The WORST episodes of Not Going Out
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Not Going Out reveals the many childish antics of witty smart aleck Lee among his friends and family in and around London.
#1 - The Out-takes
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2014
Lee Mack, Sally Bretton and Katy Wix introduce a compilation of out-takes from across the various series.
#2 - 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.
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#3 - Friend
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/2022
On a mission to meet new friends, Lee makes some seriously bad choices.
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#4 - Marriage
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/20/2009
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.
#5 - Pub Quiz
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2021
To celebrate their anniversary, Lee and Lucy plan a friendly night of quizzing with Toby and Anna in their local pub, but the evening is derailed when neither couple can bear to lose to their partners and the foursome splits into rival teams.
#6 - 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.
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#7 - 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?
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#8 - Jury
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2022
When Lee does jury service, he manages to put the other eleven jurors on trial.
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#9 - 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.
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#10 - Schooling
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/6/2019
When Charlie’s school gets a bad Ofsted rating, Geoffrey and Wendy offer to pay to send Charlie to Private School, which presents Lee and Lucy with a moral dilemma.
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#11 - Rabbit
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2013
Lucy accidentally runs over a pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of an important client.
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#12 - Small Package
Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2021
Social niceties are stretched to snapping point when Lee and Lucy take in a package for their neighbour and inadvertently discover that it contains an embarrassing object that Lee now has to return. That proves to be easier said than done.
#13 - Death
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2006
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.
#14 - Kid
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2006
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.
#15 - Art
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/2007
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.
#16 - 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.
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#17 - Murder at Christmas
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/2007
Lucy and Tim's parents Geoffrey and Wendy invite themselves to the apartment for Christmas, and Lucy persuades Barbara to work on Christmas Day to help out. On Christmas Day, Tim brings his girlfriend Daisy. Lee buys a murder mystery game, which they all then dress up and play. However, the game ends abruptly when Tim and Geoffrey argue. Lee then manages to talk Geoffrey round and they finish the game.
#18 - Memory
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/2019
Lee decides to gatecrash Lucy's favourite television programme and watch it with her. Lucy is not best pleased especially when Lee can't remember the name of the leading actor
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#19 - Serious
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2006
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.
#20 - Caretaker
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2006
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?
#21 - Parachute
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/15/2019
Toby organises a sponsored parachute jump to raise money for a Children’s Ward in his hospital. Supportively, Lee, Lucy, Anna and the grandparents all agree to take part, but once airborne will everyone pluck up the courage to jump?
#22 - Whodunnit?
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/20/2019
Unable to convince Lucy that he didn’t smash Lucy’s precious heirloom, a blue and white antique vase that belonged to her grandmother, Lee summons the family to a meeting to flush out the culprit.
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#23 - Speech
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/6/2009
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.
#24 - Aussie
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2006
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.
