Family Tree
Family Tree
TV ShowCanceled

Family Tree

Finding himself. One relative at a time.

6.4 / 10
2013
1 season
8 episodes
Comedy

Having recently lost his job and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never met, Tom starts investigating his lineage and uncovers a whole world of unusual stories and characters, acquiring a growing sense of who he and his real family are.

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Seasons

  • The Box

    1.The Box

    7.0
    12-05-201330m

    Tom Chadwick and his sister Bea find out from their father that a great-aunt, Victoria, has died. An old picture in the box of things that she's left for Tom sends him on a search,...

  • Treading the Boards

    2.Treading the Boards

    8.0
    19-05-201330m

    Tom learns that his great-grandfather, Harry Chadwick, was an actor and visits Hove, where he performed. He and Pete decide to run a kind of race in honour of Harry's famous comic...

  • The Austerity Games

    3.The Austerity Games

    9.0
    02-06-201330m

    After discovering grandfather William was on the GB team in the cash-poor 1948 Olympics, Tom hears about his and Victoria's athletic feats from a close friend she bequeathed her fl...

  • Country Life

    4.Country Life

    9.0
    09-06-201330m

    Along with Bea, his father, and Luba, Tom visits his cousins in rural Derbyshire and learns why they have red hair. His American cousins in California invite him to visit.

  • Welcome to America

    5.Welcome to America

    9.0
    16-06-201330m

    Tom stays in Glendale with his American cousins Al and Kitty Chadwick, who host an extended-family BBQ. Dave Chadwick, visiting from North Carolina, reveals a record of Charles Cha...

  • Civil War

    6.Civil War

    9.0
    23-06-201330m

    After learning that Charles had both Union and Confederate uniforms, Tom gets into some petty skirmishes during a Civil War re-enactment.

  • Indians

    7.Indians

    9.0
    30-06-201330m

    Tom, Bea, and Pete drive to Barstow, where they find that great-great-grandmother Rebecca was not Native American, as Tom had thought.

  • Cowboys

    8.Cowboys

    9.0
    07-07-201330m

    Tom learns more about his Jewish ancestor, Bea has a breakdown on the beach when she loses Monkey, and Tom has to say goodbye to Ally as his departure from LA approaches.

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