More madcap mayhem from writers Peacock and Hutton, who were making a habit of delivering boisterous, surreal entertainment in the fields of comedy and comedy-drama. I Hate This House began life as a short weekly feature within the BBC children's magazine strands For Amusement Only and Highly Sprung, where it focused on the exploits of David, a normal 12-year-old boy surrounded by an extraordinary family - Mum, for example, is too busy to notice that David's twin brothers Darren and Damon are plotting to bring down the household, that Tiger Girl, his sister, thinks she is superhuman, that Gran constantly misunderstands everything, and that Big Baby is already the biggest person in the house. In this one-off stand-alone special, David is tricked by his family into boxing against Iron Mike Mason for the World Heavyweight Championship. To make matters worse, David's granny piles on the pressure by wagering all of the family's goods and savings on David to win.

Note. Daniel (Danny) Peacock also wrote (and starred in) Teenage Health Freak (a total of 12 episodes on C4, 21 May-25 June 1991 and 22 February-29 March 1993), a boisterous and sometimes humorous drama for adolescents, depicting a modern teenager, his cowboy-obsessed dad, harassed mother and the object of his desire, Amanda, a rather selfish, aspiring model. Indeed, Peacock wrote several such children's comedy-dramas over the years. Co-written with Mickey Hutton, Mud (BBC1, 17 February 1994-30 March 1995) ran at the same time as their Men Of The World. Sister Said was a C5 documentary-style drama about a girl group (26 episodes, 24 January 1998-3 January 1999) and Harry And Cosh (10 episodes, 30 October 1999-1 January 2000; 13 episodes, 21 October 2000-13 January 2001; 13 episodes, 6 October-29 December 2001; 13 episodes, 19 October 2002-11 January 2003) was an entertaining children's serial that followed the adventures of two teenage schoolboys in London. Peacock's next venture - again, almost a bone fide comedy - was Cavegirl, a 26-episode serial depicting the adventures of a teenage girl living in prehistoric times (shown first on digital channel CBBC and then from 30 December 2002 to 3 April 2003 on BBC1.)