Coupling

Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

Seasons

4

Episodes aired

28

Latest aired

S04E06

Total runtime

14h

Timeline when each season aired

1. Season 1 May 2000 – June 2000 6 episodes
2. Season 2 September 2001 – October 2001 9 episodes
3. Season 3 September 2002 – November 2002 7 episodes
4. the show was away for 1 year and 6 months
5. Season 4 May 2004 – June 2004 6 episodes

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  S02E01 The Man with Two Legs

  September 3 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Jeff finally gets to speak to Chrissy, the woman on the train whose leg he has been fancying for days, and tells her that he only has one leg, a lie which becomes ever harder to undo. Meanwhile, Sally is dating a "surgeon" called David, and Jeff wonders whether it would be easier.

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  S02E02 My Dinner in Hell

  September 10 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  After watching an embarrassing program on TV with Susan, Steve bumps into his dream celebrity, Mariella Frostrup, in the bar, but it is not the dream encounter he might like, as she pours her drink down his trousers. Jane and Sally's attempt to make friends with her get him into more trouble as he then has to have dinner with Susan's liberal-minded parents, which turns into a nightmare as misunderstandings multiply.

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  S02E03 Her Best Friend's Bottom

  September 17 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  When Steve pops into Susan's flat, he accidentally sees Sally's naked bottom. This incident leads to dilemmas and awkwardness all round, which are dealt with in the classic sequence outlined by Jeff: the prickles (an embarrassed silence), the blurts (talking too fast), followed by the "head laugh".

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  S02E04 The Melty Man Cometh

  September 24 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Following their disastrous encounter, Patrick seeks reassurance from Steve & Jeff, who explain to him the theory of the Melty Man, and Sally seeks reassurance from Jane & Susan, who try to comfort her with their own "failure" experiences.

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  S02E05 Jane and the Truth Snake

  October 1 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Jane gets the sack as a traffic reporter for a local radio station, and decides on a new career in children's entertainment. She starts rehearsing with a pink snake hand puppet, which turns out to have an unstoppable ability to tell the bald truth. Patrick is trying to dump his latest girlfriend Lynda, but when she says she's interested in a threesome, he desperately starts backtracking.

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  S02E06 Gotcha

  October 8 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  It's one year since Steve and Susan's first date, and he is dreading questions about their future. And then a wedding invitation drops through their front door. Patrick meets an ex who appears to fail to recognize him.

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  S02E07 Dressed

  October 15 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Patrick has boasted to his business associate, Ivan, amongst other things that he has a wife, and when Ivan comes to the bar, Patrick presses Sally and then Susan into pretending to be his wife. Things turn awkward when Steve proposes to Susan while she is pretending to be faithfully married to Patrick. Meanwhile, Jane is invited on a dinner date by Bill, a man she chatted up in a pub, but makes an unfortunate choice of clothing for the evening.

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  S02E08 Naked

  October 22 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  As Jeff's 30th birthday approaches, his new boss Julia Davis questions the girls about whether one should kiss a junior work colleague, while Jeff admits to the lads that he had a close encounter of the Nat (Nose Avoidance Tilt) kind in a stationery cupboard at work.

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  S02E09 The End of the Line

  October 29 · 30min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Steve and Susan's relationship is drifting into a new phase. They are beginning to get on each other's nerves. A bizarre set of misunderstandings brings on a crisis.