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8.9/10 (179 votes)
#1

Pointless

S7:E5

In an attempt to impress Lucy with his intellectual prowess, Lee joins Daisy as a contestant on the TV quiz show Pointless.

8.7/10 (183 votes)
#2

Camping

S5:E3

In a desperate bid to prove his manliness, Lee joins Tim, Daisy and Lucy on a camping weekend in the middle of a dark spooky forest.

8.7/10 (174 votes)
#3

Drunk

S5:E6

After Lucy suffers a mild indiscretion whilst drunk and claims to have no memory of the event, she and Lee embark on an experiment with a bottle of home-made potato hooch to prove once and for all that you can remember what happens when you're mashed.

8.5/10 (170 votes)
#4

Winner

S3:E2

Lee wins a £1000 after winning an essay writing competition. A journalist shows up to interview Lee but expects him to be disabled after reading his story.

8.4/10 (144 votes)
#5

Lucy

S7:E9

Lee spends time in the bar with Toby worrying that the woman of his dreams is drifting further away.

Katurian Jul 31, 2024

This one was a surprise. Sometime’s Lee seems like such a miserable guy masking his deep sadness wit...

8.3/10 (161 votes)
#6

Pregnant

S3:E1

Lee is shocked when Lucy announces that she is pregnant and he wonders if he could accidentally be the baby's father.

8.3/10 (121 votes)
#7

Donor

S7:E3

When Lucy decides it is time to have a baby, she is surprised to find the whole family taking a personal interest in the conception.

8.3/10 (95 votes)
#8

Text

S12:E2

When Lee accidentally sends a rude text about Anna to Lucy, he makes the stupid mistake of sending it to Anna herself. Lee and Lucy now face the impossible task of stealing Anna's phone and deleting the text before she reads it.

8.2/10 (166 votes)
#9

Absent Father Christmas

S3:E8

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.

8.2/10 (118 votes)
#10

Surprise

S7:E7

No matter what happens, Lucy's surprise party for her parents' anniversary must remain a secret or it won't be a surprise. So why she tells Lee about it is anyone's guess.

8.1/10 (140 votes)
#11

Drugs

S4:E1

After a night spent out clubbing, Tim returns to the flat wearing the wrong coat, and convinces Lee to help him return it to its owner.

8.1/10 (134 votes)
#12

Fireworks

S4:E5

When an old lady wanders into Lucy's flat and makes herself at home on the sofa, Lee doesn't know what to do with her.

8.0/10 (164 votes)
#13

Gay

S2:E2

Lucy persuades Lee to pretend to be gay after she lies to a business acquaintance Guy, 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.

8.0/10 (149 votes)
#14

Debbie

S4:E2

Lee's past catches up with him when a young woman appears on his doorstep and asks for a cup of sugar.

8.0/10 (122 votes)
#15

Dancing

S4:E4

Lucy and Tim are distraught. Their parents' 30 year marriage is at an end and their father has moved out of the family home - and into Lee's bedroom.

8.0/10 (140 votes)
#16

Band

S5:E1

When Tim joins a band at work and Lucy falls for the lead guitarist, Lee becomes jealous, and decides that if he can't beat them he should join them.

8.0/10 (133 votes)
#17

Examination

S5:E5

Lucy finds herself working on a Government initiative encouraging men to regularly check themselves for lumps. Eager to please Lucy, Lee follows the campaign's advice and discovers something he wasn't expecting.

8.0/10 (123 votes)
#18

Christening

S7:E2

Lee's big mouth has got him and Lucy invited to a christening party thrown by new neighbours Toby and Anna, and now they have no time to find the perfect present for the baby who has everything.

7.9/10 (146 votes)
#19

Baby

S2:E4

When Guy's daughter Chloe gets appendicitis, Lee and Tim are left looking after her 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.

7.9/10 (134 votes)
#20

Movie

S4:E3

Lee promises to stop treating Lucy's flat as if he owns it - but not before he has hired it out to a film director.

7.9/10 (129 votes)
#21

Life on Mars Bars

S4:E6

Lee dreams of a perfect life with Lucy, but can the reality ever match up?

7.9/10 (132 votes)
#22

Running

S5:E4

To impress Lucy, Lee starts training for a 10 kilometre Fun Run only to injure himself immediately. In an effort to hide the injury from Lucy, he gets himself a secret sports massage, but this just leads to more trouble.

7.8/10 (134 votes)
#23

Dating

S2:E6

As Lucy and Guy's relationship intensifies, Lee starts to ponder his lack of a girlfriend and, encouraged by Barbara, tries speed dating. Tim is forced to go on a disastrous date with Barbara in order to prove that he sees her as more than 'the help'.

7.8/10 (137 votes)
#24

Murder at Christmas

S2:E8

Lee's plan to spend time alone with Lucy at Christmas is threatened.

Goldenarrow74 Jul 23, 2023

I don’t blame Lee at all for fancying Lucy’s mum- she’s milfalicious in this 😍

7.8/10 (147 votes)
#25

Neighbour

S3:E5

Lucy isn't happy with the noise a new neighbour is making. She asks both Lee and Tim to talk to him but both are scared too. Tim decides to take up boxing so that he will have more courage. Lee ends up going to confront the man.

7.8/10 (131 votes)
#26

Speech

S3:E6

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.

7.7/10 (142 votes)
#27

Librarian

S2:E3

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 Rose (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, Rose refuses to get back together. Meanwhile, Lucy dumps Guy but they soon get back together but agree to take their relationship more slowly.

7.7/10 (140 votes)
#28

Gangster

S2:E7

Guy showers Lucy with expensive gifts and whisks her away for a weekend.

7.7/10 (146 votes)
#29

Rabbit

S6:E1

Lucy accidentally runs over a pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of an important client.

7.7/10 (121 votes)
#30

Boat

S6:E8

Lee spends a long weekend on his a boat with Lucy, even though she is terrified of water.

7.7/10 (117 votes)
#31

Anna

S7:E4

Lucy aspires to be friends with her posh new neighbours Toby and Anna, but she hasn't reckoned on Lee dragging her back down to earth.

7.7/10 (118 votes)
#32

Plane

S7:E8

Flying off on a summer holiday, Lucy and Daisy endure the worst flight of their lives when Lee gets a bad case of the jitters on the plane.

7.6/10 (158 votes)
#33

Stress

S1:E4

Lee starts teaching Kate to drive. His (or her) lack of success seems to stress him out and Kate notices. She persuades him to try some yoga and given his track record he doesn't take it seriously. He is banished to have acupuncture while Tim tries his hand at teaching Kate how to drive. He does surprisingly well until Lee admits that he's taking tranquillizers during an increasingly speed fuelled drive in the countryside. Big question...will she pass?

7.6/10 (162 votes)
#34

Mortgage

S2:E1

Tim decides to sell the flat, so Lee sets to work putting off prospective buyers.

7.6/10 (138 votes)
#35

Art

S2:E5

In an effort to appear as intellectual as Lucy's friends, Lee shows off his 'knowledge' of the art world - holding forth on the subject of an unknown artist, who his cleaner Barbara has told him is the next big thing. When Lucy takes the advice and invests a fortune in the artist's work, Lee is left trying to prevent her from finding out the artist is actually a nobody.

7.6/10 (127 votes)
#36

Marriage

S3:E7

Lee is shocked when he finds out that Lucy is thinking about getting married to Pavlov so that he will be able to remain in the country. As Lee attempts to get her to change her mind her family and other friends think that Pavlov is perfect for her.

7.6/10 (128 votes)
#37

Dads

S5:E2

Lee's lazy weekend is wrecked when his scrounging father turns up unexpectedly. Having just come out of hospital he needs somewhere to stay for the weekend. Will Lee take on the demanding role of carer?

7.6/10 (123 votes)
#38

Conference

S6:E4

Lee does what he has to do to stop Lucy from flirting with the male delegates at a three-day annual trade conference in order to get herself work.

7.6/10 (128 votes)
#39

Mugging

S7:E1

When Lucy has her handbag stolen from right under Lee's nose, he feels the need to prove his manliness over and over and over again.

7.5/10 (165 votes)
#40

Aussie

S1:E3

Ruth, an Australian friend of Kate's, comes to stay and Lee is persuaded to pretend to be Tim. Lee gets a job handing out leaflets at a shopping centre, but soon falls foul of a local youth.

6.7/10 (95 votes)
#1

Friend

S12:E3

When Lee promises Lucy that he will make more of an effort to be friendly with other parents in the playground, he makes the mistake of starting with Keith.

6.8/10 (121 votes)
#2

Play

S6:E6

Lee is forced to fight for Lucy's attention when her first love reappears on the scene.

7.2/10 (206 votes)
#3

Serious

S1:E1

Kate tries clown classes after unsuccessfully getting Lee to go to them. You couldn't really call her own attempts a success. To repay Kate Lee goes on a date with Lucy Moss, an author whose book, about her turbulent life, was published by Kate's company. It's a less than happy event, as Lee proves less than great at being serious. With Lee out of the way Tim tries to make things up with Kate.

7.3/10 (132 votes)
#4

Skiing

S6:E2

On a holiday to Eastern Europe, Lee, Daisy and Lucy become stuck on a cable car.

7.3/10 (116 votes)
#5

Therapy

S6:E3

Lee takes advantage of Lucy's new-found skills as a relationship counsellor to patch things up with his father.

7.3/10 (124 votes)
#6

Rachel

S6:E5

Lee decides that the best way to get Lucy to notice him is to make her jealous. Now all he has to do is find himself a girlfriend.

7.4/10 (171 votes)
#7

Death

S1:E2

Tim's 94-year-old grandmother dies. Kate accuses Lee of not being in touch with his emotions when he fails to tell her. As penance he sees an expensive psychotherapist, who gets a bit too close to the truth. Tim, flirts with Kate, less than successfully, while she comforts him at his grandmother's funeral.

7.4/10 (149 votes)
#8

Caretaker

S1:E6

Lee finally manages to get a job, as a caretaker. But taking up the new post involves moving out of the flat. Kate interviews potential new flatmates including Pete, and Tim sees an opportunity to get back together with Kate. Lee's new boss proves to be a hard taskmaster. So, will Lee stick at the job or throw in the towel and move back in with Kate?

7.4/10 (148 votes)
#9

Amy

S3:E3

Lee and Tim ask a lesbian couple who have moved into the building over for dinner. They are shocked when Lucy discovers a side of herself that she never knew existed.

7.4/10 (118 votes)
#10

Magic

S6:E7

When Lucy's god-daughter is suddenly dumped on her the night before the girl's birthday party, Lucy and Lee have to come up with an appropriate entertainment for fourteen nine-year-olds.

7.4/10 (109 votes)
#11

Alcohol

S7:E6

Frank's drinking becomes a problem and forces Lee and Lucy to reassess the living arrangements in the flat.

7.4/10 (94 votes)
#12

Painting

S12:E1

It’s been over a year since Frank’s passing and the always lovely Wendy, rediscovering a long lost love for painting, decides to create a very unique tribute in oils. How can Lee and Lucy break the news that they don’t necessarily like the likeness?

aztele Mar 29, 2022

I have been impressed with how this show keeps going but this was a disappointing episode. The actin...

7.5/10 (165 votes)
#13

Aussie

S1:E3

Ruth, an Australian friend of Kate's, comes to stay and Lee is persuaded to pretend to be Tim. Lee gets a job handing out leaflets at a shopping centre, but soon falls foul of a local youth.

7.5/10 (160 votes)
#14

Kid

S1:E5

Kate and Lee are forced to take in a lodger, a surly 14-year-old boy called Nicky. Lee's attempts to bond with the teenager prove less than successful, while Tim and Nicky discover they have quite a lot in common. Meanwhile, Kate tries to persuade a carnivorous Great Dane to become a vegetarian with unfortunate results.

7.5/10 (130 votes)
#15

Party

S3:E4

Lee and Tim decide to try and throw Lucy a 30th birthday party but they both have different ideas. Lee is not happy when Lucy shows up at the party with a man and decides to try and get rid of him.

7.6/10 (158 votes)
#16

Stress

S1:E4

Lee starts teaching Kate to drive. His (or her) lack of success seems to stress him out and Kate notices. She persuades him to try some yoga and given his track record he doesn't take it seriously. He is banished to have acupuncture while Tim tries his hand at teaching Kate how to drive. He does surprisingly well until Lee admits that he's taking tranquillizers during an increasingly speed fuelled drive in the countryside. Big question...will she pass?

7.6/10 (162 votes)
#17

Mortgage

S2:E1

Tim decides to sell the flat, so Lee sets to work putting off prospective buyers.

7.6/10 (138 votes)
#18

Art

S2:E5

In an effort to appear as intellectual as Lucy's friends, Lee shows off his 'knowledge' of the art world - holding forth on the subject of an unknown artist, who his cleaner Barbara has told him is the next big thing. When Lucy takes the advice and invests a fortune in the artist's work, Lee is left trying to prevent her from finding out the artist is actually a nobody.

7.6/10 (127 votes)
#19

Marriage

S3:E7

Lee is shocked when he finds out that Lucy is thinking about getting married to Pavlov so that he will be able to remain in the country. As Lee attempts to get her to change her mind her family and other friends think that Pavlov is perfect for her.

7.6/10 (128 votes)
#20

Dads

S5:E2

Lee's lazy weekend is wrecked when his scrounging father turns up unexpectedly. Having just come out of hospital he needs somewhere to stay for the weekend. Will Lee take on the demanding role of carer?

7.6/10 (123 votes)
#21

Conference

S6:E4

Lee does what he has to do to stop Lucy from flirting with the male delegates at a three-day annual trade conference in order to get herself work.

7.6/10 (128 votes)
#22

Mugging

S7:E1

When Lucy has her handbag stolen from right under Lee's nose, he feels the need to prove his manliness over and over and over again.

7.7/10 (142 votes)
#23

Librarian

S2:E3

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 Rose (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, Rose refuses to get back together. Meanwhile, Lucy dumps Guy but they soon get back together but agree to take their relationship more slowly.

7.7/10 (140 votes)
#24

Gangster

S2:E7

Guy showers Lucy with expensive gifts and whisks her away for a weekend.

7.7/10 (146 votes)
#25

Rabbit

S6:E1

Lucy accidentally runs over a pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of an important client.

7.7/10 (121 votes)
#26

Boat

S6:E8

Lee spends a long weekend on his a boat with Lucy, even though she is terrified of water.

7.7/10 (117 votes)
#27

Anna

S7:E4

Lucy aspires to be friends with her posh new neighbours Toby and Anna, but she hasn't reckoned on Lee dragging her back down to earth.

7.7/10 (118 votes)
#28

Plane

S7:E8

Flying off on a summer holiday, Lucy and Daisy endure the worst flight of their lives when Lee gets a bad case of the jitters on the plane.

7.8/10 (134 votes)
#29

Dating

S2:E6

As Lucy and Guy's relationship intensifies, Lee starts to ponder his lack of a girlfriend and, encouraged by Barbara, tries speed dating. Tim is forced to go on a disastrous date with Barbara in order to prove that he sees her as more than 'the help'.

7.8/10 (137 votes)
#30

Murder at Christmas

S2:E8

Lee's plan to spend time alone with Lucy at Christmas is threatened.

Goldenarrow74 Jul 23, 2023

I don’t blame Lee at all for fancying Lucy’s mum- she’s milfalicious in this 😍

7.8/10 (147 votes)
#31

Neighbour

S3:E5

Lucy isn't happy with the noise a new neighbour is making. She asks both Lee and Tim to talk to him but both are scared too. Tim decides to take up boxing so that he will have more courage. Lee ends up going to confront the man.

7.8/10 (131 votes)
#32

Speech

S3:E6

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.

7.9/10 (146 votes)
#33

Baby

S2:E4

When Guy's daughter Chloe gets appendicitis, Lee and Tim are left looking after her 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.

7.9/10 (134 votes)
#34

Movie

S4:E3

Lee promises to stop treating Lucy's flat as if he owns it - but not before he has hired it out to a film director.

7.9/10 (129 votes)
#35

Life on Mars Bars

S4:E6

Lee dreams of a perfect life with Lucy, but can the reality ever match up?

7.9/10 (132 votes)
#36

Running

S5:E4

To impress Lucy, Lee starts training for a 10 kilometre Fun Run only to injure himself immediately. In an effort to hide the injury from Lucy, he gets himself a secret sports massage, but this just leads to more trouble.

8.0/10 (164 votes)
#37

Gay

S2:E2

Lucy persuades Lee to pretend to be gay after she lies to a business acquaintance Guy, 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.

8.0/10 (149 votes)
#38

Debbie

S4:E2

Lee's past catches up with him when a young woman appears on his doorstep and asks for a cup of sugar.

8.0/10 (122 votes)
#39

Dancing

S4:E4

Lucy and Tim are distraught. Their parents' 30 year marriage is at an end and their father has moved out of the family home - and into Lee's bedroom.

8.0/10 (140 votes)
#40

Band

S5:E1

When Tim joins a band at work and Lucy falls for the lead guitarist, Lee becomes jealous, and decides that if he can't beat them he should join them.

7.2/10 (206 votes)

Serious

S1:E1

Kate tries clown classes after unsuccessfully getting Lee to go to them. You couldn't really call her own attempts a success. To repay Kate Lee goes on a date with Lucy Moss, an author whose book, about her turbulent life, was published by Kate's company. It's a less than happy event, as Lee proves less than great at being serious. With Lee out of the way Tim tries to make things up with Kate.

7.4/10 (171 votes)

Death

S1:E2

Tim's 94-year-old grandmother dies. Kate accuses Lee of not being in touch with his emotions when he fails to tell her. As penance he sees an expensive psychotherapist, who gets a bit too close to the truth. Tim, flirts with Kate, less than successfully, while she comforts him at his grandmother's funeral.

7.5/10 (165 votes)

Aussie

S1:E3

Ruth, an Australian friend of Kate's, comes to stay and Lee is persuaded to pretend to be Tim. Lee gets a job handing out leaflets at a shopping centre, but soon falls foul of a local youth.

7.6/10 (158 votes)

Stress

S1:E4

Lee starts teaching Kate to drive. His (or her) lack of success seems to stress him out and Kate notices. She persuades him to try some yoga and given his track record he doesn't take it seriously. He is banished to have acupuncture while Tim tries his hand at teaching Kate how to drive. He does surprisingly well until Lee admits that he's taking tranquillizers during an increasingly speed fuelled drive in the countryside. Big question...will she pass?

7.5/10 (160 votes)

Kid

S1:E5

Kate and Lee are forced to take in a lodger, a surly 14-year-old boy called Nicky. Lee's attempts to bond with the teenager prove less than successful, while Tim and Nicky discover they have quite a lot in common. Meanwhile, Kate tries to persuade a carnivorous Great Dane to become a vegetarian with unfortunate results.

7.4/10 (149 votes)

Caretaker

S1:E6

Lee finally manages to get a job, as a caretaker. But taking up the new post involves moving out of the flat. Kate interviews potential new flatmates including Pete, and Tim sees an opportunity to get back together with Kate. Lee's new boss proves to be a hard taskmaster. So, will Lee stick at the job or throw in the towel and move back in with Kate?

7.6/10 (162 votes)

Mortgage

S2:E1

Tim decides to sell the flat, so Lee sets to work putting off prospective buyers.

8.0/10 (164 votes)

Gay

S2:E2

Lucy persuades Lee to pretend to be gay after she lies to a business acquaintance Guy, 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.

7.7/10 (142 votes)

Librarian

S2:E3

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 Rose (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, Rose refuses to get back together. Meanwhile, Lucy dumps Guy but they soon get back together but agree to take their relationship more slowly.

7.9/10 (146 votes)

Baby

S2:E4

When Guy's daughter Chloe gets appendicitis, Lee and Tim are left looking after her 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.

7.6/10 (138 votes)

Art

S2:E5

In an effort to appear as intellectual as Lucy's friends, Lee shows off his 'knowledge' of the art world - holding forth on the subject of an unknown artist, who his cleaner Barbara has told him is the next big thing. When Lucy takes the advice and invests a fortune in the artist's work, Lee is left trying to prevent her from finding out the artist is actually a nobody.

7.8/10 (134 votes)

Dating

S2:E6

As Lucy and Guy's relationship intensifies, Lee starts to ponder his lack of a girlfriend and, encouraged by Barbara, tries speed dating. Tim is forced to go on a disastrous date with Barbara in order to prove that he sees her as more than 'the help'.

7.7/10 (140 votes)

Gangster

S2:E7

Guy showers Lucy with expensive gifts and whisks her away for a weekend.

7.8/10 (137 votes)

Murder at Christmas

S2:E8

Lee's plan to spend time alone with Lucy at Christmas is threatened.

Goldenarrow74 Jul 23, 2023

I don’t blame Lee at all for fancying Lucy’s mum- she’s milfalicious in this 😍

8.3/10 (161 votes)

Pregnant

S3:E1

Lee is shocked when Lucy announces that she is pregnant and he wonders if he could accidentally be the baby's father.

8.5/10 (170 votes)

Winner

S3:E2

Lee wins a £1000 after winning an essay writing competition. A journalist shows up to interview Lee but expects him to be disabled after reading his story.

7.4/10 (148 votes)

Amy

S3:E3

Lee and Tim ask a lesbian couple who have moved into the building over for dinner. They are shocked when Lucy discovers a side of herself that she never knew existed.

7.5/10 (130 votes)

Party

S3:E4

Lee and Tim decide to try and throw Lucy a 30th birthday party but they both have different ideas. Lee is not happy when Lucy shows up at the party with a man and decides to try and get rid of him.

7.8/10 (147 votes)

Neighbour

S3:E5

Lucy isn't happy with the noise a new neighbour is making. She asks both Lee and Tim to talk to him but both are scared too. Tim decides to take up boxing so that he will have more courage. Lee ends up going to confront the man.

7.8/10 (131 votes)

Speech

S3:E6

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.

7.6/10 (127 votes)

Marriage

S3:E7

Lee is shocked when he finds out that Lucy is thinking about getting married to Pavlov so that he will be able to remain in the country. As Lee attempts to get her to change her mind her family and other friends think that Pavlov is perfect for her.

8.2/10 (166 votes)

Absent Father Christmas

S3:E8

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.

8.1/10 (140 votes)

Drugs

S4:E1

After a night spent out clubbing, Tim returns to the flat wearing the wrong coat, and convinces Lee to help him return it to its owner.

8.0/10 (149 votes)

Debbie

S4:E2

Lee's past catches up with him when a young woman appears on his doorstep and asks for a cup of sugar.

7.9/10 (134 votes)

Movie

S4:E3

Lee promises to stop treating Lucy's flat as if he owns it - but not before he has hired it out to a film director.

8.0/10 (122 votes)

Dancing

S4:E4

Lucy and Tim are distraught. Their parents' 30 year marriage is at an end and their father has moved out of the family home - and into Lee's bedroom.

8.1/10 (134 votes)

Fireworks

S4:E5

When an old lady wanders into Lucy's flat and makes herself at home on the sofa, Lee doesn't know what to do with her.

7.9/10 (129 votes)

Life on Mars Bars

S4:E6

Lee dreams of a perfect life with Lucy, but can the reality ever match up?

8.0/10 (140 votes)

Band

S5:E1

When Tim joins a band at work and Lucy falls for the lead guitarist, Lee becomes jealous, and decides that if he can't beat them he should join them.

7.6/10 (128 votes)

Dads

S5:E2

Lee's lazy weekend is wrecked when his scrounging father turns up unexpectedly. Having just come out of hospital he needs somewhere to stay for the weekend. Will Lee take on the demanding role of carer?

8.7/10 (183 votes)

Camping

S5:E3

In a desperate bid to prove his manliness, Lee joins Tim, Daisy and Lucy on a camping weekend in the middle of a dark spooky forest.

7.9/10 (132 votes)

Running

S5:E4

To impress Lucy, Lee starts training for a 10 kilometre Fun Run only to injure himself immediately. In an effort to hide the injury from Lucy, he gets himself a secret sports massage, but this just leads to more trouble.

8.0/10 (133 votes)

Examination

S5:E5

Lucy finds herself working on a Government initiative encouraging men to regularly check themselves for lumps. Eager to please Lucy, Lee follows the campaign's advice and discovers something he wasn't expecting.

8.7/10 (174 votes)

Drunk

S5:E6

After Lucy suffers a mild indiscretion whilst drunk and claims to have no memory of the event, she and Lee embark on an experiment with a bottle of home-made potato hooch to prove once and for all that you can remember what happens when you're mashed.

7.7/10 (146 votes)

Rabbit

S6:E1

Lucy accidentally runs over a pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of an important client.

7.3/10 (132 votes)

Skiing

S6:E2

On a holiday to Eastern Europe, Lee, Daisy and Lucy become stuck on a cable car.

7.3/10 (116 votes)

Therapy

S6:E3

Lee takes advantage of Lucy's new-found skills as a relationship counsellor to patch things up with his father.

7.6/10 (123 votes)

Conference

S6:E4

Lee does what he has to do to stop Lucy from flirting with the male delegates at a three-day annual trade conference in order to get herself work.

7.3/10 (124 votes)

Rachel

S6:E5

Lee decides that the best way to get Lucy to notice him is to make her jealous. Now all he has to do is find himself a girlfriend.

6.8/10 (121 votes)

Play

S6:E6

Lee is forced to fight for Lucy's attention when her first love reappears on the scene.

7.4/10 (118 votes)

Magic

S6:E7

When Lucy's god-daughter is suddenly dumped on her the night before the girl's birthday party, Lucy and Lee have to come up with an appropriate entertainment for fourteen nine-year-olds.

7.7/10 (121 votes)

Boat

S6:E8

Lee spends a long weekend on his a boat with Lucy, even though she is terrified of water.

7.6/10 (128 votes)

Mugging

S7:E1

When Lucy has her handbag stolen from right under Lee's nose, he feels the need to prove his manliness over and over and over again.

8.0/10 (123 votes)

Christening

S7:E2

Lee's big mouth has got him and Lucy invited to a christening party thrown by new neighbours Toby and Anna, and now they have no time to find the perfect present for the baby who has everything.

8.3/10 (121 votes)

Donor

S7:E3

When Lucy decides it is time to have a baby, she is surprised to find the whole family taking a personal interest in the conception.

7.7/10 (117 votes)

Anna

S7:E4

Lucy aspires to be friends with her posh new neighbours Toby and Anna, but she hasn't reckoned on Lee dragging her back down to earth.

8.9/10 (179 votes)

Pointless

S7:E5

In an attempt to impress Lucy with his intellectual prowess, Lee joins Daisy as a contestant on the TV quiz show Pointless.

7.4/10 (109 votes)

Alcohol

S7:E6

Frank's drinking becomes a problem and forces Lee and Lucy to reassess the living arrangements in the flat.

8.2/10 (118 votes)

Surprise

S7:E7

No matter what happens, Lucy's surprise party for her parents' anniversary must remain a secret or it won't be a surprise. So why she tells Lee about it is anyone's guess.

7.7/10 (118 votes)

Plane

S7:E8

Flying off on a summer holiday, Lucy and Daisy endure the worst flight of their lives when Lee gets a bad case of the jitters on the plane.

8.4/10 (144 votes)

Lucy

S7:E9

Lee spends time in the bar with Toby worrying that the woman of his dreams is drifting further away.

Katurian Jul 31, 2024

This one was a surprise. Sometime’s Lee seems like such a miserable guy masking his deep sadness wit...

0.0/10

Christmas Special

S7:E10

The will-they-won't-they tension reaches new highs in this epic series finale for Christmas that sees Lucy and Lee in previously uncharted emotional waters.

0.0/10

The Out-takes

S7:E11

Lee Mack, Sally Bretton and Katy Wix introduce a compilation of out-takes from across the various series.

0.0/10

Romance

S8:E1

After eight years of marriage, Lee and Lucy disagree over how to keep the romance alive.

Katurian Aug 5, 2024

Ohh no, what have they done to the show. It wasn’t terrible overall but there were some terrible par...

0.0/10

Babysitting

S8:E2

Lucy causes offence by choosing the wrong babysitter.

Katurian Aug 6, 2024

It's still amusing but it's basically a different show using the same lead cast playing characters b...

0.0/10

Car

S8:E3

Lee's hopes for a stress-free ferry trip to France with Lucy and the children are dashed when they don't leave enough time for the car journey.

Yokky Feb 10, 2017

That's the most soulcrushing episode ever. Them arguing so painfully... Just couldn't bear their pai...

0.0/10

Hot Tub

S8:E4

Lee and Lucy play hot tub fantasy date with Anna and Toby, causing them to end up in hot water.

0.0/10

Charlie

S8:E5

Lee is worried that Charlie is getting a reputation at school for being the class clown.

0.0/10

Marriage Guidance

S8:E6

If Lee and Lucy's marriage wasn't in trouble before they go to marriage counselling, it is by the time they leave.

0.0/10

Enough

S8:E7

Are Lee and Lucy ready for another child?

0.0/10

Home Improvements

S9:E1

Lucy's father reluctantly allows Lee to help Lucy clear up the builder's mess in their new kitchen extension.

0.0/10

Escape Room

S9:E2

As a surprise for Lee's birthday, Lucy invites the whole family to join them in an escape room.

0.0/10

Stolen

S9:E3

A missing toy keyring causes a rift between Lee and Lucy and best friends, Toby and Anna.

0.0/10

Pets

S9:E4

To teach the children to be more responsible Lee and Lucy get a family pet.

0.0/10

Pants on Fire

S9:E5

Lee and Lucy open up a can of worms when they cancel dinner with Toby and Anna at the last moment.

0.0/10

Lollipop Man

S9:E6

Lee and Lucy object to the school lollipop man handing out lollipops to the kids.

0.0/10

Bust Up

S9:E7

Encouraged by Anna, Lucy considers whether a breast augmentation is for her.

0.0/10

Parachute

S10:E1

A sponsored parachute jump raises not just money for Toby's hospital but questions about Lee's courage as well.

Katurian Aug 21, 2024

Nice Kiwi jokes and they even managed a reference to Lord Of The Rings without referncing the Kiwi i...

0.0/10

Holiday Share

S10:E2

Can Lee and Lucy’s friendship with Toby and Anna survive a long weekend in a damp cottage in the New Forest?

0.0/10

Facts of Life

S10:E3

Lee is outraged that the twins have started sex education at school and resolves to teach them everything he knows about the facts of life before Miss Anstis corrupts them.

0.0/10

Schooling

S10:E4

When Charlie’s school gets a bad Ofsted rating, Lee and Lucy start looking around for alternative schools. Despite Frank's protests, Geoffrey and Wendy offer to pay to send Charlie to a private school, which presents Lee and Lucy with a moral dilemma.

0.0/10

Memory

S10:E5

Lee decides to gatecrash Lucy's favourite television show and watch it with her. Lucy is not best pleased, especially when Lee can't remember the name of the leading actor.

Katurian Aug 28, 2024

This episode is a shift in gears for the show and is clearly one the writers (Lee Mack & Daniel ...

0.0/10

Whodunnit?

S10:E6

Unable to convince Lucy that he didn’t smash her precious antique vase - an heirloom that belonged to her grandmother - Lee summons the family to a meeting to flush out the culprit.

Katurian Aug 28, 2024

This is the second episode in a row where the whole episode is one scene. Unlike the previous episod...

0.0/10

Builder

S10:E7

Lucy takes the kids away to her parents while Lee stays in the house to oversee the building work in their kitchen. Unfortunately, the builder Lee has employed to do the job has an annoyingly relaxed attitude to deadlines.

0.0/10

Small Package

S11:E1

Social niceties are stretched to snapping point when Lee and Lucy take in a package for their neighbour and inadvertently discover that it contains an embarrassing object that Lee now has to return. That proves to be easier said than done.

0.0/10

Pub Quiz

S11:E2

To celebrate their anniversary, Lee and Lucy plan a friendly night of quizzing with Toby and Anna in their local pub, but the evening is derailed when neither couple can bear to lose to their partners and the foursome splits into rival teams.

0.0/10

Carol

S11:E3

When Lee's feckless dad, Frank, announces his engagement, Lee cannot believe that any woman would want to marry him and sets out to find out exactly what is wrong with her.

0.0/10

Old Acquaintance

S11:E4

When Lee joins Facebook for the first time and makes contact with an ex-girlfriend from twenty years ago, Lucy is less than pleased.

0.0/10

War

S11:E5

A family visit to the World War Two war graves in Normandy unearths a piece of family history that is best left buried.

7.4/10 (94 votes)

Painting

S12:E1

It’s been over a year since Frank’s passing and the always lovely Wendy, rediscovering a long lost love for painting, decides to create a very unique tribute in oils. How can Lee and Lucy break the news that they don’t necessarily like the likeness?

aztele Mar 29, 2022

I have been impressed with how this show keeps going but this was a disappointing episode. The actin...

8.3/10 (95 votes)

Text

S12:E2

When Lee accidentally sends a rude text about Anna to Lucy, he makes the stupid mistake of sending it to Anna herself. Lee and Lucy now face the impossible task of stealing Anna's phone and deleting the text before she reads it.

6.7/10 (95 votes)

Friend

S12:E3

When Lee promises Lucy that he will make more of an effort to be friendly with other parents in the playground, he makes the mistake of starting with Keith.

0.0/10

Front Window

S12:E4

Recovering from knee surgery, Lee sits by the window day after day, spying on his neighbours through a pair of binoculars.

aztele Apr 16, 2022

An homage to rear window that had potential. I appreciated the changes to directing style however it...

0.0/10

Jury

S12:E5

Lee does jury service and joins eleven other jurors to debate whether the accused is guilty or not. A simple enough task - until Lee decides to put the other jurors on trial.

aztele Apr 26, 2022

once again a different story telling device. I was surprised and delighted by the way it developed g...

0.0/10

Tent

S12:E6

Lee organises a family camping trip into the back of beyond, where they soon discover that no one can hear them scream.

aztele Apr 30, 2022

Amazing what they fitted in this episode given the length. An enjoyable episode with more real stake...

0.0/10

Italian Lessons

S13:E1

When Lee and Lucy are asked to cover for Anna on more than one occasion, so that she can go out at night and have secret Italian lessons, they suspect the worst – that she is having an affair. Lee decides that it is up to him to tell Toby that his marriage is in jeopardy and sets about finding the evidence.

0.0/10

Hospital

S13:E2

Lee's lifestyle catches up on him and he is forced to wait on a hospital ward for routine surgery on his gallbladder until his blood pressure comes down. But visits from the parents-in-law and Anna and Toby, who arrive to ask him a question he doesn't want to hear, ensure that his stress levels remain dangerously high.

0.0/10

Day Out

S13:E3

To take advantage of three free tickets to Adventure Canyon Theme Park, Lee takes Mollie out of school for a day and gets into trouble with the new head teacher, Miss Anstis. Now all he has to do is think of an excuse to justify Mollie's absence. What could be simpler than a trip to the dentist?

0.0/10

Coffin

S13:E4

Lee wakes up inside a coffin and can't remember how he got there, until a phone call from Lucy reminds him what he’d been doing that afternoon. Now all he needs to do is keep Lucy in the dark as to his exact location and work out how to escape.

0.0/10

Train

S13:E5

It’s Lucy's birthday. To celebrate, Geoffrey and Wendy take Lee, Lucy, Toby and Anna for a trip on a vintage steam train. But Lee's decision to play Poirot when a stranger turns up unannounced in their carriage risks Lucy’s special day being ruined.

Katurian Oct 4, 2024

Decent episode. Chris McCausland guest stars as a blind man (It seems he has been typecast by realit...

0.0/10

Beep

S13:E6

Lucy has cooked a special meal so that she and Lee can spend an evening in without distractions to talk about the state of their marriage. But Lee is obsessed with a beeping noise in the house that he can’t find, and the food is soon forgotten.

aztele Aug 3, 2023

So disappointing, these actors have really dropped their game. They have trouble with their lines, g...

0.0/10

Football

S13:E7

When Lee goes to watch Benji playing football for a local under-13 team, he is unable to restrain himself on the touchline and becomes the competitive dad that all other parents want to avoid. Undaunted by the disapproval of Toby, who coaches the team, Lee sets about rigging the vote for the player of the year.

Season Average Rating Episodes Best Episode Worst Episode
5 ★ 8.1 6
★ 8.7 Camping
★ 7.6 Dads
7 ★ 8.0 9
★ 8.9 Pointless
★ 7.4 Alcohol
4 ★ 8.0 6
★ 8.1 Drugs
★ 7.9 Movie
3 ★ 7.9 8
★ 8.5 Winner
★ 7.4 Amy
2 ★ 7.8 8
★ 8.0 Gay
★ 7.6 Mortgage
12 ★ 7.5 3
★ 8.3 Text
★ 6.7 Friend
1 ★ 7.4 6
★ 7.6 Stress
★ 7.2 Serious
6 ★ 7.4 8
★ 7.7 Rabbit
★ 6.8 Play