The BEST episodes directed by Simon Delaney
#1 - Frank Leaves Noreen
Pete Versus Life - Season 2 - Episode 2
Pete is back with his ex-girlfriend, Chloe, and is desperate to make a good impression. Unfortunately, Pete's dad, Frank, turns up on his doorstep after deciding that he and Pete's mum should have a break from each other.
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#2 - Does Pete Dream of Electric Sheep
Pete Versus Life - Season 2 - Episode 6
Pete starts dating a new girlfriend, Tilly, who believes that UFOs are of alien origin. All is going well until Pete discovers that Chloe, 'the one that got away', is going out with his nemesis, Jake.
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#3 - Older Woman
Pete Versus Life - Season 1 - Episode 3
When Pete attends an art auction he meets an attractive older lady and they hit it off. He sonn finds that being a toy boy' though results in complications.
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#4 - Marriage Of Convenience
Pete Versus Life - Season 1 - Episode 4
Pete realises that he's too selfish and decides to turn his life around. His first altruistic act is to agree to a visa marriage.
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#5 - The Veteran
Pete Versus Life - Season 2 - Episode 5
Pete claims that he's been in the army in order to impress Mel, his new girlfriend. Unfortunately for Pete, her brother Tom is a genuine veteran.
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#6 - Mum's Cleaner
Pete Versus Life - Season 2 - Episode 1
It's double trouble for Pete when he is accused of kidnapping an old lady's dog, while pretending to be a heroin addict to try an impress a Polish cleaner.
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#7 - The Tennis Player
Pete Versus Life - Season 2 - Episode 3
With not much work around, Pete ends up getting a job in a chicken packing factory. Things begin to improve though when his article criticising Britan's seventh best tennis player, Lottie Beaumont, is printed in a national newspaper. The only probelm is though that Pete is dating Lottie.
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#8 - A Night at the Light Opera
Pete Versus Life - Season 2 - Episode 4
Pete wins some tickets to see the hit musical Mamma Mia! and, after 'acquiring' a lovely leather jacket from a bag outside a charity shop, manages to find a date, Helene. However, Helene is clearly more intelligent than Pete, which doesn't bode well for our intellectually challenged hero.
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#9 - Ollie's Girlfriend
Pete Versus Life - Season 1 - Episode 5
Pete finally gets a decent sports writing job but it's on the basis of a pretend relationship with his best mate's girlfriend. Problems ensue when an office romance blossoms.
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#10 - Superficial
Scott & Bailey - Season 4 - Episode 1
A vulnerable young man is reported missing by his pub landlord boss. Syndicate 9 suspect Robin McKendrick may have been killed after a photo of him bound and gagged in a car boot appears online. However, the case takes an unusual turn when a body found in a flooded quarry turns out to be a woman's corpse. Meanwhile, battle-scarred from their conflict last year, Scott and Bailey are determined to move forward with honesty. The pair find themselves in front of the promotion board and pass with flying colours, leaving Gill with the task of choosing who stays on as sergeant at the department.
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#14 - Tough Love
Scott & Bailey - Season 4 - Episode 2
Syndicate 9's new sergeant is thrown in at the deep end with a historical missing person's case as Mandy Sweeting's body is discovered, 23 years after she disappeared. The biggest challenge is wading through poor police work that hampered the original case and re-interviewing bruised and bereft family members, making this a particularly challenging job for the new sergeant. Janet keeps Gill's secret but shares another secret with Rachel - she wants a boyfriend.
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#16 - Damaged
Scott & Bailey - Season 4 - Episode 3
After promising that the chaos of her personal life was behind her, Rachel is torn when she discovers that her mother's new boyfriend is a violent domestic abuser. Janet goes on her first date, but gets cold feet at the last minute when the idea of having to sell herself to a stranger makes her heart sink. The murder of a gay man has all the markings of a hate crime, but why is his friend struggling to answer some simple questions?
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#17 - Nineties Night
Drifters - Season 1 - Episode 6
Mark reinvents himself as a DJ and asks Meg to help out at his 90s Night. Meg agrees out of sympathy: surely it's going to be a disaster, but on the night things don't go quite as she expected. Whilst trying to raise the rent money selling their clothes online, Bunny accidentally reveals more than she intended and things spiral out of control when she agrees to some lucrative modelling work with Laura along for the ride as her "agent".
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#18 - Dry Run
Drifters - Season 1 - Episode 4
The girls are appalled when they realise Meg hasn't had sex in nearly a year. At Bunny and Laura's urging she agrees to punch below her weight and pick someone to have sex with who should be grateful. A "dry run" if you will. And an old university colleague of Bunny's could be the perfect choice. Meanwhile Bunny thinks she's in love with her latest flame Hugh, a sexy sophisticated older man, but the other girls don't quite see him that way. And Laura is uncharacteristically throwing herself into work, shifting tickets in a "win this car" promotion.
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#19 - Scabies
Drifters - Season 1 - Episode 2
Bunny and Laura are amazed when Meg scores a hot date while out on the street promoting a smartphone. Meanwhile, Laura is concerned that she may have a skin disease and Bunny has self-diagnosed depression. But it's not until the girls end up gatecrashing a party that things get really complicated.
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#20 - Home
Drifters - Season 1 - Episode 1
Meg and her cousin Bunny return home to Leeds, having cut short their gap year trip round India. They're greeted at the airport by their best friend Laura but - disaster - also by Meg's stalker-ish ex-boyfriend Mark. As far as Mark's concerned, they're still together. Unsurprisingly the homecoming doesn't run smoothly - and then there's also the small matter of finding a house and finding a job.
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#21 - Eco Warrior
Pete Versus Life - Season 1 - Episode 1
Pete claims that he won't travel on an aircraft end up inadvertently impressing a young lady with his commitment to green issues. Pete realises that he is going to have to make changes to his lifestyle if he wants to sustain the relationship.
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#22 - Friend Night Stand
Drifters - Season 1 - Episode 5
Meg makes a new friend and brings her back to the flat but the others think Ellie may have misunderstood the situation. Laura has just about had it with Gary and a chance encounter leads her to consider other options - while Bunny is having a passionate relationship with Cillian. But is he a crazy free-spirit or just a total knob?
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#23 - Work Experience
Drifters - Season 1 - Episode 3
Meg finally gets a break when she's offered an internship at a local radio station. Can she seize her chance and make a big impact at Pennine Hits? Laura suspects Gary of cheating on her and decides to take drastic action whilst Bunny is feeling ignored and is dreading spending a Saturday alone in the flat.
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#24 - Fankoo
Pete Versus Life - Season 1 - Episode 2
Jake, a rival and friend of Pete's, reveals an intimate detail about his sex life at a party they are both at. After promising to keep it a secret, Pete ends up telling everyone.
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