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COLLECTION · Series · 2000

Perfect World

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.

Source: TMDB
* 9.0 (3)ComedyUnited Kingdom
Directors
Nick Wood
Creators
Mark Grant
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
BBC Two · Tiger Aspect
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
25/02/2000
Score
9.0 / 10 (3)
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Seasons and episodes
Series 1
6 episodes · 2000
Episode 1. Parents
2000-02-25 · 30 min

Confirmed bachelor Bob Slay is to meet his girlfriend Lauren’s parents. He does his best to alienate them, which pleases Lauren because to her disgust, every other boyfriend has kissed up to them for their massive wealth. Finding this…

Episode 2. Deadline
2000-03-03 · 30 min

Vaughan has done his share of an important project assigned to him and Bob a month ago. Bob has not started his share, deciding to leave it to the morning of the deadline. However, the Director wants it that morning, leaving Vaughan in…

Episode 3. Tarquin
2000-03-10 · 30 min

After unloading his work grievances on a female dining companion, Bob finds himself in hot water when he learns that she has been sent from Home Office to assess the branch. In an effort to absolve himself, he invents an identical twin…

Episode 4. Charity
2000-03-17 · 30 min

Marketing and Accounts keep raising the stakes on who will raise the most for Charity Week. After Bob volunteers Vaughan for a Channel swim, Spencer from Accounts tops this with a raffle for a new car so Bob raffles a country home that he…

Episode 5. Money
2000-03-24 · 30 min

Bob owes Vaughan £200. All his credit cards are maxed out, the bank won’t lend him any more money, and he has promised Lauren dinner at a very expensive place. Meanwhile, Maggie is being headhunted by a competitor, which she's ecstatic…

Episode 6. Love
2000-03-31 · 30 min

Vaughan splits up with Briony and is very depressed. Bob tries to make him feel better by telling him that Maggie is in love with him, and Vaughan is on top of the world. Unfortunately, Maggie has no interest in Vaughan at all, so Bob has…

Series 2
7 episodes · 2001
Episode 1. Revenge
2001-05-14 · 30 min

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…

Episode 2. Family Values
2001-05-21 · 30 min

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…

Episode 3. Home
2001-05-28 · 30 min

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…

Episode 4. Best Man
2001-06-04 · 30 min

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…

Episode 5. Fast Track
2001-06-11 · 30 min

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…

Episode 6. Graduates
2001-06-18 · 30 min

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.

Episode 7. Mutiny
2001-06-25 · 30 min

Bob returns three weeks late from holiday to find Vaughan has taken over his job and that he is now a junior. Vaughan—who has taken an assertion course—turns into a tyrant but Bob plans to bring him down to Earth again and get assigned to…

Cast by season
Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye
Bob Slay
Nina Wadia
Nina Wadia
Maggie
Derren Litten
Derren Litten
Vaughan Rogers
Michael Cochrane
Michael Cochrane
Terence Bentley (The Director)
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