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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Series 13: 7. Football
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 ...
22-03-2024
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Series 13: 6. Beep
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 noi ...
08-03-2024
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Series 13: 5. Train
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 ...
01-03-2024
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Series 13: 4. Coffin
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 k ...
23-02-2024
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Series 13: 3. Day Out
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. No ...
16-02-2024
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Series 13: 2. Hospital
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 par ...
09-02-2024
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Series 13: 1. Italian Lessons
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 ...
02-02-2024
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Wilfred
Lee makes a big effort to create the perfect Christmas for his family by agreeing to Lucy's wish to do something charitable for once. They invite a lonely old pensioner from the ...
29-12-2023
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Driving Home For Christmas
On Christmas Eve, Lee and Lucy regret leaving their Christmas shopping to the last minute when Lucy’s wallet and mobile phone are stolen from a department store. Lee wants ...
02-12-2023
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Series 10: 2. Holiday Share
The tensions of sharing a weekend cottage with friends are much in evidence as Lee and Lucy spend three nights in the New Forest with Toby and Anna. The beautiful countryside is ...
25-11-2023
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Series 12: 4. Front Window
Confined to a wheelchair, his right leg encased in plaster after knee surgery, Lee has too much time on his hands, which he uses to watch the world go by through a pair of high- ...
28-01-2023
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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.
21-12-2018
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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’ ...
24-12-2022
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Series 9: 6. Lollipop Man
Lee and Lucy object to the school lollipop man handing out lollipops to the kids.
25-02-2023
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Series 12: 5. Jury
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.
04-02-2023
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Series 11: 3. Carol
When Lee's feckless dad, Frank, announces that he's engaged to be married, Lee cannot believe that any woman would want to marry him. There must be something wrong with her. Luc ...
19-01-2022
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Series 11: 4. Old Acquaintance
When Lee joins Facebook for the first time and is contacted by an ex-girlfriend from 20 years ago, Lucy is annoyed that she cares so much. Her feelings are complicated by the su ...
17-08-2021
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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.
30-12-2021
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Series 11: 5. War
The family visit to the war graves in Normandy gets off to a bad start, and Lucy discovers that her grandfather, Wendy’s father, was not the man she thought he was.
24-08-2021
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Series 11: 2. Pub Quiz
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 ...
10-08-2021
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