The WORST episodes of Not Going Out
Every episode of Not Going Out ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Not Going Out!
Not Going Out reveals the many childish antics of witty smart aleck Lee among his friends and family in and around London.
#1 - Day Out
Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/7/2023
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 from the new head teacher, Miss Anstis. Now all he has to do is think of an excuse to justify Mollie's absence and what could be simpler than a trip to the dentist.
#2 - Romance
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2017
After seven years of marriage, Lee and Lucy disagree about the best way to keep the romance alive.
#3 - Babysitting
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/2017
Reluctantly Lucy allows Lee’s father, Frank, to babysit and then wishes she hadn’t.
#4 - Car
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/2017
Lee's hopes for a stress-free ferry trip to France with Lucy and the children are dashed when they don't leave enough time for the car journey.
#5 - Painting
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/2022
Unfortunately for Lee and Lucy, Wendy rediscovers her love of painting and gifts them a portrait of Frank.
#6 - Text
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/2022
Lee accidentally sends a rude text about Anna and puts Lucy in an embarrassing situation.
#7 - Friend
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/2022
On a mission to meet new friends, Lee makes some seriously bad choices.
#8 - Front Window
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2022
Recovering from knee surgery, Lee sits by the window day after day spying on his neighbours through a pair of binoculars.
#9 - Jury
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2022
When Lee does jury service, he manages to put the other eleven jurors on trial.
#10 - Tent
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/2022
Lee organises a family camping trip into the back of beyond, where they soon discover that no-one can hear them scream.
#11 - Italian Lessons
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/23/2023
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.
#12 - Hospital
Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2023
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.
#13 - Coffin
Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/14/2023
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.
#14 - Train
Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/21/2023
It is Lucy's birthday. To celebrate, Geoffrey and Wendy take Lee, Lucy, Toby and Anna for a trip on a vintage steam train. But Lee decides to play Poirot when a stranger turns up unannounced in their carriage and Lucy's special day is ruined.
#15 - Beep
Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/28/2023
Lucy has cooked a special meal so that she and Lee can spend an evening in without distractions, talking 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.
#16 - Football
Season 13 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/2023
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 the other parents avoid. Undaunted by the disapproval of Toby, who coaches the team, Lee sets about rigging the vote for the Player of the Year.
#17 - House Move
Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/13/2025
Lee and Lucy are moving house and viewing a property that Lucy loves when, embarrassingly, Lee needs the loo. Before he can use it, however, a second buyer turns up to take a look at the property. To dissuade him from putting in an offer, Lee pretends to be the vendor.
#18 - Doll
Season 14 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/20/2025
Lee brings a battered box back from the tip and gets a shock when he opens it in front of Lucy.
#19 - Campervan
Season 14 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/27/2025
Lee has borrowed an old campervan to take Lucy away for the weekend. She is not impressed and wishes she was back at home when a strange woman knocks at their door.
#20 - Oasis
Season 14 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/4/2025
Some might say that Lee and Lucy were foolish to try to buy tickets to see Oasis in concert, because when they lose their place in the queue, they start to blame each other.
#21 - Dragon Castle
Season 14 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2025
Lee and Lucy look to a career in the movies when they play background elves on the set of a popular mini-TV series, Dragon Castle. Their aspirations to become leading actors, however, are thwarted by their lack of talent.
#22 - Hotel Room
Season 14 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2025
When Lee uses his collection of free discount vouchers to stay overnight in a mid-range hotel, he makes sure that he takes advantage of all the hotel’s complimentary services.
#23 - Holiday Share
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/22/2019
Can Lee and Lucy’s friendship with Toby and Anna survive a long weekend in a damp cottage in the New Forest?
#24 - War
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2021
The family visit to the war graves in Normandy gets off to a bad start, and Lucy discovers that her grandfather, Wendy’s father, was not the man she thought he was.
#25 - Carol
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2021
When Lee's feckless dad, Frank, announces his engagement, Lee cannot believe that any woman would want to marry him and sets out to find out exactly what is wrong with her.