Moz
 Moz is a small time drug dealer who has been dealing for a number of years from his small bedsit in Manchester, which he shares with his girlfriend Nicki. He deals only in the many varieties of marijuana and sees himself as 'providing a crucial service to the community'.
Moz doesn't even enjoy drug dealing very much. Whenever there's a knock at the door, it always seems to be the 'client' Moz least wants to see or speak to.
Moz rarely sets foot outside the front door of his bedsit and seems to have no concept of keeping the flat tidy, which infuriates Nicki.
Nicki
 Nicki is Moz's girlfriend and they live together in a bedsit in Manchester. She and Moz have a love/hate relationship with Nicki constantly nagging Moz about the state of the flat. After a while Nicki can't stand living with Moz any more and so moves out.
Nicki returns to the flat at the start of series three though to give birth. The baby causes her to suffer from sleep deprivation, so at times she has hallucinations of Moz in the baby bouncer, or with the perfect Chippendale body.
At the start of the fourth series Nicki once again begins to see PC behind Moz's back.
PC
 PC is Moz's mate... and also his chief supplier. PC works as a Police Constable and so can give Moz the hash he busts from other dealers. PC is a good contact for Moz because he can tip him off as to what the latest police activity is - this was certainly helpful to the dealer when CID planned to raid the flat.
A complete coward, PC does everything he can to avoid arresting people (e.g. he overlooks the fact Stemroach's gang stabbed him). He also dodges the offers of promotion as he doesn't want any more responsibiliy.
It is revealed in series four that PC's real name is Phil Collins. He hates his name though and so everyone just calls him by his initals (which are handily also his job title).
PC is now having a second affair with Moz's girlfriend Nicki. Moz was totally oblivious to their first affair... well until PC told him after a drunken binge. How long can he keep it a secret this time - he's almost been caught with his pants down a few times now.
Jenny
 Jenny is the child minder and young mother from hell! She looks after a number of children and regularly brings them along with her when she comes around the flat to score from Moz.
She seems to live in her own little dream world and has zero sense of responsibility, as can be seen from the fact she frequently forgets the names of the kid's she is looking after, and even loses one of them in Moz's flat!
Jenny has a baby during the second season - the poor thing is constantly being dumped into other people's hands.
Probably the number one chav in Manchester, Jenny is also easily the thickest resident of the city - dopey does not begin to describe how dumb she is!
Colin
 Colin is a bouncy, childlike scally. He is constantly 'out on probation', as he reminds people every five minutes. Considering he is meant to be keeping out of trouble, it doesn't stop him being one of Moz's most regular customers.
Colin always seems to be trying to flog stolen goods to Moz, and even if he does manage to sell someone in the flat something, he'll normally leaves with more than he came with under his coat.
In series three Colin starts dating a call girl called Carmel. She had amnesia at the time which made it easy for him to convince her they used to be together. Somehow though they're still going out, this is despite Colin having a very ill-advised threesome with Moz and Jenny.
Brian
 Brian is camper than a row of pink tents. Every time he comes around Moz's flat, he has a different boyfriend in tow. He often talks to Moz about his bedroom antics, something the dealer would definitely rather not hear.
As the first series progressed Brian's boyfriends became more and more feminine. The last one was actually a butch female! Later in series three, Brian finally fell in love and stopped swapping partners every ten minutes. Trouble is, he became heart broken when his boyfriend had the cheek to dump him! He was so used to doing the dumping himself he didn't know what to do!
Brian is one of Moz's oldest friends. In the series four flashback episode we discover he used to be straight. Back in the 90s he had long-hair and was dating some seriously hot women.
Psycho Paul
 Psycho Paul didn't get his nickname for nothing - he is a mean, un-predictable, nasty nutter.
Moz first comes across Paul when he is operating as a rival dealer in the neighborhood. It's when it became clear that a stash Moz was storing came from Paul's flat (PC got it from his flat in a raid), we first got to see that Paul was not a very nice chap!
Paul soon quit being a dealer though to move into the shadier and more lucrative worlds of kidnapping and porn. Moz doesn't want to get involved in his plans but it isn't really possible to refuse Psycho Paul without causing offence and risking life and limb!
Cartoon Head
 Cartoon Head doesn't value life at all... which is actually quite a good attribute for him, as he is a hitman by trade.
Cartoon Head always wears as mask - we never see his face. It transpires that it was Stemroach who is responsible him being that way - we still we don't quite know exactly what happened, but we do know that Cartoon Head can't get the mask off now - that is his face!
It isn't until the end of the first series that Moz realises that Cartoon Head, who is one of his most loyal customers, is actually the man behind the horrid 'Hand-Job Murders'. When the hitman turns up at Moz's flat high on strong drugs at the end of the first series things go terribly wrong - he mis-interprets what Moz says and shoots annoying Craig dead. This understandably causes Moz all kinds of problems!
Judith (Series 2-4)
 Judith moves in across the hall from Moz as his shy and very nervy new neighbour at the start of series two. She soon becomes the dealer's potential love interest too.
Timid Judith wants to fit in and be normal, but it soon becomes clear that she has various interests and hobbies that border on the socially unacceptable. Moz starts to get worried when Judith starts working at an undertakers and is seen dragging body-shaped sacks into her flat, but he soon has an even more pressing concern - Judith clearly has a major infatuation with him. She makes a large clay model of Moz and starts to alter her appearance to look more like Nicki in a blatant attempt to try and seduce her neighbour.
After an unfortunate accident, she ends series three with a wasp mask stuck to her head. As it happens this gets Cartoon Head interested in her and for a while they make the ideal plastic-faced couple. However, when Judith gets her mask removed by the doctor, Cartoon Head starts to lose interest in her.
Steve (Series 2-4)
 Steve turns up at the start of series two. He comes around Moz's flat looking for his missing brother Craig but soon ends up part of Stemroach's gang. Little does he know that it was fellow gang member Cartoon Head who shot his brother dead!
Steve is exploited by the rest of the gang - he always gets the bad jobs and is often physically abused. The rest of the gang find him very annoying but, for some reason, put up with him. It's probably because he does all the dirty work for them.
Towards the end of series three, Steve takes control of the gang after a short manic outburst which has both Psycho Paul and Cartoon Head un-characteristically terrified. But, when Steve admits that he doesn't actually have violence in him, his fellow gang members make him pay a very heavy price - they take one of his eyeballs! As a result Steve must now wear an eyepatch.
China
China, along with her friend Asia, becomes one of Moz's regular client, but she never seems to have enough money to pay their way. However Moz clearly has a soft spot for her and so lets her get away without paying.
After a while though China starts coming in with different boyfriends though (including Psycho Paul for a period) so Moz stops giving her free drugs. This doesn't seem to bother China though - she has plenty of other men queuing up to pay for whatever she wants!
Troy
Troy is Moz's brother. When he comes to stay at the flat he proves hard to budge. When he was staying at Moz's flat he ran a rubbish pirate radio station from the airing cupboard - but the dodgy wiring causes him a few problems and Troy FM went up with a bang.
Troy is very touchy about the topic of his wife and becomes quite upset when people mention his relationship. It would appear that his wife beats him up - last time he went to see her he came back with bruises.
Although Moz outwardly appears to hate his brother, there must actually be a deep connection between them. You see it was Troy who accidently shot Stemroach in 1993 and caused him to lose his voice - if it wasn't for Moz stepping in front of the gun Stemroach was aiming back, Troy would have been killed there and then.
Yasuko
 Yasuko suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); she always has a packet of Wet Wipes on hand to clean everything and anything.
Yet, despite her squeaky clean image, Yasuko has a wild past and during the series it is revealed that she has taken part in a threesome with Nicki whilst backpacking in Thailand!
Yasuko is now happily married to dull Derrick and enjoys spending time down on the allotment with him.
Jason
 Jason is in a boyband with his friend Lee. They use the severed hand Moz finds for the front cover of their first album.
When Lee goes missing he has to try and do everything in the band himself - something that's clearly not going to work.
Lee
 Things go horribly wrong for boyband member Lee in the third series. After crossing paths with Alan the builder, Lee ends up being sealed inside a hot water tank.
When the flat's boiler is changed Lee is released, however he is now a very different person. He is now quiet and serene - oh, and very creepy!
When the Christian builders Alan and Marco see Lee they think he has come back from the dead and start following him as his diciples.
Jack (Series 1)
Jack is one of Moz's regular clients who always seems to be on a bit of downer. He's split up with his girlfriend and comes to Moz for advice. For Moz, it seems there's much more to being a dealer as he has to counsel Jack.
Craig (Series 1)
 The weird and annoying loner Craig wasn't originally of Moz's regular clients, but when someone recommended Moz as a good dealer Craig kept pestering him. At one point he even threw a tin of dressed crab through Moz's window to try and get his attention!
Moz is eventually worn down and agrees to sell Craig some hash. At this point they actually quickly became friends - but then a drugged up Cartoon Head goes mental with his gun and blows Craig's brains out with a pistol!
Kuldip (Series 1-3)
 Asian Kuldip has a regular slot as a DJ at the local club. He regularly boasts about the number of white labels records he has in his box.
Kuldip was very much in the background until he slept with Nikki at the flat party... suddenly he found himself as the father of baby Sanjeev!
Sangita
Sangita suffers from MS and is one of Moz's regular customers. Sangita becomes a good friend of Nicki's and has a brief relationship with her. At first Moz couldn't stop accidentally putting his foot in it whenever he spoke to Sangita but, following her 'affair' with Nikki, he now openly reminds her she is going to die soon whenever he can.
Derrick
 Derrick is another regular customer... but Moz wishes he wasn't. He is obsessed with vegetables and is so, so, so boring!
Although now quite scruffy and covered in dirt, Derrick once used to be a suited and booted business man, however when his uncle died and left him an allotment his passion for gardening began.
Felix
Felix is a teenager who Jenny technically babysits, but he's almost as old as her. It soon turns out they are having a baby together! Childish Felix is somewhat overwhelmed by fatherhood when the baby does arrive.
Although seemingly more intelligent than Jenny, he is indifferent to everything.
Ian (Series 2)
Ian is a policeman who visits Moz's flat to install hidden cameras for a surveillance operation but manages to mess up the whole thing, with disastrous results for all concerned.
Stemroach (Series 2-4)
Stemroach is the sinister gangland boss who employs Cartoon Head and Psycho Paul as his henchmen. He's vicious and ruthless and, due to a lack of vocal chords, talks through a hand-held throat speaker.
It is revealed in a series four episode that it is partly Moz's fault that Stemroach can no longer talk without the aid of a machine. Stemroach is not slow to remind Moz that he is in his debt - the flat is often used for gang activity.
In the final episode Stemroach is killed by Steve.
Carmel (Series 2-4)
Carmel is a Spanish escort girl who was caught up in Stemroach's kidnapping plot. She lost her memory in the process and so Colin managed to convince her that she was his girlfriend. This worked for a surprisingly long length of time.
Alan (Series 3-4)
 Alan was the foreman overseeing the building work at Moz's flat. He's a very hard line born again Christian, something that caused Moz to try and keep up a pretence of being a devout Christian so that the builders didn't figure out what he really does for a living.
Alan starts out as a permanently cheerful man. However after he is horrifically stung by a wasps nest (Moz's fault) and discovers what goes on in the flat, Alan turns into a completely different man.
After nearly murdering Lee (he sealed him in the flat's water tank), Alan goes on a rampage, attempting to kill both Moz and Brian in the process.
In the fourth series Alan isn't seen much - he starts following Lee around, believing that he is 'the saviour'. He ends the series hung up on Fist's wall.
Tania (Series 2-4)
 Tania is baby Sanjeev's Health Visitor. This does not please Nicki as Tania is Moz's fun and flirty ex-girlfriend. It isn't long before Tania is trying to seduce Moz.
Tania will steal anything that's not nailed down - as a result, a lot of Moz's flat contents ends up on eBay after each of her visits.
Tania, who is Colin's sister, is now dating Psycho Paul. They make a lovely, but quite scary couple.
Keith (Series 4)
 Absent for 12 years, Moz's long lost dad Keith bowls right back into his life, hoping to offload some dodgy widescreen TVs.
Keith is as dodgy as they come - as is evidenced by the fact he almost soiled himself when he spotted PC in his cop uniform.
Keith is a compulsive liar, although he does eventually keep his promise of delivering the widescreen TV his son paid for.
The big question is, the six months Keith supposedly has left to live... is that another of his lies, or is Moz's dad really on the way out?
Keith is last seen taking Jenny's mum out on a date.
Tony (Series 4)
 Low Triad member Tony, and his fellow gang-member Chen, visit Moz at the start of the new series to try and persuade him to spy on Psycho Paul's gang.
There is soon all out war between the Triad and Paul's gang. At first the Triad easily have the upper-hand and continually intimidate those in the flat. However, when Yasuko reveals some hidden self-defence skills the tables turn.
Chen (Series 4)
 Chen has a very good way of persuading people to do what he wants and ensuring that they don't forget his messages - he stabs them! Moz finds this out the hard way in the first episode of the latest series.
However, whilst Chen and his gang-partner Tony spend most of the series winning the gang-land war they end the series tied up as hostages in Moz's bathroom.
Marco (Series 3-4)
 Marco is Alan's assistant builder. He speaks in a very high voice and is quite nervous around other people. There's something pretty strange about Marco actually.
When Alan disappears, Marco becomes head builder and his brother Jake becomes the deputy.
Marco and Jake aren't the best builders by a long-shot, they're often breaking things and what they do manage to fit soon falls off the wall or breaks. Moz soon learns not to give them biscuits as that delays work still further.
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