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  • BBC Two

Perfect World

  • 2000 – 2001
  • Ended
  • Comedy
  • ~30m / ep
  • 2 seasons
  • 9.0/10

Perfect World is a 2000–01 British workplace sitcom created by Mark Grant, and written by Grant and Mark Chapman. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it broadcast on BBC Two for two series. It stars Paul Kaye as Bob Slay, an obnoxious, lazy, and amoral marketing executive who works for leading toiletries company Gatehouse.

Latest: Series 2 · 2001

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  1. E1. Revenge

    May 14, 2001 · 30m

    Maggie tells a chatroom Romeo her secrets, but it turns out to be Bob. In retaliation, she gets him drunk and makes it look like she has slept with him, then tells the whole office. Meanwhile, the Director decides to try homosexuality and pursues Vaughan after Bob tells him that he is gay.

  2. E2. Family Values

    May 21, 2001 · 30m

    An important client has arrived from Russia with his attractive daughter whom Bob fancies, but a spiteful Maggie claims that she and Bob and married and that she's expecting. This backfires when her family from Bombay come to visit and Bob gets his own back.

  3. E3. Home

    May 28, 2001 · 30m

    Bob lives with girlfriends and is homeless after being kicked out by his latest. He boasts that he has a large apartment by the Thames. The Director has been kicked out too so Maggie suggests that he stay with Bob, forcing Bob to steal Vaughan’s keys to use a large apartment he is looking after for a relative.

  4. E4. Best Man

    Jun 4, 2001 · 30m

    Vaughan and Briony are about to be married. Their pre-nup includes the proviso that Bob will not be best man, but Vaughan is too scared to tell him. After enduring the Director's unusual tips for wedded life, and Bob's guerilla tactics for preventing the wedding going ahead without him, will the happy couple ever make it down the aisle?

  5. E5. Fast Track

    Jun 11, 2001 · 30m

    Maggie is chosen by a newspaper as the subject of an article about women in the workplace. But she soon finds herself being eclipsed by her new assistant — who is poached first by Bob and then by the Director in a meteoric rise through the company.

  6. E6. Graduates

    Jun 18, 2001 · 30m

    Bob reveals that he has padded out his CV with a Double First from Oxford. As the Director wants to encourage more graduates to join Gatehouse, Maggie suggests that Bob give a talk at his old university, to which the Director agrees.

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