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Coupling (UK) Aired From May 12, 2000 - June 14, 2004 On BBC Three

About the Show:
Experiences of a group of six friends, centered on Susan and Steve, Susan's ex, Steve's ex, Susan's best girlfriend, and Steve's best friend. The central topics are strongly sexual, and deal with the sexual relationships of all six of them as they interact with each other and with outside individuals. While seeming to be a rip-off of "Friends", and, in fact, that is its original conceptual genesis, in the hands of highly talented writer-creator Steven Moffat the show goes much, much further into the complexities of finding a soulmate. Enhancing Moffat's excellent scripts are the well-matched comedic talents of Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean), Gina Bellman (Leverage), Sarah Alexander, Richard Coyle, Kate Isitt, and Ben Miles.

Cast:

Actor’s name	Character’s name
Jack Davenport	Steve Taylor
Sarah Alexander	Susan Walker
Ben Miles	Patrick Maitland
Gina Bellman	Jane Christie
Kate Isitt	Sally Harper
Richard Mylan	Oliver Morris
Richard Coyle	Jeff Murdock

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Episode 1: Flushed (May/12/2000)
Steve is attempting to dump his girlfriend, Jane, but Jane is quite bizarrely refusing to accept Steve's split with her. Meanwhile, Patrick is trying to dump Susan, but Susan is confused as she didn't really think they were actually going out. While attempting to break up with Jane, Steve asks Susan out and she accepts. How will their first date go?

Episode 2: Size Matters (May/19/2000)
Susan invites Steve to her house for dinner. The men argue over whether or not Susan expects to finish the night with sex, while the girls realize that that might be a mistaken expectation. In addition, Steve is concerned regarding a comment of Susan's about her ex, Patrick, who is apparently well-endowed for a male. Steve is worried he won't measure up to Susan's expectations.

Episode 3: Sex, Death & Nudity (May/26/2000)
Jane's aunt passes away, and Jane finagles Steve into attending. Susan, however, isn't happy with the fact that Jane hasn't let anyone else know that she and Steve have broken, up, and so also attends, which means she needs Patrick to come along to appear to be her "date," and also wants Sally along to provide moral support, which means Jeff needs to come to appear to be Sally's "date." A comedy of manners follows, as the need to behave with appropriate solemnity conflicts with everyone's inner feelings.

Episode 4: Inferno (Jun/02/2000)
Susan arranges a dinner party, which Jane horns in on, while bringing her psychologist, Jill along (who has dumped Jane just as Steve has, with much the same success). The gang mistake the psychologist for a lesbian friend after Jane again declares her "bisexuality". The nature of the party becomes strained when, in addition to the above confusion, Susan finds a provocatively titled porn video in Steve's VCR, called "Lesbian Spank Inferno". The women collectively agree that they don't see how anyone can find that sort of thing erotic, which culminates in an inspired interpretation of the film's premise by Steve.

Episode 5: The Girl with Two Breasts (Jun/09/2000)
A very attractive girl is spotted in the bar, and Jeff risks all to speak with her. Fortunately (or unfortunately...), the woman does not speak English, and Jeff doesn't speak or even recognize whatever language the woman does speak. Jeff takes advantage of the situation to utter some words he wouldn't otherwise intentionally use in a conversation (but which Jeff, being Jeff, usually has to guard himself carefully to avoid, often unsuccessfully), while inadvertently giving the girl the strong impression that Jeff likes her rather plain female friend, who is stuck doing some interpretation for them, but is only around part of the time..

Episode 6: The Cupboard of Patrick's Love (Jun/16/2000)
Patrick's love of filming his sexual partners is discovered when by Jane. Rather quickly this knowedge comes to the attention of the entire group. There are all sorts of concerns -- Susan that Patrick has video of her, Steve that Patrick can watch Susan have sex, Jeff that he's missing something, and so on. As everyone comes by to do something with regards to the video of Patrick and Susan (see it, destroy it, confiscate it, etc.), the situation gets more and more out of hand.

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Episode 1: The Man with Two Legs (Sep/03/2001)
Jeff's inability to communicate with women without saying something stupid continues. Jeff fancies a particular woman that always rides on the same train as he does. Eventually he gets up the nerve to talk to her, and all is going well, until he claims that he is missing a leg as a result of a bizarre, particularly Jeffish mental twist. The snowball effect applies as Jeff is introduced to the woman's brother, an actual amputee.

Episode 2: My Dinner in Hell (Sep/10/2001)
Steve and Susan have dinner with Susan's parents (who are apparently overally open about sexual matters). Meanwhile, an ex-girlfriend of Patrick's market's a "model" of a particular part of Patrick's body that is quite well-developed. Patrick and Jeff try to track down this particular vibrator. One thing leads to another . . .

Episode 3: Her Best Friend's Bottom (Sep/17/2001)
Steve and Susan shop for furniture. During the shopping, Steve erupts about woman's obession with pillows. Meanwhile, Sally's finally given in to the temptation of Patrick, but he fails to deliver. This, somehow, causes her to continuely flash Steve when he catches her coming out of the shower.

Episode 4: The Melty Man Cometh (Sep/24/2001)
A continuation from the last episode: Patrick couldn't deliver when Sally fell to the temptation of the tripod, and now demands Patrick to note that he has a problem or note that he doesn't fancy her.

Episode 5: Jane and the Truth Snake (Oct/01/2001)
Crazy Jane. Jane's fired after giving some rather bad traffic advice. Distraught, she takes some pills that cause her to act quite insanely, including creating a "Jake the Snake" sock puppet that can only tell the truth.

Meanwhile, Patrick learns a new meaning for the term “threesome.”

Episode 6: Gotcha (Oct/08/2001)
Susan and Steve attempt to celebrate the one-year anniversary of their first date, while the other women in the group, Jane and Sally, worry that they will never marry.

Episode 7: Dressed (Oct/15/2001)
Jane meets an attractive man who invites her to a dinner at his place. Desiring to tempt him, she decides to go wearing nothing but her coat. And then finds out that he had invited her to a dinner party.

Meanwhile, Patrick and Susan pretend to be man and wife because of a competition between Patrick and Ivan.

Episode 8: Naked (Oct/22/2001)
Jeff finally meets his match in Julia. Unfortunately, or not, she happens to be a fellow co-worker, a much higher placed co-worker.

Believing that Julia means to advance their relationship, Jeff performs a striptease in the office conference room while blindfolded.

Episode 9: The End of the Line (Oct/29/2001)
Susan and Steve are having problems. Steve has accidently given out his number to a woman, and Susan has a thing for Australians. To try to discourage the woman from calling, Steve puts on an accent when he answers the phone, only to find a french sounding woman looking for a particular location.

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Episode 1: Split (Sep/23/2002)
Action continues from the end of the last episode, of last season, with Susan and Steve split up. Steve tries to work up the courage to ring Susan.

Episode 2: Faithless (Sep/30/2002)
Jeff now has a girlfriend but an attractive woman seems to be coming on to him, so he tries to get the gang to help him "decode" the situation. Meanwhile, Jane fancies a new co-worker who happens to be the religious broadcaster at Jane's radio station.

Episode 3: Unconditional Sex (Oct/07/2002)
Action continues from the last episode, with Jeff trying to figure out what to do with the offer of unconditional sex. Jeff decides to put her off without actually saying no, and eventually states that he cannot be with her yet, because his girlfriend just died.

Episode 4: Remember This (Oct/14/2002)
Spider-man. Patrick arrives at Sally's place to kill a spider for her, but finds out that she didn't actually call her, and that she happened to be entertaining.

Patrick, Sally, and the gang try to work out why this strange behavior occurred.

Episode 5: The Freckle, The Key And The Couple Who Weren't (Oct/21/2002)
Steve discovers a mole and is disturbed to find out that Susan can't tell him if it is new or not. Meanwhile, Steve and Susan run into Jane and James (the religious broadcaster fellow) and they compare notes and find out something none-expected.

Jeff, meanwhile, is having some kinky fun with Julia when he accidently traps her on the bed, right when her ex-boyfriend SAS soldier shows up.

Episode 6: The Girl With One Heart (Oct/28/2002)
Susan has the gang over for another dinner party. Steve and Jeff are sacred of the bathroom, as Susan has removed the lock, while Sally is jealous of Jennifer, Patrick's new girlfriend, but Jennifer gets the wrong idea.

Episode 7: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Nov/04/2002)
Sally is worried that she might be pregnant, so she begs the others to take a pregnancy test with her. Shockingly one of them is pregnant, but which one? Sally, in her panic, mixed up the test results.

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Episode 1: Nine and a Half Minutes (May/10/2004)
Nine and a half minutes are seen from three different points of view, and new character Oliver is introduced.
Jane is to meet a blind date, and mistakenly believes that her doctor might be her date. Susan is working through the fact that she is pregnant, and Sally is desirous of some form of committed relationship with Patrick.

Episode 2: Night Lines (May/17/2004)
Steve is having a recurring nightmare due to Susan's pregancy, and the gang end up having a group phone call late at night.

Episode 3: Bed Time (May/24/2004)
Patrick and Sally's relationship progresses and Patrick tries to figure out a way to sleep in his own bed.

Episode 4: Circus of the Epidurals (May/31/2004)
Susan and Steve attend pregnancy classes, and rope in some of the other members of the gang (since Susan might need a back-up for jittery Steve). Oliver runs into his ex-girlfriend at the class, and wonders . . .

Episode 5: The Naked Living Room (Jun/07/2004)
Jane asks to see Oliver's flat, but therein lies a problem. Oliver hasn't exactly been "editing" himself, and his apartment is quite filled with unsuitable stuff.

Episode 6: Nine and a Half Months (Jun/14/2004)
Susan is ready to give birth, and Steve is visited by Jeffina. Jeffina is both Jeff in female form, and Steve's pregnant math teacher from his childhood. Meanwhile, Oliver is promised some fun with Jane, but Jane can't seem to figure out that he has arrived.

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