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The Fosters

Comedy

The Fosters is a British sitcom created and written by Jon Watkins and Eric Monte. It showcases the early work of Lenny Henry as the budding artist son of easygoing family man Samuel Foster (Norman Beaton). The series follows the day-to-day trials of Samuel, his lively wife Pearl (both immigrants from Guyana) and their three children on a South London housing estate.

Apr 9, 19762 seasons27 episodesEndedEN

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Norman Beaton

Samuel Foster

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Lenny Henry

Sonny Foster

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Seasons

Series 1

14 episodes

Premiered Apr 9, 1976

Series 2

13 episodes

Premiered Apr 15, 1977

Episodes

1–6 of 14

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Ep 1

Sex and the Black Community

Apr 9, 1976

30m

Sonny goes out to get a bottle of mouthwash ahead of his latest big date, Pearl's unhappy about Shirley's involvement with a 21-year-old, and Samuel comes under fire when he changes his mind about an obscene book.

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Ep 2

My Son the Lover

Apr 16, 1976

30m

Pearl refuses to think about what life will be like when the nest is empty, Shirley ridicules the idea that a popular girl could be interested in Sonny, and talk of popping the question suggests that things are pretty serious.

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Ep 3

God's Business Is Good Business

Apr 23, 1976

30m

Shirley gets a shock when she sees a Black face on the broken television, Samuel recognises the preacher as someone he knew in Guyana, and Pearl's far from pleased when the swindler offers her husband a job.

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Ep 4

The Check Up

Apr 30, 1976

30m

Shirley ends up with the wrong hours when she gets a job at a chip shop, Benjamin finds that his father's irritability might be due to hypertension, and Pearl knows that being laid off from work will make him even worse.

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Ep 5

Black Jesus

May 7, 1976

30m

Sonny decides to enter a new art competition at the West Indian Centre, Pearl's unhappy when her special picture of Jesus changes colour, and an old drunk gets all the credit when the family have a run of good luck.

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Ep 6

The Man I Most Admire

May 14, 1976

30m

Benjamin tries to pick a man to write about for an English composition, Shirley insists that women are just as worthy of admiration as men, and Samuel returns home miserable after he chickens out of a job interview.

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