Three Up, Two Down is a British sitcom starring Michael Elphick and Angela Thorne which ran from 15 April 1985 to 18 June 1989.
Both Nick's father, Sam Tyler, and Angie's mother, Daphne Trenchard, want the basement apartment and the only solution is to share.
Further complications arise through Daphne's brief and disastrous romance with a neighbour, the suave and crooked Major Giles Bradshaw, who is eventually sent to prison for acts of theft and fraud.
The pilot for an American adaptation of Three Up, Two Down, titled 5 Up, 2 Down, aired on 5 June 1991 on CBS, but was not picked up as a series.
VHS and DVD box sets of the first two series were released on Universal Pictures' Playback imprint in the UK on 17 May 2004.