Game-On - Season 1 (1995)

On Monday morning with Mandy and Martin at work Matthew enacts his film role fantasies and tries unsuccessfully to get the girl next door to come in. In the evening he threatens to evict Mandy but she tells him she will probably be leaving anyway, having met a millionaire who has offered her a job in Bermuda. She returns from her date to tell Martin she thinks the man was a liar who got drunk and passed out. Martin confesses his own insecurity but they are interrupted by a paranoid Matthew who accuses them of plotting against him and tells them to leave immediately. ...

Mandy is dating famous boxer Paul 'The Rage' Johnson but Matthew does not take to him when he puts his beer glass down on Matthew's prized surf-board. Martin meets feisty American Nancy at the local take-away and, after she has told him of the bizarre places where she has had sex, invites him back to her flat. Unfortunately, after going to the chemist to buy condoms, Martin gets lost and has to come home, joining Mandy and Matthew to watch Paul fight. Matthew gets a terrible shock after it turns out that a sleepy Mandy had mistaken his surf-board for the ironing board...

Whilst Martin and Mandy are out Matthew goes upstairs to complain about the noise made by rehearsing band Pro-Active but, on learning that they are in need of a singer, is happy to join them. He sees himself as a Rock God and considers raising the tenants' rents for the privilege of knowing him. However when the band is called upon to perform a gig at very short notice the mere act of having to leave the flat increases his agoraphobic terror and he merely moans and whimpers whilst on stage. Nonetheless rock magazine The Dog's Bollocks believes this to be a perfect ...