The BEST episodes written by Lee Mack
#1 - Escape Room
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 2
As a surprise for Lee's birthday, Lucy invites the whole family to join them in an escape room.
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#2 - Movie
Not Going Out - Season 4 - Episode 3
Lee promises to stop treating Lucy's flat as if he owns it - but not before he has hired it out to a film director.
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#3 - Dating
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 6
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'.
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#4 - Debbie
Not Going Out - Season 4 - Episode 2
Lee's past catches up with him when a young woman appears on his doorstep and asks for a cup of sugar.
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#5 - Lee Mack, Rich Hall, Danny Bhoy
Live at the Apollo - Season 6 - Episode 2
Lee Mack, comedian and star of BBC One sitcom Not Going Out, presents sets from American comic Rich Hall and Scotland's very own Danny Bhoy.
#6 - Jack Dee & Lee Mack
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 1
Joining Jack on stage tonight is one of the UK's hottest stand-ups, star of The Sketch Show, Lee Mack. Guest stars include the cast of Footballers Wives, Michael Buerk, Quentin Wilson and Spice Girl Melanie C, and members of the public get the chance to text Jack with jokes, comments and abuse.
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#7 - Mortgage
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 1
With Kate having gone back to America, Tim tells Lee he is going to sell the flat, and hires a cleaner called Barbara to clean it. Lee attempts to get a mortgage so he can buy it. In the meantime however he puts off all the potential buyers, until Lucy, who unbeknown to Lee is Tim's sister, arrives saying she will rent the spare room when Lee buys it. Lucy soon decides she wants to buy it herself, and both offer to buy it from Tim. Tim decides to sell it to Lee, however, he cannot get a mortgage so Lucy buys it. On Tim's wishes, she rents out the spare room to Lee.
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#8 - Life On Mars Bars
Not Going Out - Season 4 - Episode 6
Lee dreams of a perfect life with Lucy, but can the reality ever match up?
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#9 - Fireworks
Not Going Out - Season 4 - Episode 5
When an old lady wanders into Lucy's flat and makes herself at home on the sofa, Lee doesn't know what to do with her.
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#10 - Dads
Not Going Out - Season 5 - Episode 2
Lee's lazy weekend is wrecked when his scrounging father turns up unexpectedly. Having just come out of hospital he needs somewhere to stay for the weekend. Will Lee take on the demanding role of carer?
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#11 - Pets
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 4
To teach the children to be more responsible Lee and Lucy get a family pet.
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#12 - Babysitting
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 2
Reluctantly Lucy allows Lee’s father, Frank, to babysit and then wishes she hadn’t.
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#13 - Librarian
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 3
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.
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#14 - Neighbour
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 5
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.
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#15 - Amy
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 3
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.
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#16 - Car
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 3
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.
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#17 - Bust Up
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 7
Encouraged by Anna, Lucy considers whether a breast augmentation is for her.
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#18 - Hot Tub
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 4
Lee and Lucy play Hot Tub Fantasy Date with Anna and Toby, and end up in hot water.
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#19 - Camping
Not Going Out - Season 5 - Episode 3
In a desperate bid to prove his manliness, Lee joins Tim, Daisy and Lucy on a camping weekend in the middle of a dark spooky forest.
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#20 - Drugs
Not Going Out - Season 4 - Episode 1
After a night spent out clubbing, Tim returns to the flat wearing the wrong coat, and convinces Lee to help him return it to its owner.
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#21 - Gangster
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 7
Lee thinks that Guy is a gangster and gets suspicious when a suspect package is delivered to Guy. However, there appears to be an innocent reason and Guy goes to take Lucy on holiday to Sicily. However, at the airport Guy asks Lucy to marry him but she turns him down saying he is too controlling, and Guy goes to Sicily on his own and Lucy says their relationship is over.
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#22 - Baby
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 4
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.
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#23 - Dancing
Not Going Out - Season 4 - Episode 4
Lucy and Tim are distraught. Their parents' 30 year marriage is at an end and their father has moved out of the family home - and into Lee's bedroom.
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#24 - Romance
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 1
After seven years of marriage, Lee and Lucy disagree about the best way to keep the romance alive.
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#25 - Home Improvements
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 1
Lucy's father reluctantly allows Lee to help Lucy clear up the builder's mess in their new kitchen extension.
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#26 - Marriage Guidance
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 6
If Lee and Lucy’s marriage wasn’t in trouble before they go to Marriage Counselling, it is by the time they leave.
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#27 - Band
Not Going Out - Season 5 - Episode 1
When Tim joins a band at work and Lucy falls for the lead guitarist, Lee becomes jealous, and decides that if he can't beat them he should join them.
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#28 - Winner
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 2
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.
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#29 - Gay
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 2
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.
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#30 - Pants on Fire
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 5
When Lee and Lucy cancel dinner with Toby and Anna at the last moment it opens up a can of worms.
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#31 - Stolen
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 3
A missing toy keyring causes a rift between Lee and Lucy and best friends, Toby and Anna.
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#32 - Absent Father Christmas
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 8
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.
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#33 - Party
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 4
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.
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#34 - Enough
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 7
Lee and Lucy’s discussion about whether they should have another child descends into psychological warfare.
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#35 - Charlie
Not Going Out - Season 8 - Episode 5
Lee is worried that Charlie is getting a reputation at school for being the class clown.
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#36 - Pregnant
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 1
Lee is shocked when Lucy announces that she is pregnant and he wonders if he could accidentally be the baby's father.
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#37 - Aussie
Not Going Out - Season 1 - Episode 3
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.
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#38 - Speech
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 6
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.
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#39 - Murder at Christmas
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 8
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.
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#40 - Stress
Not Going Out - Season 1 - Episode 4
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?
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#41 - Lollipop Man
Not Going Out - Season 9 - Episode 6
Lee and Lucy object to the school lollipop man handing out lollipops to the kids.
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#42 - Caretaker
Not Going Out - Season 1 - Episode 6
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?
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#43 - Serious
Not Going Out - Season 1 - Episode 1
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.
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#44 - Art
Not Going Out - Season 2 - Episode 5
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.
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#45 - Death
Not Going Out - Season 1 - Episode 2
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.
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#46 - Kid
Not Going Out - Season 1 - Episode 5
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.
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#47 - Marriage
Not Going Out - Season 3 - Episode 7
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.
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#48 - Lee Mack & Sean Lock
Live at the Apollo - Season 3 - Episode 4
Lee Mack hosts Sean Lock in front of a packed Hammersmith Apollo. The pair take pot shots at Riverdance, hundreds and thousands, Cockneys and starfish.
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