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EPISODES

  • Series 1

    • 01 - The Serpents Tooth
    • 02 - A Pain In The Class
    • 03 - Droit De Seigneur
    • 04 - The Last Resort
    • 05 - A Farewell to Alarms
    • 06 - Death Takes a Policy
    • 07 - The Awkward Phase
    • 08 - Much Ado About Ben
  • Series 2

    • 01 - All Roads Lead to Ramon
    • 02 - The Unkindest Cut
    • 03 - Parisian Beauty
    • 04 - Trust Never Sleeps
    • 05 - Death & Ben Take a Holiday
    • 06 - Driving Miss Crazy
    • 07 - I Second That Emulsion
    • 08 - The Age of Romance
    • 09 - Get Cartier
    • 10 - Tis A Pity She's A Whore
    • 11 - The Last Supper
    • 12 - Ben Wants A Millionaire
    • 13 - Breakable
  • Series 3

    • 01 - Absent Vixen, Cheeky Monkey
    • 02 - Shrink Rap
    • 03 - Desperately Squeezing Susan
    • 04 - Of Mice & Ben
    • 05 - Imperfect Strangers
    • 06 - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told
    • 07 - Waiting To Inhale
    • 08 - Misery
    • 09 - Auto Erotica
    • 10 - A Handful of Dust
    • 11 - The Lost Weekend
    • 12 - Ghosts
    • 13 - One Flew Out of The Cuckoo's Nest
    • Ding Dong Merrily (Christmas Special)
  • Series 4

    • 01 - Fitting Punishment
    • 02 - They Shoot Harper's Don't They
    • 03 - The Great Escape
    • 04 - Return of The Prodigal Prat
    • 05 - Owed To Susan
    • 06 - Deliverance
    • 07 - Blind Justice
    • 08 - Friday The 31st (Halloween)
    • 09 - Sitting Targets
    • 10 - Loco Parentis
    • 11 - The Canary Cage (Lanzarote)
    • 12 - May The Best Man Win
    • 13 - It's A Window Filled Life
    • Sixty Feet Under (Christmas Special)
  • Series 5

    • 01 - My Family Reloaded 'Special'
    • 02 - The Mummy Returns
    • 03 - You Don't Know Jack
    • 04 - What's Up Docklands?
    • 05 - Luck Be A Lady Tonight
    • 06 - First Past The Post
    • 07 - My Will Be Done
    • 08 - My Fair Charlady
    • 09 - The Mouthtrap
    • 10 - While You Were Sleeping
    • 11 - Dentist To The Stars
    • 12 - A Wife Less Ordinary
    • 13 - The Book of Love
    • 14 - Going Dental
    • 15 - Glad Tidings We Bring (Hour Long Christmas Special)
  • Series 6

    • 01 - ...and I'll Cry if I Want To
    • 02 - Bliss for Idiots
    • 03 - The Spokes Person
    • 04 - Dentally Unstable
    • 05 - Living the Dream
    • 06 - An Embarrassments of Susans
    • 07 - And Other Animals
    • 08 - The Art of Being Susan
  • Series 7

    • The Heart of Christmas (Hour Long Special)
    • 01 - Ego Has Landed
    • 02 - Four Affairs and a Funeral
    • 03 - Once More with Feeling
    • 04 - Dutch Art and Dutch Courage
    • 05 - Susan of Troy
    • 06 - One of the Boys
    • 07 - Abi Ever After
    • 08 - Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do
    • 09 - Life Begins at Fifty
  • Series 8

    • Ho Ho No (Hour Christmas Special)
    • 01 - The Parent Trap
    • 02 - Let's Not Be Heisty
    • 03 - Cards on the Table
    • 04 - The Wax Job
    • 05 - Neighbour Wars
    • 06 - Can't Get No Satisfaction
    • 07 - The Abi Habit
  • Series 9

    • It's a Gift (Christmas Special)
    • Harpers and Queen (New Years Special)
    • 01 - Bully for Ben
    • 02 - Bringing Up Janey
    • 03 - A Very Brief Encounter
    • 04 - A Difficult Undertaking
    • 05 - The Psyche of Mikey
    • 07 - Dog Dazed
    • 08 - It's Training Men
    • 09 - The Guru
    • 10 - Kenzo's Project
  • Series 10

    • The Fight Before Christmas (Hour Long Special)
    • 01 - Wheelie Ben
    • 02 - The Son'll Come Out
    • 03 - Desperately Stalking Susan
    • 10 - The Melbourne Identity
    • 05 - He's Just Not That Into Ben
    • 06 - Slammertime
    • 07 - Ben Behaving Badly
    • 08 - Mary Christmas
  • Series 11

    • 01 - Janey's Choice
    • 02 - Labour Pains
    • 03 - Accusin' Susan
    • 04 - Germs of Endearment
    • 05 - Harper vs. Harper
    • 06 - Relationship Happens
    • 07 - Facebooked
    • 08 - A Decent Proposal
    • 09 - Darts All Folks
    • 11 - A Night Out
    • Neighbour Wars II (Hour Long Special)

S05E05 – Luck Be A Lady Tonight

In order to awaken Abi's interest, Susan suggests Roger should make her jealous.
  • Episode Summary

    • Ben and Susan are watching TV when the doorbell goes and Roger arrives. He has come to ask Abi to go out with him. Abi and her boyfriend Steve come downstairs. They are off to Burger King, Roger is shattered. Susan wants him to talk about it but Ben thinks there is nothing to be said. Susan says Roger must make Abi jealous and get another girl. Ben thinks he should go away and join the foreign legion to get over it. Susan suggests some friends of hers for a blind date with Roger, but Ben says they are all terrible ideas. He will take on the problem of Roger’s love life himself, he is a man after all and all men must stick together. Ben tries to teach Roger how to dazzle and flirt with one of his patients, a Mr Hargreaves, who turns out to be more than happy to play the part of ‘Claudia’. Roger is not too good a the role play, but Ben turns out to be the master. ‘Claudia’ and Roger go off to the pub. Back at the house, there is a value measuring up the living room, and Ben and Susan think Michael may be selling the house. As Ben’s plan didn’t work for Roger and his love life, Susan decides to take matters into her own hands and organize a drinks party, for Abi, Steve, Roger and he is to find a girl to bring. Michael shows a couple around the house, he is testing the marked. Ben and Susan are staggered when Roger arrives for the drinks party with a beautiful, stunning girl, Sarah. She seems to good to be true and then Sarah comes onto Ben in the Kitchen. Ben discovers they met through Yellow Pages! Susan realizes she is a prostitute. Unfortunately Roger doesn’t know! He thinks she is an actress, a model and a masseuse. Ben tells Susan that Sarah came on to him and he is flattered until he also realizes Sarah is a prostitute. Susan thinks they should tell Roger, Ben doesn’t. Michael is showing Hubert round the bedroom, with a view to his buying it once he has sold his parents house. Roger is strapped for cash, he is still paying for dates with Sarah, Ben starts to explain but Roger is so excited he can’t bring himself too. Ben takes it upon himself to go round to Sarah’s house to ask Sarah to leave Roger alone because he is rather naïve, he discovers Sarah is a model, a masseuse and also an actress, Ben is relieved, then realizes that she is also a prostitute! Ben asks her to stop seeing him, but at £200 an hour Sarah thinks Ben is naïve too! Susan makes up ‘their’ minds to tell Roger, when he rushes in and tells them he knows, he got caught in a police raid at Sarah’s house. Roger and Abi bump into one another and swap disaster stories about their dates. Susan tries to set Roger up with Vicki Crabshaw, a very unattractive friend of Susan’s, but Roger is not her type. The removal men are in, removing the furniture. They call for Michael.
  • Cast

    • Character

      Actor

      Ben Harper
      Robert Lindsay
      Susan Harper
      Zoë Wanamaker
      Michael Harper
      Gabriel Thompson
      Roger Bailey Jr.
      Keiron Self
      Abi Harper
      Siobhan Hayes
      Sarah
      Lucy Punch

      Character

      Actor

      Mr. Hargreaves
      Gordon Peters
      Hubert
      Alex Dawson
      Steve
      Ben Homewood
      Vicki Crabshaw
      Louise Winstone
      Tim
      Andrew Alston
      Kathryn
      Victoria Hasted

      Character

      Actor

      Boilerman
      Richard Nichols
  • Team

    • Role

      Name

      Director
      Dewi Humphreys
      Writer
      Ian Brown
      Writer
      James Hendrie
      Producer
      John Bartlett
      Exec. Producer
      Don Taffner

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