Boy Meets Girl (2009)
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 2009
- 4 episodes (1 series)
ITV comedy drama starring Rachael Stirling and Martin Freeman. Danny Reed is struck by lightning and wakes to finds himself trapped in a woman's body. Also features Paterson Joseph, Tamzin Malleson, James Lance, Angela Griffin, Marshall Lancaster and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
Further details
Drop-out DIY employee Danny Reed finishes work for the night and heads off to the electricity power yard to steal some copper wiring to pay off his debts. It's raining as he climbs out of his 'borrowed' van. A few yards nearby him in the lay-by Veronica Burton pulls up having run out of petrol. There's a flash of lightning which strikes the pylon and there's a huge explosion. Danny wakes up in hospital and is horrified to discover he's no longer Danny Reed - he's now a gorgeous woman in her early 30s. Totally freaked out, he struggles to get his head around the fact that his own body has disappeared without trace, and he's inside someone else's.
Danny's first impulse is to find out where the person he used to be has gone. But what dawns on him fairly quickly is that no one knows and no one is missing him apart from friends Pete and Fiona. He seems to have simply disappeared, but that doesn't stop him trying to find out where Danny went. In the meantime, Danny has to get his head round being stuck as Veronica - which means learning to be a woman, a fashion journalist, and living a totally different life with Veronica's boyfriend Jay.
As he begins to live Veronica's life and meet her friends he starts to realise that she was having an affair with her best friend's boyfriend and is less than enthused by her job as a fashion journalist. Meanwhile, Veronica is completely disorientated in her new male body and at a loss as to what to do, she's forced to beg on the streets. At Veronica's flat that night, as Jay makes it clear to a horrified Danny (Veronica) that he's looking for romance, Danny spots his old self on the news in the middle of an angry demonstration.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 1st May 2009
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Rachael Stirling | Veronica Burton |
Martin Freeman | Danny Reed |
Paterson Joseph | Jay |
Tamzin Malleson | Siobhan |
James Lance | Ali |
Angela Griffin | Fiona |
Marshall Lancaster | Pete |
Peter Wight | Bill |
Lisa Millett | Jenny |
Stuart McGugan | Malcolm |
Seamus O'Neill | Barry |
Paul Oldham | Stevo |
Rachel Brogan | Gazette Receptionist |
Pete Dunwell | Danny's Landlord |
Samantha Seager | Barmaid |
Jason Furnival | Security Guard |
Alison Burrows | Female Customer |
Ruth Alexander-Rubin | Doctor |
Maria Gough | Older Nurse |
John Churnside | Toilet Attendant |
Archie Kelly | Foreman |
David Allison | Writer |
Jo Calam | Script Editor |
Alrick Riley | Director |
Alison Lumb | Producer |
Kieran Roberts | Executive Producer |
Anthony Combes | Editor |
Paul Rowan | Production Designer |
David A Hughes | Composer |