Family Tree
A man with few roots, little family, and no sense of his purpose in life inherits a mysterious box of belongings that sends him on an all-consuming investigation into his lineage. From Christopher Guest (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) and starring Chris O'Dowd.
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- 2013-2013
- 1 season
- HBO
- Comedy
- TV-MA
A man with few roots, little family, and no sense of his purpose in life inherits a mysterious box of belongings that sends him on an all-consuming investigation into his lineage. From Christopher Guest (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) and starring Chris O'Dowd.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2013
Episode 1
The Box
Sun, May 12, 2013 26 mins
Brought up in Ireland by his mother, Tom Chadwick returns to England when he and his sister Bea--who communicates through a monkey puppet--visit their father Keith and are told of a box that a great-aunt left them. Its contents include the photo of a distinguished.
Episode 2
Treading the Boards
Sun, May 19, 2013 28 mins
Tom sees a photo of his great-grandfather Harry in costume for "The Mikado" and travels with Pete to Hove to meet the very elderly Sybil, who used to live next door to Harry. Rex gives Tom the horse costume and he and Pete wear it in a charity race and come in last.
Episode 3
The Austerity Games
Sun, Jun 2, 2013 28 mins
After Bea and Tom visit their grandparents' graves, Tom notices from an old clipping that their grandfather William competed in the "Austerity Games", the London Olympics of 1948. They also discover that their great-aunt Vera left her flat to Mildred Budgens.
Episode 4
Country Life
Sun, Jun 9, 2013 28 mins
Tom traces his American ancestry to Charles and Rebecca Chadwick, who came to England and had three children--Victoria, Brian, and Tom's great-grandfather Harry. Tom, Bea, Keith, and Keith's Moldovan wife Luba head to a farm in Derbyshire to meet Tom's great-uncle's son Graham.
Episode 5
Welcome to America
Sun, Jun 16, 2013 27 mins
Tom arrives in California to stay with Al and Kitty, who make him very welcome--although he is inexplicably scared of their cat. Meanwhile, in the middle of the night he is awakened by a Skype from Monkey, who reports that Bea has lost her job.
Episode 6
Civil War
Sun, Jun 23, 2013 28 mins
Pete rings Tom to tell him he has a job interview on return to England, but Tom and his cousins are more intrigued by photographs showing Charles in uniforms of soldiers of both the North and South, suggesting that he changed sides at the end of the Civil War.
Episode 7
Indians
Sun, Jun 30, 2013 26 mins
After going on a date with Ally, Tom finds out that Rebecca was apparently a Mojave Indian. so he meets Bea and Pete in his expensive hire car and they head off for the reservation at Barstow. Meanwhile, they spend the day pretending to be natives.
Episode 8
Cowboys
Sun, Jul 7, 2013 27 mins
Ally and Tom visit Melvin to see evidence of his grandfather, Jewish cowboy star Tumbleweed Tim, whose silent-film career was ended by scandal. Meanwhile, Bea goes ape when Monkey goes missing, until Tom discovers that he has been donated to a charity worker.
