List of Not Going Out episodes

This is a list of episodes of the British television sitcom Not Going Out, which has aired since 2006.

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Lee (Lee Mack), sharing a flat with Kate (Megan Dodds), who is the ex-girlfriend of Lee's best friend Tim Adams (Tim Vine), finds a job writing jokes for crackers. Kate, a book publisher, arranges a dinner date between Lee and Lucy Moss (Alexandra Gilbreath), a serious and earnest author who has written a book about her abusive childhood, in the hope that it will help him find his serious side. Whilst Lee is out with Lucy, Tim comes to the flat to apologise to Kate for cheating on her with 23-year-old Emma, but they just end up insulting one another. Lee's date goes badly, but he continues to invite Lucy out to prove a point to Kate that he is capable of being more serious. Later, Lee invites Tim and Kate to the pub to help Tim apologise, but Kate refuses to accept his apology and Lee himself admits that he doesn't want them to get back together. Lee's relationship with Lucy ends when she overhears him describing her as 'being as much fun as a suicidal tortoise', and he is also sacked from his job when one of his funeral jokes is accidentally put in a Christmas cracker.

Tim's 94-year-old grandmother has died, and as Kate comforts him, the two grow closer, to the point where she is invited to the funeral. Meanwhile, Lee is encouraged by Kate to visit a therapist (Lorelei King), who quickly begins to suspect that Lee is secretly in love with Kate, and suggests that he talk to her about it. He turns up unexpected at the funeral with the intention of telling Kate how he feels, but Tim interrupts before he can. Whilst Lee is getting drinks, Tim tries to rekindle his relationship with Kate, but she turns him down, saying that the past is the past and she doesn't want to get back together. Kate then leaves, and Tim suggests that Lee go after her, but Lee instead decides to stay at the funeral with Tim. That evening, Kate asks Lee what he was going to tell her, but he says that it can wait.

Ruth, an Australian friend of Kate's, comes to stay and Lee is persuaded to pretend to be Tim when Kate explains she never told Ruth about what Tim did. Lee gets a job handing out leaflets at a shopping center but soon falls foul of a local youth. He also argues with Tim on how easy it is to impersonate a middle-class person, like Tim, but Tim finds it harder to the same with a lower class man, like Lee. When Tim also decides to pop round, he then impersonates Lee badly with a strong Northern accent.

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