Nighty Night

2004 • BBC

4.6

105 reviews

Rating

Eligible

Season 1 episodes (6)

1 Episode 1

1/6/04

Comedy series about the owner of a suburban beauty salon who sees her husband's terminal illness as a fresh start for herself. She immediately falls for a new doctor, who moves into the house opposite, with his wheelchair-using wife.

2 Episode 2

1/13/04

Jill decides to infiltrate Cath and Don's lives further by inviting Don round for dinner. But her plans for a romantic evening are thwarted when Cath decides to come along as well.

3 Episode 3

1/20/04

Jill convinces Cath to try to heal her marriage with the Caro Bibbens Celebrating Celibacy programme. Don becomes increasingly frustrated and is eventually thrown out of the house by Cath after she finds a pair of lacy split pants in his pocket.

4 Episode 4

1/27/04

Jill moves in with Cath and Don, but things come to a head when Cath returns home to find her showing Don her crab.

5 Episode 5

2/3/04

Cath finally stands up to Jill and throws her out of their house. Jill carries on with her husband Terry's funeral, while he remains bored in the hospice. Jill persuades Glenn, her blind date, to pay for the buffet and disco at the wake.

6 Episode 6

2/10/04

Having discovered that Glenn is wealthy, Jill moves in with him, pretending to start a new life. But her past finally catches up with her.

About this show

Meet Jill, the unhinged owner of a small town beauty salon, and enter her dysfunctional world. Pretending that her hospitalised husband is dying, Jill is on a mission to find a man. She joins the 'Lasso the Moon' Dating Agency, but when her dates don't come up to scratch, she sets her sights on her neighbour Don, a doctor, and develops a very unhealthy obsession about him. Moving in to 'nurse' his terminally ill wife, she is determined to seduce him and bring their marriage to a grinding halt... Will she get her man?

Ratings and reviews

4.6

105 reviews

Aidan Merritt

December 19, 2014

The best BBC comedy series ever made. Sadly, they will never have the nerve to make anything like it again.

Ivan Gregory

October 27, 2014

If you like psychoville and other dark comedies then you should like this. Played excellently by all the cast.

Keith McKie

December 26, 2015

The best ever comedy they've made. You'll not regret buying this for one second!!!

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