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1. #001

   Although the series ran for eight years, it actually covers only a four-year period, despite some time-specific references (particularly the Millennium-centred final episode). This was partly for story reasons, since a new series usually picked up immediately after the previous one, and partly to extend the show's potential lifespan by preventing the Porter children from ageing too quickly.

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2. #002

   When Georgina Cates left the role of Jenny Porter, twin sisters Clare Buckfield and Julie Buckfield, who were then playing twins in Grange Hill (1978), both auditioned to replace her, and Clare won the part.

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3. #003

   The series ended when Gary Olsen died of cancer in 2000.

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4. #004

   Gary Olsen was suffering from terminal colon cancer while filming the final series. He died in Australia in September 2000, nine months after the last episode aired.

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5. #005

   The title comes from the stereotypical average size of a typical nuclear family in the United Kingdom at the time the first series was written.

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6. #006

   The series was originally pitched to Central as a sitcom called Hell and High Water. Ben was absent from it, Bill was a widow, and she worked for her brother-in-law (intended to be played by Freddie Jones) selling souvenirs in a seaside town. Rona, however, was fully formed from the start.

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7. #007

   John Pickard and Claire Buckfield appeared together in Grange Hill.

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8. #008

   Andrew Marshall wrote every episode except three in the seventh series, which were written by Paul Alexander, Simon Braithwaite and Paul Smith.

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9. #009

   In a 1996 episode, Jenny mocks Darren Day as "sad". Clare Buckfield had spent that summer in a high-profile stage version of Summer Holiday, in which Day played the role originally played by Cliff Richard.

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10. #010

    Claire Buckfield and John Pickard play siblings in this series, while their real-life siblings Julie Buckfield and Nick Pickard were cast as a couple, Tony Hutchinson and Julie Matthews, in Hollyoaks (1995). Claire and Julie Buckfield had previously played sisters in Grange Hill (1978), while John Pickard was cast in Hollyoaks in 2005 as Tony's stepbrother Dominic Reilly.

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