Faith in the Future - Season 1 (1995)

Paul tells Faith he has a teen-aged daughter who lives with his ex-wife and is coming to visit. After an encounter with an amorous car mechanic Faith visits Paul and mistakes his much younger date for the daughter. Annoyed that Paul has been seeing somebody else she goes on a girls' night out with Hannah and Caroline, a friend also having man trouble. Arriving home Faith is confronted by Caroline's husband, who accuses her of leading his wife astray but is rescued by the mechanic. Chaos ensues as the other women return with pizza and Jools turns up to serenade Hannah ...

Hannah gets a job but it involves dressing as a giant pink mouse to promote cheese. Out painting, Faith meets charming antique dealer Ian, who asks her out but their date goes badly and she blames Hannah, who forced her into it after she had expressed doubts. Gareth asks Faith out for a drink in the guise of coaching her for promotion but she learns from Paul that this is just a ruse for him to hit on her. She goes home annoyed at the things people will do to get by in their jobs and is pleased when Hannah tells her she has quit the cheese promotion. Jools then ...

Faith is putting on weight and resisting Hannah's attempts to put her on a diet. She suggests to Paul that she may lose a few pounds if they have sex. Hannah reluctantly goes to see Jools play with his band Whitebait and is impressed how in control the normally clumsy boy is, kissing him goodnight. However next day he comes to see her with a present of a potted plant and manages to revert to type, falling over and when Nick returns from Australia she needs help from her mother to scare Jools away.

Faith is thrilled when Hannah declares that she will be moving in with Nick and asks Paul round for sex but he is off to Newcastle for a job interview. Sympathetic work colleague Jill asks Faith to a dinner party where she is introduced to Steven, a man who rescues her from Jill's drunken husband Mike and suggests a date though Faith is put off by his being a fervent Christian. Her independence is short-lived when a tearful Hannah returns, after a girl with whom Nick was more than friends arrives from Australia. So, when Paul rings to say that he is back from ...