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In "Meet the Folks", Lee Evans believes he has arrived at his girlfriend's house, though whilst she is getting ready to see Evans, he must occupy his time making a good image of himself for her parents. Unfortunately, Evans embarrasses himself, and it turns out eventually he has visited the wrong
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In "One Late Night" (Part One): Lee Evans takes a trip in a car he is selling at his outdoor showroom. During the journey, he picks up a mysterious hitch hiker. They both hear a BBC Radio announcement on the car radio about a criminal who has escaped from prison and was
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In "One Late Night" (Part Two): As both Lee Evans and the hitch hiker both heard the BBC report, Evans starts to believe that the hitch hiker is the criminal, whilst the hitch hiker thinks Evans in the criminal, and thus act closely aware of each
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In "The Late Night Shift", Evans works his first nightshift in a 24-hour garage, though he has problems with his first customer. Evans has problems delivering him a packet of crisps, a drink's can and a cassette
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In "Mr Confidence", Lee Evans puts on an LP of a man giving instructions to Evans on how to impress his next door neighbour. However, Evans cannot hold up the act up for very long.
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The series followed Lee around getting stuck in tight situations - its humour, which differs greatly from Evans' later stand-up material, contains many elements of
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In "Special Delivery", a friend of Evans' is giving birth and Evans tries to find things to do to occupy his time in the hospital whilst he awaits the birth.
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In "Off the Rails" (Part One): Lee Evans and his girlfriend Jo travel on a "hotel train" heading to Edinburgh. However, as the train wobbles, havoc erupts.
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In "Off the Rails" (Part Two): Jo almost breaks up with Evans due to her believing that he doesn't understand her.
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and aired four episodes (featuring two stories each) in June 1995. Channel 4 announced that
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The official DVD cover of the original VHS video artwork.
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If Lee Evans needs to get from A to B, he starts at Z...
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