My Family and Other Animals is a 1987 British TV mini-series produced by the BBC and directed by Peter Barber-Fleming.

[1] The show tells the story of the extravagant Durrell family who, tired of the rainy and unhealthy English climate, move to the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu.

In Corfu they experience a lot of adventures and befriend many interesting people, including Spìro, a taxi driver who lived for many years in Chicago where he learned to speak broken English, and doctor Theodore Stephanides, a polymath who, just like Gerry, adores nature and helps him explore the island's varied wildlife.

He gave invaluable advice to the production team at the scripting stage, demanding the power of veto over only one thing – the casting of his mother.

She picks up beautifully my mother's slightly flustered, not-quite-with-it-half-the-time air, and not knowing, if the family were squabbling, whose side to take.