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{ "se": "S01E01", "title": "Matthew - a Suitable Case for Treatment", "tt": 585706, "air_date": "1995-02-27", "description": "Agoraphobic egotist Matthew shares his flat with his tenants, sensible Mandy and shy Martin. After they have gone to work he spends his day enacting scenes from films, ordering pizza and watching his home made videos, which Mandy has sabotaged. Later Mandy returns from work to find him in her bed wearing only her panties and blackmails into letting her off her rent arrears if she keeps quiet about it. After Matthew is freaked out by an overly amiable gay friend of Mandy's she likens their situation to that of the characters in the Jean-Paul Sartre work' Huis Clos.'", "cast": [ { "name": "Ben Chaplin", "nm": 1035, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Ian Embleton", "nm": 256096, "roles": [ { "char": "Sean" } ] }, { "name": "Anna Galvin", "nm": 303442, "roles": [ { "char": "Julia" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E02", "title": "Working Girls", "tt": 585710, "air_date": "1995-03-06", "description": "Whilst temping for a publishing firm Mandy meets the bluff Northern author Ron Grimshaw, who asks her to be his research assistant. However over dinner he confesses that there is no job but he is in love with her and they end up in bed together. Martin is despondent as he cannot get a girlfriend so, for his birthday treat, Matthew pays prostitute Kim to come to the house posing as a potential flat-hunter and she and Martin get on well. However after some doubt as to whether sex took place Matthew asks for Kim's services but she refuses, adding that she prefers women.", "cast": [ { "name": "Ben Chaplin", "nm": 1035, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Alan Cowan", "nm": 184517, "roles": [ { "char": "James" } ] }, { "name": "Dave Hill", "nm": 384169, "roles": [ { "char": "Ron Grimshawe" } ] }, { "name": "Knight Mantell", "nm": 544065, "roles": [ { "char": "Chairman" } ] }, { "name": "James Murphy", "nm": 1722099, "roles": [ { "char": "Gibbon" } ] }, { "name": "Leon Black", "nm": 85397, "roles": [ { "char": "Boy" } ] }, { "name": "Thomas O'Callaghan", "nm": 2201040, "roles": [ { "char": "Boy" } ] }, { "name": "Julian Rivett", "nm": 729623, "roles": [ { "char": "Spike" } ] }, { "name": "Nina Young", "nm": 949926, "roles": [ { "char": "Kim" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E03", "title": "Bad Timing", "tt": 585700, "air_date": "1995-03-13", "description": "Despite being flirted with by glamorous work colleague Renate Martin feels he should change jobs and goes for interview as a teacher, with live-in accommodation. Matthew advertises his room to let and is bowled over by applicant Jessica, instantly giving her the room. However when she comes to move in she finds Martin in bed, injured after being beaten up by school-kids. Mandy is bored by her relationship with domestic-minded Graham and feels she is not ready for commitment so she goes to a club alone, copping off with the gorgeous Jason. Later, feeling guilty, she agrees to meet Graham's family - and gets a shock.", "cast": [ { "name": "Ben Chaplin", "nm": 1035, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Zawe Ashton", "nm": 1534698, "roles": [ { "char": "Little Girl" } ] }, { "name": "Richard Banks", "nm": 52232, "roles": [ { "char": "Anorak Man" } ] }, { "name": "David Curtiz", "nm": 193575, "roles": [ { "char": "Jason", "ch": 300980 } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan Dow", "nm": 235612, "roles": [ { "char": "Graham", "as Jo Dow": true } ] }, { "name": "Rebecca Lacey", "nm": 479947, "roles": [ { "char": "Claudia" } ] }, { "name": "Sophie Linfield", "nm": 512672, "roles": [ { "char": "Ameila" } ] }, { "name": "Stephen Marzella", "nm": 1133728, "roles": [ { "char": "Latin Lover" } ] }, { "name": "Kate McKenzie", "nm": 571551, "roles": [ { "char": "Renate" } ] }, { "name": "Shebah Ronay", "nm": 739919, "roles": [ { "char": "Jessica" } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Stirling", "nm": 2864752, "roles": [ { "char": "Body Builder" } ] }, { "name": "Stephen Mullin", "nm": 2200995, "roles": [ { "char": "Boy" } ] }, { "name": "Oliver Stone", "nm": 832089, "roles": [ { "char": "Boy" } ] }, { "name": "Daniel Strauss", "nm": 833802, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr Mortice", "as Dan Strauss": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E04", "title": "The Great Escape", "tt": 585709, "air_date": "1995-03-20", "description": "On Monday morning with Mandy and Martin at work Matthew enacts his film role fantasies and tries unsuccessfully to get the girl next door to come in. In the evening he threatens to evict Mandy but she tells him she will probably be leaving anyway, having met a millionaire who has offered her a job in Bermuda. She returns from her date to tell Martin she thinks the man was a liar who got drunk and passed out. Martin confesses his own insecurity but they are interrupted by a paranoid Matthew who accuses them of plotting against him and tells them to leave immediately. However it turns out that this is just something he does every Monday night and he quickly backs down.", "cast": [ { "name": "Ben Chaplin", "nm": 1035, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Mark Aiken", "nm": 14584, "roles": [ { "char": "Male Assistant" } ] }, { "name": "Jason Griffiths", "nm": 341693, "roles": [ { "char": "Male Assistant" } ] }, { "name": "Kate McKenzie", "nm": 571551, "roles": [ { "char": "Renate" } ] }, { "name": "Heidi Monsen", "nm": 598636, "roles": [ { "char": "Make-Up Girl" } ] }, { "name": "Shebah Ronay", "nm": 739919, "roles": [ { "char": "Hairdresser" } ] }, { "name": "Michaela Strachan", "nm": 833061, "roles": [ { "char": "Special Guest" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E05", "title": "Big Wednesday", "tt": 585701, "air_date": "1995-03-27", "description": "Mandy is dating famous boxer Paul 'The Rage' Johnson but Matthew does not take to him when he puts his beer glass down on Matthew's prized skate-board. Martin meets feisty American Nancy at the local take-away and, after she has told him of the bizarre places where she has had sex, invites him back to her flat. Unfortunately, after going to the chemist to buy condoms, Martin gets lost and has to come home, joining Mandy and Matthew to watch Paul fight. Matthew gets a terrible shock after it turns out that a sleepy Mandy had mistaken his surf-board for the ironing board and left a scorch mark.", "cast": [ { "name": "Ben Chaplin", "nm": 1035, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "David Harewood", "nm": 362873, "roles": [ { "char": "Paul Johnson" } ] }, { "name": "Nisha Kapur", "nm": 438630, "roles": [ { "char": "Mira" } ] }, { "name": "Lisa Orgolini", "nm": 649793, "roles": [ { "char": "Nancy" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E06", "title": "Fame", "tt": 585704, "air_date": "1995-04-10", "description": "Whilst Martin and Mandy are out Matthew goes upstairs to complain about the noise made by rehearsing band Pro-Active but, on learning that they are in need of a singer, is happy to join them. He sees himself as a Rock God and considers raising the tenants' rents for the privilege of knowing him. However when the band is called upon to perform a gig at very short notice the mere act of having to leave the flat increases his agoraphobic terror and he merely moans and whimpers whilst on stage. Nonetheless rock magazine The Dog's Bollocks believes this to be a perfect interpretation of post-Modernist pain and praises his non-performance.", "cast": [ { "name": "Ben Chaplin", "nm": 1035, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Alastair Mackenzie", "nm": 533258, "roles": [ { "char": "Chris", "as Sam Mackenzie": true } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan McGuinness", "nm": 570132, "roles": [ { "char": "the Fury", "as Jonathan Mcguinness": true } ] }, { "name": "Danny Swanson", "nm": 841776, "roles": [ { "char": "Giles" } ] }, { "name": "Martyn Barry", "nm": 1156852, "roles": [ { "char": "Boy in Pub", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E01", "title": "Roundheads & Cavaliers", "tt": 766175, "air_date": "1996-09-16", "description": "Martin has to go to casualty, where he meets and is smitten by Irish nurse Clare, whom he takes on a date. She explains that she is a virgin and wants Martin to be her first. He is nervous but takes advice from Mandy - who has actually decided to eschew sex until she meets the right man. Clare comes to Martin's flat but whilst he out buying pizzas Matthew hits on her. She hits back - literally and leaves an injured Matthew in the hall to have sex with Martin.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E02", "title": "Slime Surfers & Jissom Monkeys", "tt": 585707, "air_date": "1996-09-23", "description": "Whilst Martin bores everybody by boasting that he has a girlfriend Mandy attracts the attention of Italian teacher Marco, whom she tells she is a virgin. As Matthew sinks into depression Mandy brings in her psychologist friend Jason to help, passing him off as a straight Australian cousin although he is gay and soon finds himself in love with Matthew. Too naïve to realize the truth Matthew, under the impression that he is teaching Jason how to pick up women, kisses and goes to bed with him.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Mark Powley", "nm": 694667, "roles": [ { "char": "Jason", "ch": 300980 } ] }, { "name": "Oliver Haden", "nm": 352772, "roles": [ { "char": "Marco" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E03", "title": "Double Hard Bastards & Girly Shirt-Lifting Tosspieces", "tt": 585703, "air_date": "1996-09-30", "description": "Martin becomes obsessive about Clare after she praises work colleague Dr Harding and follows her to a staff night out where he makes a fool of himself by not realizing that Dr Harding is a platonic woman friend. Matthew assists Mandy in deceiving Marco into believing that she is a virgin but the deceit is discovered when Marco turns up unexpectedly whilst Matthew is watching a video he secretly made of Mandy having sex. Jason, in love with Matthew, coaxes him out of the house to the park and a gym where he acquires some gay admirers. Newly confident Matthew goes to the corner shop and foils a robber by hitting him with his surf board but he is traumatized by the experience and reverts back to not wanting to go out.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Mark Powley", "nm": 694667, "roles": [ { "char": "Jason", "ch": 300980 } ] }, { "name": "Oliver Haden", "nm": 352772, "roles": [ { "char": "Marco" } ] }, { "name": "John Partridge", "nm": 664049, "roles": [ { "char": "Ian" } ] }, { "name": "Daniel O'Grady", "nm": 641090, "roles": [ { "char": "Fred" } ] }, { "name": "Lone Vidahl", "nm": 896245, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr Harding" } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan Stratt", "nm": 833609, "roles": [ { "char": "Robber" } ] }, { "name": "Bhasker Patel", "nm": 80282, "roles": [ { "char": "Shopkeeper" } ] }, { "name": "Ritu Jutla", "nm": 2225096, "roles": [ { "char": "Zara" } ] }, { "name": "Jean Ainslie", "nm": 14713, "roles": [ { "char": "Woman in Park" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E04", "title": "Heavy Bondage & Custard Creams", "tt": 585705, "air_date": "1996-10-07", "description": "Mandy gets an unexpected visit from childhood sweetheart Stoat, who says he has been away at sea but a television news flash reveals that he is one of three escaped convicts. Annoyed that he is not described as dangerous he ties up Mandy, Clare, Jason and Matthew, having previously tied up Martin and stripped him of his suit. Mandy outwits him by suggesting a bondage session and calling the police whilst he is tied up. Afterwards everybody is jubilant - until Clare announces she is dumping Martin to go around the world and Matthew discovers that Jason is gay.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Mark Powley", "nm": 694667, "roles": [ { "char": "Jason", "ch": 300980 } ] }, { "name": "Eddie Marsan", "nm": 550371, "roles": [ { "char": "Stoat" } ] }, { "name": "Ruth Arnold", "nm": 36621, "roles": [ { "char": "Reporter" } ] }, { "name": "Helena McCarthy", "nm": 565151, "roles": [ { "char": "Woman with Dog" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E05", "title": "Tangerine Candyfloss & Herne Bay Rock", "tt": 585708, "air_date": "1996-10-14", "description": "Tired of being regarded as a sex object at work Mandy decides to go back to university and asks for a reference from Brian Kennedy, the former English tutor whom, unlike her friend Julia, she really fancied. Mandy meets up with Brian and they return to his house where she discovers not only that she must have been mad to fancy him when he tries to grope her but that he married Julia. Feeling sorry for Martin she sends a friend Hannah round to go on a date with him. Matthew is so impressed that Martin can pull that he decides to dye his hair red to be another 'flame-haired Adonis'.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Matthew Marsh", "nm": 550624, "roles": [ { "char": "Brian Kennedy" } ] }, { "name": "Rebecca Blake", "nm": 86700, "roles": [ { "char": "Hannah" } ] }, { "name": "Elaine Lordan", "nm": 520522, "roles": [ { "char": "Julia" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S02E06", "title": "Bruce Willis & Robert De Niro Holding a Fish", "tt": 585702, "air_date": "1996-10-21", "description": "Mandy is dating Patrick, a very bad stand-up comedian who does hopeless Bruce Willis impressions. Clare is still at the hospital but refusing to go back with Martin, whom she finds boring, so he becomes a volunteer on a Samaritans-type help-line and gives his home number to a girl called Tesni. Whilst Martin is out a suicidal Tesni phones and Matthew forces himself out of the flat to see her though she has recovered when he gets to her flat. However he passes out and comes to in hospital in the arms of Tesni's friend Susie. Patrick is also in hospital having been beaten up by Bruce Willis's cousin, as is Martin, feigning an overdose to win back Clare - unsuccessfully.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Fay Masterson", "nm": 557739, "roles": [ { "char": "Susie" } ] }, { "name": "Lou Gish", "nm": 321092, "roles": [ { "char": "Tesni" } ] }, { "name": "Daniel Taylor", "nm": 1713783, "roles": [ { "char": "Patrick" } ] }, { "name": "Angela Curran", "nm": 192805, "roles": [ { "char": "Sarah" } ] }, { "name": "Frances White", "nm": 924788, "roles": [ { "char": "Nurse" } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Keogh", "nm": 449040, "roles": [ { "char": "Woman in Precinct" } ] }, { "name": "Richard Strange", "nm": 833380, "roles": [ { "char": "Praying Man" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E01", "title": "Palms, Pigs and Bad Debts", "tt": 779388, "air_date": "1998-01-02", "description": "Martin is still pining for Clare, having written a novel about her and the others charge him money each time he mentions her name. Matthew has had cards printed advertising himself as a palm reader though his agoraphobia precludes any customers and the one female visitor to the flat, Tess Freeman, whom he wrongly believes to be a transsexual, is actually a debt collector chasing Mandy for the £9,000 pounds she owes on her credit cards. Fortunately Mandy's gentlemanly new boss Archie has taken a shine to her and gives her an interest-free loan to pay off the debt.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Crispin Bonham-Carter", "nm": 94502, "roles": [ { "char": "Archie", "ch": 300981 } ] }, { "name": "Evelyn Doggart", "nm": 230490, "roles": [ { "char": "Tess" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E02", "title": "Martin's Baby", "tt": 779389, "air_date": "1998-01-09", "description": "Whilst in the video shop with Mandy, Martin meets up with Clare and her baby Rosie, of whom he is the father. However Clare believes Martin would not make a good parent and does not want him to see Rosie so he turns up at her house unannounced, finding another man there whom he mistakes for Clare's new boyfriend, though he has only come to fix the washing machine. Martin decides to consult a lawyer regarding his parental rights whilst Mandy starts to date Archie, who impresses Matthew with his tales of being in the Marines.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Crispin Bonham-Carter", "nm": 94502, "roles": [ { "char": "Archie", "ch": 300981 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Abi Ford", "nm": 2201018, "roles": [ { "char": "Video Shop Assistant" } ] }, { "name": "James March", "nm": 1622551, "roles": [ { "char": "Bob" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E03", "title": "Marines and Vacuum Cleaner", "tt": 779390, "air_date": "1998-01-16", "description": "Inspired by Archie, Matthew declares his ambition to become a Marine - in honour of his brother Danny, who died in a road crash days before going into action. He builds an assault course in the flat but also gets himself into an awkward situation when he tries to pleasure himself with a vacuum cleaner and gets stuck, requiring Clare to come round and rescue him. Archie comes in and reveals that he was the one whose brother Danny died in the crash - before Mandy and Archie have satisfactory sex.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Crispin Bonham-Carter", "nm": 94502, "roles": [ { "char": "Archie", "ch": 300981 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E04", "title": "Crabs", "tt": 779391, "air_date": "1998-01-23", "description": "Clare tells Martin he would make a dreadful father and announces that she has found somebody else. Mandy tries to impress Archie's mother and his sister Lulu by cooking them a meal of crab but she is nervous and resorts to a few glasses of Dutch courage with the result that she passes out. Although not invited to the meal Matthew and Martin save the day through Martin's prowess with microwave meals. Lulu, however, mistakenly believes that Rosie is Mandy's daughter and that she only wants to marry Archie to give her a name and for his money.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Crispin Bonham-Carter", "nm": 94502, "roles": [ { "char": "Archie", "ch": 300981 } ] }, { "name": "Rowena Cooper", "nm": 178357, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs Glenister" } ] }, { "name": "Lucy Briers", "nm": 108939, "roles": [ { "char": "Lulu" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E05", "title": "Laura", "tt": 585699, "air_date": "1998-01-30", "description": "Martin discovers that Clare is planning to move to Australia with baby Rosie and boyfriend Shane and consults a lawyer to stop them, though he fires him when he believes him to be mad. He then plans to abduct Rosie and take her to Brazil but abandons the idea on seeing how well Clare and Rosie bond. Matthew begins an affair with married Laura from the upstairs flat but Martin and Mandy do not believe his claims as he has lied to them about sexual partners before. Martin learns that it is true having hidden behind the sofa when Laura and Matthew were having sex but Mandy does not believe him so Matthew shouts the truth to her. As a result Laura's husband hears and when Martin goes to answer the door to him punches him.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Clare", "ch": 36084 } ] }, { "name": "Louise Delamere", "nm": 216220, "roles": [ { "char": "Laura" } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan Coy", "nm": 185329, "roles": [ { "char": "Nash" } ] }, { "name": "Steve Hope Wynne", "nm": 1234937, "roles": [ { "char": "Nigel", "as Steve Hope-Wynne": true } ] }, { "name": "Mal Barter", "nm": 2223032, "roles": [ { "char": "Shane" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S03E06", "title": "Wedding Day", "tt": 787360, "air_date": "1998-02-06", "description": "After hearing from Clare that she is marrying Shane and settling in Australia, Martin accompanies Mandy on her hen night and meets an English girl, Rachel, the exact double of Clare. She is interested in a date until he asks her to wear a nurse's uniform and speak in an Irish accent to remind him of his lost love, whereupon she drops him. After problems with the hired limousine Martin drives Mandy to the church for her wedding with Archie with Matthew in the boot. Sadly the groom never arrives. Having been set a number of pre-nuptial dares by his old army friends he had died in a car crash after setting out to get a speeding ticket as one of his challenges. The boys then take Mandy home and comfort her.", "cast": [ { "name": "Matthew Cottle", "nm": 183042, "roles": [ { "char": "Martin", "ch": 444871 } ] }, { "name": "Samantha Womack", "nm": 418379, "roles": [ { "char": "Mandy", "ch": 36083, "as Samantha Janus": true } ] }, { "name": "Neil Stuke", "nm": 836146, "roles": [ { "char": "Matthew", "ch": 245896 } ] }, { "name": "Crispin Bonham-Carter", "nm": 94502, "roles": [ { "char": "Archie", "ch": 300981 } ] }, { "name": "Tracy Keating", "nm": 444151, "roles": [ { "char": "Rachel" } ] }, { "name": "Alistair Petrie", "nm": 677944, "roles": [ { "char": "Charles" } ] }, { "name": "Ewan Bailey", "nm": 47257, "roles": [ { "char": "Usher" } ] } ] }
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