Season 1

Episodes • 1985

Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders
Ruby Wax
Tracey Ullman
Joan Greenwood
Four-Play

1. Four-Play

30 min

Amanda manages to snag herself a flat in Chelsea but is unable to pay for it herself. She has no other choice but to look for flatmates.

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Staying Alive

2. Staying Alive

30 min

Candice is cultivating her latest illness; Amanda is quoting liberally from her latest publication "Spare Cheeks"; Shelley has failed yet another audition; and Jennifer, well, she's just Jennifer.

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C.O.D.

3. C.O.D.

30 min

Candice arrives home with her latest Latin lover, Julio, but just as they're about to get down to the nitty-gritty, they are aware that there is another in their company – the inevitable Jennifer.

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Cancel Toast

4. Cancel Toast

30 min

It's Shelley's big day. Can her ambition to become the next Glenda Jackson finally be realised at her audition for RADA ? However, instead of asking her to do Shakespearean a Juliet speech, they want her to improvise... as a fried egg.

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Ident: Candy Time

5. Ident: Candy Time

30 min

Amanda is miffed that Candice is not paying her way with the rent even though she keeps buying expensive clothes. Shelley suggests that Candice could be a prostitute so they all decide to follow her one day.

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Skankin'

6. Skankin'

30 min

Annoyed at not being asked to help with the street festival, Amanda goes out into the streets of Chelsea to look for needy people. She pounces on two black boys and then phones the festival organiser to say she has found a reggae band.

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Hark

7. Hark

30 min

Oh horror! Oh Calamity! Oh Jennifer! She who is lacking in almost everything, plumbs new depths when she takes Josephine, Lady Carlton's stuffed black dog, for a walk and promptly loses her in a shop. The girls plan various schemes, including a stuffed coypu, and giving Lady Carlton a message "from heaven" by a teddy bear, which is supposed to be Josephine, transformed into an angel.

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