Steve Taylor's
long-term girlfriend Jane Christie won't let him end their
four year relationship, and, being a woman, she
resorts to the sort of low-down tactics against which all men are
powerless: tales of lesbian adventures, wearing no
underwear, and, most dastardly of all, exfoliation in
extremis.
Susan Walker is in a relationship with Patrick
Maitland - at least he thinks she is... but chances are
she's fantasising about a bronzed antipodean whenever
they're together.
Susan's best
friend Sally Harper is saving her elasticity for
Mr Right, and Steve's best friend Jeff Murdock is ecstatic if he manages to get
through a conversation with a woman without dribbling on her
or mentioning his (entirely fictional) false leg.
So when
Steve meets Susan in the ladies toilets mid... coupling...
with Jane, it is hardly the most auspicious of romantic
beginnings.
Can Steve and
Susan bridge the Sock Gap and get down to Doing the Squelchy?
Is their relationship strong enough to endure the Lesbian
Spank Inferno? And will the real Giselle please stand up...?
First
transmission: 12 May 2000, BBC2
Last
transmission: 14 June 2004, BBC3
Awards: Silver Rose, Montreux TV Festival 2001; Best TV Comedy, British Comedy Awards 2003
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Films production for BBC, 28 x 30' |