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Absolutely Fabulous Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
Fashion
Thu, Feb 1, 202429 mins
P.R. consultant Edina - Eddy - Monsoon wakes up with a hangover - again - but gets no sympathy from sensible student daughter Saffy as she had promised Saffy she would book into a clinic. Eddy is organizing a fashion show later in the day but the celebrities keep dropping out and finally,encouraged by her equally alcoholic friend magazine editor Patsy Stone, Eddy pulls off a successful show by blackmailing stars into taking part. In the evening she gets Patsy to phone Saffy pretending to be from the clinic awaiting Eddy's admission.
Episode 2
Fat
28 mins
Edina has put on weight and has trouble getting into her clothes so she is horrified when her secretary Bubble informs her of a forthcoming visit by pencil slim Penny Caspar-Morse,who once teased her about her weight. She is not keen on Saffy's idea that she takes exercise,the doctor will not give her slimming pills and,after a nightmare,decides against Patsy's suggestion of liposuction. However,when Penny arrives,it seems she has been temporarily blinded,so Eddy will get away with it - or will she?
Episode 3
France
29 mins
Eddie and Patsy are embarking on a vacation in France, with reservations at a luxury countryside château while they plan to party in Saint-Tropez at night. Eddie leaves Bubble to handle the paperwork for an important contract that would advance her interior decorating career, while she is dismayed to learn that Mother is planning on staying with Saffy to keep her company, not that Saffy would have "let loose" in Eddie's own image as Eddie would have liked in her absence. The trip isn't as Eddie and Patsy expect or want. While language is a barrier, a bigger problem is Eddie and Patsy's lack of overall awareness in the basics of life.
Episode 4
ISO Tank
27 mins
Eddie feels redundant when Bubble takes over the running of the office and asks Saffy if she can come to her college Open Day presentation. When Saffy at first refuses, Eddie threatens to adopt a Romanian baby and rings the adoption agency but forgets to cancel the deal after Saffy has relented. Consequently the Open Day is inundated by women offering babies to Eddie.
Episode 5
Birthday
30 mins
On Eddie's fortieth birthday, which she is dreading, Saffy cooks her a special meal but the guests are not the celebrities Eddie had wanted but her mother, her ex-husbands Justin and his boyfriend Oliver and Marshall with his American girlfriend Mo, plus Patsy. Eddie is an ungracious birthday girl, alienating her guests and finally retreating upstairs from the basement kitchen to get stoned with Patsy while her ex-husbands plan to cut off her alimony.
Episode 6
Magazine
30 mins
Patsy has moved in with the Monsoons while her flat is being fumigated and Saffy does not find her a welcome guest, although Patsy herself is jealous when Eddie gets a date. Patsy finally goes to work but needs a map to find the office where she edits her magazine, and on arrival she alienates all her models, so she comes up with a plan to give Saffy and her grandmother makeovers on television. But since Saffy is her natural enemy, she must win her over with a sob-story about being neglected by her own mother, never knowing her father, and relying on Eddie's mother for nurturing.