City Lights
When they were schoolboys, their rivalries were over soccer teams, girls, and clothes. Now that they're married men in their thirties, they compete over jobs, cars, and even the Christmas decorations on their houses. Lifelong friends Colin Armstrong (Robson Green, Reckless, Touching Evil) and Howard Scott (Mark Benton, Career Girls) are so bent on outdoing each other that they risk jeopardizing everything and everyone around them, especially their long-suffering wives, Jackie and Pauline. In the end, they find there is no escaping each other--for good or for ill, the bitterest of rivals and the best of friends.
- 2007-2007
- 1 season
- Comedy
When they were schoolboys, their rivalries were over soccer teams, girls, and clothes. Now that they're married men in their thirties, they compete over jobs, cars, and even the Christmas decorations on their houses. Lifelong friends Colin Armstrong (Robson Green, Reckless, Touching Evil) and Howard Scott (Mark Benton, Career Girls) are so bent on outdoing each other that they risk jeopardizing everything and everyone around them, especially their long-suffering wives, Jackie and Pauline. In the end, they find there is no escaping each other--for good or for ill, the bitterest of rivals and the best of friends.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2007
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
46 mins
The two friends are innocent bystanders in a pub during a gangland killing. Their faces are quickly on the front page of the local newspaper, where they are identified as the key witnesses to the crime--a very interesting fact to the killers, pursuing them.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
46 mins
Both families go into the witness protection programme, cut all ties with their past lives, and take on new identities. But Jackie finds part of Colin's old identity so disturbing that it makes her question whether she can ever trust her husband again.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
45 mins
Holed up together in a London safe house, tensions rise between the two families. Colin and Howie find an outlet when they secure part-time jobs. However, Pauline's need for a distraction puts everyone in danger.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
45 mins
Howard and Pauline continue to drift apart as she looks for love and comfort elsewhere. Desperate to get her back, Howie agrees to follow Colin's advice. Meanwhile, the gunmen searching for the two families finally make a breakthrough.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
45 mins
Howard is convinced that Pauline is having an affair, but Colin tries to assure him it's in his imagination. Eventually, the two friends track her down to a local hotel. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones who have been staking out the establishment.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
46 mins
Handcuffed and locked in a filthy trailer, Colin and Howie finally come face their pursuers. At the safehouse, Pauline refuses to tell the police who she has been contacting, setting off an intense conflict with her sister. Their husbands are in danger.