"My Dead Dad" is just the sort of daft sitcom that American television churns out so frequently ... but this series came from Scotland, of all places. "My Dead Dad" was based on a stage play called "Dead Dad Dog", but the premise that worked in the play could not be sustained in an ongoing tv series, and "My Dead Dad" ran for only 6 episodes on Britain's Channel 4.
Alexander "Eck" Dundee is a normal bloke, getting on well with his nympho girlfriend Jools. But suddenly Eck has an unwanted guest: his father Willie. This is bad enough, since Eck and Willie never got on in the first place ... but Willie's arrival is made even more unpleasant, due to the fact that he's been dead for the past 14 years. For reasons that the scriptwriter never explains, William Farquhar Dundee has come back as a ghost, 14 years after his death, to haunt his son Eck.
This sitcom makes up its own rules where ghosts are concerned. Willie is a ghost, but everybody can see him: not just Eck, but also Eck's girlfriend Jools and everyone else too. Even worse, the rules of haunting require that Willie can never stray more than a few feet away from Eck. So, everywhere that Eck goes, the visible ghost of his father Willie comes right along.
Forbes Masson (formerly of the comedy team Victor and Barry) tries hard as the haunted son, and Debra Gillett is suitably sexy as his nympho companion Jools. But the scripts are as dead as Eck's dad.
This show is dead awful.
