My Family is about a British family with Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker as Ben and Susan Harper, a couple living in Chiswick, West London. Ben is a dentist and Susan works as a travel guide and later as an art gallery employee. Their three children, Nick, Janey and Michael, still live at home and each in their own way cause the necessary problems within the family. Susan tries to keep the children in line as much as possible while Ben tries to interfere as little as possible with the upbringing.