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- Gary and Dorothy agree on having an open relationship.
- Gary has a dream in which he and Dorothy are at the altar, both pregnant. After initial repulsion he starts to warm to the idea of being a father, buying a huge cuddly rabbit, but after seeing the contents of his brief-case Dorothy decides he is too immature to father her children. Tony is given the key to Deborah's flat to let in the boiler repair man but reads her diary and upsets orange juice into her knicker drawer, necessitating a trip to the laundrette and - after all the colours have run - fabricating a burglary though Deborah does not buy it.
- On a wild and stormy night Deborah cannot sleep because of the sound of the broken garden fence flapping so Tony goes out to mend it. He soothes Deborah's anxieties and even gets to kiss her but is interrupted by the sound of the fence flapping again. Gary meanwhile goes to an all night chemist when Dorothy has indigestion but has left his money behind so he makes up a concoction of his own before being sent out again.
- Gary is feeling middle-aged. Not only is he dressing like George but Anthea mistakes him for their older colleague. He decides to prove his youth by going to a rave but, after getting lost, he eventually throws up on arrival. Deborah is now a mature student and is befriended by the very young Adam, of whom Tony is insanely jealous, though she declines to have sex with both of them. Tony and Gary ultimately agree that the only way to act their age is to dance very badly in the Crown.
- Bored, depressed and out of work, Deborah decides to sell her flat and go travelling in Asia. Gary and Tony are horrified and try to change her mind by foul means. But the smooth estate agent selling her flat seems to have a better tactic.
- Interspersed with fantasy scenes of a glorious traditional Christmas in which the two couples are waited on by George and Anthea comes the reality in which Gary shuts the door and carol-singers, nobody gets the present they want and, although Gary offers to cook the turkey, he forgets to turn the oven on. When he finally gets it right he gets so drunk he passes out and the meat is burned to a crisp. Deborah meanwhile tells Tony she thinks they should split up because he is so childish. Feeling guilty she follows him to the pub where Ken has created a bizarre crib but the guilt disappears when she sees Tony cavorting with a stripper. Eventually she forgives him and the two couples have an ersatz Christmas, thanks to last minute shopping at the all-night garage.
- When Dorothy complains that the flat is a mess Gary hires attractive Portuguese Elena, who has a boyfriend back home but is still pursued by Gary. Tony loses his job at the pub to Les's brother but, in order to make Deborah jealous, pretends that Elena is his girlfriend. Deborah sees through the deception and when Dorothy arrives home unexpectedly to find Gary trying to romance Elena he has to think quickly - like claiming that she is the cleaner's twin sister.
- 1992–2014TV-147.2 (43)TV EpisodeGary and Tony are fantasizing about the components of their ideal woman. Tony is especially attracted to singer Kylie Minogue and writes to ask her for a meeting but gets a knock-back. Next day Kylie Minogue herself rings the bell. She has crashed her car into Tony's van and wants to swap insurance details. Neither of the guys recognize her, not even believing that she is a genuine Australian and asking her to unblock the sink. Only after she has gone and they read her details do they realize that they have met Kylie and let her slip through their fingers.
- Stuck in a traffic jam Gary forces Dorothy to sound the horn but leaves her to face the violent driver this has offended. To prove he is not a coward he arranges for a stooge to meet him at the pub so he can impress Dorothy by hitting him. He certainly floors a rude and insulting man, though this was not the stooge in question. Tony, now working at the pub, is intrigued when Deborah's friend Judy comes to stay and suspects that they are Lesbians. Deborah plays along.
- Tony, sporting a moustache and glasses, is now a postman and takes the job very seriously - too seriously for Deborah, who misses the old stupid Tony and no longer finds him sexy. After a word from Dorothy, however, the old Tony returns. Gary's office closes and, unlike George and Anthea, he has no other job to go to. Whilst he is having a farewell drink in the pub with them he gets the call to say that Dorothy is about to give birth. He rushes home but accidentally knocks out the midwife and, as he is drunk, is no help when it comes to delivery. Fortunately Deborah is on hand to bring his baby daughter into the world. Later the quartet - and baby - sit on the sofa to look to the future.
- To celebrate getting back together again with Gary Dorothy cooks a meal but first Gary and Tony repair to the pub where landlord Les invites them to sample his guest ales. Inevitably the pair get very drunk and, when they return home, find that they have been locked out. Gary breaks in and crawls into bed with an unimpressed Dorothy but Tony ends up in the shed.
- Dermot has moved out of the flat, so Gary starts searching for a new flatmate.
- Gary is attending a security conference in Worthing and invites the others along - though they all end up sharing a cramped hotel room. On the first night the lads steal a huge ornamental fish which they hide in the room and have to keep bribing the chambermaid to keep quiet about it After Dorothy has told her she is pregnant Deborah is horrified to see Gary kissing Wendy, another delegate with whom he has fallen in love and asks Tony to do something to break them up. Tony's answer is to date Wendy though they are caught by Gary, which leads to a fight on the crazy golf course and Gary realising where his heart really lies - with Dorothy.
- Tony has bought a van and an electric blanket and he intends to use them. Gary gets stuck in a lift with Deborah and hopes nobody rescues them.
- When Dorothy and Deborah go away for the weekend Tony builds a sauna in the she - or a shedna, as he terms it. The lads meet two attractive girls who are staying next door and invite them to a barbecue, followed by a session in the shedna. Whilst Tony fails to get anywhere with the happily married Paula Gary is seduced by Carol, though he later feels unusually guilty, believing he has done Dorothy wrong. Tony finally persuades Deborah to try the shedna but it blows up before they can use it.
- 1992–201424mPG7.3 (105)TV EpisodeTony tries to figure out the best way to break up with Pat in order to have "credibility" to make a move on Deborah, who has a fever that gives Tony the perfect chance to take care of her. Gary tries to organize cleaning duties in the house, but slightly overdoes it by putting a full year planner on the wall - which does not sit well with Deborah.
- Dorothy is having bed rest after having her appendix taken out but Gary's nursing skills leave much to be desired as he pretends the appendix is a moustache and races around the flat in her wheelchair. Dorothy gets revenge by pretending Gary has killed her. Tony finds he needs to wear glasses but, after everybody has laughed at him, opts for contact lenses instead. They still blur his vision though, especially when Gary offers him the appendix claiming it is a pickled chilli.
- Tony annoys Deborah with his lack of attention span whilst they are watching television, leading to her declaring that she is fond of him but cannot date him because of his immaturity. To impress that he can be responsible he takes to doing voluntary work in an old folks' home - only to find that Deborah has another boyfriend. Gary becomes suspicious meanwhile that Dorothy is seeing somebody else and shadows her, using a number of not very convincing disguises.
- The two couples go on a camping weekend but whilst Deborah and Tony are in love Dorothy and Gary are decidedly short with each other, a situation not helped because Dorothy has forced Gary to give up smoking. Tony becomes jealous when two fellow campers try to be friendly, while Gary is more than happy for Dorothy to spend time with the young men.
- Gary takes Dorothy for a meal and, after a few drinks, proposes marriage to her - which she accepts. Next day he is mortified and does his best to think of excuses to duck out of the proposal. Of course Dorothy knew all along that he was insincere - she just wanted to see him suffer. Tony plants a bugging device in a plant he gives to Deborah and listens in on his conversations with Ray. When Ray slags him off he rushes upstairs and breaks the door down, unaware that Deborah has already given Ray the push.
- Dermot gets a job a Deborahs restaurant. Meanwhile Gary tries to tell George and Anthea, that they may lose their job.
- 1992–201423mPG7.3 (109)TV EpisodeTony's childish brother John and his irritating girlfriend Mandy come to visit and they soon outstay their welcome - running up phone bills abroad, making noisy love and scratching Gary's favourite record, which leads to his telling them a few home truths. However when it is discovered that Mandy's father owns a villa in Spain and, due to a cancellation, a free holiday for four could be on offer Gary is politeness itself. On the couple's last night at the flat everybody bites their tongue in response to the pair's crass comments. They need not to have bothered - the villa got booked to somebody else so the holiday was never to be.
- Tony has moved in with Deborah but is in her bad books after pushing her too eagerly on a swing lands her in hospital. However she relents and, on discharge, acts as a Gary substitute for Tony's late night chats. Dorothy and Gary are trying for a baby but he has impotency problems, a fact of which Tony informs everybody in the pub. He tries magazines and videos but, at the end of the day, following a karaoke session with Tony, settles for talking dirty and just getting on with it.
- Whilst Gary and Deborah are both away for the weekend Dorothy and Tony are left alone together. Tony gets tooth-ache and, having a fear of dentists, attempts his own extraction by tying the tooth to the door and pulling it shut. After Dorothy has brought him a pain-killer they somehow end up in bed together. Unfortunately Gary returns early and surprises them.
- Dumped by Dorothy for her new boyfriend Jamie Gary is extremely depressed and the noisy love-making of Tony and his girlfriend Jill does not help. When Deborah and her new man invite Dorothy and Jamie to dinner Gary tries to counter with a party of his own but nobody turns up and the food is the left-overs from the pub. Drunk and desperate Gary crashes the party upstairs, making a fool of himself, and has to be rescued by Tony - though, since Jill has left him because he will not throw out his girlie magazines - Tony ends up getting even drunker with Gary.