List of This Life episodes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of episodes of the BBC television drama series This Life.
Contents |
[edit] Series one (1996)
- Coming Together
- Happy Families
- Living Dangerously
- Sex, Lies and Muesli Yoghurt
- Fantasy Football
- Family Outing
- Brief Encounter
- Cheap Thrills
- Just Sex
- Father Figure
- Let's Get It On
[edit] Series Two (1997)
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 (2x1) | "Last Tango in Southwark" | Richard Zajdlic | Sallie Aprahamian | 17 March 1997 | |
| The day after the party the night before. Miles and Anna circle round each other, Warren tries to regain his memory, Egg discovers cooking and scratch cards, and Jerry finds himself a bedsit. | |||||
| 13 (2x2) | "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" | Richard Zajdlic | Sallie Aprahamian | 24 March 1997 | |
| 14 (2x3) | "The Bi Who Came in From the Cold" | Matthew Graham | 31 March 1997 | ||
| 15 (2x4) | "How to Get in Bed by Advertising" | 7 April 1997 | |||
| 16 (2x5) | "Small Town Boyo" | 14 April 1997 | |||
| 17 (2x6) | "Unusual Suspect" | 21 April 1997 | |||
| 18 (2x7) | "He's Leaving Home" | 28 April 1997 | |||
| 19 (2x8) | "Room With a Queue" | 8 May 1997 | |||
| 20 (2x9) | "Men Behaving Sadly" | 15 May 1997 | |||
| 21 (2x10) | "When the Dope Comes In" | 22 May 1997 | |||
| 22 (2x11) | "She's Gotta Get It" | 29 May 1997 | |||
| 23 (2x12) | "The Plumber Always Rings Twice" | 5 June 1997 | |||
| 24 (2x13) | "Wish You Were Queer" | Annie Caulfield | 12 June 1997 | ||
| 25 (2x14) | "Who's That Girl?" | 19 June 1997 | |||
| 26 (2x15) | "From Here to Maternity" | 26 June 1997 | |||
| 27 (2x16) | "One Bedding and a Funeral" | Jimmy Gardner | Joe Ahearne | 3 July 1997 | |
| 28 (2x17) | "The Secret of My Excess" | William Gaminara | Joe Ahearne | 10 July 1997 | |
| 29 (2x18) | "Diet Hard" | William Gaminara | Joe Ahearne | 17 July 1997 | |
| 30 (2x19) | "Milly Liar" | Joe Ahearne | Morag Fullarton | 24 July 1997 | |
| 31 (2x20) | "Secrets and Wives" | Richard Zajdlic | Morag Fullarton | 31 July 1997 | |
| 32 (2x21) | "Apocalypse Wow!" | Richard Zajdlic | Morag Fullarton | 7 August 1997 | |
| The day of Miles' wedding arrives. | |||||
[edit] Reunion special (2007)
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Director | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | "+ 10" | Amy Jenkins | Joe Ahearne | 2 January 2007 | |
| The group meet again at Ferdy's funeral. The group are filmed by a documentary-maker who want to report on the inspirations for Egg's first book (a fictionalised account of life in Benjamin Street). She suggests that the group should stage a reunion which she will film. The reunion is arranged at Miles' mansion in Sussex, where he lives with his Vietnamese second wife Me Linh. Anna, still a barrister, visits a sperm bank. Milly and Egg's relationship now have a three-year-old son called Oscar, with Milly as a full-time mother and Egg as a successful writer. Milly is not entirely happy with the sacrifice of her career for motherhood, and neither is Anna at the idea. |
|||||
As a run in to the reunion the BBC repeated every episode, two a night, Monday to Thursday, starting November 6, 2006, on BBC Two. It is worth noting that the original run of the first series in 1996 was neither a critical nor a ratings success, with interest in the show so apathetic that it could barely even come under the term 'a cult success'. It was only with the commencement of a repeat run of the first series, beginning January 2, 1997, and then every Wednesday evening from January 3 in a post-Newsnight slot that the show really began to attract serious, but still relatively moderate, viewer attention. This rerun ran smoothly into the start of the new second series, from Monday March 17, 1997, restored to its peak-time slot, by which time the series was attracting praise as a cult hit. By the time the second series ended, the show was attracting strong audience figures for a BBC Two show of around four million, and the show became a national talking point, regularly making headlines in both tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, for all the right reasons, although this is perhaps unsurprising given that the show had been on the air every week from the beginning of January to mid-August 1997. Both of the two series were then repeated late-night in the summer of 2000 from June 12 to August 2 (each episode was shown twice during the first run). Another screening of the first series only was shown on Sunday evenings between March 30 and July 13, 2003. The lack of repeats can be credited as being mainly due to the high number of VHS sales during the late nineties.
