Baddiel's Syndrome
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Baddiel's Syndrome

4.3 / 10
2001
1 season
14 episodes
Comedy

The trials and tribulations of David, a world-weary thirty-something trying to make sense of his complicated life. David shares his flat with his lodger, Ethan, an American personal trainer. His friend and neighbour Lord Peter Harrington is an aristocrat who's upset about losing his seat in the House of Lords. His son, who David thinks might be gay, lives with his ex-wife Sian. David now fancies his Slovenian cleaning lady, Eva, who wants to marry him so that she can stay in Britain.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    01-01-200125m
  • Ep 2

    2.Hypnotherapy

    14-01-200125m

    David attempts to hypnotise himself into tolerating his new girlfriend's irritating mannerisms; meanwhile, next door, Peter infuriates everyone by taking up pipe smoking.

  • Ep 3

    3.Dead Grandma

    3.0
    21-01-200125m

    David has to attend his grandma's funeral, where his family is traumatised by seeing her in an open coffin.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Skip

    28-01-200125m

    David, Ethan, and Peter attempt to dump some rubbish in an uptight neighbour's skip, while Eva puts the immigration inspectors off the scent by posing as a conceptual artist.

  • Ep 5

    5.Huffa

    04-02-200125m

    David is terrorised in the gym steam room by an obese man who stands too near while huffing and slapping himself; Peter is annoyed that the Club Biscuit kitchen staff won't serve h...

  • Ep 6

    6.Hair Today

    11-02-200125m

    Peter is taunted about his haircut; Eva intends to return to Slovenia, leaving David to hunt for a new cleaner.

  • Ep 7

    7.Transference

    18-02-200125m

    Peter falls for a lifestyle journalist who writes about his shortcomings every week in her column. Meanwhile, Eva, desperate for a residency permit, offers Ethan 2,000 pounds to ma...

  • Ep 8

    8.Nut Allergy

    25-02-200125m

    David meets a beautiful woman at an allergy clinic, and Ethan tries to persuade the others to join him in a Thanksgiving dinner.

  • Ep 9

    9.In the Valley of the Blind

    04-03-200125m

    Peter, who is blind in one eye, starts going out with a woman who is phobic about blind people, and Eva's mother wants to come and stay.

  • Ep 10

    10.Calligrula

    12-03-200125m

    After a confusing incident in the toilets, Club Biscuit has to employ a Drugs Tsar and Josh is named the successor of the King of Calligraphy.

  • Ep 11

    11.Dream Home

    19-03-200125m

    Someone is using the phone at one of David's building sites for immoral purposes, and Ethan suspects that his girlfriend may be a transsexual.

  • Ep 12

    12.Inventions Now

    26-03-200125m
  • Ep 13

    13.En Suite

    02-04-200125m

    Gail Porter refuses to stay over with Ethan because he doesn't have an en-suite bathroom; Eva decides to testify against her former lover, now on trial for mass murder; and rumours...

  • Ep 14

    14.Religious Uncertainty

    09-04-200125m

    After discovering that he is adopted, David begins to contemplate the possibility that he may be Jewish; Eva's sister turns out to be an idiot savant; and Club Biscuit holds its fi...

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