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Gimme Gimme Gimme

Fri, Jan 8, 1999
  • Comedy
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Synopsis

Linda La Hughes shares a flat with Tom Farrell. Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed with men. Tom is an aspiring actor. He's got an agent, but finds it difficult to get parts. He doesn't like Linda much, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they share a flat. She isn't completely comfortable with his homosexuality, perhaps because she finds it difficult to live with a man who doesn't find her sexually attractive.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Kathy Burke
    Kathy Burke
    as Linda La Hughes
  • James Dreyfus
    James Dreyfus
    as Tom Farrell
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Episodes

3 seasons · 18 episodes

Ended · 18 aired
Season 1
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Who's That Boy?
    Aired · Fri, Jan 8, 1999 · 30m

    Linda and Tom awake to find a half-naked man in their flat after a drunken night out.

  • E2
    The Big Break
    Aired · Fri, Jan 15, 1999 · 30m

    Tom is sure his big acting break is imminent as he has an audition for a Crimewatch reconstruction. Meanwhile, Linda is convinced her neighbour Jez definitely fancies her.

  • E3
    Legs and Co
    Aired · Fri, Jan 22, 1999 · 30m

    Tom is laid up with a broken leg, and his home-help visitor is worrying him. Meanwhile Linda has lost her job, but is cheered up by the attentions of a courier.

  • E4
    Do They Take Sugar?
    Aired · Fri, Jan 29, 1999 · 30m

    Linda's sister Sugar comes to stay, leading to some sibling rivalry. But Linda discovers Sugar may not be as useless as she seems.

  • E5
    Saturday Night Diva
    Aired · Fri, Feb 5, 1999 · 30m

    Tom goes clubbing in order to recapture his youth, while Linda stays in so she can flirt with her neighbour Jez.

  • E6
    I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
    Aired · Fri, Feb 12, 1999 · 30m

    Tom is getting married - to a woman! Linda is most upset so takes a stand for womankind by appearing on the Terry Clinger Show.

Season 2
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Teacher's Pet
    Aired · Fri, Jan 14, 2000 · 30m

    Jez and Suze practice being parents with a substitute doll, which Linda offers to babysit. Meanwhile, Tom sets up his own performing arts academy.

  • E2
    Stiff
    Aired · Fri, Jan 21, 2000 · 30m

    Tom and Linda arrive home to find a corpse in their living room. Has their landlady Beryl died, and will they be made homeless?

  • E3
    Prison Visitor
    Aired · Fri, Jan 28, 2000 · 30m

    Tom brings home a cat that is destined for stardom, and Linda has a new lover - a serial killer serving life in prison.

  • E4
    Dirty Thirty
    Aired · Fri, Feb 4, 2000 · 30m

    It's Tom's thirtieth birthday, so Linda decides to throw him a surprise party - but things don't go so well when his parents turn up.

  • E5
    Glad to Be Gay?
    Aired · Fri, Feb 11, 2000 · 30m

    Linda and Tom have had a wild night out, and wake up next to some rather strange people. Has Linda embraced a new life, and who is the odd man with Tom?

  • E6
    Sofa Man
    Aired · Fri, Feb 18, 2000 · 30m

    Tom is starring in a new sofa advert, which can only mean he is destined for stardom. Meanwhile Linda has a new job, and a new man to flirt with.

Season 3
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Down and Out
    Aired · Fri, Nov 2, 2001 · 30m

    Linda's old borstal warden Miss Twitch camps out in the garden with her actor boyfriend Si. Tom embarks on a career as a writer.

  • E2
    Lollipop Man
    Aired · Fri, Nov 9, 2001 · 30m

    The big time beckons when Tom lands a role in a play, but will Linda get her hands on Tom Cruise?

  • E3
    Secrets and Flies
    Aired · Fri, Nov 23, 2001 · 30m

    A surprise visitor from Linda's past plunges the flat into chaos, while Suze goes into labour.

  • E4
    Trauma
    Aired · Fri, Nov 30, 2001 · 30m

    A fall from a bus lands Linda in hospital, where both she and Tom are consoled by hunky nurse Bart.

  • E5
    Singing in the Drain
    Aired · Fri, Dec 7, 2001 · 30m

    Linda finally realises her ambition to become a model, while Tom secures an audition for a West End musical. But can Tom sing - and can Linda walk in a straight line?

  • E6
    Decoy
    Aired · Fri, Dec 14, 2001 · 30m

    Could Tom's audition spell the end for the flatmates' beautiful relationship? Linda fakes a terminal illness to try to persuade him to stay.