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The Worst Episodes of 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...
  1. Background image for Absent Father Christmas
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Absent Father Christmas

    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
  2. Background image for Amy
    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Amy

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
  3. Background image for Dragon Castle
    5.9/10(46 votes)

    #3 - Dragon Castle

    S14:E5

    Lee and Lucy look to a career in the movies when they play background elves on the set of a popular mini-TV series, Dragon Castle. Their aspirations to become leading actors, however, are thwarted by their lack of talent.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Coffin
    6.4/10(111 votes)

    #4 - Coffin

    S13:E4

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
  5. Background image for Play
    6.7/10(131 votes)

    #5 - Play

    S6:E6

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

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    Director:Nick Wood
    Writer:Lee Mack
  6. Background image for Friend
    6.7/10(106 votes)

    #6 - Friend

    S12:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Mack
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Party

    S3:E4

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
  9. Background image for Speech
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Speech

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
    Writer:Lee Mack
  10. Background image for Marriage
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Marriage

    S3:E7

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
    Writer:Lee Mack
  11. Background image for Campervan
    7.0/10(54 votes)

    #10 - Campervan

    S14:E3

    Lee has borrowed an old campervan to take Lucy away for the weekend. She is not impressed and wishes she was back at home when a strange woman knocks at their door...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Carol
    7.1/10(112 votes)

    #11 - Carol

    S11:E3

    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.

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    7.1/10(112 votes)

    #12 - Jury

    S12:E5

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
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    7.2/10(219 votes)

    #13 - Serious

    S1:E1

    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.

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    7.2/10(115 votes)

    #14 - Alcohol

    S7:E6

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

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    Director:Nick Wood
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    7.2/10(113 votes)

    #15 - Charlie

    S8:E5

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

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    7.3/10(141 votes)

    #16 - Skiing

    S6:E2

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

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    Director:Nick Wood
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    7.3/10(123 votes)

    #17 - Therapy

    S6:E3

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

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    Director:Nick Wood
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    7.3/10(131 votes)

    #18 - Rachel

    S6:E5

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
  20. Background image for Old Acquaintance
    7.3/10(109 votes)

    #19 - Old Acquaintance

    S11:E4

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

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    Director:Nick Wood
  21. Background image for Day Out
    7.3/10(88 votes)

    #20 - Day Out

    S13:E3

    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?

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    Director:Nick Wood
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    7.3/10(82 votes)

    #21 - Beep

    S13:E6

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
  23. Background image for Death
    7.4/10(181 votes)

    #22 - Death

    S1:E2

    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.

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    7.4/10(175 votes)

    #23 - Aussie

    S1:E3

    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.

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  25. Background image for Caretaker
    7.4/10(159 votes)

    #24 - Caretaker

    S1:E6

    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?

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  26. Background image for Magic
    7.4/10(125 votes)

    #25 - Magic

    S6:E7

    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.

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    Director:Nick Wood
    Writer:Lee Mack

Worst Episodes Summary

"Absent Father Christmas" is the worst rated episode of "Not Going Out". It scored 4.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Nick Wood and written by Lee Mack, Daniel Peak, it aired on 12/23/2009. This episode scored 1.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Amy".