List of Cold Feet episodes

Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series that was written by Mike Bullen and produced by Christine Langan, Spencer Campbell and Emma Benson. The pilot episode was first broadcast on the ITV network on 30 March 1997. Critical acclaim and good ratings for a repeat broadcast led to ITV commissioning a series from production company Granada Television; 32 episodes over five series were broadcast from 15 November 1998 to 16 March 2003, the sixth series was broadcast in 2016. Episodes were typically produced for a 60-minute timeslot on the commercial ITV network. Series 5 had its runtime increased to fill a 90-minute timeslot. All episodes of the first five series have been released on VHS and DVD, and have been made available on itv.com and ITV's iTunes Store.^[1]

Series overview

Series		Episodes	Originally aired		Ave. UK Ratings
			Series premiere	Series finale
	Pilot	1	30 March 1997		3.5 million
	1	6	15 November 1998	20 December 1998	7.40 million
	2	6	26 September 1999	31 October 1999	8.54 million
	3	8	12 November 2000	26 December 2000	9.03 million
	4	8	18 November 2001	10 December 2001	8.50 million
	5	4	23 February 2003	16 March 2003	9.45 million
	6	8	5 September 2016	24 October 2016

Episodes

Pilot (1997)

The pilot episode was the first episode of Granada's Comedy Premieres programming strand, made up of four television pilots that were broadcast across 1997.^[2] This episode is 52 minutes long and was produced in 1996.^[3] It introduces the six main characters and features music by The Other Two, Space and Saint Etienne. The episode was directed by Father Ted's Declan Lowney.

No.	Title	Writer	Director	Viewers (millions)	Original airdate
0	Comedy Premieres: Cold Feet	Mike Bullen	Declan Lowney	3.5[4]	30 March 1997
Adam Williams, a serial monogamist, breaks up with his latest girlfriend and later prangs Rachel Bradley's car on a supermarket car park. He exchanges phone numbers with her, for "insurance" purposes, and the two eventually go on a series of dates. Three months later, Adam thinks he is getting too deep into a relationship, and the two split up. Rachel goes back to her old boyfriend, and Adam—aware that he "got cold feet"—wins her back by serenading her with a rose between his buttocks. Meanwhile, Adam's friends Pete and Jenny Gifford try for their first baby, and Rachel's friends Karen and David Marsden argue over whether they should get a nanny for their son, Josh.

Series 1 (1998)

The first series of six episodes was broadcast from 15 November to 20 December 1998.^[5] It was commissioned in August 1997 after the pilot won the Golden Rose of Montreux.^[6] The series was broadcast on Sunday nights in the 9.30 p.m. timeslot.^[7] The first three episodes were repeated on Saturday nights, ahead of the broadcast of Series 2.^[8] The first episode begins nine months after the end of the pilot.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewers (millions)
1	Episode 1	Declan Lowney	Mike Bullen	15 November 1998	7.47[9]
The end of Jenny's pregnancy approaches, and she becomes increasingly irritated by Pete's enthusiastic preparation for the birth, such as his route maps to the hospital and his expert knowledge of labour. Karen and David's son Josh misbehaves at nursery, leading David to blame their nanny, Ramona (Jacey Salles). Adam and Rachel discuss moving in together but fall out after an argument over whose flat to live in. They put their differences aside when Jenny goes into labour while Pete is playing golf with David. As Rachel drives to pick up Pete, Adam stays with Jenny through the birth of her son, who she and Pete name Adam.
2	Episode 2	Declan Lowney	Mike Bullen	22 November 1998	7.33[10]
Adam and Rachel move into their first home together but he soon moves out when he discovers that she is secretly married. He starts sleeping at Pete and Jenny's but is forcibly evicted to give them room with their new baby. He returns home and meets Kris (Lennie James), Rachel's husband, who she has invited up to Manchester to sort out their divorce. Adam puts up with Kris for a while but eventually pays him £500 to go away, asking him to promise not to tell Rachel. Kris accepts and leaves. Adam is disappointed when Rachel tells him she also paid Kris £500 to leave. Karen takes control of hers and David's finances when his investment in a South African golf course flops.
3	Episode 3	Mark Mylod	Mike Bullen	29 November 1998	7.46[11]
David tells Adam that he is having problems with his sex life, so Adam seeks advice for "a friend" from Pete. Pete assumes Adam's "friend" is actually Adam himself and tells Jenny that Rachel cannot satisfy Adam in bed. Rachel decides she and Adam need to spice up their relationship by disclosing their fantasies to each other—and hers is to have sex in a shop window. He gets the keys to a charity shop from a friend and they sneak in after closing time. The fantasy quickly turns into a nightmare when a ramraider drives a car through the shop window. The police arrive and Adam and Rachel are taken to the police station. Meanwhile, David decides to bypass traditional sex therapy by visiting a prostitute under an assumed name. Pete and Jenny start having sex for the first time since the birth of their baby, acting out her fantasy of a squire and his lowly servant, though his imagination is repeatedly invaded by an attractive barmaid.
4	Episode 4	Mark Mylod	Mike Bullen	6 December 1998	7.44[12]
Karen returns to work in publishing and is tasked with editing the new novel by renowned author Alec Welch (Denis Lawson), for whom she immediately falls. She believes that he feels the same way about her and is excited when a book tour in Liverpool means an overnight stay with him in a hotel. David learns of her plans and concludes that the only way to get back is to sleep with Ramona. Pete's parents visit him and Jenny, testing Pete's already fraying relationship with his father (Sam Kelly). In the wake of meeting Welch at the Marsdens' dinner party, Adam decides to start work on a novel about a man's fraying relationship with his father.
5	Episode 5	Nigel Cole	Mike Bullen	13 December 1998	7.91[13]
Following David's attempt to sleep with Ramona and Karen's attraction to Welch, the couple seek marriage guidance counselling. After David causes a scene in her office, the therapist suggests Karen and David go on a "first date" with each other to try to rediscover their attraction to each other. Jenny looks for something apart from the baby to talk to Pete about. Adam seeks to prove to Rachel that he is not a "sad old man" after she finds out he is attracted to their neighbour (Anna Madeley) by organising a lad's night out. Rachel, Karen and Jenny go to a divorce party hosted by a friend of Karen's, while Adam and Pete try to buy some E at a club.
6	Episode 6	Nigel Cole	Mike Bullen	20 December 1998	6.77[14]
David invites the other couples to a charity ball he and Karen are attending, where Jenny lets off a fire extinguisher over Natalie (Lorelei King), David's boss. Natalie demands compensation and a written apology from Jenny, putting David in a difficult position. Rachel tells Karen that she is pregnant but does not know whether the father is Adam or Kris, whom she slept with when he was staying in Manchester. Adam proposes to Rachel, thinking he is the father, and is distraught when he learns he may not be. Rachel decides to move to London until the baby is born, and Adam follows her to the station, imagining a Brief Encounter-esque reconciliation. He tells her that he does not care who the father is. Rachel proves that he does care and leaves anyway.

Series 2 (1999)

A second series of six episodes was commissioned by ITV before the first had concluded broadcast. This series' episodes played up the non-linear structure of the first series episodes, using more flashbacks and fantasy scenes.^[15] It was first broadcast from 26 September to 31 October 1999.^[16] Executive producer Andy Harries had the series moved to the 9 p.m. timeslot, annoying advertisers.^[17] The first episode begins nine months after the end of the first series.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewers (millions)
7	Episode 1	Tom Hooper	Mike Bullen	26 September 1999	8.08[18]
Pete and Jenny set Adam up with Amy (Rosie Cavaliero), one of Pete's co-workers. Rachel arrives unexpectedly at Karen and David's house, and Pete later sees her with someone else's baby at the supermarket. Convinced that it is his baby, Adam invites Rachel around his house, where she tells him she had an abortion. David is made redundant and decides to become a full-time house husband after Josh is nearly hit by a car. Jenny tells Pete that she thinks she no longer loves him.
8	Episode 2	Tom Hooper	Mike Bullen	3 October 1999	7.95[19]
Pete reads Jenny's diary to see if there is another man in her life. He reads that she kissed Adam, and punches his friend at work. The two later sort out their differences. Adam is still trying to dump the clingy Amy, but invites one of her attractive colleagues, Rachel (2) (Rachel Fielding), to be his lodger. Rachel tries to make amends with Adam but his horrified when she finds him, Rachel 2 and Amy, half-naked in his hallway. Natalie offers David a new job.
9	Episode 3	Tom Vaughan	Mike Bullen	10 October 1999	7.96[20]
Rachel returns to her old advertising job and is asked on a date by Danny (Hugh Dancy), a younger co-worker. Rachel 2 moves out of Adam's, so Jenny sets him up with a woman, Callie (Natalie Roles), from a lonely hearts column. On a team-building weekend, Pete and Amy book into a motel, where they sleep together. Karen and David go to Paris for their anniversary, and Adam is humiliated on his blind date when he is seated with Rachel and Danny.
10	Episode 4	Tom Vaughan	Mike Bullen	17 October 1999	8.64[21]
A boring dinner party leads Karen to re-evaluate her lifestyle; she gives her expensive clothes to charity and gets herself a tattoo. Adam, Pete and Jenny get invited to their school reunion. Rachel breaks up with Danny, and, after agreeing to be friends with Adam, goes to his reunion as his pretend date. Pete tells Adam about his affair with Amy, and Adam—thinking they can share secrets—tells Karen, who then tells Jenny.
11	Episode 5	Pete Travis	Mike Bullen	24 October 1999	9.14[22]
Adam is devastated when he is diagnosed with testicular cancer and a probable malignant tumour. Jenny throws Pete out of the house following his infidelity, telling him to take all of his things with him. Unable to cope with their petty fighting, Adam blurts out that he has cancer, shocking the couple. David's younger brother, Nick (Stephen Moyer), arrives at the Marsdens' house and takes a liking to Rachel. After his surgery, Adam and Rachel get back together, and Pete and Jenny give their marriage another try.
12	Episode 6	Pete Travis	Mike Bullen	31 October 1999	9.48[23]
David arranges a trip for the couples to Lindisfarne, where they can see in the new millennium together. Pete and Jenny's relationship is frosty but Adam and Rachel make up for lost time in the bedroom. After Adam and Pete temoporarily get stranded in their boat while coming back from the mainland, the Giffords' relationship gets worse. Karen tells David she is pregnant. After Ramona removes the batteries from Pete's "Millennium clock", the couples see in the year 2000 on the beach.

Series 3 (2000)

The third series was extended from six to eight episodes on the success of the first two series. ITV had asked Granada for up to 20 episodes, but were refused on the basis that it would turn the show into a soap opera.^[24] The episodes suffered from ITV's decision to insert a third commercial break into evening programming; like many other series that had already completed post-production, Cold Feet's editors were forced to alter their episodes to allow for the extra breaks.^[25] The first two episodes were broadcast as a single two-hour episode on 12 November.^[26] Episode 8, featuring Adam and Rachel's wedding, was broadcast on Boxing Day—the first time the show aired on a Tuesday.^[27] During pre-production, Mike Bullen declined to write the episodes, believing that all the stories that could be told had been told. His interest was eventually renewed and he wrote four episodes, leaving the other four to David Nicholls.^[28] For Episode 5, the cast and crew spent several days filming in Portrush and Belfast in Northern Ireland.^[29] The series was first broadcast from 12 November to 26 December 2000.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewers (millions)
13	Episode 1	Simon Delaney	Mike Bullen	12 November 2000	8.33[30]
Pete and Jenny have separated, so he has been living at Adam and Rachel's. He moves back in with Jenny as her lodger when Adam and Rachel tire of his uncleanliness. As Karen and David return home with their new baby twins, Ellie and Olivia, Heather, Karen's ex-pat mother, arrives from Spain. At a dinner party, she takes a liking to Felix, one of David's clients. Jenny has also been invited, and is smitten with Robert, another client. Pete prepares breakfast for Jenny on their anniversary but is saddened when she receives flowers from Robert. Rachel tells Adam that her period is late.
14	Episode 2	Simon Delaney	David Nicholls	12 November 2000	8.33
Pete starts searching for a place of his own as Jenny and Robert start going on dates. He eventually finds a house-share with Matthew, a middle-aged divorced man who he is later shocked to discover is gay. Rachel's pregnancy turns out to be a false alarm. A visit to the doctor informs them that Rachel's inability to conceive might be related to her abortion. Jessica, a local political activist, arrives on the Marsdens' doorstep. David attends a local residents' meeting and becomes attracted to Jessica.
15	Episode 3	Simon Delaney	David Nicholls	19 November 2000	9.87
Pete and Ramona start seeing each other after an encounter in the park, and Jenny has to deal with her friends' reluctance to get to know Robert. Adam and Rachel attend their first appointment for Rachel's intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Heather smacks Josh but makes up with Karen and later returns to Spain. David organises his own 40th birthday party and decides to make it fancy-dress. At the party, he kisses Jessica, and Jenny becomes jealous when she sees Pete and Ramona dance. The next morning, David is surprised to find a Harley-Davidson motorbike in the kitchen.
16	Episode 4	Jon Jones	Mike Bullen	26 November 2000	8.60
Pete and Ramona spend more time with each other, and she watches him play on Matthew's all-gay football team. Karen meets up with her old college friend, photographer Miles Brodie, as David spends more and more time with Jessica. The cost of Adam and Rachel's ICSI treatment begins to mount. Results from a scan come back, and it is revealed that Rachel is suffering from "partial Asherman's syndrome" resulting from her abortion. Later, he proposes to her.
17	Episode 5	Jon Jones	Mike Bullen	3 December 2000	9.14
Adam and Rachel's friends show public support when they announce their engagement, but secretly believe they are doing it for the wrong reasons. Karen becomes jealous of Jenny when she takes charge of planning Brodie's photography exhibition. David and Jessica book into a hotel for a dirty afternoon, and Pete begins chatting with "Girlpower", a woman on an Internet chatroom. She asks to meet him at the school where she works, where it turns out he was set up by two schoolgirls. However, he does get a date with their teacher, Emma. After abandoning the idea of a long engagement, Adam and Rachel decide to get married as soon as possible.
18	Episode 6	Jon Jones	David Nicholls	10 December 2000	9.24
Pete and David take Adam on a stag weekend to Belfast and Portrush, where he grew up. At a surprise party, he is reunited with his old girlfriend, Jane Fitzpatrick, and later drunkenly falls asleep in her bed. Pete discovers David's affair with Jessica, and makes him promise to break up with her when they get home. Meanwhile, Rachel has taken Karen and Jenny to a health spa. Jenny lets slip that she once kissed Adam and Rachel is furious. They make up and decide to meet up with their partners in Northern Ireland. Rachel tells Adam that she knows about him and Jenny and he does not tell her that he kissed Jane the night before.
19	Episode 7	Tim Whitby	David Nicholls	17 December 2000	9.09
Jenny takes charge of planning Adam and Rachel's wedding as Adam buys Rachel an unattractive engagement ring. David unceremoniously breaks up with Jessica in a restaurant, where they are seen by Robert. After Karen is arrested for tackling a car thief, David takes her out to dinner, where she begins to suspect something is wrong. An argument over the engagement ring leads Adam and Rachel to scale back their wedding plans; they opt for a simple register office ceremony instead of at a large country house. Pete, enjoying his dates with Emma, asks Jenny for a divorce.
20	Episode 8	Tim Whitby	Mike Bullen	26 December 2000	9.66
On the morning of the wedding, Pete wonders if divorcing Jenny is the right thing to do. As Robert is moving his things out of Jenny's house, he tells her that David is having an affair. She tells Rachel and they both wonder whether to tell Karen. Adam arrives late to the registry office after Pete forgets to arrange for a car. The reception is held at Karen and David's. David realises that everyone except Karen knows about the affair, and tells her himself. He offers to leave but she decides that they should stay together for the kids. The episode ends with the couples watching Adam and Rachel's wedding video, filmed by Pete. Though David and Karen's marriage appears to be over, Pete and Jenny are back together.

Series 4 (2001)

The storyline for the fourth series was conceived by Mike Bullen and Andy Harries while they were on a speaking tour of Australia; Bullen wanted to set an episode in Sydney because it was "a nice place to go".^[31] Fay Ripley left the series in Episode 2, so a replacement cast member, Kimberley Joseph as Jo Ellison, was introduced in Episode 1.^[32] Over the series, Pete and Jo fall in love and get married in Sydney in Episode 8. The episode was filmed on location in Sydney in October 2001. Bullen wrote it as a normal episode of Cold Feet that just happened to be set in Australia.^[33] This episode was extended to fill a 90-minute timeslot.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewers (millions)
21	Episode 1	Tim Whitby	Mike Bullen	18 November 2001	9.24
When Rachel takes up amateur dramatics, Adam becomes jealous but is offered a small part in the play by the director after an angry outburst. At the same time he coaches Josh's football team, after David's sensitive touch has caused a stream of losses for it. Karen and David remain on amicable terms, for the sake of the children, following his affair with Jessica. Frustrated that she will not forgive him, he takes advice from Adam to become the man she has wanted; soon he is quoting Keats at breakfast and watching Spanish films, though only Ramona notices. Jenny and Pete's marriage has changed direction; he has moved back in with the family and she is pregnant and working for a large hotel chain. After a fact-finding trip to Rome the owner of the company offers Jenny a position as his personal assistant in New York. She declines the offer, but her mood changes when her doctor informs her that she has miscarried. Adam and Rachel decide to adopt, while Karen befriends Rachel's colleague Jo.
22	Episode 2	Tim Whitby	Mike Bullen	19 November 2001	6.96
Karen's drinking gets worse as she and David fight constantly, so he seeks counselling. Ramona is in demand; the owner of a strip club offers her a job and a nanny position has become available at a neighbour's house. Karen and Jo babysit Little Adam while Jenny tells Pete over dinner that she is taking Owen's PA job after all. Karen leaves early when David does not get home on time and Jenny is infuriated when she finds Jo, a drunken stranger to her, babysitting her child. Ramona hands in her notice, fed up with Karen, but when David sees her working in the strip club, he tells her not to work her notice. Adam and Rachel go to an adoption meeting, where Adam puts his foot in his mouth. Later he sees Jane in town and is horrified when Rachel invites her round for dinner. His ex reveals she followed him to Manchester because she is still in love with him. David's therapy leads him to offer Ramona her job back, but his optimism is ruined when Karen tells him to move out. Jenny leaves for New York with Little Adam.
23	Episode 3	Tim Whitby	Mike Bullen	25 November 2001	8.96
David has moved in with Pete after being thrown out of his house. Karen has a girls' night in with an old friend called Bella, and Ramona, Rachel, Jo and Jane. She drinks heavily and insults Bella, while Jane comes close to revealing her the relationship she had with Adam. Rachel is still unaware the following morning when she almost catches Jane, whom she invited to stay the night, groping Adam in the kitchen. Karen takes Pete out on a night of drinking, but leaves him in a bar to go clubbing with the bar owner. Adam decides to tell Jane to leave, but accidentally reveals his relationship to his wife when he finds the two talking. After a violin recital at Josh's school, Karen nearly crashes the car. David berates her for her recklessness and she joins him at his therapy in an effort to get her drinking under control.
24	Episode 4	Paul Kousoulides	Mike Bullen and Mark Chappell	26 November 2001	7.21
After the revelation of Adam and Jane's near-affair, Rachel refuses to speak to him, cutting up bunches of flowers he has sent to her by way of apology. David steps in, reminding her that Adam forgave her after she slept with her ex-husband Kris, and that nothing even happened between Adam and Jane. After making up, the two are introduced to Laura, a potential adoptee, and the three bond. Pete's mother Audrey arrives at his house and immediately begins cleaning and cooking for him and David. Jo walks out of her job when she doesn't get a promotion. Pete and David arrive home one evening to find Audrey sitting in a smouldering kitchen. She reveals her memory has slowly been going, and he decides that she should move in with him. After both reconsider, she moves into sheltered housing, taking with her a dog Pete got for company. Josh's standards begin slipping at school, so Karen and David agree that David should come home for his sake. When Rachel begins feeling ill, a visit to the doctor reveals she is pregnant.
25	Episode 5	Paul Kousoulides	Mike Bullen	2 December 2001	9.79
As David moves out of Pete's Jo moves in; after quitting her job she cannot pay rent and her landlord has evicted her. Adam and Rachel show Laura her bedroom and later tell the adoption agent of Rachel's pregnancy. This does not sit well with her and she tells them the adoption cannot go ahead as it is not in Laura's best interests to live with them, devastating them. David and Karen attend a party, where she meets Mark Cubitt (Sean Pertwee), a publisher who asks her to edit a book his wife, Geraldine, is writing. Pete, David and Adam join Jo's aerobics class and Pete and David later go running with her. Pete slowly falls in love with her, but is alarmed when she starts seeing someone, Suggs (Paterson Joseph) from his work. Rachel and Adam see a solicitor about contesting the adoption agency decision, but are resigned to the fact they have to let Laura go.
26	Episode 6	Paul Kousoulides	Mike Bullen	3 December 2001	8.03
While Rachel visits Jenny in New York, Adam organises a poker night. Everyone leaves but he is still eager to gamble, so he and Ramona visit a casino. Pete buys an MG, which Adam borrows without telling him. On his fantasy joyride he hooks up with an attractive woman and they go back to her place. Pete has reported the car stolen but finds it and drives it home. He winds up being stopped after Adam also reports it stolen. Mark gives Karen a necklace and offers her a permanent job with him, which she refuses. David buys Karen a racehorse for her birthday without realising the cost of upkeep. After trying to offload it on his company he puts it in at Chester, but it loses the race. Jo asks Pete out on a date after she dumps Suggs.
27	Episode 7	Ciaran Donnelly	Mike Bullen	9 December 2001	8.83
Rachel returns, ready for sex, but is worried Adam no longer finds her attractive because of her size. Karen meets Mark at a hotel where he has booked a room. She tells Rachel of her feelings for him and she tells her to do what she has to. At the book launch, Geraldine tells Karen that Mark has had many affairs before this one, though Mark later tells her he will leave Geraldine to be with her. Pete avoids sex with Jo, worried that she will not find him attractive naked. David's boss Natalie tasks him with making a list of redundancies. Hard pressed to come up with a good list, he puts everyone's name down, including his own, but accidentally emails it to the rest of the office. When the head of the company sees it, he fires Natalie and promotes David. When Jo's visa expires, she decides to go back to Australia, thinking he does not like her. He follows her and she proposes to him.
28	Episode 8	Ciaran Donnelly	Mike Bullen	10 December 2001	8.95
The group flies to Sydney for Pete and Jo's wedding. David books a hotel room with a view of the harbour in an effort to make a new start with Karen. Impressed by this, she emails Mark to tell him that the affair is over. Rachel meets with her sister Lucy (Susannah Doyle), who tells her she is screening men to father a child with, despite being a lesbian. Adam volunteers his banked sperm but Rachel talks him out of it. Pete meets Jo's rich father, Rod Ellison (Gary Sweet), who tries to pay him off after thinking he is marrying Jo only for the money. Pete flatly refuses. Mark arrives in Sydney, telling Karen he has left Geraldine to be with her. When David tells Karen that he wants the family to move to Australia, Mark reveals the affair, leading to a fight between the two. Adam changes Rod's mind about Pete and the couple prepares to marry. Rachel goes into premature labour and is given a caesarean section at the hospital. At the wedding, Pete is without a best man and the rings, so David and Karen offer theirs. Karen tries to talk to David after the ceremony, but he refuses and flies back to England alone.

Series 5 (2003)

At the conclusion of the third series, Bullen announced that he did not want to write a fifth series, and that the fourth would be the last.^[24] Series 4, Episode 8 was produced as the final episode but the cast and crew realised that they would like to make one final series for proper closure. Bullen agreed to write the final episodes on the condition that there would be just four, and that he could kill off a character.^[31] Matt Greenhalgh co-wrote Episode 3 with Bullen, specifically the scenes depicting Rachel's death.^[34] Fay Ripley returned as Jenny for the final episode. As her pregnancy was nearly complete, Episode 4 was filmed before Episode 3 to accommodate her schedule.^[35] A retrospective documentary entitled Cold Feet: The Final Call was broadcast on 11 March, between the broadcasts of Episode 3 and Episode 4, gaining 4.8 million viewers.^[36] Episode 1 begins three months after the end of the fourth series. The DVD release of Series 5 has the four episodes reformatted into six episodes of approximately 50 minutes each.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewers (millions)
29	Episode 1	Ciaran Donnelly	Mike Bullen	23 February 2003	8.78
Three months after their wedding, Pete and Jo return to Manchester from Australia and immediately find Pete's mum, Audrey, living with them after she is evicted from her sheltered housing. Audrey's arthritis keeps her, and consequently Pete and Jo, awake so Jo suggests marijuana as a way of easing her joints. They obtain some from a local dealer and Audrey moves into new accommodation at the end of the episode. Karen and David are living separately and trying to get an amicable divorce. Karen meets Mark (Sean Pertwee), the man she had an affair with, for the first time since the Sydney trip, who suggests she gets a better financial settlement from David. David hires a new solicitor, Robyn Duff (Lucy Robinson), who suggests using Karen's alcoholism as grounds for a custody battle. Adam feels sidelined as Rachel spends every waking hour with baby Matthew, and he walks out of his son's naming ceremony, saying he does not love him. Rachel reveals her obsessive coddling of the child is because she once dropped him on the floor. Ramona (Jacey Sallés) falls for swimming instructor Lee (Richard Armitage) at a health club.
30	Episode 2	Ciaran Donnelly	Mike Bullen	2 March 2003	8.47
Pete and Jo are investigated by immigration officials, who have suspicions that their marriage is staged so Jo can get a visa. Pete begins to doubt her love for him when he discovers an email in which she says she would "Do anything to stay in the country". Pete's trust in Jo is shattered, and the marriage begins to collapse. As Rachel's maternity leave draws to a close and she returns to work, Adam is made redundant. He takes Matthew to a parent and child group and fails to keep up with a singalong but eventually secures a new job while Rachel is away. Karen and David's divorce proceedings escalate as Robyn pressures David to seek custody of the children. The two later spend the night together while Karen encourages Mark to bond with the children for the sake of their resumed relationship. After an incident leaves Josh in tears, Mark tells Karen he can love only her, not her children, and leaves. Karen and David resume their amicable divorce, while Ramona and Lee spend the night together.
31	Episode 3	Simon Delaney	Mike Bullen and Matt Greenhalgh	9 March 2003	9.81
Adam and Rachel learn that their rented house is to be auctioned and they begin to look for a new place to live. Adam's estranged father, Bill (Ian McElhinney), arrives but Adam wants nothing to do with him. Bill tells Adam that his mother stopped the contact between them after he had an affair with a man and Adam reluctantly tries to bond with him. Jo and Pete slowly mend their marriage but, on a trip away, she sleeps with Lee, who has asked Ramona to move in with him. Feeling guilty, Jo confesses the affair to Karen. David avoids Robyn's calls after their personal feelings affected the divorce petition but when they make up, he decides to introduce her to his friends. Adam finds a house, though Rachel is not so keen on it. Bill later offers to make up the difference so they can afford their current place, and Adam goes to the auction. He wins the bidding and phones Rachel to tell her the good news. Seconds after she hangs up, her car is hit by a truck. Her friends gather at her hospital bedside where, despite Adam's optimism that she will recover, she dies from her injuries.
32	Episode 4	Tim Sullivan	Mike Bullen	16 March 2003	10.72
Adam sees Rachel everywhere as he and his friends gather for her funeral. Pete's ex-wife Jenny (Fay Ripley) arrives at the crematorium, heavily-pregnant. As she has nowhere to stay, Jo invites her to hers and Pete's house. Adam shows no apparent signs of grief as he returns to work almost immediately. Concerned, his friends visit him, but he rejects their help until he sees Matthew crawling; what he has lost overwhelms him and he goes to see Karen. Pete and Jenny grow closer as he bonds with his son. Lee asks Ramona to marry him, causing Karen to reveal his affair with Jo and leaving both Ramona and Pete furious with their partners. The group travels to Portmeirion to scatter Rachel's ashes. When they get back to Manchester, Pete tells Jo he wants a divorce and she decides to go back to Australia. Jenny moves back in with Pete, suggesting he pretend to be the father of her unborn chld. David resumes his relationship with Robyn, and Karen and Ramona plan a break in Spain. Adam packs his belongings and phones his father, leaving Manchester with Matthew.

Series 6 (2016)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Viewers (millions)
33	Episode 1	Terry McDonough	Mike Bullen	5 September 2016	9.13
Adam returns from Singapore with the news he is to marry again, to the daughter of a millionaire business tycoon, Angela, eliciting nervous reactions, especially at how she is 18 years his junior, from his friends, and son, Matthew, whose opposition to it is rather expected, however, his petulant attitude is revealed to be in response to his forthcoming expulsion from school after being found in possession of drugs. Shared concern starts to influence Adam after his friends believe that his decision to marry Angela so quickly after meeting is in a desperate attempt to hold onto happiness after Rachel, and a close encounter from the grave serves to place him in a contemplative state. David is candid regarding his opinion there is no romance between him and Robyn, which is almost confirmed after her unwillingness to take driving points for him, in order to avoid being banned from driving, compels David to turn to Karen as a last resort. Pete and Jenny's marriage buckles under the strain of their economic problems, with Pete becoming resigned, seemingly dwelling in the throes of a mid-life crisis, exacerbated by his friendship through caring for pensioner Harry (James Bolam), who is turning glum with his attitude towards life nosediving, combining with a monotonous job as a taxi driver. Karen intervenes with Adam and Matthew's relationship, coming at an inconvenient time for Adam, who brings the wedding forward for Matthew's sake, only to find that his attention towards Angela should have been directed in his son's direction.
34	Episode 2	Terry McDonough	Mike Bullen	12 September 2016	7.74
Second, or third, thoughts for Adam are hastily arrived to when Karen's pre-ceremony words about Matthew stick heavily in his mind. David is eager to sign Eddie (Art Malik) as a client to his firm, and uses his blatant admiration for Karen to coerce her to join him at a business event; Robyn's discovery of this creates an even larger rift between her and David. Furthermore, David's sycophantic attitude towards Eddie results in his friends being left in the lurch after the discarded promise of them joining him in the corporate box at a football game, with Eddie taking their place, leads to him placating them with void tickets. Adam is disconcerted at Pete's uncharacteristic behaviour, and tries to balance his concern with that towards Matthew; a bid to bond with him over football failing after ignoring how his son's interests have changed over his lengthy absence, with his curiosity into his sexuality later quelled when Karen walks in on him with Ellie. Jenny battles her faltering relationship with Pete, with her attempts to enhance and reignite the amorous side of it proving fruitless, and gives into the temptation she possesses with an intriguingly mysterious client, but her moment of passion gives her food for thought, which is evaporated after she realises that Pete is suffering from depression.
35	Episode 3	Juliet May	Mike Bullen	19 September 2016	7.77
Everyone rallies around Pete following his depression diagnosis, with David, whose suspension from work following a wrongful arrest for fraud leaves him with nothing to do, encouraging him and Adam to go cycling in an attempt to lift Pete's spirits, following which both David and Pete receive shocks to the system concerning what they regard as correct and rightful. Jenny is perturbed by her admirer's unremitting attempts to contact her, and enlists Adam's help to be able to rid herself of him, questioning her fracturing relationship with forlorn Pete in the process. Karen's relationship with Eddie flourishes, yet she remains hesitant despite encouragement from love-lost daughter, Ellie. Angela struggles to act as a mother to Matthew, who finds it difficult to part herself from her life in Singapore much longer, where the promise of a promotion is too tantalising to give up.
36	Episode 4	Juliet May	Mike Bullen	26 September 2016	7.34
News of Harry's passing pushes Pete into a dejective state; his setback proving cumbersome for Jenny, whose waspish sister is determined to make things difficult for her in regards to caring for their supposedly indisposed mother, and after her interference, both façades begin to slip. David finds himself even more isolated when a ruthless Robyn decides she wants a divorce, and his putative involvement in fraudulent pecuniary matters leaves David on an uneven foothold both financially and domiciliary, until he calls on the pity of Karen and his daughters, however doesn't like been taken for a fool after ending up playing second fiddle to Karen and Eddie. Long-distance relationships live up to their reputation as the seven-thousand mile distance begins to show as a side effect of Adam and Angela's temporary solution, which begins to show cracks, and after incorrectly assuming she has cheated, Adam turns to Tina. After she rejects him, and Angela returns in a last attempt to reconcile and convince Adam to join her in Singapore, he finds Matthew is of an age where his presence is not mandatory.
37	Episode 5	Jamie Jay Johnson	Amy Roberts & Loren McLaughlan	3 October 2016	7.28
The alleged nature of the claims David misappropriated client funds becomes an indictment, and soon meddles in Karen's affairs while he attempts to secrete the enormity of his, which revolve around her tiring and becoming dissatisfied with her job and considering a redundancy offer, before her daughters lead her to an engrossment in the concept of self-publishing, something which pragmatist Eddie throws cold water on. Both Pete and Tina take note of Adam's wallowing, and converge on the idea that he should replace the vapid hours left to his own devices after his break-up with spending time with Matthew, but his attempts to bond over his interest in old music tastes end with a riposte from Matthew. Jenny is paid a rather unwelcome visit by former partner Grant (Robert Webb), overly zealous to atone for past indiscretions, whom it transpires is Chloe's biological father, and both Jen and Pete disagree on whether to impart this fact, while they contemplate over the news Harry's children are contesting his will.
38	Episode 6	Jamie Jay Johnson	Mike Bullen & John Forte	10 October 2016	6.45
Chloe's unremitting refusal to recognise Pete as her father after her witnessing of the punch-up with Grant, Jenny's relentless insistence that he fight for the money Harry left him in his will and her ignorance of him leading to a lack of his consideration in her fruitless decision to let Grant see Chloe pushes Pete into channelling the fury generated from his battles into aloofness, a feeling of inadequacy and a journey set to take him beyond a precarious state. David's acclimatisation into prison life is constrained after being remanded, and at first finds the portent of what life might become disconcerting, before forming a profound connection with a cellmate and realising prison isn't as bad as is perpetuated. Tina's appreciated and shrewd input into Adam and Matthew's search for a permanent home becomes less than comfortable after an impromptu visit to a potential home makes the homeowner confuse Adam and Tina for a couple. Karen's eagerness to mollify Eddie's scepticism and peevishness over her decision to become freelance becomes sidetracked by the rewards reaped from it, which include being wooed by an enthusiastic potential investor and main shareholder in her company, who soon turns into more than just a business interest, and her increasing distance from Eddie forces her into a relationship decision. As all converge on the local pub to encourage young Adam's band's performance, Pete's position as a role model is reignited, Tina's growing fondness for Adam is acted upon, and David's reluctance to give in to sentimentality is forgotten.
39	Episode 7	Terry McDonough	Loren McLoughan, Amy Roberts and Mike Bullen	17 October 2016	7.40
Adam dwells salubriously on Tina's seemingly innocuous kiss, and is delivered a surprise after bring approached by a woman, claiming her husband, unbeknown to her Tina's lover, Jamie, is cheating on her, and Adam goes forth to protect Tina, yearning to secure his affections for her are reflected, yet his preoccupation with and constant conversation about her leads to accusations of hypocrisy from his friends after his promise about being more attentive towards Matthew, and upon viewing her sudden moral take on Jamie's duplicity, Adam's opinion of her fluctuates almost unendingly with Tina's meddling, until she is forced to choose between duplicitous Jamie and bemused Adam. The extent of Karen's altruism towards David, who is struggling in the midst of worrying about the cost of his legal matters and Robyn's lack of empathy and generosity in the divorce terms, is tested after he takes liberties and empties his daughters' university fund to help pay for his defence. As a result of this, he ends up on Pete and Jenny's doorstep, where a family meal convinces him to take action in strongarming, or blackmailing rather, his uncooperatively egotistical boss into providing help in the case for his innocence, yet his proactiveness results in Karen witnessing the last of his diminishing self-respect and dignity vanish after its failure, and finally challenge Robyn on her scheming and manipulative behaviour, much to David's appreciation. Pete and Tricia come to an amicable agreement regarding his bequeathed money, while Jenny compromises with his prudent idea on saving what is leftover from mortgage repayments, as long as he agrees to attend a 'mindfulness' class, and after attending, the two's prejudiced opinions transpose. Pete's earnest belief that the cause is helpful leads him to introduce the subject to David and Jenny regrets her initial eagerness. Jenny capitulates, but both her and Pete agree to split the remaining cash and spend one half on a family holiday. Meanwhile, Karen and Jenny's attempts at collaborating on the former's new business marketing end in a joint agreement never to enter into any work relationship together.
40	Episode 8	Terry McDonough	Mike Bullen	24 October 2016	6.81
Pete lets slip about Adam’s birthday party, and the recipient grows unhappier when he espies the banner Tina has put up for the celebrations incorrectly declare his age a year older than he actually is, 49. While Jenny imparts her problems in the bedroom department and Karen discusses her recruitment of a new author, and the delight from which leading to friskiness with her business partner, both voice their concerns about Adam’s fluctuating unrequited love for Tina and their boring of his continuous lamentation over recent events. A melancholic Adam retains his fixation on Tina, who attempts to divert his attention away from her flirting with partner Jamie by introducing her to a rather promiscuous friend of hers, Deanne, before he dejectedly decides to slink off to an off-license with Pete with the premise of purchasing more alcohol, and the felicitations are further cut short when they are caught amid a robbery. Alongside Adam’s attempts to mediate, which consist of his placating and talking down of the frazzled and frenzied robber not being helped by a stubborn shopkeeper, Pete informs Adam of his intention to kill himself, and both end up taking advantage of the situation to resolve to sort their lives out. Jenny and Karen are thrilled when they receive news from David that the charges against him and his misjudged actions are being dropped following his boss’ blackmailed-into decision to support David’s case, but aren’t best pleased with his choice of getting drunk, and his high spirits combine with his wish to reignite his relationship with Karen, however, he inadvertently endeavours on a metaphorical reverential battle in proposing to her with Eddie, whose plans to resume their relationship transpire, with the metaphor soon manifesting itself physically. Karen’s reaction to Eddie and David’s brawl is to reject both after witnessing their appalling behaviour and become downcast. Pete’s failure at attempting to solve his and Jenny’s ‘issues’ in the bedroom, which include procuring a suspiciously illicit pill from David designed to improve tumescence, is toppled following his rallying as a result of coming out of the robbery unscathed, and lead the two into the bathroom, and son Adam observing something unwelcome. Karen and David’s son, Josh, arrives unexpectedly at Adam’s party, alongside Ramona, with a new boyfriend, Juan, whom Karen, Jenny and Adam hypothesise is gay, and they both dismiss it until Karen stumbles upon Juan with Josh in the bathroom, before Karen frankly admits to Josh she’s been aware of his sexuality for years, and he proclaims his wish for her to make David aware, cautious of his reaction, which is appreciatedly genial. When Adam takes Tina aside to talk frankly with her, she and him end up mocking Jamie’s irritating trivialities, however his performance designed to deride and lampoon Jamie’s owning and playing of guitar winds up ineffective, with Jamie interrupting, and Tina conceding and perpetuating his arrogant assertion over her. Love’s fickleness is further propagated as Matthew reveals Ellie’s wish to return to a relationship with him despite his desire to begin a relationship with Olivia. Adam and Tina’s relationship, its fluctuating between taut and tenuous and between platonic and passionate, becomes the ultimate focus of the party and such attention encourages the two to start a relationship.

Notes

1. Shepherd, Robert John (20 March 2006). "Region 2 Out This Week". DVD Reviewer. Retrieved 30 July 2007.
   Staff (22 April 2008). "ITV to sell hit shows on iTunes". BBC News website. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
   Garside, Juliette (10 September 2007). "Michael Grade signals going online is key to ITV's turnaround". The Sunday Telegraph (Telegraph Media Group): p. 3.
2. Bond, Matthew (31 March 1997). "This postman two-part was merely irritating". The Times (Times Newspapers).
3. Smith, p. 8.
4. Tibballs, p. 10.
5. Smith, p. 30.
6. Smith, Christine (15 August 1997). "Cold Feet heads up triple commission for Granada". Broadcast (Emap Business): p. 2.
7. Tibballs, p. 11.
8. Phillips, William (10 September 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 22 August 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
9. Phillips, William (4 December 1998). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 15 November 1998". Broadcast (Emap Business): p. 27.
10. Phillips, William (11 December 1998). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 22 November 1998". Broadcast (Emap Business): p. 27.
11. Phillips, William (18 December 1998). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 29 November 1998". Broadcast (Emap Business): p. 27.
12. Phillips, William (8 January 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 6 December 1998". Broadcast (Emap Business): p. 32.
13. Phillips, William (8 January 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 13 December 1998". Broadcast (Emap Business): p. 33.
14. Phillips, William (8 January 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 20 December 1998". Broadcast (Emap Business) p. 35.
15. Staff (October 1998). "ITV's case of cold feet". Televisual (Televisual Media UK).
16. Smith, p. 94.
17. Leonard, Tom (31 October 2003). "Viewers get cold feet over drama". The Daily Telegraph (Telegraph Media Group): p. 21.
18. Phillips, William (15 October 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 26 September 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
19. Phillips, William (22 October 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 3 October 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
20. Phillips, William (29 October 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 10 October 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
21. Phillips, William (5 November 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 17 October 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
22. Phillips, William (12 November 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 24 October 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
23. Phillips, William (19 November 1999). "Broadcast/BARB Top 70: Week Ending 31 October 1999". Broadcastnow (Emap Business).
24. Wells, Matt (27 December 2000). "Cold Feet over a fifth series of hit show". The Guardian (Guardian News & Media): p. 9 (MediaGuardian section).
25. Walsh, Nick Paton (22 October 2000). "ITV drama in turmoil over new ad breaks". The Observer (Guardian News & Media): p. 11.
26. Rogers, Jon (17 November 2000). "Cold Feet returns with a bang". Broadcastnow (Emap Media).
27. Phillips, William (19 January 2001). "Christmas Day audience peak neared 30 million". Broadcastnow (Emap Media).
28. Bullen, Mike (29 October 2000). "Cold comfort fame". The Observer (Guardian News & Media): p. 2 (Screen section).
29. Staff (26 April 2000). "Cold Feet dip into the north-west". The News Letter (Century Newspapers): p. 12.
30. Ratings from here onwards taken from the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board website.
31. Harries, Andy. (2003). Interview on bonus disc of "Cold Feet: The Complete Story" DVD [DVD]. Video Collection International.
32. Campbell, Spencer. (2003). Interview on bonus disc of "Cold Feet: The Complete Story" DVD [DVD]. Video Collection International.
33. Miller, Kylie (23 May 2002). "Travelling south". The Age (Fairfax Media).
34. Hennigan, Adrian (24 September 2007). "The Writing of Control". BBC Film Network. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
35. Smith, p. 252.
36. Satchell, Luke (12 March 2003). "Arsenal stutter in the ratings". Broadcastnow (Emap Media).

References

• Smith, Rupert (2003). Cold Feet: The Complete Companion. (London: Granada Media). ISBN 0-233-00999-X.
• Tibballs, Geoff (2000). Cold Feet: The Best Bits.... (London: Granada Media). ISBN 0-233-99924-8.
• Weekly Viewing Summary: Terrestrial Top 30. Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.