7.6/10109 votesLoading...#1 - A Very Personal Problem
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 7/30/2000
Judy and Alistair are no longer seeing each other neither are Sandy and Harry. So Jean decides to cheer them up. Alistair comes around to see Lionel but, Jean thinks he's there to see Judy. Jean worries that Judy will think that she was meddling so she tells Judy that Alistair was there discussing a personal problem that Lionel has. Thinking that it involves Jean, Judy plans a romantic weekend away for Lionel and Jean.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.6/10103 votesLoading...#2 - The Bathroom
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 8/13/2000
After Lionel walks in on Sandy in the bathroom Jean decides to add a second bathroom. But, things don't go as planned.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.6/1099 votesLoading...#3 - Surprising News
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 8/20/2000
Penny and Stephen arrive with news that they are moving to Spain and building a dream house. Lionel starts to worry about his future money situation and asks Alistair for some financial advise.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.6/10102 votesLoading...#4 - Future Imperfect
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 8/27/2000
Lionel is still worried about his money future and Alistair suggests he sell the country house. Lionel and Jean decide that they should sell the house but, who is going to tell Mrs. Bale and Lol they are out of jobs. Lionel and Jean go to the country to inform everyone of their decision to sell. Later Rocky calls and offers to buy the house from Lionel so everything can remain the same.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.7/10133 votesLoading...#5 - A Trip to Los Angeles
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/1994
Jean and Lionel arrive in Los Angeles to discuss the miniseries being made from Lionel's book.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.7/10110 votesLoading...#6 - The Country Set
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1996
Jean and Lionel spend a weekend in the country at Rocky's house. Upon arriving, they are visited by ""the country set.""
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.7/10108 votesLoading...#7 - The Psychotherapist
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 5/25/1997
Just as Lionel is getting used to his new leisurely lifestyle, Jean steps up her pace at work and home. Jean decides to see a psychotherapist to help her with wanting to stop working but, not wanting to ""retire"".
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.8/10120 votesLoading...#8 - Problems, Problems
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1994
Jean and Lionel aren't happy with how the miniseries project is coming. Jean hires Lionel a new secretary. While Rocky and Madge have an accident.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.8/10105 votesLoading...#9 - An Old Flame
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1998
Jean and Lionel take a parental interest in Harry, Sandy's policeman boyfriend. Yet, the affairs of the younger generation seem to diminish in importance when Jean receives a phone message from an old flame.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.8/10103 votesLoading...#10 - The Bypass
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/1998
The whole gang (minus Harry, who is stuck on duty for protest coverage) head out to the country for the weekend. But road construction is about to throw the travelers for a loop.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.8/1097 votesLoading...#11 - Too Old ... or Too Nosy
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/1998
Jean's brother Steven and his wife are expected for another visit. As they are considered a rather dull couple by the Hardcastles, it is most surprising that they arrive via separate modes of transportation to announce that they are having a tiff.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.8/1099 votesLoading...#12 - Time to Settle Down (a.k.a. You Can't Manufacture Happy Endings for Everybody)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2002
Alistair has finally proposed to Judith, needless to say there are complications as Judith plans for a country wedding and realisation strikes confirmed bachelor Alistair.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.8/10123 votesLoading...#13 - You Must Remember This
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 8/11/2002
On their own at last, with Alistair and Judith married off and Sally and Harry gone to Canada, Jean and Lionel take a look back on their life together in a one-hour retrospective featuring clips from past episodes.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10127 votesLoading...#14 - A Weekend Away
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1993
Jean is put on the spot when Judith goes away for the weekend, and the house is left empty. She is somewhat flustered with all the suggestive comments regarding her and Lionel, and makes a fool of herself.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10122 votesLoading...#15 - Moving In
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1994
Lionel finally agrees to move in with Jean.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10117 votesLoading...#16 - Branching Out
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/1994
With Jean opening up a new branch of her secretarial agency Sandy and Judy have different ideas who should be in charge of it.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10117 votesLoading...#17 - Rewrites
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/1995
The television company making a miniseries out of Lionel's book ask him to make it a little sexier. Jean hires a new secretary for Lionel to help him with the rewrites. Unfortunately she isn't much help after all.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10110 votesLoading...#18 - Improvements?
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 5/7/1995
Lionel gets some suggestions for improvements to his script for the miniseries. Jean and Lionel argue over her retirement that has yet to happen. Later they go out to the country house to see some of the filming for the miniseries.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/1099 votesLoading...#19 - The Dinner Party
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/1997
Jean and Lionel must endure a trying evening with Jeans' sister-in-law.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10102 votesLoading...#20 - The New Neighbours
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/1998
Jean undertakes some strategic snooping to discover what the new neighbors are like. How is it they show up at the pub with black eyes after fighting with one another?
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10107 votesLoading...#21 - Animal Magnetism
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 8/6/2000
Lionel trys to convince Jean that a dog has been following him. Judy and Sandy come home with the very dog that was following him. The women want to keep the dog but, Lionel wants to take him to the shelter so they can find his owner. The owner contacts the police and Harry brings him around to get the dog. Since Judy won't go with him to a party, Alistair invites Sandy and she excepts. Meanwhile Harry asks Judy to go to the movies with him and she excepts.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/1090 votesLoading...#22 - Another Proposal (a.k.a. Wedding Plans)
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2002
The truth about Alistair's wedding nerves are revealed after he and Lionel fail to keep it a secret from Jean and his bride to be, and Rocky relishes the chance to air some of his stories.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
7.9/10108 votesLoading...#23 - What Now?
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2002
Alistair and Judith are now married, but will Harry pluck up the courage and ask Sandy to join him in Canada? Meanwhile, in the Hardcastle household, Jean has taken pity on a homeless girl named Dave - but Lionel is not entirely sure about her new friend.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
8.0/10153 votesLoading...#24 - Getting to Know You --- Again
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/1992
Jean and Lionel look no closer to renewing their relationship when Lionel checks out of his hotel without telling Jean. However, Lionel's publisher, Alistair, convinces him to go to a party tonight to meet some 'faces', people who can help in the sale of his book. He checks back in, and, after a walk in the park, Lionel asks Jean to go to the party with him.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
8.0/10135 votesLoading...#25 - Relationships
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/1992
The trip to Nowrich has changed Jean and Lionel's relationship. While Alistair still continues his romantic overtures to Jean, Lionel attempts to smooth things over with Jean. Alistair also gets Lionel to attempt another revision of his book, and Lionel becomes frustrated with the entire project.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Bob Larbey
The Worst Episodes of As Time Goes By
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Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
Worst Episodes Summary
"A Very Personal Problem" is the worst rated episode of "As Time Goes By". It scored 7.6/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Sydney Lotterby and written by Bob Larbey, it aired on 7/30/2000. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Bathroom".