Not Going Out
Series 2
TV-14
83%
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 and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life.
8 Episodes
- Mortgage
E1MortgageKate returns to America and Tim puts the flat on the market,hiring Barbara,a cleaner who spends more time making wry comments than actually cleaning. Lee is hopeful to buy the flat himself and tries for a mortgage but ultimately,when he fails, Tim sells it to Lucy, whom Lee liked when she came as a potential tenant, and who turns out to be Tim's sister. Once again Lee finds himself with a resident landlady. - Gay
E2GayHaving told work colleague Guy, whom people believe to be gay, that she is not homophobic and has a gay flat mate, Tim's sister Lucy asks Lee to pretend that he is gay. Guy has his doubts and tests Lee by taking him to a gay club, but Tim is suspicious and Lee explains to him about the pretence. They are overheard by Guy, who is also straight - and starting to date Lucy. - Librarian
E3LibrarianLee is annoyed that Guy,who is older than Lucy,has more or less moved into the flat,walking about in the nude and sees his chance to prove Guy's lack of worth when he discovers that Guy owns a lap-dancing club. Tim is dating a staid librarian but gets a shock when she proves to be one of the lap-dancers,which leads to their splitting up. Lucy also splits with Guy but gets back with him on the proviso that they take things more slowly. - Baby
E4BabyWhen Guy's daughter Chloe gets appendicitis, Lee and Tim are left looking after her son Dillon while Guy and Lucy visit her. While in their care, Dillon swallows a subbuteo football and Lee and Tim have problems locating it, and try to think of ways to get it out of his body. However, it later turns out Dillon did not swallow it after all. Lucy is worried about the age gap between her and Guy. - Art
E5ArtIn an effort to appear as intellectual as Lucy's friends, Lee shows off his 'knowledge' of the art world - holding forth on the subject of an unknown artist, who his cleaner Barbara has told him is the next big thing. When Lucy takes the advice and invests a fortune in the artist's work, Lee is left trying to prevent her from finding out the artist is actually a nobody. - Gangster
E7GangsterLee and Tim get it into their heads that Guy is a gangster who smuggles diamonds into the country after a suspicious package arrives at the flat though it turns out that he is secretly having an engagement ring made up to propose to Lucy. Lucy and Guy arrive at the airport to go to Sicily on holiday and Guy asks Lucy to marry him but she refuses as she finds him too controlling so he spends the holiday on his own. Lee is not sorry. - Murder at Christmas
E8Murder at ChristmasGeooffrey and Wendy, Tim and Lucy's parents,arrive to spend Christmas at the flat whilst Tim brings Daisy,now his girlfriend,and Barbara stays on to help with the catering. Lee has bought a murder mystery game which involves dressing up and role play but half-way through Geoffrey and Tim argue and Lee has to persuade Geoffrey to calm down and resume the game in order to identify the murderer.
