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A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 1 - After All This Time
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    #1 - After All This Time

    S1:E1

    In 1978, high-flying secretary Penny Warrender was due to marry bookie Vince Pinner but he jilted her at the altar. Penny has since had a disastrous marriage to Graham and is divorced whilst Vince remains single. By 1983, by chance, both are in the same pub with their new dates, neither suitable, and Penny and Vince meet by the cigarette machine. They realize that they cold get back together though maybe as just good friends.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  2. Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 2 - Hello Again
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    #2 - Hello Again

    S1:E2

    Vince realizes how much he wants to get back with Penny and decides to brave a visit to her house to supposedly return her handkerchief, knowing that he will not exactly be welcome with her parents. This is an understatement as he has to run the gauntlet with Penny's imperious mother Daphne, who lets him know how she has always felt about him and how she has always believed that Penny was too good for him.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  3. Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 3 - Let's Spend the Night Together
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    #3 - Let's Spend the Night Together

    S1:E3

    Penny and Vince meet in the park and he invites her to dinner at his flat - purely as a friend. The food is awful but the pair get on, Penny describing how her marriage broke down, but she resists Vince's attempts to get her to stay the night. She does start to soften when he whispers sweet nothings but leaves when she realizes he has stolen them from song lyrics - though she does give him her work number.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  4. Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 4 - Fatherly Advice
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    #4 - Fatherly Advice

    S1:E4

    Vince decides to ask his scrap dealer father Les what he should do regarding his relationship with Penny and is surprised at the result given that it is the first time in years that he has needed advice. Penny meanwhile is also surprised - when her mother reveals to her about some of her past relationships, in order to put her daughter off seeing Vince again.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Francis Sullivan

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  5. Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 5 - I Don't Want to See You Again
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    #5 - I Don't Want to See You Again

    S1:E5

    Penny hopes Vince will ring her so that she can tell him she never wants to see him again but when he fails to call she goes to his betting shop on the pretext of nervously placing a bet. Vince suggests a night out and collects her in his car where, encouraged by her friend Elaine on how to take revenge on a cheating lover she destroys his credit cards - unaware that his friends are in the back seat watching. At least her bet turns out to be a winner and Vince flatters her by remembering their first date.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  6. Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 6 - Happy Birthday Penny
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    #6 - Happy Birthday Penny

    S1:E6

    Penny's mother Daphne is not pleased when Vince arrives at the birthday tea she and husband Norman have organized for Penny - and even more annoyed when Penny tells her that she and Vince are moving into a flat together. But it is Penny's turn to be angry when the flat in question is in a terrible state and Vince suggests she sells her car to pay for its renovation.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  7. Just Good Friends Season 1 Episode 7 - Moving In... and Out Again
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    #7 - Moving In... and Out Again

    S1:E7

    To her mother's annoyance, Penny moves into the newly decorated flat with Vince but disaster soon strikes as, due to Penny not locking the door, the flat is burgled and vandalised. A horrified Penny tells Vince she's finished with him and moves back with her parents but when they are away for the weekend, Vince turns up with good news and she has him back as they spend the night together.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  8. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 1 - Guilt
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    #8 - Guilt

    S2:E1

    Penny and Vince meet for a pub lunch but he so annoys her by bringing up the past and telling her that he sold the flat behind her back that she throws a drink over him. Drunk and depressed he turns up at her house to apologize but has an encounter with the law but next day he and Penny inevitably make up.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  9. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 2 - Another Man
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    #9 - Another Man

    S2:E2

    Penny thinks Vince is taking her for granted and decides to teach him a lesson.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  10. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 3 - The Evidence/Or His Bottle Went
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    #10 - The Evidence/Or His Bottle Went

    S2:E3

    Penny is summoned to a meeting at a restaurant with Graham, her controlling, patronizing estranged husband. He tells her that he wants her to admit to adultery with Vince to lessen the shame of a divorce – otherwise his mother will exclude him from her will. Fortunately Vince arrives to rescue Penny, and he has a plan – and reinforcements.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  11. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 4 - Caught on a Shoulder Strap
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    #11 - Caught on a Shoulder Strap

    S2:E4

    Penny and Vince attend her boss's daughter Sammy's wedding where Vince accidentally gets his cuff link caught up with the bride's dress - leading to a row with Penny and the cancellation of the honeymoon. Meanwhile Daphne is less than delighted to get a surprise visit from Vince's parents, Rita and Les and his clumsy brother Clifford. Not only do they remind her of the aborted wedding but they seem to have more money than her.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  12. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 5 - Farewell Holiday
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    #12 - Farewell Holiday

    S2:E5

    Vince tricks Penny into going away on a week's holiday at his family's new Portuguese villa.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  13. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 6 - Pregnant?
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    #13 - Pregnant?

    S2:E6

    Penny is alarmed when she appears to have pregnancy symptoms and, whilst Vince's parents are delighted to think they may have a grandchild, Daphne is anything but, giving her daughter a cautionary tale of a former friend in a similar predicament. Vince agrees to stand by her though ultimately it turns out to be a false alarm.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  14. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 7 - Goodbye Again
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    #14 - Goodbye Again

    S2:E7

    After getting her divorce Penny meets Vince for lunch and he proposes to her, though given his past record she is wary. Furthermore she has the offer of a training course in Paris, so that when he stays out all night, despite having a good reason, she decides that she is better off without him and must put herself first in future, accepting the Paris course

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  15. Just Good Friends Season 2 Episode 8 - Special
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    #15 - Special

    S2:E8

    Penny recalls how she first met Vince when he was selling ice creams from a van, their subsequent courtship, and the events leading up to her being jilting at the altar, and her subsequent decision to marry respectable but controlling Graham. Consequently, she comes down on the side of believing that she and Vince have no future together.

    Director:Ray Butt
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  16. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 1 - Paris
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    #16 - Paris

    S3:E1

    Two years have passed. Penny, now in a good job in Paris, meets Vince, who has taken over his father's scrap business, at the top of the Eiffel tower as agreed on their last meeting. They return to her flat where inevitably one thing leads to another. Back in England Norman has been made redundant and Daphne is doing her best to keep the news from Vince's mother Rita.

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  17. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 2 - Back in London
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    #17 - Back in London

    S3:E2

    Penny returns to London and is irate to learn that Vince has been married – though not especially happily – for a while but omitted to tell her in Paris. Invited to his flat, she takes revenge by cutting up his clothes – only to find that the flat and the clothes belong to somebody else.

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  18. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 3 - Meeting by Chance
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    #18 - Meeting by Chance

    S3:E3

    Having heard that Penny is back from Paris, Vince's wife, the elegant but highly unpleasant Georgina, comes to her office, posing as a client, and summons her to a meeting with herself and Vince. Georgina recognizes that Penny still loves Vince and admits that she only married him for his money.

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  19. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 4 - Juanita
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    #19 - Juanita

    S3:E4

    Penny tells Vince she is being sent back to work in Paris - probably due to a complaint from Gina, who is now filing for divorce. In their Portuguese villa the Pinners are taken aback to hear the news of a divorce and Les tells Vince on the phone they are returning to England. Vince sees this as a chance to have the villa just to Penny and himself but on arrival find the family still in residence and Les is particularly annoyed to learn that Vince has been selling on old German army tanks

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  20. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 5 - The Witness
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    #20 - The Witness

    S3:E5

    Some months have elapsed and Gina is attempting to obtain details of Vince's new wine importing business, run in conjunction with Les's Portuguese vineyard, as part of her divorce settlement. Back in London Penny meets up with Vince, who employs Norman as his head of sales though Daphne does not share her husband's delight since Vince caused her to faint in the street. Penny is also unhappy when Vince crashes his car into hers but then he does make up for it by proposing.

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  21. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 6 - Employment Prospects
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    #21 - Employment Prospects

    S3:E6

    Things go badly in the divorce court for Vince, with Gina's solicitor vilifying him and a feminist judge giving her control of most of Vince's businesses, including the wine importers - though Norman's job is safe. He does however hold onto the most lucrative - the scrapyard. In Portugal things are no better for Les, who discovers that the three German tanks Vince bought and sold are now aiding a revolution in Africa.

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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  22. Just Good Friends Season 3 Episode 7 - The Wedding
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    #22 - The Wedding

    S3:E7

    Penny and Vince are planning to get married again but are being held to ransom by Gina. Not only has she 'arranged' for Penny to go back to work in Paris but is refusing to employ Norman or import Les's wines unless they call off the wedding. So the couple are forced to announce the postponement of the ceremony. However they are not around to attend the party to celebrate Gina's change of heart and ensuing security for their parents - chiefly because they are both in Paris, tying the knot in secret.

    Director:Sue Bysh
    Writer:John Sullivan

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Worst Episodes Summary

"After All This Time" is the worst rated episode of "Just Good Friends". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Ray Butt and written by John Sullivan, it aired on 9/22/1983. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hello Again".