Not Going Out (2006)
Synopsis
Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life.
First Air Date: 2006-10-06
Last Air Date: 2025-07-18
Number of Seasons: 14
Number of Episodes: 99
Created By: Lee Mack
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Lee Mack as Lee
- Sally Bretton as Lucy Adams
- Katy Wix as Daisy
- Tim Vine as Tim Adams
- Hugh Dennis as Toby
- Abigail Cruttenden as Anna
- Deborah Grant as Wendy Adams
- Geoffrey Whitehead as Geoffrey Adams
- Francesca Newman as Molly
- Miranda Hart as Barbara Petrietskivadorski
Seasons
Specials (2007)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Series 1 Behind the Scenes
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Ep. 2: Series 2 Behind the Scenes
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Ep. 3: Not Going Right – The Out-Takes
Outtakes from Series 1, 2, 3 & 4.
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Ep. 4: The House
In an effort to create the perfect Christmas for Lucy, Lee invites her parents to join the two of them and Daisy in a snug old house in the country which used to belong to his dear dead aunt.
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Ep. 5: Christmas Shopping
An unexpected stranger turns Lee and Lucy's Christmas upside down.
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Ep. 6: The True Meaning of Christmas
It's Christmas Eve, and Lee and Lucy face a possible yuletide disaster when they discover the perfect present they have bought for their children has already been gifted to them by their grandparents.
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Ep. 7: Ding Dong Merrily on Live
Dragooned into organising a Christmas variety show to raise money for their children's school, Lee and Lucy find quality acts thin on the ground.
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Ep. 8: Halloween Special
Lee and Lucy take the children out trick or treating for Halloween, but the night soon turns disastrous for Lee when he loses his phone on the porch of a spooky Victorian house. Once he returns to the house to retrieve his phone, Lee discovers that the house is full of secrets that would be far better left undisturbed.
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Ep. 9: Driving Home For Christmas
We all know Christmas simply wouldn't be Christmas without a giant inflatable Santa, an aggressive bull in a field and a terrifying truck driver.
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Ep. 10: Resolutions
With 40 minutes to go until midnight, a New Year’s Eve party at Lee and Lucy’s house turns sour when family members start making their resolutions.
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Ep. 11: Panto
A family Christmas party turns sour when Lucy announces that she has got tickets to see Jason Donovan in panto. Lee loathes panto, especially given Jason Donovan was Lucy’s teenage crush. That night, while Lee and Lucy turn their backs on each other in bed, Lee has an unsettling dream in which he is dressed as Buttons and his whole life has turned into a pantomime. Lucy is Cinderella, Toby and Anna are the Ugly Sisters, Geoffrey is Baron Hardup, and Wendy is the Fairy Godmother - and Prince Charming, the handsome suitor who pursues Cinderella and asks for her hand in marriage, is played by Jason Donovan. Can Buttons keep the fairy-tale couple apart?
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Ep. 12: Wilfred
Lee throws everything at creating the perfect family Christmas, agreeing to Lucy's wishes to do something charitable and having "a normal Christmas where nothing goes wrong." This moment of festive spirit sees the couple invite Wilfred, a lonely pensioner from the nearby care home, to join them for Christmas dinner. The only instruction is that Wilfred is not, under any circumstances, allowed to drink alcohol...
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Ep. 13: Not Going Out on Location
Behind the scenes featurette for Series 3.
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Ep. 14: Lee and Tim talk on the set of Series Two
Extra on Series One DVD.
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