Absolutley Fabulous

Series One - 1992 

Fashion

Edina hits a bottleneck in her attempt to give up drinking: she doesn't want to quit.

Fat

Edina weighs the possibility of exercising to shed pounds.

France

A holiday in Provence goes awry when the ladies find themselves suffering through second-class accommodations.

ISO Tank

Edina's new isolation tank seems to be the perfect thing for life's problems, except for one thing: she hates being alone.

Magazine

Patsy's jealousy over Edina's boyfriend results in a plan to split them up -- and an appearance on a TV show.

Birthday

Saffron learns that planning a surprise birthday party is no piece of cake.

Series Two - 1994 

Hospital

Edina enters the hospital for minor surgery and Patsy joins her for moral support -- and a facelift.

Death

Saffron is devastated by her grandfather's death, while Edina can only think about her own mortality.

Morocco

Saffron joins a photo shoot in Morocco -- and winds up being sold to white slavers.

New Best Friend

A visit by an old friend of Edina's triggers a competition between Edina and Patsy -- to see who can find the better best friend.

Poor

Edina's forced to cut expenses, but a jaunt to the grocery store could cost more than she bargained for.

Birth

Edina, Patsy and Saffy are locked in the living room -- where they all become strangely introspective.

Series Three - 1995 

Door Handle

Edina travels to New York in search of the perfect door handle to complete her kitchen.

Happy New Year

Edina and Patsy are planning to go to the most fabulous club on the planet when news comes of the imminent arrival of Patsy's long-lost sister, Jackie.

Sex

Edina decides that her bedroom isn't big enough. Saffy plans a lecture on genetics and ethics, while Patsy pursuades Edina that they should throw an orgy.

Jealous

It's awards time of the month in PR land. Edina seems set to sweep the board, especially as she's paid for the awards -- but arch-rival Claudia Bing has other ideas. Meanwhile, Saffy received extra special tuition from her psychology lecturerer.

Fear

Patsy moves in to live with Edina when Saffy moves out. However it proves to be a turbulent arrangement, especially when they can't find the tin opener. Further trouble errupts when Lulu arrives at Edina's office to terminate her contract and sign with a high-powered American agency. Patsy loses her job when her magazine folds, leaving the high-living pair contemplating old age and a crossroads in their lives.

The End

Patsy and Edina go there seperate ways, but can they live without each other?

The Last Shout - 1996 

Focusing mainly on Saffy's marriage. Patsy is also homeless, and Eddie's dolphin has fin flop. Eddie decides to go with Patsy on a skiing holiday. Eddie also meets God, but tells her she is not the second coming, so she decides to help Saffy get married. Things go wrong when Saffy's fiancés mother is exposed as an old porn star, and Saffy's fiance is a cheating liar. It ends with Saffy crying that she hates her mother.

Series Four - 2001 

Parralox

Conscious that "One job is so last Millennium," Edina (Jennifer Saunders) has added TV production to her business portfolio. Patsy (Joanna Lumley) has decided to grow old disgracefully with the help of parralox injections to freeze her wrinkles, and Saffy (Julia Sawalha) is praying that her New Labour job interview goes to plan so that she can finally escape them both. In between trying to align her lower Chakras and blag her way into London’s trendiest drinking den, Edina manages to land herself and client Twiggy guest appearances on Richard and Judy - much to the annoyance of her new partner, ruthless TV presenter Katy Grin (Jane Horrocks). But as her TV appearance draws near, Edina’s vanity and Patsy’s bullying get the better of her and she succumbs to the power of Parralox.

Fish Farm

Patsy and Edina have been moshing at a Marilyn Manson concert. "Rock stars with a needle in their arm, not a hook in a trout. No gentleman farmer ex-rockers. No fish farms!", proclaims Edina on their return. The following morning Eddy finds an attractive young man in her garden. Tousle-haired Jago (Crispin Bonham-Carter) turns out to be the landscape gardener hired by Saffy, but Patsy recognises him as the younger brother of a well known aristocrat who inherited a huge estate in Hertfordshire - in other words he’s rolling in it. Egged on by Patsy, Eddy turns on the charm. Amazingly, Jago returns her simpering stares and soon they are in the midst of a passionate clinch. Will Edina get her dream - a life in a huge house with servants - or is there more to Jago’s future than meets the eye? Mother (June Whitfield) is also flirting for Britain, competing with her friend Dolly (Dora Bryan) for the attentions of agent Brice (Tim Wylton), the smoothy who has got her a job as an extra on the new Harry Potter film.

Paris

A photo shoot in Paris gives Patsy the chance to relive her modeling days and spend time with her new best friend, super model Erin O’Connor. The Monsoon Household accompany her across the Channel, as Edina drags Saffy along for a mother and daughter "Generation Flex" feature. But Eddy has trouble persuading her mild-child daughter to get into the swing - and out of that frumpy outfit. "Darling, just so it doesn’t look like that blouse is trying to strangle you," she pleads attempting to undo Saffy’s top button. "I’m not asking you to get your ta-tas out." Patsy finds the shoot is not quite the glamorous trip down memory lane she expected and struggles to cope with fresh-faced, hideously unflattering clothes and Rimmer (Dave Gorman), the photographer from hell. Eddy and Saffy, however, spend an unusually pleasant day together, hitting the shops and bars. But what is Edina plotting? And will Patsy crack under the pressure?

Donkey

Despite having tried every fad diet going, Edina is still desperate to be thin, all she wants is to be able to take her clothes off and not be marked by them. The answer is detox. Spurred on by a Sex And The City-style lunch with her bitchy girlfriends, Edina embarks on a strict regime of water and red meat and enrolls herself in a grueling British Military Fitness programme. Despite Patsy’s best efforts, Eddy eschews champagne and begins to shed the pounds. But her nights are plagued with visits from God (Marianna Faithfull) and the devil (Anita Pallenberg), who have their own agendas. Meanwhile, budding playwright Saffy bumps into a pretentious old school friend, Taylor Johns (Julian Rhind-Tutt), who attempts to use her in his bid to further his acting career, and Patsy decides to see what life is like without her trademark Sixties forelock.

Small Opening

Saffy’s first play, Self-Raising Flower, based on her young life, is opening at the local fringe theatre. Afraid that Saffy’s play could bring her public humiliation, Edina plots with Bubble to get the run cancelled. But they fail and the show goes on. Saffy’s father, Justin turns up to support his daughter on the opening night, as does Edina’s first husband, Marshall and his loud American girlfriend Bo (Mo Gaffney). Edina and Patsy reluctantly turn up to the performance, with Patsy adding her own ad-libs from the stalls.

Menopause

Eddie is losing all her clients to a rival PR agent, Claudia Bing, and she hasn't made a single show in her TV company. While giving Eddie a quick back massage Patsy breaks her wrist bone. Saffy says Patsy should go to a hospital, but Patsy says its OK, because the other day the same happened to her ankle. Saffy says Patsy has menopause, and Eddie is soon to follow. The women refuse to believe they have menopause. Saffy sets up a MA meeting, Menopause Anonymous much to Patsy and Eddies horror. They are stuck in Eddies living room with "women on the edge", including a cameo from Ruby Wax. Patsy knows to stay on her feet she wants to move into the spare room at Eddies, but Saffy wont allow it. While on her "menopause patches" Patsy turns into a real Delia Smith, which confuses Saffy. One night, Patsy announces after a party where Mick Jagger was she got hold of some of his sperm and is going to have his baby. Saffy is horrified saying no child should have Patsy as a mother. She aggress to let Patsy stay in the house if she wont impregnate herself with Mick's sperm, and Patsy agrees. Eddie meanwhile has nothing, even Bubble has left. Claudia has even stolen Twiggy, and Katie Grin sold her half of the TV company to Claudia. Eddie accepts Claudia's new offer, Claudia will but Eddie out of the company and throw in some stars to help Eddie get her PR company back. The end of the series has another great future clip of Eddie and Patsy at home dancing.

Christmas Special 2002

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