So Haunt Me
1992
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 19 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
So Haunt Me is a British television sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother. The show was produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC and originally aired from 1992 to 1994.
Peter Rokeby loses his job as advertising copywriter, and resolves to become a freelance writer. Owing to this change in circumstances, he and his wife Sally move with their children into a more modest home in Meadow Road, Willesden. The family soon finds that the ghost of a previous owner, Yetta Feldman, still occupies the residence, and has been scaring occupants away for years. Yetta is a stereotypical interfering, middle-aged Jewish mother who died suddenly after choking on a chicken bone. While Sally can both see and speak to their ghost, Peter — much to his frustration — initially cannot. The family agrees to help Yetta find her grown-up daughter Carole.
So Haunt Me aired on BBC1 as 18 half-hour episodes in three series and one special from 1992 to 1994. The show was created by Paul Mendelson. The Rokeby children David and Tammy were played by Jeremy Green and Laura Howard respectively. Neighbour Mr Bloom was played by David Graham.
Seasons
Season 1
The Rokebys move in to their new, old home. It smells, the phone's on the blink and all the neighbours are watching as if somethings going to happen and it doesn't take long for them to find out why...
Season 2
Yetta meets her match in the form of Pete's Mum Violet, when she, and her husband Stan come to visit. Violet bluntly and somewhat rudely gives Yetta her marching orders. Yetta refuses to be beaten, especially at the implication that her house needs cleaning, something which Violet is doing a lot of. Will Yetta give in, or has she discovered the real reason for Violet's abruptness and relate to her problem.
Meanwhile Tammy's desperately trying to get away from the mad house for the weekend and is busy telephoning everyone she knows on the off-chance they're having a party.
Season 3
Tammy returns home from a trip to France to a miserable Mother and Brother and a Dad whose business career is at an all time low. He gets a job offer from an old friend Piers at an ad agency that makes commercials for food products but can't decide whether to take it.
Meanwhile Yetta has to make a speech to the elders in Limbo to convince them she should remain at the Rokeby's and not go up to heaven. But will it take a near fatal fall to solve both Pete and Yetta's problems?
Crew
Producer
Verity Lambert
Network
BBC One