A Chip Off the Old Block

Details

Title: 巴不得爸爸
Cantonese/Mandarin title: Ba But Dak Ba Ba / Ba Bu De Ba Ba
English title: A Chip Off the Old Block
Genre: Pre-modern, family, comedy
Episodes: 19 (overseas) / 21 (TVB)
Broadcast network: TVB
Broadcast period: 2009-Nov-30 to 2009-Dec-27
Air time: Monday to Friday 20:30 - 21:30
Opening theme song: Don't Say That I Didn't Indulge You (咪話唔就你) by Ron Ng and Myolie Wu

Synopsis

Chor Chi and his father, Chor Fan, depend on each other for a living. After graduating from university, Chi becomes a public relations officer at a tobacco company. He completes his tasks well and gets promoted rapidly, becoming part of the young professionals group. Chi depends on tobacco to get fame and wealth, but Fan feels that his son is promoting smoking, similar to 'helping a villain to do evil.' Chi moves out of the house so that he will not have any more conflicts with his elderly father.

Fan later contracts Alzheimer's disease, causing Chi to move back home to take care of him. However, Fan's old style of doing things is both annoying and laughable to Chi. Chi meets a wealthy elderly businessman Cheng Kwan-min from the city who tries to poach him over using a high pay and post, but unexpectedly, a freak accident happens along the way, causing Chi to travel back in time to the 1960's era.

When Chi first steps into this old era, he is accidentally hurt by the younger Fan. Fan takes him home, but he comes into clashes with the landlady's daughter, Ching Lan-fun. Seeing that he is unable to return to 2008, Chi finds a job to support himself. However, in this place, connections are needed everywhere, and Chi's education qualifications become useless. Fortunately, with Fan's help, he becomes a sales clerk at the Dor Dor department store. Chi finds out that Cheng Kwan-min is the manager of this departmental store and clings to him.

Fan accidentally discovers that Chi came from the future, and he's his son, thus he allows his son to control his love life. Chi witnesses his father making such a sacrifice for him, thus he decides to repent his ways and give up on relying on the wealthy businessman. However, the wealthy businessman unexpectedly clinched the 2008 historical writing award, and he devised an evil plan to buy over the landlady's building, chasing all the tenants out. He wanted to use it to develop his property kingdom. Chi is filled with regrets and decides to salvage the situation. However, he accidentally returns to 2008...

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Cast

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Cho Family

Sunny Chan as Cho Fan
Ron Ng as Cho Tze
John Chiang as Ko Shan Chuen

Ching Family

Shirley Yeung as Ching Lan Fan
Gigi Wong as Tam Lan Ching
Kwok Fung as Ching Yan

So Family

Chan Wing Kei as So Chan
Myolie Wu as So Fung Nei
Mandy Wong as So Fung Nin
Lily Liu
Kitty Lau

Leung Family

Chun Wong as Leung Hung Do
Lee Fung as Tse Daai Bik
Nancy Wu as Yeung Peen Peen
Henry Lo as Cheng Kwun Min

Sing Family

Carlo Ng as Sing Sup Yee
Natalie Wong as Yu Fa
Irene Wong as Yu Yuk

Ngau Family

Louis Yuen as Ngau Ching Wing
Eileen Yeow as Chiu Mao Dan
Yau Tze Yong (丘芷蓉) as Ngau Ka Bo (1960s)
- Amy Ng as Ngau Ka Bo (2008)

Others

Dickson Lee as Manager Lam
Matt Yeung as Yili Sha Bak
Adam Ip as Ha Mo Gung
Karen Lee as Loi Lo For
Fanny Yip as Yau Yu Sze
Jason Lam as Zhong Sei Ma
Russell Cheung as Chun Wun Gai
Brian Burrell as Brynner
Poon Fong Fong as Mui
So Yun Chi as Jun Na
Tsang Wai Wan as Bo Li
Wong Fung King as Law Lo
So Lai Ming as Gut Tan

Production Credits

Producer: Poon Ka Tak
Screenwriters: Chan Kam Ling (陳金鈴), Cheung Keen Leung (張建良), Cheung Chung Tsai (張宗齊), Wong Bing Yee (黃秉怡), Fong Wai Yee (方慧兒)

Notes

Production period: 2009-Jan to 2009-Mar

Viewership Ratings

Week	Episodes	Date	Average	Peak
1	01-04	2009-Nov-30 - 2009-Dec-03	31	35
2	05-08	2009-Dec-07 - 2009-Dec-10	30	33
3	09-13	2009-Dec-14 - 2009-Dec-18	30	-
4	14-18	2009-Dec-21 - 2009-Dec-25	28	-
4	19	2009-Dec-27	33	37

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