British Men Behaving Badly

- Season 3

(1994)

Gary feels inadequate when he learns that not only Tony - but even George - has had more sex partners than he has but in the pub quiz he tells Dorothy he has had fifty. She is not convinced so he raids Tony's box of photos of old flames to convince her but is found out. Tony tries to get in with Deborah when he learns that her boyfriend has dumped her but his efforts to impress by diving off the high board at the swimming pool go horribly awry.

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.

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.

Dorothy and Gary go for a romantic weekend at a country hotel and get on famously - until they write down and swap their idea of the perfect sexual fantasy. Jealous that Deborah is going out with Ray Tony, now working as a barman at Les's seedy pub, doctors Ray's drink when he comes in with Deborah, ensuring that he is sick and the couple do not get to sleep with each other. Deborah is not amused when she learns the truth.

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.

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.