Season guide

Not Going Out: Season 3

8 episodes Premiered Jan 30, 2009

Previously on Not Going Out

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Not Going Out Season 2.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (5): Character development & subplots

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Pregnant

Jan 30, 2009

Lee is shocked when Lucy announces that she is pregnant and he wonders if he could accidentally be the baby's father.

S3·E2 Core

Winner

Feb 6, 2009

Lee wins a £1000 after winning an essay writing competition. A journalist shows up to interview Lee but expects him to be disabled after reading his story.

S3·E3 Core

Amy

Feb 13, 2009

Lee and Tim ask a lesbian couple who have moved into the building over for dinner. They are shocked when Lucy discovers a side of herself that she never knew existed.

S3·E4 Core

Party

Feb 20, 2009

Lee and Tim decide to try and throw Lucy a 30th birthday party but they both have different ideas. Lee is not happy when Lucy shows up at the party with a man and decides to try an

S3·E5 Core

Neighbour

Feb 27, 2009

Lucy isn't happy with the noise a new neighbour is making. She asks both Lee and Tim to talk to him but both are scared too. Tim decides to take up boxing so that he will have more

S3·E6 Core

Speech

Mar 6, 2009

Lucy is stressed. She has an important speech to make at a Recruitment Conference and nobody to help her write it. Lee sees an opportunity to impress her and offers his services bu

S3·E7 Mytharc

Marriage

Mar 20, 2009

Lee is shocked when he finds out that Lucy is thinking about getting married to Pavlov so that he will be able to remain in the country. As Lee attempts to get her to change her mi

S3·E8 Mytharc

Absent Father Christmas

Dec 23, 2009

Lee's father turns up at the flat unannounced. This is the man who walked out of the family home when Lee was four, never paid his maintenance and ate Lee's goldfish. Lee wants him