List of Not Going Out episodes
The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom Not Going Out, that has aired on BBC One since 6 October 2006.
Summary
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |
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| 1 | 6 | 2006 | |
| 2 | 7 | 2007 | |
| 3 | 7 | 2009 | |
Series 1 (2006)
| # | Episode | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | |
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| 1 | "Serious" | Lee Mack & Andrew Collins | 6 October 2006 | |
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Kate (Megan Dodds) is trying to make Lee (Lee Mack) choose a career, but when she suggests clown classes, she ends up taking them herself with limited success. Meanwhile, Lee agrees to go on a date with Lucy Moss (Alexandra Gilbreath), a serious and earnest author whose book was published by Kate's company, in an attempt to show Kate his serious side. Tim (Tim Vine) uses Lee's absence to try to make things up with Kate. Additional Material: Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | ||||
| 2 | "Death" | Lee Mack & Andrew Collins | 13 October 2006 | |
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Tim's 94-year-old grandmother dies, and when Lee fails to pass this information on to Kate she accuses him of not being in touch with his emotions. He reluctantly agrees to see an expensive therapist (Lorelei King), who soon gets to the root of his problems - his unspoken feelings for Kate. Meanwhile, Kate comforts Tim, who sees fit to hit on her at his grandmother's funeral. Lee comes close to telling Kate how he feels, but instead uses the time to be with his friend. Additional Material: Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | ||||
| 3 | "Aussie" | Lee Mack & Andrew Collins | 20 October 2006 | |
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Kate wants to impress a visiting Australian friend called Ruth (Julia Morris). Ruth has always been successful, and the only advantage Kate has ever had is her long-term relationship with Tim - hence the fact she has never told Ruth that the two of them split up. Kate persuades Lee to pretend to be Tim while Ruth is staying, and things become a little too close for comfort when the pair are forced to share a bed. Tim is horrified by Lee pretending to be him (and all that it implies), and decides that he'll get his own back and stop being a "middle class ponce". Additional Material: Simon Evans, Tim Vine, Derren Litten, John Archer & Paul Kerensa | ||||
| 4 | "Stress" | Lee Mack & Andrew Collins | 27 October 2006 | |
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Lee is trying to teach Kate to drive, but her skills - or lack of them - is sending his stress levels through the roof. Kate leads him in a yoga session and, when he fails to take that seriously, sends him to have acupuncture. While Lee is otherwise occupied, Tim offers his services in teaching Kate how to drive. All seems to be going well until Lee opts for prescription tranquillisers and the three embark on a drive in the countryside. Additional Material:Russel Kane, John Archer, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | ||||
| 5 | "Kid" | Lee Mack & Andrew Collins | 3 November 2006 | |
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As a favour to two friends, Kate agrees to take care of their 14-year-old son, Nicky (Rupert Simonian), for a few days while they attend a wedding in the Caribbean. She wants Lee to bond with Nicky, but Lee's efforts get him nowhere; he is even more dismayed when Nicky and Tim discover that they actually have a lot in common. While the boys are bonding, Kate tries to talk Nicky's Great Dane into becoming a vegetarian. Lee's attraction to Kate doesn't pass Nicky by, but he forgets his intentions to spill the beans when Lee allows Nicky's dog to stay in the flat, despite his serious allergy. Additional Material: Derren Litten, Tim Vine, Megan Dodds, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | ||||
| 6 | "Caretaker" | Lee Mack & Andrew Collins | 10 November 2006 | |
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To prove a point to Kate, Lee finally gets a job, as caretaker in his block of flats, but the job comes with a bedsit so he moves out, much to Tim's delight. Kate and Lee soon both miss each other, and when Kate interviews a prospective new flatmate called Pete (Duncan Duff), Lee puts him off and then, despite his pride, gives up his new job and so he can move back in. Additional Material: Derren Litten, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | ||||
Series 2 (2007)
| # | Episode | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | |
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| 7 | "Mortgage" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 7 September 2007 | |
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With Kate having gone back to America, Tim tells Lee he is going to sell the flat, and hires a cleaner called Barbara (Miranda Hart) to clean it. Lee tries to get a mortgage so he can buy it, and in the meantime he puts off all the potential buyers, until Lucy (Sally Bretton), who unbeknown to Lee is Tim's sister, arrives saying she will rent the spare room when Lee buys it. Lucy soon decides she wants to buy it herself, and both offer to buy it from Tim. Tim decides to sell it to Lee, but he cannot get a mortgage so Lucy buys it. On Tim's wishes, she rents out the spare room to Lee. | ||||
| 8 | "Gay" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 14 September 2007 | |
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Lucy persuades Lee to pretend to be gay after she lies to a business acquaintance, Guy (Simon Dutton), who she was told is gay himself, by telling him she lives with a gay flatmate to prove she is not homophobic. However, Guy soon starts to get suspicious and tests Lee's sexuality by taking him to a gay bar. Later, Guy overhears Lee saying to Tim, who had started to think Lee was gay, that he is not gay. When Lucy then explains to Guy what happened, he reveals he is not gay and he and Lucy kiss. | ||||
| 9 | "Librarian" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 21 September 2007 | |
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Lucy and Guy are going out with each other, and Guy has practically moved in. This annoys Lee who thinks Guy is too old for her. Lee soon discovers that Guy owns a lap-dancing club. While at the club, Lee and Tim see Rosie (Thaila Zucchi), a librarian that Tim has been seeing, and discover she is a lapdancer. Tim later dumps her, but then changes his mind. However, Rosie refuses to get back together. Meanwhile, Lucy dumps Guy but they soon get back together but agree to take their relationship more slowly. | ||||
| 10 | "Baby" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 28 September 2007 | |
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When Guy's daughter Chloe gets appendicitis, Lee and Tim are left looking after her baby son Dillon while Guy and Lucy visit her. While in their care, Dillon swallows a subbuteo football and Lee and Tim have problems locating it, and try to think of ways to get it out of his body. However, it later turns out Dillon did not swallow it after all. Lucy is worried about the age gap between her and Guy. | ||||
| 11 | "Art" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 5 October 2007 | |
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After meeting Toby (Kerry Shale) and Fliss (Kika Mirylees), two educated friends of Guy's, Lee pretends that he is an art expert with an Open University degree. Barbara tells him about a Polish artist who she says is very popular. Lee then tells this to Lucy, who is having an art exhibition. Lucy then goes and buys many pieces of work by this artist, but the art does not sell and Lee discovers the Polish artist is not popular, but one that Barbara cleans for. Lee goes to the exhibition to try and make the sculptures sell, but Barbara accidentally breaks all but one of them. | ||||
| 12 | "Dating" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 12 October 2007 | |
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Lucy and Barbara persuade Lee to go speed dating after they say he needs a girlfriend. At the speed dating Lee meets Daisy (Katy Wix), an indecisive hairdresser. He invites her out for a date and then for a dinner with Lucy at his apartment. However, after the dinner Daisy dumps him. Meanwhile, Tim offends Barbara and has to make up to her and with Guy in Thailand Lucy has several personal telephone conversations with him. | ||||
| 13 | "Gangster" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 19 October 2007 | |
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Lee thinks that Guy is a gangster and gets suspicious when a suspect package is delivered to Guy. However, there appears to be an innocent reason and Guy goes to take Lucy on holiday to Sicily. However, at the airport Guy asks Lucy to marry him but she turns him down saying he is too controlling, and Guy goes to Sicily on his own and Lucy says their relationship is over. | ||||
Christmas Special (2007)
| # | Episode | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | |
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| 14 | "Murder at Christmas" | Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Simon Evans & Paul Kerensa | 21 December 2007 | |
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Lucy and Tim's parents Geoffrey (Timothy West) and Wendy (Deborah Grant) invite themselves to the apartment for Christmas, and Lucy persuades Barbara to work on Christmas Day to help out. On Christmas Day, Tim brings his girlfriend Daisy. Lee buys a murder mystery game, which they all then dress up and play. However, the game ends abruptly when Tim and Geoffrey argue. Lee then manages to talk Geoffrey round and they finish the game. | ||||
Series 3 (2009)
| # | Episode | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | |
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| 15 | "Pregnant" | Lee Mack | 30 January 2009 | |
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When Lucy announces to Lee that she is pregnant, he wonders if the father might accidentally be him. However, he can't bring himself to tell Lucy how he thinks it might have happened but Tim guesses. He is infuriated at the thought of his friend and his sister together but Lee has started to warm to the idea of being a dad... Additional Material: Simon Evans, Paul Kerensa, Dave Cohen, Oliver Dennis, Simon Griffiths, David Isaac & Liam Woodman | ||||
| 16 | "Winner" | Andrew Collins & Lee Mack | 6 February 2009 | |
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Lee is insufferable after he wins £1000 in a writing competition with an essay entitled 'Disability in the Workplace'. Lucy finds herself moved to tears when she reads the essay. Afterall, she had no idea that Lee was so sensitive. Tim, however, is more sceptical about it and with good reason, because when a journalist (Rebecca Gethings) turns up to interview the winner she is expecting to meet a disabled author. Additional Material: Simon Evans, Paul Kerensa, Dave Cohen, Milton Jones, Simon Griffiths, David Isaac & Liam Woodman | ||||
| 17 | "Amy" | Darin Henry & Lee Mack | 13 February 2009 | |
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Over-excited by the appearance of a lesbian couple in their building, Lee and Tim ask them over for dinner, not realising that their adolescent attempt to get their jollies will backfire when Lucy discovers a side to herself that she never knew existed. Additional Material: Simon Evans, Paul Kerensa, Georgia Pritchett, Dave Cohen, Milton Jones, Simon Griffiths, David Isaac & Liam Woodman | ||||
| 18 | "Party" | Lee Mack & Daniel Peak | 20 February 2009 | |
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When Tim and Lee try to organise a surprise party for Lucy's 30th birthday, their ideas of what makes a good party differ widely. Tim likes a few games of charades while Lee likes a party with no competitors for Lucy's attention. So when Lucy turns up at the party arm-in-arm with another man (Ed Weeks), Lee makes it his mission to get rid of him... without causing a scene, obviously. | ||||
| 19 | "Neighbour" | Lee Mack & Simon Dean | 27 February 2009 | |
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A new neighbour moves in upstairs and his constant noise drives Lucy to distraction. She begs Lee and Tim to get him to stop but neither of them is man enough. Tim takes the tag of wimp to heart and rushes off to join a boxing gym while Lee, in an attempt to impress Lucy, makes the mistake of confronting the man in his own flat, where he finds a creepy psychopath with the eyes of a cold killer. | ||||
| 20 | "Speech" | Lee Mack | 6 March 2009 | |
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Lucy is stressed. She has an important speech to make at a Recruitment Conference and nobody to help her write it. Lee sees an opportunity to impress her and offers his services but at the expense of Tim, who also thinks he's the best man for the job. What starts off as a small job now turns into a competition between Tim and Lee to not only see who can come up with the wittiest lines but also to establish which of them Lucy likes best. | ||||
| 21 | "Marriage" | Lee Mack | 20 March 2009 | |
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Lee is horrified when he hears that Lucy is considering marriage to Pavlov, a mechanic from the old Eastern bloc, just so that he can stay in the country. But he is a lone voice in trying to stop it, because one by one, as Lucy's family and friends hear Pavlov's tragic tales of life back home, they are persuaded that he is a perfect match for Lucy. | ||||
Christmas Special (2009)
| # | Episode | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | |
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| 22 | "Absent Father Christmas" | Lee Mack & Daniel Peak | July 2009 (Comedy Central Extra channel) | |
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Lee's father turns up at the flat unannounced. This is the man who walked out of the family home when Lee was four, never paid his maintenance and ate Lee's goldfish. Lee wants him out of the flat but Lucy tells him that the only way forward is to forgive and forget. Unfortunately, Lee's dad's behaviour makes this virtually impossible for Lee to achieve. | ||||