Geoffrey

Geoffrey Adams (portrayed by Timothy West and later Geoffrey Whitehead) is Lucy and Tim's father and husband of Wendy Adams, who is 20 years his junior.

He thinks his son is a wet blanket (he's right), but loves his daughter very much. Geoffrey is stern and to the point, and doesn't hide the fact that he doesn't like Lee.

Geoffrey first appears in the episode Murder at Christmas, where he displays his patriarchal character over the Christmas dinner party game.

In series four (with Geoffrey now being portrayed by Geoffrey Whitehead), it is revealed that he and Wendy are splitting up because Geoffrey wouldn't let her go ballroom dancing and he moved in to the flat, banishing Lee to the sofa. Lucy threatened to evict Lee if her parents didn't get back together. They all seemed to think that Wendy just wanted to dance with another man, and decided that Lee would be the perfect man to dance with her. Geoffrey later rushed in and punched Lee, because he couldn't bear to have Wendy dancing with someone else.

In the series 8 episode Marriage Guidance, it is revealed that Geoffrey had a brief involvement some years before Lucy was born, with another woman called Brenda. Wendy forgave him, although Geoffrey maintains to the present day it was not an affair, but merely a few lunch dates.

Continuity

 * In the episode Dancing, we find out that Geoffrey met wife Wendy when he was aged 40 years old. By the episode Marriage Guidance, they have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, which puts Geoffrey at over 90 years old by series 8. In the series 11 episode War, Wendy's year of birth was revealed to be 1945, which puts Geoffrey's at 1925 - making him between 90 and 100 years old.