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Not Going Out
2006 - 2023 7.4 (70 votes) 13 Seasons
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Genres
Comedy
Networks
BBC One
Created By
Lee Mack

Not Going Out

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Jamie Rix

Writer: Liam Woodman

Top Cast

Lee Mack
Lee Mack

Lee

Sally Bretton
Sally Bretton

Lucy Adams

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (2007)

No overview available.

14 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Series 1 Behind the Scenes
2007-10-22

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Series 2 Behind the Scenes
2009-02-02

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Not Going Right – The Out-Takes
2011-01-14

Outtakes from Series 1, 2, 3 & 4.

Runtime: 35 min
Episode 4: The House
2013-12-24

In an effort to create the perfect Christmas for Lucy, Lee invites her parents to join the two of them and Daisy in a snug old house in the country which used to belong to his dear dead aunt.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 5: Christmas Shopping
2015-12-24

An unexpected stranger turns Lee and Lucy's Christmas upside down.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 6: The True Meaning of Christmas
2017-12-24

It's Christmas Eve, and Lee and Lucy face a possible yuletide disaster when they discover the perfect present they have bought for their children has already been gifted to them by their grandparents.

Runtime: 39 min
Episode 7: Ding Dong Merrily on Live
2018-12-20

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.

Runtime: 27 min
Episode 8: Halloween Special
2019-10-30

Lee and Lucy take the children out trick or treating for Halloween, but the night soon turns disastrous for Lee when he loses his phone on the porch of a spooky Victorian house. Once he returns to the house to retrieve his phone, Lee discovers that the house is full of secrets that would be far better left undisturbed.

Runtime: 38 min
Episode 9: Driving Home For Christmas
2019-12-24

We all know Christmas simply wouldn't be Christmas without a giant inflatable Santa, an aggressive bull in a field and a terrifying truck driver.

Runtime: 39 min
Episode 10: Resolutions
2020-12-30

With 40 minutes to go until midnight, a New Year’s Eve party at Lee and Lucy’s house turns sour when family members start making their resolutions.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 11: Panto
2021-12-23

A family Christmas party turns sour when Lucy announces that she has got tickets to see Jason Donovan in panto. Lee loathes panto, especially given Jason Donovan was Lucy’s teenage crush. That night, while Lee and Lucy turn their backs on each other in bed, Lee has an unsettling dream in which he is dressed as Buttons and his whole life has turned into a pantomime. Lucy is Cinderella, Toby and Anna are the Ugly Sisters, Geoffrey is Baron Hardup, and Wendy is the Fairy Godmother - and Prince Charming, the handsome suitor who pursues Cinderella and asks for her hand in marriage, is played by Jason Donovan. Can Buttons keep the fairy-tale couple apart?

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 12: Wilfred
2023-12-24

Lee throws everything at creating the perfect family Christmas, agreeing to Lucy's wishes to do something charitable and having "a normal Christmas where nothing goes wrong." This moment of festive spirit sees the couple invite Wilfred, a lonely pensioner from the nearby care home, to join them for Christmas dinner. The only instruction is that Wilfred is not, under any circumstances, allowed to drink alcohol...

Runtime: 40 min
Episode 13: Not Going Out on Location

Behind the scenes featurette for Series 3.

Runtime: 35 min
Episode 14: Lee and Tim talk on the set of Series Two

Extra on Series One DVD.

Runtime: 18 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2006)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Serious
2006-10-06

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.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 2: Death
2006-10-13

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.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 3: Aussie
2006-10-20

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.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 4: Stress
2006-10-26

Lee starts teaching Kate to drive. His (or her) lack of success seems to stress him out and Kate notices. She persuades him to try some yoga and given his track record he doesn't take it seriously. He is banished to have acupuncture while Tim tries his hand at teaching Kate how to drive. He does surprisingly well until Lee admits that he's taking tranquillizers during an increasingly speed fuelled drive in the countryside. Big question...will she pass?

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 5: Kid
2006-11-03

Kate and Lee are forced to take in a lodger, a surly 14-year-old boy called Nicky. Lee's attempts to bond with the teenager prove less than successful, while Tim and Nicky discover they have quite a lot in common. Meanwhile, Kate tries to persuade a carnivorous Great Dane to become a vegetarian with unfortunate results.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 6: Caretaker
2006-11-10

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?

Runtime: 28 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2007)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mortgage
2007-09-07

Tim decides to sell the flat, so Lee sets to work putting off prospective buyers.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 2: Gay
2007-09-14

Lucy persuades Lee to pretend to be gay after she lies to a business acquaintance Guy, who she was told is gay himself, by telling him she lives with a gay flatmate to prove she is not homophobic. However, Guy soon starts to get suspicious and tests Lee's sexuality by taking him to a gay bar. Later, Guy overhears Lee saying to Tim, who had started to think Lee was gay, that he is not gay. When Lucy then explains to Guy what happened, he reveals he is not gay and he and Lucy kiss.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 3: Librarian
2007-09-21

Lucy and Guy are going out with each other, and Guy has practically moved in. This annoys Lee who thinks Guy is too old for her. Lee soon discovers that Guy owns a lap dancing club. While at the club, Lee and Tim see Rose (Thaila Zucchi), a librarian that Tim has been seeing, and discover she is a lapdancer. Tim later dumps her, but then changes his mind. However, Rose refuses to get back together. Meanwhile, Lucy dumps Guy but they soon get back together but agree to take their relationship more slowly.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 4: Baby
2007-09-28

When 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.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 5: Art
2007-10-05

In 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.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 6: Dating
2007-10-12

As Lucy and Guy's relationship intensifies, Lee starts to ponder his lack of a girlfriend and, encouraged by Barbara, tries speed dating. Tim is forced to go on a disastrous date with Barbara in order to prove that he sees her as more than 'the help'.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 7: Gangster
2007-10-19

Guy showers Lucy with expensive gifts and whisks her away for a weekend.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Murder at Christmas
2007-12-21

Lee's plan to spend time alone with Lucy at Christmas is threatened.

Runtime: 29 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2009)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pregnant
2009-01-30

Lee is shocked when Lucy announces that she is pregnant and he wonders if he could accidentally be the baby's father.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 2: Winner
2009-02-06

Lee wins a £1000 after winning an essay writing competition. A journalist shows up to interview Lee but expects him to be disabled after reading his story.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 3: Amy
2009-02-13

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 4: Party
2009-02-20

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 5: Neighbour
2009-02-27

Lucy isn't happy with the noise a new neighbour is making. She asks both Lee and Tim to talk to him but both are scared too. Tim decides to take up boxing so that he will have more courage. Lee ends up going to confront the man.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 6: Speech
2009-03-06

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 7: Marriage
2009-03-20

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 8: Absent Father Christmas
2009-12-23

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.

Runtime: 29 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2012)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Season 6 poster
Season 6 (2013)

No overview available.

9 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Rabbit
2013-04-05

Lucy accidentally runs over a pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of an important client.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 2: Skiing
2013-04-12

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

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 3: Therapy
2013-04-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Conference
2013-05-03

Lee does what he has to do to stop Lucy from flirting with the male delegates at a three-day annual trade conference in order to get herself work.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 5: Rachel
2013-05-10

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Play
2013-05-17

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

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 7: Magic
2013-05-24

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.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 8: Boat
2013-05-31

Lee spends a long weekend on his a boat with Lucy, even though she is terrified of water.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 9: The House

Lee invites Lucy and her parents and Daisy for Christmas at his late aunt Maureen's country house, which appears haunted though Lee tidies it up, burning a rocking-chair. This seemingly housed the ghost of a young boy and in the night ghostly music is heard - though it turns out to be provided by Lee's father Frank. Between them they discover the identity of the 'ghost', a childhood friend of Lee called Ralph - or so they think until Frank provides the answer to their questions.

Runtime: N/A min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (2014)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mugging
2014-10-17

When Lucy has her handbag stolen from right under Lee's nose, he feels the need to prove his manliness over and over and over again.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 2: Christening
2014-10-24

Lee's big mouth has got him and Lucy invited to a christening party thrown by new neighbours Toby and Anna, and now they have no time to find the perfect present for the baby who has everything.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 3: Donor
2014-10-31

When Lucy decides it is time to have a baby, she is surprised to find the whole family taking a personal interest in the conception.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 4: Anna
2014-11-07

Lucy aspires to be friends with her posh new neighbours Toby and Anna, but she hasn't reckoned on Lee dragging her back down to earth.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Pointless
2014-11-21

In an attempt to impress Lucy with his intellectual prowess, Lee joins Daisy as a contestant on the TV quiz show Pointless.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Alcohol
2014-11-28

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

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 7: Surprise
2014-12-05

No matter what happens, Lucy's surprise party for her parents' anniversary must remain a secret or it won't be a surprise. So why she tells Lee about it is anyone's guess.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Plane
2014-12-12

Flying off on a summer holiday, Lucy and Daisy endure the worst flight of their lives when Lee gets a bad case of the jitters on the plane.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 9: Lucy
2014-12-19

Lee spends time in the bar with Toby worrying that the woman of his dreams is drifting further away.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Christmas Special
2014-12-24

The will-they-won't-they tension reaches new highs in this epic series finale for Christmas that sees Lucy and Lee in previously uncharted emotional waters.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 11: The Out-takes
2014-12-27

Lee Mack, Sally Bretton and Katy Wix introduce a compilation of out-takes from across the various series.

Runtime: 29 min
Season 10 poster
Season 10 (2019)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Parachute
2019-04-15

A sponsored parachute jump raises not just money for Toby's hospital but questions about Lee's courage as well.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 2: Holiday Share
2019-04-22

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

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 3: Facts of Life
2019-04-29

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 4: Schooling
2019-05-06

When Charlie’s school gets a bad Ofsted rating, Lee and Lucy start looking around for alternative schools. Despite Frank's protests, Geoffrey and Wendy offer to pay to send Charlie to a private school, which presents Lee and Lucy with a moral dilemma.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 5: Memory
2019-05-13

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

Runtime: 27 min
Episode 6: Whodunnit?
2019-05-20

Unable to convince Lucy that he didn’t smash her precious antique vase - an heirloom that belonged to her grandmother - Lee summons the family to a meeting to flush out the culprit.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 7: Builder
2019-05-27

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Season 13 poster
Season 13 (2023)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Italian Lessons
2023-06-23

When Lee and Lucy are asked to cover for Anna on more than one occasion, so that she can go out at night and have secret Italian lessons, they suspect the worst – that she is having an affair. Lee decides that it is up to him to tell Toby that his marriage is in jeopardy and sets about finding the evidence.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 2: Hospital
2023-06-30

Lee's lifestyle catches up on him and he is forced to wait on a hospital ward for routine surgery on his gallbladder until his blood pressure comes down. But visits from the parents-in-law and Anna and Toby, who arrive to ask him a question he doesn't want to hear, ensure that his stress levels remain dangerously high.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 3: Day Out
2023-07-07

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?

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 4: Coffin
2023-07-14

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.

Runtime: 26 min
Episode 5: Train
2023-07-21

It’s Lucy's birthday. To celebrate, Geoffrey and Wendy take Lee, Lucy, Toby and Anna for a trip on a vintage steam train. But Lee's decision to play Poirot when a stranger turns up unannounced in their carriage risks Lucy’s special day being ruined.

Runtime: 29 min
Episode 6: Beep
2023-07-28

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.

Runtime: 28 min
Episode 7: Football
2023-08-04

When Lee goes to watch Benji playing football for a local under-13 team, he is unable to restrain himself on the touchline and becomes the competitive dad that all other parents want to avoid. Undaunted by the disapproval of Toby, who coaches the team, Lee sets about rigging the vote for the player of the year.

Runtime: 29 min

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