Once an extended clan of thousands, they have dwindled to a stubborn few.

Now this extended clan returns for a third run with a typically entertaining double bill.

In between, you get lots of pointless subplots about the extended clan.

Look closer: families join into extended clans and social groups, which vary only slightly from week to week.

This makes them all the more precious to parents and grandparents, who doubtless recall a vanished age of extended clans in every village.