Brief Encounters — Season 1

Aired 8 May 2006 • 30 min

Julie is a single mother and a checkout girl with a flash but completely undedicated boyfriend. She's fast approaching her 30th birthday when she finds a tape of her 16-year-old self, dreaming up great plans for love and life. Julie feels like her life has somehow drifted away, so what will it take to put her back on track?

Aired 9 May 2006 • 30 min

Steve is highly strung and heavily sarcastic. His chirpy colleague, Dorothy, has been trying to help him get over a girlfriend who left him six months ago but he's still miserable. When he loses his job, Steve's bitterness becomes unbearable. To make matters worse, Dorothy insists on taking Steve shopping to find a new love.

Aired 10 May 2006 • 30 min

When gentle spinster Edith Knight comes into some money, her avaricious relatives are round like a shot trying to get their hands on the loot. But Edith isn't quite as innocent as she appears.

Aired 11 May 2006 • 30 min

Aired 12 May 2006 • 30 min

Aired 15 May 2006 • 30 min

Aired 16 May 2006 • 30 min

Simon and Natalie have just moved in together and things are going swimmingly. Until Natalie awakens one night to discover they've got a small visitor. When Simon chooses to catch 40 winks instead of a mouse, an argument begins. Soon the new guest is threatening to tear the happy household apart. But in this romantic comedy could there be something bigger at play? Small Things: it isn't about the mouse.

Aired 17 May 2006 • 30 min

Ted is a northern comic who's seen better days. Working class, irascible, gregarious, he always has to be centre of attention. His ambitious, upwardly mobile and humourless son Daniel couldn't be more different, and relations are strained. On the day of his birthday, Ted turns up unannounced and uninvited to his son's dinner party, and sets in motion an explosive and surprising chain of events which force father and son to see their relationship in a whole new light.

Aired 18 May 2006 • 30 min

Aired 19 May 2006 • 30 min

Amy gets knocked over by a bike rider. After coming around in hospital, she begins hearing the thoughts of others and suspects her husband is having an affair.