How Not to Live Your Life
TV Show · Comedy

Don unsuccessfully navigates himself through life.

2008 · 28m
Starring Dan Clark, Sinead Moynihan, Finlay Robertson

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Home Sweet Home
    Don discovers he's been left a house from his recently deceased grandmother only to find out it has huge back payments and a strange man who won't leave. He decides to get a lodger to help with the rent - the girl he was in love with as a teenager.
    28 min
  • EPISODE 2
    The Field Trip
    Don goes on a field trip with Abby and the kids from her school. This attempt to show her he's a good, decent man, goes horribly wrong when he gets the 10 year olds drunk in a country pub.
    28 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Fake Wake
    Don finds out he's legally obliged to put on a wake for his deceased Nan, with an open casket for her body. The only problem is, he cremated her a few days before. Don and Eddie decide to audition old people at an elderly centre, for the role of his Nan.
    28 min
  • EPISODE 4
    The Young Ones
    Don meets a girl 9 years younger than him, whilst working as a charity street collector. He hangs out with her and her friends but soon realises he's not the hip young dude, he was once thought he was.
    28 min
  • EPISODE 5
    Like Father Like Don
    Don gets a new job, working at Karl's dad's company. The competition between the two becomes rife, and Don finds the father he never had in Glen.
    28 min
  • EPISODE 6
    The Break Up
    A night out on the pull with Eddie ends in all sorts of drama for Don. Coming back to the house, Don finds out that Abby, the woman he really loves, has just split up with Karl, and ends up upsetting the girl he met in the bar.
    28 min

Box Set

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Cast & Crew

  • Dan Clark
    Don Danbury
  • Sinead Moynihan
    Abby Jones
  • Finlay Robertson
    Karl Menford
  • David Armand
    Edward "Eddie" Singh
  • Leila Hoffman
    Mrs. Treacher
  • Laura Haddock
    Sam
  • E‌B
    Eleanor Bird
    Honey
  • Tom Meeten
    Michael Jackson
  • D‌C
    Dan Clark
    Creator

About

How Not to Live Your Life

Comedy

Don unsuccessfully navigates himself through life.

Information

Studio
BBC Three
Released
2008
Rated
Caution
© 2008 Brown Eyed Boy

Languages

Original Audio
English (United Kingdom), English
Audio

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