Oliver Pryde has been living with his girlfriend for 6 years and he is happy with the arrangement and, until Sandy Bennett announces that she wishes to get married, he thought she was too. Her claim that to be unconventional these days means getting married has wrong-footed him. She is content with her victory until she discovers that statistics prove that marriages of people who have previously lived together last as many months as the years they have co-habited!

Our Review: Once again the writer provides his own marriage guidance by drawing another set of middle-class characters that ride the roller-coaster of married life. The show became an instant success and was regularly in the top 10 viewing figures for the first series, peaking in Series 2 with an audience figure of 21.1 million.