The Worst Episodes of Not Going Out

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Lee Mack

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Neil Webster

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.

Director: Alex Hardcastle, Nick Wood

Writer: Andrew Collins, Lee Mack

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Sarah Morgan

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?

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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?

Director: Alex Hardcastle, Nick Wood

Writer: Andrew Collins, Lee Mack

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Alex Hardcastle, Nick Wood

Writer: Andrew Collins, Lee Mack

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Darin Henry, Lee Mack

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Sarah Morgan

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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?

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Nick Wood

Writer: Lee Mack, Daniel Peak

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.

Director: Alex Hardcastle, Nick Wood

Writer: Andrew Collins, Lee Mack

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.

Director: Alex Hardcastle, Nick Wood

Writer: Andrew Collins, Lee Mack