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My Hero - Series 3 - Episodes 1-5
Background Information: My Hero My Hero is a British comedy about a superhero named Thermoman from the planet Ultron. He is the alter ego of George Sunday, who has a romantic relationship with Janet Dawkins. They later marry & have a child. It debuted in February 2000 on BBC One & has had four series with a total of thirty-three regular episodes as of 2003. An additional Christmas special was broadcast in December 2000. In the United States, this show replaced A Fine Romance in the PBS British Comedy line up in 2004. George Amon Sunday is famous as Thermoman, but as the Irish shopkeeper, he appears an idiot, since he is unfamiliar with Earth culture. He is played by Irish comedian Ardal OHanlon. Janet Charlotte Dawkins Sunday is the voice of sanity, a nurse in the Northolt Health Centre. Janet was born in 1969. She is played by Emily Joyce. Apollo 11 Ollie Sunday is the son of George & Janet & was born at the end of series 2. He also has superhuman powers, although they are somewhat limited. His voice is supplied by Finlay Stroud. This is one of the best british comedies ever ranking up there with the likes of Fawlty Towers & Black Adder. It is interesting & gives you a bellyful of laughs. The highlight of the edisodes is the baby which cant talk & has other superpowers. It reacts in baish ways with adult intelligence. The episodes range from Geroge Sunday being able to speak dog to him looking like & old decrepid man. My favourite episode is Pet Resue. In this episode George & Janet have to look after Biggles Janets mums dog. George hates it & one of the highlights of the episode is when he stands on a table in fear of The playhouse of fleas. George decides to try & understand it by ordering a animal translator. When he gets it he accidently starts speaking piegon & piegon comes to the door. Then he changes it to dog & the first thing biggles says is Bloody hell a human has never spoken to me. Through the course of the episode the dog tells George things which leads to George telling Janets mum that his name isnt Biggles & he hates his coat. George tells biggles to assert himselves so when Janets dad tries to put a new jacket on him he bights his balls. This leads to him saying that he will put the dog down at the vets, but doctor Pierce insisted on having at the surgery. But their wasnt enough drugs to kill the dog so they decided he would be put down in the morning. That night George rescuses biggles & takes him to his long lost mum. Ardal OHanlon is a comedian & actor, best known for his role as Father Dougal McGuire in the comedy television series Father Ted. His father is Rory OHanlon, an Irish politician & doctor. Ardal OHanlon graduated from the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin in Communications Studies in 1987. He started out as a stand-up comedian & was spotted by Graham Linehan, who was to cast him in Father Ted. He has also had his own television series, My Hero, in which he plays a superhero juggling the duties of his heroic role with the ordinary day-to-day crises of life in the suburbs.
Editors Choice: My Hero, Father Ted, Robbie The Reindeer In Hooves Of Fire, Part 1, View DVDology
Emily Joyce is a television actress in Great Britain. She co-starred in the British comedy series My Hero, playing the character of Janet Dawkins, the wife of the superhero Thermoman, whose assigned earth name is George Sunday,. Having a long-lived childhood love of acting, Joyce decided to join the National Youth Theatre at the age of fifteen. She worked for Vogue magazine for sustenence during this period of learning the skills of her future career, preparing for drama school. She formed the musical band In Spite of All That at the age of seventeen, playing the part of its lead singer. Including the time in drama school, Joyce spent three years as a part of this band. After drama school, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first television role being in the ITV drama Cracker, she played the murderess in the final episode of the series. She starred in another ITV drama series, Grafters, in 1999.
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