The Coupling Collection

Two's company. Three's a crowd... So what do you do with six? Being single isn't easy. But at least you've got your friends. But what happens when one of your friends falls in love with one of your friends' friends?

Coupling features six thirtysomething mates (involved, formerly involved or looking to become more intimately involved with each other) who get down to the basics of what works in the romance department. Finding themselves in bizarre and compromising situations, they reveal their deepest secrets, confuse the clearest issues and generally try to make their way across the minefield that is love.

Series 1
When a group of friends - a mix of men and women, single and in relationships - really get to thinking how to get what they want in love, the results are a wild mix of one-night stands, one-lunchtime stands, two-timing and partner-swapping. With dialogue that tells it just like it is, Coupling is one of the wittiest thirty-something comedies to hit TV.

Series 2
The Coupling gang are back with a second series and it's as funny as ever. The group of six thirtysomething friends, some in relationships, some not, are still no closer to settling down and their love lives no less complicated or hectic than before. As they try to get to the bottom of what works in the love department they find themselves in a string of bizarre and compromising situations. From pretending to have a wooden leg to get a date, to giving your girlfriend's mother a vibrator, the antics of these highly lovable characters keep you chuckling (and despairing) from start to finish. This series is the ultimate manual on how not to go about sorting your love life!

Series 3
This series is the ultimate manual on how not to go about sorting your love life! As six thirty-something friends try to get to the bottom of what works in the love department they find themselves in a string of bizarre and compromising situations. Returning for a third series, the Coupling gang are back with more amorous adventures and hilarity.

Series 4
There's a new guy on the scene, a baby on the way, commitment in the air, and love on the horizon. Patrick and Sally have finally admitted their true feelings for each other, while Steve and Susan are most definitely pregnant. And there's this guy called Oliver who has his eye on Jane. Could the lifetime-losers-in-love get it together?

Series 1
Flushed - Steve's long-running attempts to dump girlfriend Jane are constantly thwarted by his "accidental" tendency to keep having sex with her.

Size Matters - Sally regrets turning down a date with Patrick after an eye-popping revelation from Susan.

Sex, Death and Nudity - The attendance at the funeral of Jane's aunt snowballs as the friends arrange decoy dates.

Inferno - Steve worries that Susan has discovered a compromising tape in his video library. Jane persuades her therapist to come along as a guest at a dinner party.

The Girl with Two Breasts - Jeff has a torturous time when he tries to chat up a beautiful foreign woman in the pub.

The Cupboard of Patrick's Love - An alarming discovery is made by the girls about the contents of Patrick's cupboard.

Series 2
The Man with Two Legs - Jeff falls in love with a leg. Sally has been seeing Liam for two weeks and everyone wants to meet him.

My Dinner in Hell - Should you still be whistling if you've got a girlfriend?

Her Best Friend's Bottom - Steve glimpses Sally's behind. How can she ever tell Susan that her best friend's boyfriend has seen her bottom?

The Melty Man Cometh - Following a disastrous impotent encounter with Sally, Patrick seeks reassurance from Steve & Jeff.

Jane and the Truth Snake - Jane's career as a radio traffic reporter is put in jeopardy when she receives some unexpected criticism.

Gotcha - It's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and Steve is dreading questions about their future.

Dressed - At a dinner party, Jane finds herself accidentally naked under her coat and needs Steve's help.

Naked - Jeff's new boss Julia questions whether it is right and proper to kiss someone junior at work.

The End of the Line - Susan and Steve each find themselves tempted by other people. Steve guiltily swaps phone numbers with an attractive woman in a bar.

Series 3
Split - Following an argument, Steve and Susan split up and make their separate ways to the Temple Of Woman.The entire episode is shown in split screen.

Faithless - Jane finds herself competing with the Supreme Being of the Universe. She feels it isn't fair on either of them. Jeff has been going out with Julia for some time. But then the disconcertingly lovely Wilma propositions him in the stationery cupboard.

Unconditional Sex - Jeff, a beautiful woman, and an offer he cannot accept. A very nervous Jeff has arranged to have a friendly drink with gorgeous Wilma who comes clean - she fancies him like mad and she wants to 'borrow' him from his girlfriend.

Remember This - Something stirs in Sally's bedroom. It's three in the morning, and Patrick has been called out to rescue Sally from a spider in her bedroom. This event causes them both to reflect on their very different recollections of their first meeting at Susan's office party 4 years ago.

The Freckle, the Key and the Couple Who Weren't - Jane's boyfriend doesn't have sex - and Steve doesn't have eyes in his bottom. A quiet night in with Julia leads Jeff to a Nudity Hoovering problem.

The Girl with One Heart - Sally is lonely, unhappy and unfulfilled. And then she goes and spoils it all. Susan has been redecorating the bathroom, only she's removed the lock from the bathroom door and declenching is now out of the question for Steve.

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Three eggs, three women, three possibilities. Now Sally's blurted out how she feels to Patrick and has convinced herself it's not meant to be. More importantly, she really, really doesn't want to produce a bald, noisy thing that will destroy her life - and decides to use Jane and Susan as a pregnancy control test, which leads to some unexpected revelations.

Series 4
Nine and a Half Minutes - One bar, three different points of view, the same nine and a half minutes. Susan and Steve are now pregnant (well, mostly Susan); Patrick and Sally are discussing commitment (well, mostly Sally) and there’s this guy called Oliver who has a blind date with Jane. But is his job going to be a problem? Meanwhile, in the skies above an Aegean island, terrible danger grows. Featuring hot girl on girl action with Gina Bellman and Sarah Alexander.

Nightlines - Late at night and a phone call that Will Not Die. You know how sometimes you can’t get someone off the phone? There are too many people in this phone call. And one of them isn’t really there. Meanwhile, Susan is worried she’s turning into an emotional tent; she and Steve are now well and truly an item – so why is he dreaming about being executed by a method Never Before Seen on British Television - and chased by a foetus with an axe?

Bed Time - Since the dawn of time, men and women have been falling in love - and men have been trying to get straight home afterwards. Can fallen playboy Patrick Maitland ever find his way home from the Enchanted Glade of his one true love and get a decent night’s kip? Kate Isitt as Sally makes her singing debut.

Circus of the Epidurals - It’s time to start attending antenatal classes. Susan need a back-up birth partner, Steve is haunted by the ghost of spanking lesbians past and Sally is seeking the solace of a string quartet. Meanwhile, Jane is trying to fi nd a way to out-keen Oliver.

The Naked Living Room - Is it possible that life-time loser in love Oliver might just get somewhere with life-time loser in love Jane? Trouble is, how can you win the heart of a good woman, when your fl at is a little ‘un-edited’, and your living room has lost the battle with magazine nudity?

Nine and a Half Months - The night before the birth of his fi rst child, Steve is visited by an old friend. Or possibly an old maths teacher... Meanwhile, someone is trying to get into Jane’s fl at, and an extraordinary secret is lurking inside the cupboard of Patrick’s love.

Steve	---	Jack Davenport
Susan	---	Sarah Alexander
Jane	---	Gina Bellman
Jeff	---	Richard Coyle
Patrick	---	Ben Miles
Sally	---	Kate Isitt
Oliver	---	Richard Mylan

Written by Stephen Moffat
Produced by Sue Vertue
Directed by Martin Dennis
Executive Produced by Beryl Vertue
Original Music by Simon Brint

"A dish of glib jokes sprinkled with a garnish of farce ... It is novel in that it starts from the premise that young women are now the sexually confident, predatory ones ... The second novelty is unusual sexual frankness." -The Times

"Coupling had some of the best comedy lines I’ve heard in a British sitcom in ages." -Daily Express

"Fresh and funny... caustic, nicely observed." -Daily Telegraph

"Dramatic and hilarious." -The Sun