Life With Derek

2005 • Disney Channel
4.5
36 reviews
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Life With Derek episodes (13)

1 Date With Derek
7/1/06
Season-only
Casey is so worried that Derek will hit on her best friend that Derek asks Emily out on a date – to bug Casey or because he actually likes her?
2 He Shoots, She Scores!
7/29/06
Season-only
As penance for his latest misdemeanour, Derek is told to coach Lizzie in hockey. Casey gets jealous of Derek’s relationship with her little sister so agrees to coach Edwin in the art of attracting the team captain.
3 Middle Manic
9/22/06
Season-only
Derek couldn’t case less that Casey and Sam are always breaking up and getting back together, until they break up for good and Sam’s ability to play hockey goes down the tubes.
4 Venturian Candidate
9/29/06
Season-only
Casey is disgusted with her fellow students’ apathy about the upcoming school election. Corey Plunkett expects to be a shoe-in, until Casey convinces Derek to lend his cool factor to the process by running himself.
5 Battle of the Bands
10/6/06
Season-only
Derek’s band is so desperate for a singer that they ask Casey to join; even though she’s more folk than metal and thinks they’re a bunch of posers. George, remembering his rock ‘n roll youth, longs to join the band himself
6 Lies My Brother Told Me
10/13/06
Season-only
Casey, compromising all her principles, takes Derek’s advice and lies when she desperately needs an extension on a school assignment. Soon she is trapped in a web of deceit and the harder she tries to extricate herself, the worse it gets.
7 Crushing the Coach
10/20/06
Season-only
Lizzie’s soccer coach asks Casey out which creates a problem for Lizzie because she has a crush on him herself. Derek is glad Casey isn’t going to be around the house so much, until he has a crisis of conscience after finding out that Scott is also hitting on the older sisters of Lizzie’s teammates.
8 Prank Wars
10/27/06
Season-only
To pay Derek back for his many practical jokes, Casey pulls a huge prank of her own: stealing the office furniture from the new uptight Vice Principal. Everyone assumes Derek did it. The only two people who know he didn’t are Casey and Derek.
9 Freaked Out Friday
11/3/06
Season-only
While Casey is freaking out about her upcoming dance competition and Derek is freaking out (by being annoying) about his upcoming hockey playoffs, Lizzie and Edwin decide they’re sick of being the ever-accommodating middle-kids.
10 The Bet
11/10/06
Season-only
Derek bets Casey that she’s too much of a goody goody to go out with cool-guy Trevor. Casey desperately wants to win the bet, and changes her image completely in order to attract Trevor. When it looks like she’s going to be successful, Derek dares her to go double or nothing.
11 Mice and Men
12/1/06
Season-only
One of the cool girls at school asks Casey to partner with her for the English project. Casey soon realises, to her chagrin, that Kendra isn’t as interested in Casey’s brains as she is in her stepbrother. Casey sets out to sabotage the love connection.
12 Dinner Guest
12/7/06
Season-only
Against Nora’s wishes, Casey invites her father to dinner so he can see where they now live and meet the rest of the new family. The dinner is a fiasco: the food Casey prepares is terrible and her family’s behaviour even worse. But the capper is that her father and Derek get along famously.
13 Dating Game
12/15/06
Season-only
When Casey bemoans her single status Kendra offers to play matchmaker-- with disastrous results. Derek is pleased because he gets to throw another party, except that’s a disaster too (as far as he’s concerned) because George and Nora decide to join in.

About this show

Life with Derek is a half-hour comedy series about a modern blended family, with two type-A 15 year-olds, Casey (Ashley Leggat) and Derek (Michael Seater). Each episode is an alpha-teen comic war between two self-obsessed teenagers in a take-no-prisoners fight for control of their house, their school, and their world.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
36 reviews
Leigh Marie
February 21, 2017
One of my favorites. Especially the last couple of seasons when Derek and Casey show they care about each other. Hope they put those seasons on.
2 people found this review helpful
king tut
October 13, 2016
Old Disney channel show was better back then
5 people found this review helpful
Gamer Dude
October 11, 2016
Best show I watched going up.
5 people found this review helpful