Series 1 (2004)

1. Cupboard Door

First Broadcast: Fri 3rd September 2004

Carrie accidentally hits her face on a cupboard door, the whole world thinks Barry is a sadistic wife-batterer. While she enjoys the attention that only a black-eye and put-upon expression can attract, Barry is forced into finding out whether his daughter's new boyfriend just wants sex. He does.

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2. Hairy

First Broadcast: Fri 10th September 2004

Barry accuses sleep-deprived Carrie of being a body-hair fascist when she resorts to waxing his back in the middle of the night. He's had enough too of best mate Kirk and his lack of sophistication.

Barry can do better and befriends French intellectual neighbour Jean-Francois who he introduces to the delights of the British pub. Michelle meanwhile suggests Carrie tries sex as an aid to sleep.

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3. Vasectomy

First Broadcast: Fri 17th September 2004

Carrie and Barry's sex life has gradually been replaced by hours of compulsive car-crash telly programmes. As Barry doesn't want to 'wrap it in rubber', Carrie asks if he'll have a vasectomy. Kirk advises against such drastic measures - what if Kate Moss wants his babies?

More of a dilemma however is how Barry deals with Kirk when he makes a pass at Carrie.

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4. Cross Dressing

First Broadcast: Fri 24th September 2004

Barry is bored. Bored enough to try on Carrie's clothes, stupid enough to get caught by his teenage daughter Sinead. This does little to cure Sinead's depression and step-mum Carrie's helpful suggestions of going shopping or waiting for Christmas aren't actually that helpful.

Kirk and Michelle also fail to cheer her up and only catching Carrie's sexual fantasy of being rescued by Barry dressed as a fireman can raise a smile.

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5. Duncan

First Broadcast: Fri 1st October 2004

Carrie goes into PC overdrive when interviewing prospective tenant Duncan, a person of restricted growth.

Meanwhile Barry doesn't want to drive a taxi anymore but the only person to let him practise his prospective new career as a masseur is best mate Kirk. The 'massage' goes well until Kirk starts to feel a 'stirring' down below...

Michelle's blind date with Duncan is equally disastrous.

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6. Michelle and Kirk

First Broadcast: Fri 8th October 2004

Carrie and Barry realise their sex life has become like a chore, albeit a pleasant one. For their respective best mates Kirk and Michelle however, the lack of sex is becoming a problem.

Why didn't Carrie think of it before? Kirk and Michelle should date each other. Barry isn't quite as sure, but Kirk is more than willing to strip away acid-tongued Michelle's hard layers to find the lost soul beneath...

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Series 2 (2005)

1. Banned Barry

First Broadcast: Sat 22nd October 2005

Carrie and Barry are back, and their life is in turmoil. Barry is stopped for speeding in his taxi. Will his friend Kirk's legal ruse enable Barry to escape a driving ban? Carrie's mother has a truly terrible secret. And how can Carrie persuade her friend Michelle that her breasts are just fine the way they are?

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2. New Tenant

First Broadcast: Sat 29th October 2005

Carrie has lost interest in sex. Is it just a phase she's going through - or is Barry genuinely physically repellent? Or is it the trauma of finding out she is adopted? Barry's normally heroically morose daughter Sinead is falling in love with their slick new tenant next door. Barry is torn between kicking out the man who is about to despoil his daughter and taking his much needed rent money.

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3. The Mummy

First Broadcast: Sat 5th November 2005

Having discovered that she is adopted, Carrie agonises over whether to track down her biological mother. Barry, sympathetic at first, finally cracks, bored to tears. Feeling guilty, he decides to give Carrie a special present: a film, shot by himself. It's not long before he realises a book token would have been a lot easier.

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4. Casualties

First Broadcast: Sat 12th November 2005

Carrie and Barry are in a car accident. As they recover, side-by-side in hospital, Carrie pieces together the events that caused her to crash the car... Did she, as she suspects, swerve to avoid a chicken crossing the road? Kirk house-sits for them but is distracted by his pretty new girlfriend. He is too much in love to see that she is frankly a bit of a worry...

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5. Competition

First Broadcast: Sat 19th November 2005

Barry has had it with his tenant - it's bad enough that Adrian is younger and richer than Barry, but he has completely seduced his daughter Sinead. Barry is stressed enough as it is, having foolishly agreed to run the marathon with his friend Kirk. Meanwhile, Carrie is having trouble at work with a new temp, who is so annoying she may have to be killed...

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6. The Wedding

First Broadcast: Sat 26th November 2005

Barry's daughter Sinead names the day for her wedding. Barry reacts as any loving father would - by plotting to get rid of the hated fiancé, Adrian. Carrie wishes the young couple well, until they offend her. Beware a woman scorned... And Barry realises he needs to leave the house more when he gets over-excited about his new washing-up brush.

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