A Chip Off the Old Block 巴不得爸爸

Plot

Chor Chi (Ron Ng) and his father, Chor Fan (Sunny Chan), 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 the 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 from the house so that he will not have any more conflicts with his elderly father.

Fan later contracts the 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 (Lo Chun Shun) from the city who tried to poach him over using a high pay and post, but unexpectedly, when he goes to the elevator, the elevator gets shocked from the lightning outside causing Chi to travel back in time to the 1960s 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 (Shirley Yeung). 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 actually the manager of this departmental store, and clings onto him.

Fan accidentally discovers that Chi came from the future, and he’s his son, thus he allowed his son to control his love life. Chi witnesses his father doing such a sacrifice for him, thus he decided to repent his ways and give up on relying the wealthy businessman. However, the wealthy businessman unexpectedly clinched the 2008’s own 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……

Returns to 2008 and meet Fun again, Fun admitted that she was the Fun from 1960's by doing the same thing as she did on Chi's birthday ( blowing the torch because of the fish's


Cast

The tenants
Ron Ng stars as Chor Chi (楚慈), a 28-year-old well-established businessman who works for a cigarette company. His father is extremely unhappy with his "life-stealing" job and often urges him to work at a different company. Although filial to his father, Chi is annoyed with his father's old-fashioned beliefs and their relationship becomes strained. During a dangerous wet storm, Chi accidentally gets himself warped back in time to 1960's Hong Kong, where he meets his younger father.
Sunny Chan stars as Chor Fan (楚帆), Chi's altruistic and self-sacrificing father. Fan always places others benefits before his own and is known for saying the phrase, "Everyone for me, I for everyone." Fan was adopted by Ko Shan-chuen, who owns a small dumplings shop in Fung Shui Lei. Fan becomes good friends with Chi, not knowing that Chi is actually his son from forty years later.
Myolie Wu plays So Fung-lei (蘇鳳妮), a con artist.
Shirley Yeung plays Ching Lan-fun (程蘭芬), the landlady's daughter.
John Chiang plays Ko Shan-chuen (高山泉), Fan's foster father. Later becomes Tam Lan-ching's Husband
Gigi Wong plays Tam Lan-ching (譚蘭青), the landlady. Later on becomes Ko Shan-Chuen's wife
Louis Yuen plays Au Ching-wing (牛正榮), a police officer.
Ng Ka Lok plays Shing Sap-yee (成拾義), the only son of the wealthy Shing family.
Mandy Wong plays So Fung-lin (蘇鳳蓮), Fung-lei's younger sister.
Natalie Wong plays Yue Fa (余花), Sap-yee's official wife.
Irene Wong plays Yue Yuk (余玉), Sap-yee's second wife and Fa's younger sister.

The Dor Dor Department Store personnel
Nancy Wu as Leung Pin-pin (梁翩翩), Leung Ting-dor's only daughter.
Lo Tsan Shun as Cheng Kwan-min (鄭坤綿), Dor Dor's store general manager.
Chun Wong as Leung Ting-dor (梁亭多), Dor Dor's chairman, who used to work as a chef in Sap-yee's home.
Lee Fung as Tse Dai-bik (謝帶壁), Ting-dor's wife and Pin-pin's mother.
Li Ka Sing as Manager Lam (藍部長), who is in charge of Dor Dor's employee management.

Week 1
O.L Supreme - 女王辦公室 (EPS 01-05) - 25 PTS (Peaking at 27 PTS)
Week 2
O.L Supreme - 女王办公室 (EPS 6-10) - 24 PTS (Peaking at 27 PTS)
Week 3
O.L Supreme - 女王辦公室 (EPS 11-15) - 24 PTS
Week 4
O.L Supreme - 女王辦公室 (EPS 16-20) - 24 PTS
Week 5
O.L Supreme - 女王辦公室 (EPS 21-25) - 24 PTS
Week 6
O.L Supreme - 女皇辦公室 (EPS 26-30) - 27 PTS

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