Coupling
On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've got Coupling.
This series centers around Susan and Steve (who are a couple), and Sally and Patrick join the gang as friends of Susan (and then Steve), while Steve pulls in his best friend Jeff and his crazy ex Jane.
Jeff is smitten with a woman he's seen on the train. Well, actually, just with her leg as that's all he's seen of her.
Susan's sexually frank parents are coming to dinner, and Steve's worried. Seeing a nature TV show with Susan that talks about the need for the male of the species to continue to "enjoy" himself doesn't exactly help. Patrick and Jeff become obsessed with, shall we say, publicity rights. Meanwhile, Jane has discovered a talent for identifying people's ideal celebrity friend just by looking at them, and she has a surefire technique for meeting and befriending those celebrities. TV news presenter Mariella Frostrup stars as herself ... though her cellphone seems to be having an identity crisis.
Steve accidentally sees Sally naked!
Sally and Patrick both try to deal with the fact Patrick had some trouble performing "in the sack".
After getting herself fired from her radio job as a traffic reporter, Jane invents a sock puppet named Jake the Snake in preparation to launch a career in children's TV. Jake's honesty, though, could cost Jane her friends. Back at the bar, Patrick has an ingenious plan to dump his girlfriend for rejecting any hope of a threesome, a plan which backfires when she arrives in mid-phone call with the news she's changed her mind.
The ultimate "ticking time bomb" lands on everyone's door: a wedding invitation. Now Steve must answer the ultimate question: Do you have a future, or are you getting married?
Patrick needs a pretend-wife to show off to a colleague while Jane has a dinner date. Only problem: She is a tad underdressed.
Jeff meets co-worker Julia and is interested in going out with her, as she is with him. Jeff explains his ineptitude to Steve and Patrick at asking women out. Elsewhere, Julia explains her ineptitude at being asked out to Susan, Jane, and Sally. Neither the guys nor the girls are aware of who the love interest is.
A bit of sexy role playing creates havoc between the friends: who is the sexy Frenchwoman Giselle and the studly Australian Dick Darlington?
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Jack Davenport | Steve Taylor |
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Ben Miles | Patrick Maitland |
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Richard Coyle | Jeffrey 'Jeff' Murdock |
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Sarah Alexander | Susan Walker |
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Gina Bellman | Jane Christie |
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Kate Isitt | Sally Harper |
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Lou Gish | Julia |
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Imogen Bain | Woman on Train |
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Shaughan Seymour | Jeremy |
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Wanda Ventham | Edna |
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Samuel Barnett | Sex Shop Assistant |
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Alison King | Chrissie |
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Mariella Frostrup | Mariella Frostrup |
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Stewart Wright | Harry |
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Simon Chadwick | Liam |
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James Woolley | Robert |
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Jack Pierce | Junior Shop Assistant |
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Mark Frost | Richard |
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Ben Homewood | Waiter |
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Ian Ralph | Boss |
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Robert Purdy | Waiter |
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Lidija Zovkic | Miranda |
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Gresby Nash | Mark |
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Michael Price | Barman |
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Susan Earl | Lynda |
| Director | Martin Dennis |
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| Writer | Steven Moffat | |
| Producer | Nick Mortimer, Geoffrey Perkins, Beryl Vertue, Sue Vertue | |
| Musician | Simon Brint | |
| Edition | Complete Second Series |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Distributor | 2 Entertain Video |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Regions | Region 2 | Region 3 |
| Watched | |
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| Index | 283 |
| Added Date | Jan 19, 2019 13:41:18 |
| Modified Date | Jan 19, 2019 13:41:18 |