council squash him when they wanted to sack him?' George replies: 'They didn't think of that either...'27-404 "It's All in the Mind" Paul Mayhew-Archer John Stroud August 29, 2003 ICEC485K George is asked by the Ultron Council to write a progress report on humanity. All seems to be going well, until his new mind-reading powers reveal the true nature of human thought (For example, that men think about sex every few seconds).
The unpleasant thoughts of Stanley, Ella, and Mrs Raven in particular leave George in a state of despair. His sense of honesty forces him to write a damning report and the Ultron Council condemns the human race to death by laser (rather than the usual way, who do you think sent David Dickinson?), removing only certain people from the planet who they feel deserve it. Only Janet can save the world by somehow convincing the four worst people in George's report (Her parents, Piers and Mrs Raven) to donate money to a good cause. Eventually, however, George acquires the money by selling a valuable vase of Janet's without her permission and lying to the Council to claim that the money came from the four people.28-405 "Space Virus" Paul Mendelson, Paul Mayhew-Archer John Stroud September 5, 2003 ICEC486E On the way back from a trip to Ultron Thermoman picks up a rather nasty parasite, which is fatal to humans (It bursts out of the stomach, like in Alien). It isn't long before Janet, Stanley, Ella, and Mrs. Raven catch it off him and Thermoman has to administer the Thermo-Kiss-Of-Life. Meanwhile, Piers has a new talk show, Crispin, where Tyler is the first guest because of his mental problems.
While arranging the contract with Tyler and the six people living in his head, E.T., The warlord of Solos, Andromeda, Mr Spock, the siren of titan, and Mrs McPherson (someone has to clean up after them) with Arnie as his agent, because he said that the others voted that he did need an agent, Piers arranges a contract that means Tyler doesn't get a penny (because 50% of the money goes to the warlord of Solos, who sounds like the most natural leader) and Arnie gets £5000.
After a disastrous attempt to persuade Piers that he isn't insane (by saying that Janet and Thermoman will back him up), Piers calls the men in white coats to pick Tyler up next morning.
During the exchange George accidentally passes his superpowers to Stanley and Ella with minimal troubles (if you don't count that they only save the "important people") becoming Faldo Man and Dorothy Perkins. But not so Mrs Raven, who is transformed into The Raven! As The Raven, she commits acts of mischief, such as putting a mime artist in a real plastic box, changing a small dog into a big dog (dragging an old lady with it), putting an elderly man with a zimmer frame on top of a bus stop and dumping Walt Disney World in the heart of Siberia.
Later as George, Arnie, Tyler and Janet discuss what to do, we find out that Stanley and Ella refused to save people in China (because they think it's full of Communists) and Mrs Raven as The Raven took all the nuns from the Vatican City to the late night floor show in Las Vegas, Nevada (they were IN it) and she replaced the last reels of Harry Potter for Night of the Living Dead. George then sucks out their powers and erases their memories (Although he is forced to kiss Mrs Raven to do so, claiming that he's fallen in love with her and that kissing her friend's husband is one of the most terrible things she could do).
To stop the men in white coats from taking Tyler away, George persuaded Ella and Stanley to go on Piers's talk show (before he erased their memories). When Piers asks his guests to belch fire and lift him up with one finger, his show is cancelled and the men in white coats take HIM away. Sucking out the powers sucked out some of Ella's and Stanley's personality traits as well (such as a desire to play a round of golf.29-406 "The Mayor of Northolt" Trevelyan Evans, Pete Sinclair John Stroud September 12, 2003 ICEC482D A faulty streetlight outside Stanley and Ella's bedroom is keeping them awake at night, and getting the Council to mend it proves impossible. George stands for Mayor, promising to fix the streetlight if elected, only to find that his opponent is the over-confident Piers.
George wins unanimous approval when the voters respond positively to his refreshingly honest approach, but unfortunately, the pressures of Mayoral Office put an unreasonable strain on his marriage, causing Janet to move out with Ollie. Piers attempts to ruin George's 'family image' by hiring a prostitute to seduce him, but due to domestic disputes Stanley is sleeping alone in George's room and is seduced instead.
Eventually, George wins the election (due in no small part to Piers' attempts to sabotage the election) and, having repaired the street light, returns to Janet; that was all he intended to do.30-407 "Big" Gary Lawson, John Phelps John Stroud September 19, 2003 ICEC487Y Ollie's half-human, half Ultronian physiology causes a few problems when he starts to grow at an accelerated rate. In 24 hours, he grows from a nine-month-old baby into a 19-year-old boy with a 'serious' girlfriend.
Janet and George are distraught at being robbed of the pleasure of watching their only son grow up. They employ the services of an eminent Ultronian doctor to cure their son, who, despite her impeccable qualifications, looks and sounds like Britney's irritating kid sister. Ollie needs a new heart. Arnie would gladly give one of his, but thanks to a really high stakes game of poker, he's only got one left! ("I really did leave my heart in San Francisco!") And as if all of that wasn't bad enough, the problem reaches its peak when Ollie then turns into an eighteen-year-old girl!
Janet initially warms to the idea of having a daughter, especially one that can take her clothes shopping around the world. But then things get worse still, and immediate surgery is required.31-408 "The Consultant" James Cary John Stroud September 26, 2003 ICEC484R Arnie turns consultant when the Ultron Council sends him to check up on Thermoman's performance.
Arnie conducts a Time and Motion study on George and makes some changes. A plethora of customer satisfaction forms quickly hamper Thermoman's ability to rescue the victims of natural disasters.
Arnie's strict regime over-stresses George to such a degree that he starts making mistakes and ultimately ends up bringing home an armed intercontinental ballistic missile. Fortunately Tyler disarms the ICBM using the disarming code (amazing what you can find on the Internet).
Fearing for the world's safety, George retires, but this decision is reversed when Work Experience Boy does a rubbish job at replacing him when Janet is trapped in the burning health centre.32-409 "The Family Way" Trevelyan Evans, Pete Sinclair John Stroud October 3, 2003 ICEC489L George is suddenly looking a bit big. The reason — he's pregnant! He has agreed to be a surrogate parent to an Ultronian couple. That'll be hard for Janet to explain to everyone! Even more bizarrely, when George gives birth, it's doesn't even look human. The parents are apes! (These particular Ultronians, in order to fit in on Earth, took the form of what they believed to be the most intelligent beings on the planet, apparently because Tyler spent too much time talking to the baby in the womb)
Meanwhile, Piers embarrasses himself when, having found the sonogram of the baby, concludes that Stanley is actually the pregnant man, when in reality he just has kidney stones.33-410 "Time and Time Again" Paul Mayhew-Archer John Stroud October 10, 2003 ICEC488S Janet gets really annoyed when George takes his April Fool's jokes a little too far. George decides to leave her alone for a while. So he heads out through the bathroom. Arnie goes with him.
Seven years later, Ollie asks his mum if George will ever come back. Suddenly he does, through the same way he left! He's missed seven whole years of his family's life! So he and Arnie go back in time, using a dangerous series of time portals, and everything is normal again. He decides to use this to his advantage and make little adjustments to life.
He goes back to stop a young Janet from falling out of a tree and breaking her arm to get rid of a painful twinge she's had ever since (as well as stopping Arnie from getting better acquainted with a young Ella), but in doing so, changes history so that Janet isn't treated for alopecia as well as her arm, and returns to the present day to find his wife completely bald! So he goes back and changes everything back to normal, then he tries to sort out the hair loss problem and save her from breaking her arm, he stops young Janet from falling out of a tree and a few years later, slips her a note telling her to get her hair seen to, history is completely rewritten.
That note led Janet to see a doctor about her hair ... Piers! Now George and Arnie return to the present day to find Janet and Piers married with ten children! And, horror of horrors, Mrs Raven is also a nice person! and Stanley and Ella are in Love and more happier. Thank goodness Tyler hasn't changed though (although he has an actual girlfriend, his next door neighbour) ... Seeing that Janet is really happy in her new life, George decides to leave things as they are and return to Ultron forever ... Can he be persuaded to change his mind and go back to the way things were? Arnie certainly hopes so ... he misses the old Mrs Raven! George decides to change things back when he sees that Piers is seeing Mrs Raven behind Janet's back.
George changes things back to what they should be while Arnie returns from buying some cheapo beer, but when they come back and find things are back to normal and tell Janet he has decided to leave things the way they are after learning his lesson, but then George discovers that Arnie had (while he got the cheap beer when Janet fell from the tree) an encounter with Ella's past self in the form of his son, Arnold Dawkins (this is when Ella arrives in with him). George then books Arnie in for a vasectomy (on Ultron, they use a couple of bricks to do this).
Presumably George and Arnie went back and stopped Arnie's past self from becoming familiar with A Younger Ella. Also the vasectomy may have been stopped so Arnie wouldn't have to face the Ultronian way or after he had it they went back. Or it was booked up to see when they came back if everything was back to normal after repairing the past as it would have never happened. This is clearly true as no reference is made to Janet's half brother ever again onwards.See also
- List of My Hero episodes
- My Hero (Series 1)
- My Hero (Series 2)
- My Hero (Series 3)
- My Hero (Series 5)
- My Hero (Series 6)
References
- My Hero at the BBC Comedy Guide.
- My Hero at Big Bear Films home page
- My Hero at BBC America.
- My Hero at the Internet Movie Database
- British TV Comedy Guide
- My Hero episode guide and forum at TV.com
- My Hero at the British Sitcom Guide
- My Hero News, episode guide and interviews at downthetubes.net
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