Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. Image shows from L to R: Louise (Kathryn Drysdale), Jonny Keogh (Ralf Little), Donna Henshaw (Natalie Casey), Janet (Sheridan Smith), Gary 'Gaz' Wilkinson (Will Mellor). Copyright: BBC
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps

Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Three / BBC Two / BBC Choice
  • 2001 - 2011
  • 79 episodes (9 series)

Sitcom following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-somethings in Runcorn, an industrial town in the North of England. Stars Natalie Casey, Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith, Kathryn Drysdale, Ralf Little and more.

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Series 5, Episode 8 - Fat

Gaz is unable to get over losing Donna, and has been consoling himself by constant eating... and he's put on 15 stone! He's mortified when he bumps into Donna and she can't believe the size of him.

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Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. Gary 'Gaz' Wilkinson (Will Mellor). Copyright: BBC

Donna has become a successful sales executive at a bucket factory. Gaz is unable to get over losing Donna, and has been consoling himself by constant eating... and he's put on 15 stone! He's mortified when he bumps into Donna and she can't believe the size of him.

Janet insists Jonny get a job, much to his horror, and sorts him out with the position of pot man at the pub, working with Kelly. Luckily for him, he manages to get the sack on his first day.

Janet and Jonny haven't been bothering to do any tidying up, and their house is a tip. Louise brings round the teenage girls she's supervising for her Community Service order to tidy up. But they just end up sitting round with Janet, drinking and smoking fags.

Janet realises she really doesn't want her baby to grow up to be like these teenagers, so she finally sets about tidying up, and developing her mothering and nesting instincts.

Meanwhile, Gaz is determined to slim down and get Donna back, so he decides to lose weight the best way he knows how and with Munch coaching him, he manages to lose weight doing a very pleasurable exercise!

Broadcast details

Date
Sunday 20th February 2005
Channel
BBC Three
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Thursday 22nd September 2011 11:00pm W
Saturday 31st December 2011 11:40pm W
Wednesday 5th September 2012 12:40am W
Wednesday 3rd October 2012 12:35am W
Wednesday 7th November 2012 12:00am W
Thursday 13th March 2014 10:35pm VIVA
Friday 14th March 2014 1:00am VIVA
Sunday 11th May 2014 12:40am VIVA
Sunday 11th May 2014 10:40pm VIVA
Monday 26th May 2014 10:40pm VIVA
Tuesday 27th May 2014 1:00am VIVA
Thursday 31st July 2014 10:40pm VIVA
Friday 1st August 2014 1:00am VIVA
Thursday 2nd October 2014 10:00pm VIVA
Friday 3rd October 2014 12:20am VIVA
Monday 15th December 2014 10:00pm VIVA
Tuesday 16th December 2014 12:20am VIVA
Wednesday 24th July 2019 11:00pm Gold
Thursday 25th July 2019 2:25am Gold
Sunday 27th October 2019 12:00am Gold
Sunday 27th October 2019 11:20pm Gold
Saturday 10th December 2022 9:30pm BBC3
Saturday 27th May 2023 9:00pm BBC3
Sunday 28th May 2023 1:30am BBC3
Saturday 7th October 2023 10:40pm BBC3
Sunday 8th October 2023 3:15am BBC3
Saturday 17th February 2024 11:30pm BBC3
Sunday 18th February 2024 2:15am BBC3
Friday 22nd March 2024 12:00am Dave

Cast & crew

Cast
Natalie Casey Donna Henshaw
Will Mellor Gary 'Gaz' Wilkinson
Sheridan Smith Janet
Kathryn Drysdale Louise
Ralf Little Jonny Keogh
Lee Oakes Munch
Hayley Bishop Kelly
Guest cast
Chelsee Healey Community Service Girl 1
Rachel S Spencer Community Service Girl 2
Writing team
Paul Mayhew-Archer Script Editor
Ariane Sherine Writer
Production team
Gareth Carrivick Director
Nick Wood Director
Stephen McCrum Producer
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise Executive Producer
Micheál Jacob Executive Producer
Mark Lawrence Editor
Nick Peto Editor
Harry Banks Production Designer
Christian Henson Composer

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