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Gimme Gimme Gimme

  • 1999–2001
  • 3 seasons
  • Comedy
  • 7.1

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.

Episodes

6 episodes
  1. 1Teacher's Pet

    29 minJan 14, 2000

    Tom decides to become a drama teacher, setting up a school in their flat. For his first lesson he manages to convince Linda's sister Sugar to learn from his wisdom. Jez and Suze have a new addition to their family, a life-size baby doll which is irresponsibly left in the care of Linda.

  2. 2Stiff

    29 minJan 21, 2000

    Linda and Tom are shocked to find a coffin in their living room, even more so when they realise that their landlady Beryl is inside. They start worrying that they'll be homeless and thrown out on the street, until a gorgeous bloke named Pedro turns up.

  3. 3Prison Visitor

    29 minJan 28, 2000

    Tom brings a cat home in the hope of training it to work in television, making them stars. Meanwhile Linda starts writing to a serial killer in prison, and when he turns up on her doorstep they plan to run away together, but then he falls for Tom.

  4. 4Dirty Thirty

    29 minFeb 4, 2000

    It's Tom's 30th birthday and he wants to wake up to Bucks Fizz. Linda surprises him by arranging a party piece, bringing Jez and Suze around to do a birthday dance for him. But Tom wanted the drink, not the group. Tom's dull, boring and prudish parents come to visit, so Tom tries to be more discreet about his sexuality. He persuades Linda to flirt with his dad in order to scare them away. But everything goes wrong when Tom discovers that they have a secret of their own.

  5. 5Glad to Be Gay?

    29 minFeb 11, 2000

    Tom and Linda go out clubbing and get completely smashed. Tom spends the night with a weird security guard, while Linda wakes up in bed with a woman. She's annoyed at first, until she realises that they did more than just sleep. Meanwhile Beryl goes back on the game, and Linda later gets arrested for soliciting. "I said to them, do I look like a solicitor? No!"

  6. 6Sofa Man

    29 minFeb 18, 2000

    Tom gets to appear in a sofa advert, while Linda stars working on a factory line, squirting mashed potato and flirting with her male colleague. Tom makes friends with a celebrity and brings him home, but he hates Linda ("Butt out or get pretty!"), causing friction in the flat.

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Series cast

Kathy BurkeLinda La Hughes18 episodes
James DreyfusTom Farrell18 episodes
Beth GoddardSuze Littlewood14 episodes
Rosalind KnightBeryl Merit13 episodes
Brian BovellJez Littlewood13 episodes
Doña CrollNorma4 episodes
Elaine LordanSugar Walls2 episodes
Simon ShepherdSelf2 episodes
Jonathan HarveyLouie2 episodes
Su PollardHeidi1 episode
William HopeTerry Clinger1 episode
Adrian BowerJoe1 episode
Mark BentonBob Hobbs1 episode
Frances BarberJanine1 episode
Ronan VibertVince1 episode
Andrew WoodallRick Cheesecloth1 episode
David SchneiderNeville1 episode
Patsy PalmerSelf1 episode

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