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Season 1


"Peep Show" (2003): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Mark's inappropriate hand placing leave him in a bad position with the object of his desire, Sophie.

Season 1, Episode 1: Episode #1.1

Original Air Date—19 September 2003
Mark and Jeremy compete for the attentions of their attractive neighbor Toni.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Mark decides that Jeremy needs a job, because he is behind with his rent, so he gets him a job application for JLB Finance. Mark then goes to work to carry on his flirtation with Sophie via post-it notes cartoons.

Season 1, Episode 2: Episode #1.2

Original Air Date—26 September 2003
Mark wants Jeremy to apply for a job in the same office as him in order to bring in some money for the rent, however Jeremy isn't keen on the idea. Mark also worries as his co-worker, Sophie, may or may not think he's a Nazi.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Jeremy meets Mark in the supermarket and asks him to go to a party. Mark doesn't want to go having been rebuffed earlier by Sophie when he asked her for a date.

Season 1, Episode 3: Episode #1.3

Original Air Date—3 October 2003
Mark and Jeremy go out to a party, where Mark strikes up conversation with a teenage "goth". The three go with Toni to a bowling alley, where Mark embarrassingly runs into Sophie, who's going out with a work colleague.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Mark attends a work conference and in the process makes a new friend, Alan Johnson, which upsets the 'El Dude' partnership.

Season 1, Episode 4: Episode #1.4

Original Air Date—10 October 2003
Mark forms a partnership for his idol, business guru Alan Johnson, and begins to change his lifestyle to be more like Johnson. Meanwhile, a displeased Jeremy tries to think back to "the bad thing" he did with Super-Hans in a drug-heavy weekend.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 1: Episode 5 -- Mark is up for promotion at work, but loses out to Sophie.

Season 1, Episode 5: Episode #1.5

Original Air Date—17 October 2003
Mark is angry at Sophie when she gets promoted for a job instead of him, when she told him she wasn't going to apply for it. Jeremy gets a job at a recording studio, which results with Super-Hans sleeping with Toni, when he brings her in in order to impress her.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 1: Episode 6 -- Jeremy's uncle Ray, is dying in a hospice.

Season 1, Episode 6: Episode #1.6

Original Air Date—24 October 2003
Jeremy's uncle dies from terminal illness, providing the perfect opportunity for Mark to ask Sophie to be his date to the funeral. Jeremy becomes worried when he finds out his uncle died from a hereditary illness, and that he might posses the same problem, leading him to intrude on Mark's planned weekend for himself and Sophie.

Season 2


"Peep Show" (2003): Season 2: Episode 1 -- Mark and Jeremy join Sophie's dance class. Jeremy tells Toni he loves her.

Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1

Original Air Date—12 November 2004
In order to prevent Sophie from falling for Geoff, Mark hacks her email account in order to find out her thoughts on him. This leads him into going to a "Rainbow-Rhythms" dance class. Here Jeremy meets a sexually liberated American girl named Nancy who is determined to break the most bizarre sexual taboos, with the help of Jeremy. However Jeremy becomes jealous when a new member of Rainbow-Rhythms, Gwen, begins to attract the nymphomaniacal attentions of Nancy.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 2: Episode 2 -- Mark's lack of success with Sophie is compensated when he makes a new friend, Daryl, at the office.

Season 2, Episode 2: Episode #2.2

Original Air Date—19 November 2004
Jeremy runs in to an old acquaintance from school who he used to pick on, but is apparently more successful now, and hires Jeremy to make a soundtrack for a film he's making. Mark makes a new friend at work who appears to hold a fair amount of prejudice. Meanwhile, Sophie spends time with Geoff.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Jeff is going on a work trip with Sophie (Olivia Coleman, Green Wing ) to Aberdeen, and Mark is fearful that they will sleep together and becomes desperate to stop them.

Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3

Original Air Date—26 November 2004
Jeremy wants to have a more monogamous relationship with Nancy, and so tries to impress her by sharing her interest in voluntarily helping the homeless. However, to Jeremy's dismay, Nancy suggests that in order to break the last sexual taboo, they should stop having sex. Mark intervenes in Geoff's and Sophie's relationship by having himself sent on a business trip with Sophie instead of Geoff, however trouble begins in the workplace, when embarrassing footage of himself drinking in a public park makes all his colleagues think he is an alcoholic.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 2: Episode 4 -- Mark, determined to forget Sophie, makes an effort to go out with April (Catherine Shepard) but manages to blur the line between enthusiastic new boyfriend and stalker.

Season 2, Episode 4: Episode #2.4

Original Air Date—3 December 2004
Mark meets a girl called April, working at a shoe shop with the ideal combination of good looks and low self esteem, and when he returns to see her again, realizes that she is in fact a university student. Jeremy just happens to be playing maracas for a band in a gig near the university, and so Jeremy and Mark take a trip down to the university. Mark pretends he's signed up to the same history course as April in order to see more of her and begins to shine in his knowledge of the subject matter.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 2: Episode 5 -- While trying to find an excuse to get out of Bob's (Lloyd McGuire) stag night, Ben (Mathew Horne) is reminded of a oiuja board prediction: he is going to die on Friday.

Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5

Original Air Date—10 December 2004
When Sophie tells Mark that her and Geoff are moving in together, she also tells him that Geoff wants her and Mark to spend less time together. In a bid to see more of Sophie, he tries to become friends with Geoff, but he takes Jeremy with him, and Jeremy gets on with Geoff much better than Mark does. However, Mark uses Jeremy to get information about Geoff in order to break his relationship with Sophie apart.

Season 2, Episode 6: Episode #2.6

Original Air Date—17 December 2004
Jeremy agrees to marry Nancy in order to make her eligible for a visa, and whilst she insists it's purely an administrative procedure, Jeremy's sure it will be the happiest administrative procedure of their lives. Mark is glad when Sophie and Geoff break up, but has trouble taking advantage of it as he's set up a date with another woman. A jealous Toni starts an affair with Jeremy.

Season 3


"Peep Show" (2003): Season 3: Episode 1 -- Mark gets mugged on his way home from work by two teenagers, who steal his Blackberry.

Season 3, Episode 1: Mugging

Original Air Date—11 November 2005
Mark's manhood is threatened when he is embarrassingly mugged by a couple of teens, which later affects his ability to get aroused when trying to get intimate with Sophie. Jeremy plans to get back with old flame Big Suze, but this is made difficult by the fact that they're both already in relationships.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 3: Episode 2 -- Merry, an eccentric old friend from university, is back on the scene and she offers Jeremy the chance to manage her bar.

Season 3, Episode 2: Sectioning

Original Air Date—18 November 2005
Mark and Jeremy meet with old friend Merry, who doesn't seem to be in the best state of mind, and gives Jeremy and Super Hans ownership of a pub. Mark's relationship progress with Sophie is stunted when she gets promoted but has to move away to take up the position. Jeremy has conflicting ideas to Super Hans' radical ideas about how to renovate the pub.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 3: Episode 3 -- Jeremy plans to throw a secret drugs party in the flat where he hopes to seduce his ex-girlfriend, Big Suze.

Season 3, Episode 3: Shrooming

Original Air Date—25 November 2005
Jeremy hopes to hold a magic mushroom party in the flat whilst Mark's away for work, but Mark's illness complicates things, and so Jeremy must find some underhanded way to keep him out of view for the duration of the party.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 3: Episode 4 -- Mark's plans for a week off work go wrong when his sister comes to stay.

Season 3, Episode 4: Sistering

Original Air Date—2 December 2005
Mark's sister comes to stay, and Mark is outraged when Jeremy tells her that he loves her in order to get her into bed. However, Mark begins to repay the favor by spending a lot of time with Big Suze, who Jeremy is still extremely interested in.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 3: Episode 5 -- Jeremy gets called up on jury service but falls for the female defendant.

Season 3, Episode 5: Jurying

Original Air Date—9 December 2005
Jeremy is called for jury duty, and breaks all the rules when he meets the defendant in a club and unwisely starts seeing her. Mark goes clubbing with Sophie, but hates her friends, and is forced to fake a drug trip in order to impress her.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 3: Episode 6 -- Mark is worried that he's drifting apart from Sophie, so immediate action is required - he must propose.

Season 3, Episode 6: Quantocking

Original Air Date—16 December 2005
Mark takes Sophie away for the weekend with the idea of proposing, but finds things don't go well as he and Sophie have some trouble getting along. In the same hotel, Jeremy has trouble getting rid of a rehabilitating Super Hans so that he can finally hook up again with old flame, Big Suze.

Season 4


"Peep Show" (2003): Season 4: Episode 1 -- Mark (David Mitchell) and Sophie (Olivia Colman) engaged to be married. Unfortunately Mark is having doubts. Mark is invited to spend Sophie's birthday weekend down at her parents' house. He foolishly invites Jeremy (Robert Webb) along.

Season 4, Episode 1: Sophie's Parents

Original Air Date—13 April 2007
Mark still hasn't gathered together the courage to dump Sophie, something that proves a problem when they go to the country to meet her parents. Worse, he makes the mistake of inviting Jeremy along. Cue a weekend of gunfire, infidelity and arson.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 4: Episode 2 -- At the annual JLB conference, Mark's (Mitchell) boss, Johnson (Paterson Joseph), tells Mark he has to give a presentation in front of the entire board. If it goes well, Mark gets a promotion. If he fails, it's instant demotion.

Season 4, Episode 2: Conference

Original Air Date—20 April 2007
Both Mark and Jeremy have trouble with Alan Johnson as he assigns Mark to oversee a difficult presentation to the JLB board, while the offer of a real life "indecent proposal" involving girlfriend Big Suze proves too tempting for Jeremy to resist.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 4: Episode 3 -- Mark (Mitchell) is still having doubts about marrying Sophie (Olivia Colman), so joins a gym in order to spend as much time away from her as possible. Unfortunately his personal trainer Matt (James Carlton) takes exercise extremely seriously.

Season 4, Episode 3: Gym

Original Air Date—27 April 2007
Mark's attempts to avoid spending time with his future bride Sophie leads him to spend all his spare time at the gym, where he meets Jeremy's estranged American wife Nancy. Soon Jeremy is undertaking a porter's job at the gym in an attempt to win her back.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 4: Episode 4 -- Jeremy (Webb) meets his hero - techno musician Russell "The Orgazoid" (Francis Magee) - and ends up working as his handyman.

Season 4, Episode 4: Handyman

Original Air Date—4 May 2007
Jeremy is thrilled when one his musical heroes, The Orgazoid, employs him as a general handyman - but just how "handy" will he have to be? Mark attends his old school reunion disco and finds himself falling for old crush Sally Slater once more. But with her a bored housewife, could an affair between them really happen? If Mark can conceal from Sally his own impending marriage.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 4: Episode 5 -- As Mark's (Mitchell) best man, Jeremy (Webb) has organised a stag weekend.

Season 4, Episode 5: Holiday

Original Air Date—11 May 2007
Jeremy arranges Mark a canal boat stag weekend, but soon finds himself distracted by the beautiful Aurora. Mark is less excited by the prospect of a holiday romance with her sister, Lucy, but their dad might offer a way out of marriage to Sophie with a passage to India - well managing a call center out there at least.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 4: Episode 6 -- Mark (Mitchell) is getting married to Sophie (Olivia Colman). Mark and his best man, Jeremy (Webb), set off in the car to the church, with a very hungover Super Hans (Matt King) in the back. Mark wrestles with his crippling doubts.
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Season 4, Episode 6: Wedding

Original Air Date—18 May 2007
It's the day of the big wedding and Mark is desperately looking for a way out of going through with it - but he's determined not to be labeled a jilter at any cost. Jeremy still harbors hopes of winning Nancy back, but being Mark's best man keeps getting in the way.

Season 5


"Peep Show" (2003): Season 5: Episode 1 -- Mark rediscovers single life after his disastrous wedding to Sophie, and he and Jeremy become victims of crime.

Season 5, Episode 1: Burgling

Original Air Date—2 May 2008
Jeremy encourages Mark to start dating again and sets him up with Heather, whom he gets on well with and decides she's "the one." Jeremy is told by an ex-girlfriend he may have chlamydia, but uses this as excuse to get close to the now single again Big Suze. Meanwhile a spate of burglaries might help Mark prove his manhood to Heather in a bid to convince her that he's "the one" for her.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 5: Episode 2 -- Mark and Sophie return to work after their non-existent honeymoon and Mark tries to deflect the inevitable bad PR attached to a jilter. Meanwhile, Jeremy and Super Hans's band play their first gig.

Season 5, Episode 2: Spin War

Original Air Date—9 May 2008
Mark and Sophie both return to work after their disastrous wedding day, with Mark determined to "Mandleson" her in proving who should get all the blame. His only sympathizer is new IT girl Dobby, who's looking for something far more adventurous than a USB stick in the stationary cupboard. Jeremy and Super Hans rope Sophie's nephew Barney into their band when they realize he's actually got some musical talent but their gig is destined to end in disaster when Super Hans goes too far with seeing how far they can push Barney.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 5: Episode 3 -- Jeremy finally runs out of money and finds himself on a downward spiral of hunger, homelessness and criminality. Meanwhile, Mark has his own problems - he needs to find a girlfriend before his birthday party.

Season 5, Episode 3: Jeremy's Broke

Original Air Date—16 May 2008
Mark is fed up with Jeremy and decides to evict him, installing an Australian woman named Saz in his place, hoping she'll become his new girlfriend so he can rub Sophie's nose in it at his forthcoming Birthday party. Jeremy is desperate for money and having exhausted the sperm bank, he resorts to stealing Johnson's credit card.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 5: Episode 4 -- Jeremy's mother comes to visit for a family funeral. Her new boyfriend is a military man who Jeremy deeply resents, and who Mark idolizes. Desperate to impress, Mark endures an extraordinary ordeal.

Season 5, Episode 4: Jeremy's Mummy

Original Air Date—23 May 2008
When Jeremy's aunt dies, his mum agrees to give him half the inheritance to the tune of £20000. But his mum's new boyfriend, Martin, believes Jez needs to be taught how to use money properly and so his money will be governed by Mark. Martin's seemingly lesbian daughter Natalie takes a shine to Mark, when he begins working on her father's memoirs - and she won't take no for an answer.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 5: Episode 5 -- Jeremy and Super Hans get a band manager and play a Christian rock festival. Mark comes along as their roadie, and learns how to have sex properly for the first time in his life.

Season 5, Episode 5: Jeremy's Manager

Original Air Date—30 May 2008
Jeremy and Super Hans are thrilled when super-confident Cally agrees to be their manager, but less so when it turns out they're playing at a Christian rock festival. Mark, under the belief that Cally is "the one", joins up as roadie and finds her quite susceptible to his dubious charms. But when she decides Jeremy is holding Super Hans back, Mark has to decide between his new lover or his best friend's happiness.

"Peep Show" (2003): Season 5: Episode 6 -- Mark gets into online gaming and live role-play with Dobby and wonders whether she may really be 'the one'. Meanwhile, Jeremy is brainwashed - loosely speaking - by a cult.

Season 5, Episode 6: Mark's Women

Original Air Date—6 June 2008
Mark's promotion bolsters his confidence, he's getting closer to Dobby through a shared love of fantasy role-playing game and Sophie's ready to annul their marriage - but a drunken one night stand has life changing consequences. Jeremy decides that his life is going nowhere and joins a cult, which gives him a new outlook on life completely. With Mark and Jeremy's lives moving in different directions is this really the end of the El Dude brothers?

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Recession

Original Air Date—18 September 2009

Season 6, Episode 2: Regression

Original Air Date—25 September 2009

Season 6, Episode 3: Immersion

Original Air Date—2 October 2009

Season 6, Episode 4: Aversion

Original Air Date—9 October 2009

Season 6, Episode 5: Impression

Original Air Date—16 October 2009

Season 6, Episode 6: Shunned

Original Air Date—23 October 2009

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