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Baddiel's Syndrome

Baddiel's Syndrome

2001 - 2001

Pilot

1st January 2001
Episode 1
No overview available.

Hypnotherapy

14th January 2001
Episode 2
David attempts to hypnotise himself into tolerating his new girlfriend's irritating mannerisms; meanwhile, next door, Peter infuriates everyone by taking up pipe smoking.

Dead Grandma

21st January 2001
Episode 3
David has to attend his grandma's funeral, where his family is traumatised by seeing her in an open coffin.

The Skip

28th January 2001
Episode 4
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.

Huffa

4th February 2001
Episode 5
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 him a rare burger.

Hair Today

11th February 2001
Episode 6
Peter is taunted about his haircut; Eva intends to return to Slovenia, leaving David to hunt for a new cleaner.

Transference

18th February 2001
Episode 7
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 marry her.

Nut Allergy

25th February 2001
Episode 8
David meets a beautiful woman at an allergy clinic, and Ethan tries to persuade the others to join him in a Thanksgiving dinner.

In the Valley of the Blind

4th March 2001
Episode 9
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.

Calligrula

12th March 2001
Episode 10
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.

Dream Home

19th March 2001
Episode 11
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.

Inventions Now

26th March 2001
Episode 12
No overview available.

En Suite

2nd April 2001
Episode 13
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 about Peter abound, following his misguided decision to grow a moustache.

Religious Uncertainty

9th April 2001
Episode 14
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 first pub quiz.
Top Cast
Writer
David Baddiel
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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David Baddiel

David

Morwenna Banks Image

Morwenna Banks

Eva Starzia Schnorbitz Melitzskova

Peter Bradshaw Image

Peter Bradshaw

Peter

Demetri Goritsas Image

Demetri Goritsas

Ethan

Kim Thomson Image

Kim Thomson

Sian

Stephen Fry Image

Stephen Fry

The Psychiatrist

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Sam Pinnell

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Jon Thoday

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Richard Allen-Turner

Executive Producer

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David Baddiel

Executive Producer

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David Baddiel

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Peter Bradshaw Image

Peter Bradshaw

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