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The Peep Show Series 1 to 4 boxset. This currently contains all 24 episodes in the series.

The following is a list of Peep Show episodes. Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb and broadcast on Channel 4. The series is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain.[1] The series covers the lives of Mark Corrigan (Mitchell) and Jeremy "Jez" Osborne/Usbourne (Webb, the spelling of the character's surname is uncertain).[2] The series is filmed solely from the physical point-of-view of the characters, with the viewer being able to hear the thoughts of Mark and Jez.[1]

The beginning of series one sees Mark in love with work colleague Sophie (Olivia Colman) and Jez hoping to break through into the music business. As it progresses, it becomes clearer that Jez is unlikely to be successful. Jez falls in love with Nancy (Rachel Blanchard), an American Christian and they get married, but it is mainly to get Nancy a visa. Mark begins to question his love for Sophie. They also marry, though Mark does not want to. However, Sophie leaves Mark just after the wedding ceremony.[3]

The first series started on September 19, 2003,[4] and as of 2008, four series have been broadcast, with a fifth series to be shot in mid-February. It is expected to be broadcast in May 2008.[5] The first series was directed by Jeremy Wooding, the second and third by Tristram Shapeero and the fourth by Becky Martin.[6] Channel 4 were planning to cancel the show after the third series because of poor viewing figures. However, high sales of DVDs encouraged Channel 4 to allow the series to continue, with the fifth series commissioned before the fourth was broadcast.[7] During its broadcast, the series has won the Rose d'Or for "Best European Sitcom" in 2004, "Best TV Comedy" at the British Comedy Awards in 2006 and 2007,[1] "Best television comedy actor" for Mitchell in the 2007 British Comedy Awards,[8] and "Best Returning British Sitcom of 2007" by the British Sitcom Guide.[9]

Series 1: 2003

# Title Director Original airdate
1"Episode 1"Jeremy WoodingSeptember 19 2003
Mark gets into trouble; with his love Sophie as she sits on his hand, with Jez after laughing at his musical work and with some children who are bullying him. Mark and Jez are invited to their a party by their neighbour Toni. There, Mark tries to impress Toni. Jez tries to attract Toni's sister, whom Mark incorrectly tells him has cancer. After the party, Mark realises that Sophie is more like his type of woman.[4][10]
2"Episode 2"Jeremy WoodingSeptember 26 2003
Tired of paying Jez's rent, Mark decides to get him a job at his place of work, JLB Credit. Mark tries to express his love for Sophie by leaving her embarrassing cartoons and phone calls. Intent on becoming a musician, Jez tries to come across as an "Unemployable freak" at the interview, and manages to avoid getting the job. Mark discovers that his phone call to Sophie is common knowledge when his rival Jeff mocks him in the lift.[4][11]
3"Episode 3"Jeremy WoodingOctober 3 2003
After Sophie turns down Mark's offer of a date, Jez convinces him to go out to a party. Mark meets and strikes up a rapport with a teenage goth called Valerie. They, along with Jez and Toni, leave the party and go to a bowling alley. During their visit, Mark experiments with drugs and discovers that Sophie is out on a date with Jeff.[4][12]
4"Episode 4"Jeremy WoodingOctober 10 2003
Mark becomes infatuated with charismatic loan manager Alan Johnson. His "love" for him leads Mark to question his own sexuality. Jez tries to remember "the bad thing" that he did while on a drug binge with Super Hans, while also trying to break-up Mark's friendship with Johnson. Jez manages to do so, but also remembers what "the bad thing" was - oral sex with Super Hans.[4][13]
5"Episode 5"Jeremy WoodingOctober 17 2003
Mark is angry after he is passed over for a promotion which is given instead to Sophie. His anger leaves him needing therapy. Jez tries to impress Toni with his new job at the music company where Super Hans works. However, his plan backfires, with Toni and Super Hans getting together. Jez and Mark decide to take revenge on Sophie, Toni and Super Hans. Again, things fail to go according to plan, with Mark being shot with an air gun and Jez being pepper sprayed.[4][14]
6"Episode 6"Jeremy WoodingOctober 24 2003
Jez's Uncle Ray dies in a hospice. Mark goes to the funeral with him, inviting Sophie also. Jez learns that the illness his uncle died of may be hereditary and as a result he becomes fearful that he might die also. Mark and Sophie go for a weekend away in the countryside, with Jez unwillingly coming alone. Before Mark has the chance to make love to Sophie, he finds Jez with an empty pill bottle, leading him to conclude that Jez has overdosed. Mark calls an ambulance and Jez's life is saved. He later visits Toni. He lies to her about dying himself so that they can have sex.[4][15]

Series 2: 2004

# Title Director Original airdate
7"Episode 7"Tristram ShapeeroNovember 12 2004
Mark agrees to go to a dancing class ("Rainbow rhythms") with Sophie, taking Jez along also. Jez meets Nancy, an American Christian whom he begins to fall in love with. The two develop a taboo-breaking sexual relationship, although he considers being made to black-up too offensve. Mark reads Sophie's email to get a better insight into her feelings about him. Mark, Sophie, Jeremy and Nancy go to dance class member Gwyn's house in the country which involves a game of spin the bottle where Mark and Jez kissing each other. Sophie finds out to her anger that Mark has been spying on her email.[16][17]
8"Episode 8"Tristram ShapeeroNovember 19 2004
Jez bumps into an old schoolmate, Gog, who is looking for musicians for a project he is working on. For the first time in years, Mark forms a new friendship with a new work colleague, Darrel. However, a prank they play is interpreted as a racial incident. Jez secures Gog's commission but spends his advance on "drugs and shoes". Mark realises at a Second World War re-enactment that Darrel is racist. Jez and Super Hans, after failing to produce an acceptable soundtrack for Gog, attempt to get the rest of the money by threatening him with a baseball bat.[16][18]
9"Episode 9"Tristram ShapeeroNovember 26 2004
While spying on Sophie and Jeff, a TV news crew film Mark drinking beer at a picnic. However, the news report erroneously labels him as an alcoholic. A former alcoholic himself, Johnson forces Mark to join an alcoholics' help group so he can still go to a business trip to Aberdeen with Sophie. Jez's relationship with Nancy becomes celibate. He also becomes suspicious that Nancy is in a sexual relationship with a homeless man called "Nim". After he is kicked out the flat by Mark, who is expecting a visit from his father, Nancy leaves Jez in anger for allowing Nim to leave. Johnson finds Mark drinking a beer and decides not to let him go on the business trip. Mark then attempts to get Jeff in trouble by bribing the security team to tape Jeff attacking him, but his plan backfires.[16][19]
10"Episode 10"Tristram ShapeeroDecember 3 2004
Mark meets a student called April in a shoe shop and decides to return to see her again, but discovers that she has gone to university in Dartmouth. Jez goes to play a gig in the same city and so Mark goes along on the pretext of wanting to see the band. He meets April at University and joins her class, pretending he is a student. Jez is offered the frontman spot of the band for the gig after Super Hans makes a scene, but Mark and Jez get locked in the back room of a corner shop when Jez tries to steal a chocolate bar. They break out (with Mark leaving "a tenner and a note" for the shopkeeper) but Jez is late for the gig. Mark attends a party at a professor's house but Jez shows up after the gig. Mark ends up going back to April's room, but fails to make love with her. Mark and Jez go home the next day disappointed.[16][20]
11"Episode 11"Tristram ShapeeroDecember 10 2004
Sophie tells Mark that Jeff does not want them seeing each other any more, so Mark attempts to make friends with Jeff with Jez's help. Mark arranges a sponsored bungee jump with Sophie while Jez becomes friends with Jeff. The jump fails to got to plan due to Mark's cowardice and he resorts to self-harm to try to make Sophie love him. Mark then pretends to be gay in front of Jeff, hoping he will let him see Sophie. However, Jeff reveals that he never said that Mark and Sophie should stop seeing each other. Mark finds out that Jeff cheated on Sophie and uses the knowledge to sabotage their relationship.[16][21]
12"Episode 12"Tristram ShapeeroDecember 17 2004
Nancy asks Jez to marry her for visa reasons, to which he agrees with gusto. However, Toni attempts to seduce Jez. Sophie and Mark's friendship is rekindled after meeting for lunch. Jez and Nancy marry, although Nancy leaves the party early for a job interview. Later, Toni succeeds in having an affair with Jez. Mark stands up to Jeff, resulting in the relationship between Sophie and Jeff ending. Jez, due to "stupid honesty", tells Nancy about his affair with Toni, securing the status of the relationship as "nothing more than a husk".[16][22]

Series 3: 2005

# Title Director Original airdate
13"Mugging"Tristram ShapeeroNovember 11 2005
Jez decides he wishes to discontinue his relationship with his new girlfriend Michelle. She convinces him to stay with her by offering him a form sexual exploration; commencing with a threesome. Mark gets mugged on the way home, although in reality two youths just convinced him to hand over his possessions then told him to run away. Jez explains how he plans to get back together with Big Suze and plans not to tell her about Michelle. When Big Suze arrives, she has a new boyfriend, a muscular ex-monk called Stu. Mark begins carrying a knife to protect himself from being mugged again, although he does not want Sophie to know about it. Mark confronts his muggers again at the cinema, but gets his revenge by hitting him when they make too much noise during the film. At the same time, he reveals his knife to Sophie's horror.[23][24]
14"Sectioning"Tristram ShapeeroNovember 18 2005
Mark and Jez's old Canadian University friend, Merry, comes to England and asks Jez and Super Hans to help her move some possessions into a new flat. It is revealed that she owns the pub under the flat, possibly as a result of the recent death of her mother, and gets Jez and Super Hans to manage it. However, Super Hans is "very particular about the kind of establishment" he wants to manage and is determined to put make some kind of anarchist or anti-corporate statement with the pub. Amongst his plans, Super Hans wants to name it "Free The Paedos", and wants to leave it in a state of unkempt disarray, with a washing machine in the middle of the floor. Jez is opposed to his plans. Mark and Sophie's relationship faces a challenge when Sophie is offered a promotion and moves to Bristol. She tries to deal with the relocation by convincing Mark to participate in phone sex. Mark and Jez are invited to Merry's house-warming party, but gradually notice that she is insane. They get her sectioned, whilst Jez and Super Hans try and gain control of the pub from her.[23][25]
15"Shrooming"Tristram ShapeeroNovember 25 2005
Mark is due to attend a business trip in Frankfurt, so Jez invites Big Suze to a drugs party at the flat, in the hope that he will seduce her. However, Mark is ill with gastric flu and decides to come home. Jez tries to convince him to go so he can have the party. However, Mark goes to bed, but discovers Super Hans in his bed with a girl. Super Hans panics when he is stuck in their toilet and kicks the door down. Mark fits a lock on his bedroom door and tries to get Jez to hire a carpenter to fix the bathroom door, but ends up doing it himself. Jez strikes up an easy-going attitude towards the carpenter, who subsequently ends up doing pretty much as he pleases on their time. Johnson calls to ask Mark to fill in at Frankfurt for another employee with the flu. Jez persuades him to say "Yes" so the party can go on. However, he fails to go. As a result, Jez locks Mark in his room. Mark manages to get Johnson to rescue him, but Johnson then stops him from making the trip due to his poor health.[23][26]
16"Sistering"Tristram ShapeeroDecember 2 2005
Mark's sister Sarah has broken up with her husband and comes to visit; wishing to talk extensively about family issues with Mark and "getting it all out". Jez implies that he agrees with this attitude. However, Jez ends up sleeping with Sarah, much to Mark's annoyance. Jez says that he is in love with Sarah, but Mark does not believe him. While Jez continues to fall in love with Sarah, Mark develops feelings for Big Suze, resulting in his friendship with Jez almost breaking. Jez is then put off by Sarah, coming to the conclusion that he is practically in love with Mark. Mark and Jez's friendship returns to normal at the cost his friendship for Sarah.[23][27]
17"Jurying"Tristram ShapeeroDecember 9 2005
Jez is called for jury service, which results in him meeting and then romancing the defendant, Carla, to Mark's anger. Sophie has been slacking at work and comes to visit Mark in the hope to avoiding more work. However, Johnson wants Mark to discipline her, leaving him in a dilemma. Sophie's increasing liberal streak begins to annoy Mark, especially when he, Sophie, Jez and Carla go to a gay club. Whilst in the club, Jez discovers that Carla is guilty of stealing credit cards, the crime she has been charged with. Mark pretends he has taken drugs and becomes angry when real drug users come back to the flat, causing disarray. Jez convinces the rest of the jury to find Carla guilty, partly because he does not want to go out with her again.[23][28]
18"Quantocking"Tristram ShapeeroDecember 16 2005
Mark decides to take Sophie on a weekend break in the South West, using his Sunday Times hotel mega deal vouchers. There, he intends to propose marriage to her; hence resolving their growing differences. Jez tags along, initially on the condition that he takes Big Suze, but he ends up taking Super Hans, who is attempting to go "cold turkey". Mark begins to suspect that he does not love Sophie and plans not to propose. After Sophie thinks that she has got lost, Mark and Jez set out to rescue her, only to end up getting lost in the Quantock Hills themselves. Upon returning, Mark discovers that Sophie has found her engagement ring, forcing Mark to become engaged even though he does not love her.[23][29]

Series 4: 2007

# Title Director Original airdate
19"Sophie's Parents"Becky MartinApril 13 2007
Mark doubts over his proposal of marriage to Sophie continue whilst he and Jez visit Sophie's parents for her birthday. Jez realises he was only brought along to keep Sophie's annoying brother Jamie company. Later, Jez has an affair with Sophie's mother and Mark accidently lets Sophie's father, Ian, hear of her lack of love for Sophie. Ian makes Mark promise to cancel the wedding, and then takes his revenge on another man whom his wife has an affair with, by all three of them burning down a barn. Mark changes his mind about Sophie when she is given her late grandmother's house as a birthday present. A drunken Ian tries to make Mark tell the truth, but no-one believes him. Mark and Jez then claim that it was Ian alone who burned the barn down. Ian leaves in disgrace while Jamie tries to go back to London with Jez.[30][31]
20"Conference"Becky MartinApril 20 2007
Mark is placed in charge of a departmental merger, while Jez tries to make some quick money by pimping out Big Suze to Johnson. This results in Big Suze leaving Jez for Johnson permanently. After insulting his entire team of helpers for failing to come up with a plan, Mark realises that he has nothing to present to the JLB board. Mark decides to take Jez's advice and runs away, but then bumps into Sophie. Upon Sophie's advice, he returns to face the truth, but it becomes a disaster as he recommends JLB Credit move into humanitarian work and claims that he is dying. Johnson reassures the members of the board by saying that Mark will be dead in a month.[30][32]
21"Gym"Becky MartinApril 27 2007
In order to avoid spending time with Sophie, Mark gets a gym membership. Whilst there he discovers that Jez's ex-wife Nancy is working at the same gym. Mark tells Jez about Nancy, whom then becomes desperate to get back together with her. He decides to take a job as a cleaner at the gym and sets about stopping her from dating Mark's personal trainer Matt. Sophie worries about not seeing enough of Mark and decides to join the gym as well. However, as Mark has told Matt about not loving Sophie, he and Jez decide to try and get him fired so they can both be happy. They do so, but then see him again during a judo class. Mark and Jez try and protect themselves by using Sophie and Nancy as human shields.[30][33]
22"Handyman"Becky MartinMay 4 2007
Jez meets his hero, techno musician Russell "The Orgazoid". He ends up working as his handyman, which leads Mark to become suspicious, as it seems that Jez's job consists of making smoothies for him. Meanwhile, Mark meets Sally at a school reunion, one the few girls at school who actually ever liked him. However, she has married to Foz, one of Mark's childhood tormentors. Mark decides to try and seduce Sally while Sophie is away on a business trip. Mark discovers that Jez is literally a "Handyman", having to give the Orgazoid handjobs. He quits the job, with Super Hans taking the position. Mark tries to pretend that the Orgazoid's house is his own to make Sally like him, but Foz discovers their relationship and stops Mark from seeing Sally again.[30][34]
23"Holiday"Becky MartinMay 11 2007
Jez takes Mark on a stag weekend on a rented canal boat. They meet two sisters, Aurora and Lucy, and their father. Jez falls in love with Aurora while Lucy becomes sexually attracted to Mark. The father offers Mark a job in India, which Mark considers as a way out of his impending marriage to Sophie. Jez accidentally kills Aurora's dog, "Mummy". When Mark discovers Mummy in his bin, they try to burn the evidence but cannot bring themselves to finish the job. Jez fails to dump the body and brings it to Aurora's boat. Pretending it is turkey, he starts to eat Mummy. Aurora discovers Mummy's collar amongst the remains, so Jez and Mark flee the boat.[30][35]
24"Wedding"Becky MartinMay 18 2007
It is Mark's wedding day, but he is torn about whether he should go through with it or not. Jez tries to discourage him, but Mark decides to continue. Super Hans vomits in Mark's hat and shoes after taking too many drugs the night before. On the way to the church, Nancy phones Jez to tell her she is coming to the wedding as well. At the church, Mark hides upstairs while he tries to make up his mind about marrying Sophie. Jez however, wants to go to the toilet but Mark refuses him to do so. He then wets himself, but his urine goes through the floorboards and leaks through down to the ceiling below, giving them away. Finally, Sophie and Mark marry, but on the way to the reception, Sophie breaks down and runs away. Jez discovers that Super Hans and Nancy have come, but are instead embracing each other outside the church.[30][36]

Series 5: 2008

Series 5 was commissioned in March 2007, prior to the broadcast of Series 4, largely due to the impressive DVD sales of the first three series.[7] Shooting for the fifth series is to start in mid-February. It is expected to be broadcast around May 2008.[5]

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  32. ^ "Episode Two: Conference". Channel 4. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  33. ^ "Episode Three: Gym". Channel 4. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
  34. ^ "Episode Four: Handyman". Channel 4. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
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