Not Going Out
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.
Seasons
1. Serious
Air Date: 2006-10-06
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.
2. Death
Air Date: 2006-10-13
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.
3. Aussie
Air Date: 2006-10-20
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.
4. Stress
Air Date: 2006-10-26
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?
5. Kid
Air Date: 2006-11-03
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.
6. Caretaker
Air Date: 2006-11-10
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?
1. Mortgage
Air Date: 2007-09-07
Tim decides to sell the flat, so Lee sets to work putting off prospective buyers.
2. Gay
Air Date: 2007-09-14
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.
3. Librarian
Air Date: 2007-09-21
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.
4. Baby
Air Date: 2007-09-28
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.
5. Art
Air Date: 2007-10-05
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.
6. Dating
Air Date: 2007-10-12
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. Gangster
Air Date: 2007-10-19
Guy showers Lucy with expensive gifts and whisks her away for a weekend.
8. Murder at Christmas
Air Date: 2007-12-21
Lee's plan to spend time alone with Lucy at Christmas is threatened.
1. Pregnant
Air Date: 2009-01-30
Lee is shocked when Lucy announces that she is pregnant and he wonders if he could accidentally be the baby's father.
2. Winner
Air Date: 2009-02-06
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.
3. Amy
Air Date: 2009-02-13
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.
4. Party
Air Date: 2009-02-20
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.
5. Neighbour
Air Date: 2009-02-27
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.
6. Speech
Air Date: 2009-03-06
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. Marriage
Air Date: 2009-03-20
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. Absent Father Christmas
Air Date: 2009-12-23
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.
1. Drugs
Air Date: 2011-01-06
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.
2. Debbie
Air Date: 2011-01-13
Lee's past catches up with him when a young woman appears on his doorstep and asks for a cup of sugar.
3. Movie
Air Date: 2011-01-20
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.
4. Dancing
Air Date: 2011-01-27
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.
5. Fireworks
Air Date: 2011-02-03
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.
6. Life on Mars Bars
Air Date: 2011-02-10
Lee dreams of a perfect life with Lucy, but can the reality ever match up?
1. Band
Air Date: 2012-04-13
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.
2. Dads
Air Date: 2012-04-20
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?
3. Camping
Air Date: 2012-04-27
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.
4. Running
Air Date: 2012-05-04
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.
5. Examination
Air Date: 2012-05-11
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.
6. Drunk
Air Date: 2012-05-18
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.
1. Rabbit
Air Date: 2013-04-05
Lucy accidentally runs over a pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of an important client.
2. Skiing
Air Date: 2013-04-12
On a holiday to Eastern Europe, Lee, Daisy and Lucy become stuck on a cable car.
3. Therapy
Air Date: 2013-04-19
Lee takes advantage of Lucy's new-found skills as a relationship counsellor to patch things up with his father.
4. Conference
Air Date: 2013-05-03
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.
5. Rachel
Air Date: 2013-05-10
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. Play
Air Date: 2013-05-17
Lee is forced to fight for Lucy's attention when her first love reappears on the scene.
7. Magic
Air Date: 2013-05-24
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.
8. Boat
Air Date: 2013-05-31
Lee spends a long weekend on his a boat with Lucy, even though she is terrified of water.
1. Mugging
Air Date: 2014-10-17
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.
2. Christening
Air Date: 2014-10-24
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.
3. Donor
Air Date: 2014-10-31
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.
4. Anna
Air Date: 2014-11-07
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.
5. Pointless
Air Date: 2014-11-21
In an attempt to impress Lucy with his intellectual prowess, Lee joins Daisy as a contestant on the TV quiz show Pointless.
6. Alcohol
Air Date: 2014-11-28
Frank's drinking becomes a problem and forces Lee and Lucy to reassess the living arrangements in the flat.
7. Surprise
Air Date: 2014-12-05
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. Plane
Air Date: 2014-12-12
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.
9. Lucy
Air Date: 2014-12-19
Lee spends time in the bar with Toby worrying that the woman of his dreams is drifting further away.
10. Christmas Special
Air Date: 2014-12-24
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.
11. The Out-takes
Air Date: 2014-12-27
Lee Mack, Sally Bretton and Katy Wix introduce a compilation of out-takes from across the various series.
1. Romance
Air Date: 2017-01-13
After eight years of marriage, Lee and Lucy disagree over how to keep the romance alive.
2. Babysitting
Air Date: 2017-01-20
Lucy causes offence by choosing the wrong babysitter.
3. Car
Air Date: 2017-02-03
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.
4. Hot Tub
Air Date: 2017-02-10
Lee and Lucy play hot tub fantasy date with Anna and Toby, causing them to end up in hot water.
5. Charlie
Air Date: 2017-02-17
Lee is worried that Charlie is getting a reputation at school for being the class clown.
6. Marriage Guidance
Air Date: 2017-02-24
If Lee and Lucy's marriage wasn't in trouble before they go to marriage counselling, it is by the time they leave.
7. Enough
Air Date: 2017-03-03
Are Lee and Lucy ready for another child?
1. Home Improvements
Air Date: 2018-03-08
Lucy's father reluctantly allows Lee to help Lucy clear up the builder's mess in their new kitchen extension.
2. Escape Room
Air Date: 2018-03-15
As a surprise for Lee's birthday, Lucy invites the whole family to join them in an escape room.
3. Stolen
Air Date: 2018-03-22
A missing toy keyring causes a rift between Lee and Lucy and best friends, Toby and Anna.
4. Pets
Air Date: 2018-03-29
To teach the children to be more responsible Lee and Lucy get a family pet.
5. Pants on Fire
Air Date: 2018-04-05
Lee and Lucy open up a can of worms when they cancel dinner with Toby and Anna at the last moment.
6. Lollipop Man
Air Date: 2018-04-12
Lee and Lucy object to the school lollipop man handing out lollipops to the kids.
7. Bust Up
Air Date: 2018-04-19
Encouraged by Anna, Lucy considers whether a breast augmentation is for her.
1. Parachute
Air Date: 2019-04-15
A sponsored parachute jump raises not just money for Toby's hospital but questions about Lee's courage as well.
2. Holiday Share
Air Date: 2019-04-22
Can Lee and Lucy’s friendship with Toby and Anna survive a long weekend in a damp cottage in the New Forest?
3. Facts of Life
Air Date: 2019-04-29
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.
4. Schooling
Air Date: 2019-05-06
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.
5. Memory
Air Date: 2019-05-13
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.
6. Whodunnit?
Air Date: 2019-05-20
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.
7. Builder
Air Date: 2019-05-27
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.
1. Small Package
Air Date: 2021-01-08
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.
2. Pub Quiz
Air Date: 2021-01-15
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.
3. Carol
Air Date: 2021-01-22
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.
4. Old Acquaintance
Air Date: 2021-01-29
When Lee joins Facebook for the first time and makes contact with an ex-girlfriend from twenty years ago, Lucy is less than pleased.
5. War
Air Date: 2021-02-05
A family visit to the World War Two war graves in Normandy unearths a piece of family history that is best left buried.
1. Painting
Air Date: 2022-03-25
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?
2. Text
Air Date: 2022-04-01
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.
3. Friend
Air Date: 2022-04-08
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.
4. Front Window
Air Date: 2022-04-15
Recovering from knee surgery, Lee sits by the window day after day, spying on his neighbours through a pair of binoculars.
5. Jury
Air Date: 2022-04-22
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.
6. Tent
Air Date: 2022-04-29
Lee organises a family camping trip into the back of beyond, where they soon discover that no one can hear them scream.
1. Italian Lessons
Air Date: 2023-06-23
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.
2. Hospital
Air Date: 2023-06-30
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.
3. Day Out
Air Date: 2023-07-07
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?
4. Coffin
Air Date: 2023-07-14
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.
5. Train
Air Date: 2023-07-21
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.
6. Beep
Air Date: 2023-07-28
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.
7. Football
Air Date: 2023-08-04
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.
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Rating
7.4/10
Release Date
2006-10-06
Episodes
92 (13 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
