The BEST episodes written by Robert Popper
#1 - Maths
Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 1
Maths can help us in our daily lives - for example, in cooking pasta, in calculating the correct moment for starting a conversation, or (if you can fly) in working out where to land. Queen Elizabeth III and Queen Elizabeth IV are going to a party given by Queen Elizabeth V. QE3 has forty dresses to choose from, QE4 has four thousand, and QE5 has only one dress, but it can take the form of many dresses. Then, during the night, QE3's servant steals the plans for QE4's party dress and, working till dawn, makes four thousand exact copies... So can we reckon what the chance is that all of the Queens will be wearing the same dress at the party?
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#2 - The Females
Friday Night Dinner - Season 6 - Episode 6
Adam and Jonny bring their 'females' home to meet the parents. Cue an overexcited Mum and an extremely embarrassing Dad.
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Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 5
Sulphur is revealed, and the story is not really about brimstone.
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Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 2
In this episode we learn about the amazing igloo-building skills of ants and the surprising ability of water to boil eggs.
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Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 7
Iron (Fe) is not quite all it's cut up to be... The use of magnets is strictly prohibited during this episode.
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#6 - The Mouse
Friday Night Dinner - Season 2 - Episode 6
There's a mouse in the kitchen, Mum's hiding in the shed, Dad's in charge of the cooking, and Jim is delighted when he ends up invited to have dinner with the family.
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#7 - The Big Day
Friday Night Dinner - Season 3 - Episode 6
It's Grandma's wedding day, and she's getting married to the horrible Mr Morris. The family are distraught, but will Grandma really say 'I do'?
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#8 - Dad's Birthday
Friday Night Dinner - Season 6 - Episode 4
Dad has the birthday blues, and, to make matters worse, Horrible Grandma turns up uninvited. Can Jim's magic help?
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#9 - The Yoghurts
Friday Night Dinner - Season 2 - Episode 5
Jonny's in a pickle: he wants to split up with his 43-year-old girlfriend/boss, but he's too scared. Grandma offers him some advice, and some dancing lessons in the kitchen.
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#10 - The Fox
Friday Night Dinner - Season 3 - Episode 2
Dad is keeping a dead fox in the freezer in the garage because he wants to get it stuffed. But when Mum needs to use the freezer, Dad enlists Adam and Jonny in a desperate attempt to hide the animal.
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#11 - The Anniversary
Friday Night Dinner - Season 3 - Episode 4
Mum and Dad's anniversary is ruined when Dad paints a portrait of Mum that looks like Margaret Thatcher, Jonny gets a tattoo of a skull, and Jim sleep-walks around their house, causing havoc.
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#12 - Buggy
Friday Night Dinner - Season 2 - Episode 1
When Jonny finds out that Adam threw his beloved 'Pandy' toy in the bin when he was 11, Jonny swears revenge, threatening to destroy 'Buggy', Adam's old rabbit.
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#13 - The Caravan
Friday Night Dinner - Season 6 - Episode 1
Dad's bought a grotty caravan. Jim's got a new dog. And the boys have new 'females' - but can they bear to tell Mum?
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#14 - The Mercedes
Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 5
Sheila Bloom - also known as 'Bitchface' - almost runs Adam over on his birthday. When Dad reveals that he used to have a thing with Bitchface years ago, the boys can't believe it and Mum's not happy.
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#15 - The Cage
Friday Night Dinner - Season 6 - Episode 5
Jim sets up a giant dog cage for Milson in the Goodmans' living room, and Aunty Val's got a hot date with a 'sex robot'.
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#16 - The Date
Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 6
Adam comes home to find the house looking immaculate and the table set for five. The doorbell rings and in walks Tanya Green, the girl Mum has been trying to set up with Adam.
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#17 - The New Car
Friday Night Dinner - Season 2 - Episode 4
Jim has made a cake to celebrate his dog Wilson's birthday, while the family return from a spin in Jonny's new but uncool company car to find something awful has happened to the house.
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#18 - Mr Morris
Friday Night Dinner - Season 2 - Episode 2
The boys are excited, because Grandma is coming for dinner, and she's bringing her new boyfriend. 'He's not her boyfriend,' says mum, he's her 'male companion'.
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#19 - The Jingle
Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 2
Adam and Jonny are desperate to know why Dad keeps peering into his underpants with a magnifying glass.
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#20 - The Plastic Bag
Friday Night Dinner - Season 6 - Episode 2
Dad's obsessed with retrieving a plastic bag that's stuck up a tree. Jonny's sense of style is 'out of this world'. And Adam discovers hell hath no fury like his Mum scorned...
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#21 - The Brain
Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 8
The team investigates the human brain and meets a man who is addicted to Electronic Brain Enhancements. What happens if you probe the brobe? How many nuts are there in a jar? And what are brain flakes? All of these questions are addressed, if not answered.
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#22 - The Au Pair
Friday Night Dinner - Season 6 - Episode 3
The family's cream-tea-obsessed former au pair pays the Goodmans a surprise visit. But there's nothing sweet about this reunion.
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#23 - The Dress
Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 4
Mum finds out that Dad didn't throw away his boxes of old magazines. Adam and Jonny are convinced that Mum's friend's daughter has a face like a foot. And Jim's distraught when Wilson goes missing.
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#24 - Health
Look Around You - Season 2 - Episode 2
The team looks at advances in healthcare, and Jack Morgan goes under the knife as Dr Fu supervizes the efforts of a robot-surgeon called Medibot to create the perfect face. Other presenters try out a new toothbrush that burns away plaque - though with one rather serious side effect... And in a special report, the team visits a Sleep Institute and meets its director, Professor Craven, a man with some cutting-edge ideas.
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#25 - The Loft
Friday Night Dinner - Season 2 - Episode 3
To get out of cleaning the loft with Dad and Adam, Jonny claims to have dislocated his shoulder. But when Adam discovers he's lying, he threatens to tell mum immediately.
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#26 - The Girlfriend
Friday Night Dinner - Season 3 - Episode 1
Adam finally brings a girl home for dinner, but the evening is ruined when the family suddenly have to look after eight-year-old Katie, who has a massive girlie crush on Adam.
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Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 6
A brief investigation of the world of music, from its Neolithic beginnings...
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#28 - The Curtains
Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mum's excited about the new curtains, but the boys and Grandma think they're horrible. Dad drops Mum's beef casserole on the kitchen floor, so Jonny and Adam head to the pub.
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#29 - The Sofabed
Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 1
Dad has forgotten that he asked a man off eBay to come and pick up their old sofabed, which gets stuck on the stairs, trapping Mum and Adam upstairs. Will Mum ever get to see Masterchef?
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#30 - The Piano
Friday Night Dinner - Season 3 - Episode 5
Dad has bought a piano, and the world's most sarcastic piano tuner comes round to tune it. Meanwhile, the family spot Aunty Val having an affair. What should they do?
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Look Around You - Season 2 - Episode 5
The team looks at the hottest new computer technology and meets an e-boffin who has officially changed his name to Computer Jones (Paul Jerrico). Computer introduces the UK's most powerful computer, called Bournemouth. In this week's Challenge, can Bournemouth escape from a reinforced steel cage? We meet the world's first computer for women, the Petticoat 5, and meet its inventor, Patricia (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). The Invention of the Week is the Memory Helmet - can Pam learn all of Shakespeare's plays in the studio in half a minute? The team visits the Grithiffths Game Megamart, where manager Lee Grithiffths (Alex Lowe) shows off one or two of his hottest new computer games. Lastly, we look at the latest in computerized bathroom technology.
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Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 3
You need to know something about Germs. You really do. And Professor Miles can help you...
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#33 - The Tin of Meat
Friday Night Dinner - Season 5 - Episode 2
Mum's friend Val moves in and causes havoc when she finds that Dad is hiding a tin of 20-year-old meat in his shed.
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#34 - The Surprise
Friday Night Dinner - Season 5 - Episode 3
Mum plans her own surprise party which backfires when Dad gets involved. Get ready for the party from hell.
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#35 - The Other Jackie
Friday Night Dinner - Season 5 - Episode 1
Mum and Dad get a hot tub, much to the horror of Adam and Jonny, and Jim brings a date round for a disastrous dinner.
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#36 - Mr Morris Returns
Friday Night Dinner - Season 3 - Episode 3
The family are distraught when Grandma gets engaged to Mr Morris, her horrible 85-year-old boyfriend.
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Look Around You - Season 2 - Episode 1
We visit the Look Around You Music 2000 Competition, a search for the sounds people will be listening to in the year 2000. Three contestants have half a minute each to perform what they think will be the music of tomorrow. Contestant Anthony Carmichael gives us England's first ever performance of rap music. The contest is judged by Look Around You's resident music expert, the Ghost of the composer Tchaikovsky, who speaks through an interpreter. We also meet the chairman of the Royal Pop and Rock Association, Sir Alan Rees, who coincidentally is the reigning French-kissing champion.
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Look Around You - Season 2 - Episode 6
The Look Around You Invention of the Year Award comes to you live from BBC Television Centre in Shepherd's Bush, London. Six leading inventors are in the studio hoping to take the big trophy. The finalists include the team behind a machine which can change your sex in minutes, and it will be tested live on the show. HRH Prince Charles will be announcing the winner and awarding the grand prize, always supposing he is not busy somewhere else...
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#39 - Lord Luck
Friday Night Dinner - Season 5 - Episode 4
Dad annoys everyone with his old ventriloquist dummy Lord Luck, while Jonny's recently dumped friend Ben comes for dinner in need of cheering up.
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Look Around You - Season 2 - Episode 3
This week, the team looks at advances in sporting technology. The world 400,000-metre champion, Ros Lamb, demonstrates a new serum (based on caramel-flavoured rocket fuel) which is said to help her to run at up to 3,500 miles per hour. And Ros faces this week's Challenge - can she run the 524 miles from London to Aberdeen in under five minutes? (But it was not foreseen that she would arrive in Scotland half her original size.) We meet two of the clones of the late Sebastian Jackson, the world's most famous football designer. The Invention of the Week is a betting system - based on a machine made of straw and designed by a race-horse. Finally, the team visits the U.S. to investigate the new sport of Gonnis - which is an inspired cross between golf and tennis.
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#41 - Food
Look Around You - Season 2 - Episode 4
The team looks at advances in food science and technology, and the world's one and only vegetable orchestra, led by Teddy Clarke, gives us a live performance in the studio. We meet Andy Gough, Slimmer of the Year, a fellow who lost fifty-two stone [for American viewers: one stone is sixteen pounds] in six weeks, thanks to a controversial slimming powder. We also visit the food industry's annual show and see some inspiring hi-tech developments. A special report looks at the growth of fast food casserole joints, stepping into the world's only computer-run casserole cafe where the menu features four types of casserole - beef, chicken, ham and porcupine. Lastly, the gang throws a futuristic birthday party for Pam - with a surprise guest.
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Look Around You - Season 1 - Episode 4
Why can't ghosts whistle? Well, let's hear from a ghost.
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