Box set: Coupling - The Complete Series 1, 2, 3 & 4

Coupling: Season 3

BBC Home Video (2002)

Comedy
 /   / Color / 204 mins
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Plot

On average, men and women think about sex every six seconds. Shorten that to every second, and you've got Coupling. This series centers around Susan and Steve (who are a couple), and Sally and Patrick join the gang as friends of Susan (and then Steve), while Steve pulls in his best friend Jeff and his crazy ex Jane.

Cast

Sarah Alexander Susan Walker
Jack Davenport Steve Taylor
Gina Bellman Jane Christie
Richard Coyle Jeffrey Murdock
Kate Isitt Sally Harper
Ben Miles Patrick Maitland
Richard Mylan Oliver Morris

Crew

Director
Martin Dennis
Producer Sue Vertue
Writer Steven Moffat
Musician Simon Brint

Trailer

Episodes

Disc 01

1
Split
30 mins  23/09/2002
Steve and Susan have had an argument about their future, and Susan storms out of Steve's flat in tears. While Steve tries repeatedly to ring Susan, his courage failing every time, the girls are locked in a debate over the merits of 1471, and what it means if the phone "chirps". Eventually the tension at both ends of the phone gets too much. The boys and the girls set out for "the Temple of Woman': in the girls' case, a beauty salon; in the boys' case, a lap dancing club.

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat 

Guest starring:  Mariella Frostrup

2
Faithless
30 mins  30/09/2002
Jane finds herself competing with the Supreme Being of the Universe and she feels it isn't fair on either of them. Jeff finds himself in the middle when he has to decide to cheat his girlfriend Julia with Wilma or not.

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat 

Guest starring: Colin Michael Carmichael, Andrew Collins, Muriel Pavlo, Gerard Gilroy,  Lloyd OwenEmilia Fox

3
Unconditional Sex
30 mins  07/10/2002
Jeff is still trying to decide whether he should cheat on his girlfriend Julia with Wilma, or not. While his friends try to help him, Jeff is no match in this debate for "devil woman" Wilma. She knows every argument that Susan (the expert in getting her own way) has ever used. Jeff paints himself into a terrifyingly extreme conversational corner, until he blurts out that the reason he can't have sex with Wilma is that his girlfriend is dead...

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat 

Guest starring:  Emilia Fox

4
Remember This
30 mins  14/10/2002
Sally is surprised to say the least when Patrick arrives at her flat at three in the morning to get rid of a spider for her. It turns out that he dreamt her distress call. What can this mean? Does Patrick subconsciously want to protect Sally? More shockingly, does Patrick have a subconscious? Encouraged by their friends, Sally and Patrick independently tell the story of how they first met...

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat 

Guest starring: Jason Bailey, Rebecca Deren, David Carter, Rachel Shelley, Ryan Philpott

5
The Freckle, The Key and the Couple Who Weren't
30 mins  21/10/2002
Steve is troubled by a blemish on his bottom, which Susan hasn't noticed. James remembers where he knows Susan from. Jeff and Julia try spicing up their love life, but he loses the key to the handcuffs. Then Julia's chunky ex-boyfriend calls round, and he has to pretend that they're not a couple.

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat  / Mykola Pawluk 

Guest starring: Marc Bannerman,  Lloyd Owen

6
The Girl With One Heart
30 mins  28/10/2002
Susan has invited everyone over for dinner, which as we know is just asking for trouble. Steve is particularly worried because Susan has recently redecorated the bathroom, and removed the lock, thus robbing him of his Fortress of Solitude. Sally's worry is that Patrick is bringing his new girlfriend: she's frightened that she will overcompensate her feelings of hostility towards her new rival by being embarrassingly nice. Patrick dimly perceives there might be a problem, so has told Jennifer that Sally is a lesbian...

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat 

Guest starring: Emma Pierson, Nigel Harman

7
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
30 mins  04/11/2002
Sally is terrified that she might be pregnant, so she takes a pregnancy test and asks the other girls to do the same so that she knows what a negative result looks like. In her fluster she gets the tests muddled up. One of the girls is pregnant, but which one?

Director:  Martin Dennis 

Writer:  Steven Moffat 

Guest starring:  Lloyd Owen, Thea Rowland, Seun Shote

Disc 02

Edition Details

Series Coupling
Release Date 2004
Packaging Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes 2

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