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Episodes

 

PILOT (Broadcast September 2011)

 

Something Under The Sofa

 

 

SERIES 1 (Broadcast April-June 2012 and December 2012)

 

BEDTIME - Hannah and Tim set out to buy a new bed, much to the exasperation of the department store salesman and delivery men.

 

MONDAY MORNINGS CAN LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS - Hannah gets flustered when she learns of a short notice visit from the company's CEO, leaving Karen to sort everything out

 

THERE'S NEVER A PRIVATE DETECTIVE WHEN YOU NEED ONE - When Tim finds a lost bra and brings it home (intending to take it to the police station), Hannah finds it and assumes he's having an affair with Maddie -- either that or her son is cross-dressing

 

BEWARE THE ANAL PROBE - Hannah insists she saw an alien spaceship and persuades her sceptical husband to call in some UFO investigators.

 

SOMETHING UNDER THE SOFA - Remake of pilot which finds Hannah and family terrorised by a sofa monster, leading Hannah to draft  in a reluctant Maddie to play "monster slayer"

 

THE FIRST AID COURSE - Sir Charles tells Tony to send Hannah on a first aid course, but she hates blood so Karen goes along too.  Worse, the first aid teacher is really bossy.

 

THE BAD SAMARITAN - Hannah bribes a homeless man to help her stage a suicide attempt so she can save him in order to teach the local Samaritans lady a lesson for rejecting her as a volunteer.

 

GLASTONBURY - Hannah underestimates what music festivals are really like when she Karen and do Glastonbury, so Hannah decides to secretly stay at a local B & B without Karen finding out.

 

THE FATHER CHRISTMAS FACTOR - Hannah's Christmas is thrown into chaos when her sister's kids, two sets of parents and Father Christmas drop in - and on top of all this, Tim gets stuck in the chimney - an event that Hannah would rather keep quiet about

 

 

SERIES 2 (Broadcast June-August 2013)

 

FLY ON THE WALL - When a TV documentary crew comes to Hannah's office, fronted by a hunky presenter, it's all too much for Hannah

 

TURBULENCE - Hannah is a very nervous flyer, making a routine flight to Glasgow a nightmare for crew and passengers

 

POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION - Hannah tries to lie her way to a Board job by claiming to be a lesbian Buddhist but her lies quickly unravel

 

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH - Hannah is convinced her new neighbours are up to no good and is determined to find out what they're up to

 

DIET HARD - Hannah becomes obsessed with dieting after an altercation in a supermarket.

 

HAMSTER COME HOME - Hannah loses the college hamster but can't replace it until she remembers what it looked like

 

THE LATE HANNAH SPENCER - A misprint in the local paper makes people think Hannah is dead, leading Hannah to play along so she can hear what people say about her at her funeral

 

IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE - Hannah freaks out when she's faced with psychometric tests at work

 

 

SERIES 3 (Broadcast March-May 2014)

 

GIRLFRIEND - When Hannah finds Josh in bed with a girl, she becomes obsessed with the idea that they might be having sex, and hides under the bed hoping to catch them at it

 

THE MAN WITH THE MOUSTACHE AND LEATHER TROUSERS - When Tim is seen coming out of a gay bar, Hannah assumes its because he's gay and insists that he proves he isn't

 

TREADING THE BOARDS - A washed up Shakespearean actor persuades Hannah to help him with his comeback performance and soon wishes he hadn't

 

PAINTBALL - When a departmental merger causes disharmony, Sir Charles sends both teams on a paintball weekend

 

THE HANNAH SPENCER SHOW - Hannah volunteers with her local hospital radio station, which given her fear of hospitals is not a good idea, but then she falls for her good looking mentor

 

FU MANCHU IS A PRETEND PERSON - Hannah has to host a Chinese business delegation - it should be fine as long as she doesn't do anything racist or completely mental...

 

ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Hannah and Tim decide to take in a lodger.  The final candidate seems perfect until Hannah finds out what he does for a job

 

L PLATES - Having trashed several cars trying to learn to drive, Hannah plays with a driving simulator and gets a new load of confidence, but that still doesn't make her a good driver

 

 

 

SERIES 4 (Broadcast September-November 2014 and December 2014) 

 

BORDERLINE - Forced by the police to see a psychiatrist for an assessment, Hannah has to confront her worst nightmare, so she takes Tim and Mr Tiddles along for company

 

THESE HALLOWED HALLS - Hannah and Tim visit Josh at university, the same one where they were students, and both prove to the embarrassing parents nightmares are made of

 

BET YOU CAN'T EAT THREE - When Tim gets constipation, Hannah goes all out to help move things along

 

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN - Tim goads Hannah out of bed on Friday the 13th and she has a string of accidents which lead her into the arm of a dishy young doctor

 

BETWEEN THE SHEETS - written by Geoff Buckingham, this episode finds Tim in trouble when he presents the church with a  manuscript  of Hannah's attempt at erotic novel writing instead of their accounts

 

CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH - Tim and Hannah host some French exchange students and a series of misunderstandings ensue

 

DEBRIEF - Josh wakes up with a hangover and minus his underpants and with his friend Harry, sets out to remember what they did the night before

 

CASANOVA IS ALIVE AND WELL - Tim has to man up when a lecherous new colleague sets his cap at Hannah

 

THE NATIVITY PLAY - Hannah is determined to play the Virgin Mary in the church nativity even though she never goes to church

 

 

SERIES 5 (Broadcast Septmber-November 2015)

 

SO HAUNT ME -  Hannah believes a scraggly woman who rude to her in the gift shop of a haunted abbey was a witch who cursed her and asks Maddie to come and exorcise her demons

 

THREE MINUTES CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE - Hannah and Tim attend a speed dating event by mistake and decide it would be fun to pretend they were single, not expecting that they'd each fall for someone else

 

KITTEN ON THE KEYS - Hannah and Tim compete to see who can learn to play the piano first with the help of a flamboyant music professor

 

THE LAST BRITISH RAIL BRA IN CAPTIVITY - Josh and his friend Dan get involved in an Ebay scam

 

SOMETHING THAT RHYMES WITH BANKER - Hannah becomes involved in a bank robbery

 

STAND CLEAR - After one of the Board has a heart attack, Sir Charles thinks a defibrillator would be a good purchase and sends Hannah on a course.  With Tim unable to perform his duties in the bedroom for a week, Hannah is feeling particularly horny, so having a hunky instructor might be a problem

 

LONG TIME NO SEE - Hannah and Tim attend a college reunion and remember how dreadful everone was

 

POSH JOSH - Hannah houseits at Sir Charles' mansion and pretends its where she and Tim live, to try and impress the posh parents of Josh's new girlfriend.  All is going well until Sir Charles returns unexpectedly.

 

 

SERIES 6 (Broadcast TBC September 2016)

 

ANYA - Hannah and Karen decide to give sociopathic cleaner Anya a makeover and test her out at a gala dinner

 

THAT ELUSIVE SMILE - Hannah calls upon a professional photographer in the hope of winning £5,000 of shopping vouchers

 

THE WRONG ONE - Hannah is wrongly identified in a line up and sets out to prove her innocence

 

WHO'S THE DADDY - A teenage girl turns up and claims Tim is her father

 

DIRTY WEEKEND - Hannah obsesses about who the couple in the next hotel room are who are having such fantastic sex

 

DISTURBING THE PEACE - Hannah calls on a gangster to deal with some noisy new neighbours

 

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE - Hannah tries to stay sober at Maddie's wedding reception

 

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT - Hannah and Tim knock out a burglar and try to dispose of the body before he wakes up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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