Lee tries to find his serious side by going on a date with an author, while Kate attempts to discover her lighter side at Clown School.

Not Going Out

Serious

Tim’s grandmother dies, bringing him and Kate closer together, much to Lee’s concern. He’s encouraged to share his thoughts with a therapist, who is not impressed with Lee’s inability to have a proper conversation.

Death

Ruth (JULIA MORRIS), an Australian friend of Kate's, comes to stay and Lee is persuaded to pretend to be Tim. But how long can they keep up the charade?

Aussie

LEE finds himself increasingly stressed out having volunteered to teach Kate to drive. Following Kate's advice, he decides to try Yoga - but his technique leaves a lot to be desired.

Stress

Kate and Lee are forced to take in a lodger – a surly 14-year-old boy Nicky (RUPERT SIMONIAN). Lee’s attempts to bond with the teenager prove less than successful, while Tim and Nicky discover they have quite a lot in common.

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 (DUNCAN DUFF) and TIM sees an opportunity to get back together with Kate.

Caretaker

Pluto

Dragooned into organising a Christmas variety show to raise money for their children’s school, Lee and Lucy find quality acts thin on the ground.

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Toby organises a sponsored parachute jump to raise money for a Children’s Ward in his hospital. Supportively, Lee, Lucy, Anna and the grandparents all agree to take part, but once airborne will everyone pluck up the courage to jump?

Parachute

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.

Holiday Share

Can Lee and Lucy’s friendship with Toby and Anna survive a long weekend in a damp cottage in the New Forest?

Facts of Life

When Charlie’s school gets a bad Ofsted rating, Geoffrey and Wendy offer to pay to send Charlie to Private School, which presents Lee and Lucy with a moral dilemma.

Schooling

Lee decides to gatecrash Lucy's favourite television programme and watch it with her. Lucy is not best pleased especially when Lee can't remember the name of the leading actor.

Memory

Unable to convince Lucy that he didn’t smash Lucy’s precious heirloom, a blue and white antique vase that belonged to her grandmother, Lee summons the family to a meeting to flush out the culprit.

Whodunnit?

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.

Builder

To celebrate Halloween, Lee and Lucy decide to take their children trick-or-treating, but things take a turn for the worse when Lee loses his phone on the doorstep of a creepy Victorian house.

Halloween

When Lee and Lucy embark on some last minute Christmas shopping they get more than they have bargained for.

Driving Home for Christmas

The mishaps of slacker Lee, Lee's best mate Tim, Lee's long-suffering landlady and the love of Lee's life, Lucy, and Tim's well-meaning but dim-witted girlfriend Daisy.

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Full Episodes

Season 10, 10 episodes