Carrie and Barry is a sitcom, shown 2004 - 2005 on BBC One, starring Neil Morrissey, Claire Rushbrook, Mark Williams and Michelle Gomez. Produced by Hartswood Films, it reunited Morrissey with personnel from Men Behaving Badly: specifically writer Simon Nye, executive producer Beryl Vertue and director Martin Dennis. It was produced by Sue Vertue. Neil Morrissey plays part-time taxi driver Barry and Claire Rushbrook is his beautician wife Carrie. The couple find themselves with the daily challenges of keeping the spice in their marriage and the fun in their day jobs — as well as having to deal with Barry's teenage daughter Sinéad from his disastrous first marriage. Mark Williams plays Barry's mate Kirk, who co-owns his black cab whilst Michelle Gomez is Carrie's acid-tongued best friend and fellow beautician Michelle.
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Episode 1
Everyone thinks Barry is a sadistic wife batterer when Carrie accidentally gives herself a black eye. He's forced into finding out whether his daughter's new boyfriend is only after sex.
Episode 2
Barry is hoping his French neighbour's sophistication will rub off on him, while Carrie experiments with using sex as an aid to sleep.
Episode 3
Barry agonises over whether to have a vasectomy, but more of a dilemma is how to deal with best mate Kirk when he makes a pass at Carrie.
Episode 4
Barry is caught wearing his wife's clothes - only marginally less embarrassing than being made to dress up as a fireman to fulfil one of her secret sexual fantasies.
Episode 5
Carrie goes into PC overdrive whilst interviewing a prospective tenant, and Barry's fed up with driving a taxi and decides to try his hand at massage.
Episode 6
Carrie and Barry realise their sex life has gone ominously quiet so Carrie attempts a bit of vicarious romance by setting up Kirk and acid-tongued Michelle on a date.
