Channel 4 · Ended

One for the Road

Comedy, Adventure, Travel · 1995

Last aired: S1 E6, My Big Sister · 1995-10-09

Simon Treat is a disillusioned timeshare development officer who packs it all in to travel round Europe with a camcorder. Reluctant to go home until he's discovered as much as he can about the world (and the women in it), he communicates to family and friends via videotapes he sends back to them. Starting off in Jerusalem where he ditches his job after falling in love, our adventure-hungry hero travels to Prague, where he is forced to marry a local girl on his Visa card. Then it's off to Venice where he meets a singing policeman and is challenged to a duel. Then to the Alps where he meets a beautiful journalist and is confronted by drug barons. Cannes is next, where he gets into gambling and plays at being a high-flying movie mogul. And finally to Norway, where he has to survive a particularly rigid health farm.

Cast

Alan Davies Simon Treat

Season 1

E1 My Boss 1995-09-04 · 25 min Simon Treat makes his way to Israel where he falls in love with Yudit and encounters a bizarre group of kibbutzniks.

E2 My Ex-Girlfriend 1995-09-11 · 25 min Simon Treat sets out to win back his girlfriend by making a romantic tape in Prague but his plans go awry when, filming a wedding, he has to stand in as groom.

E3 My Little Brother 1995-09-18 · 25 min Encounters with a singing detective, his over-sexed wife and Gina's honour-obsessed family force Simon to literally fight for his life.

E4 My Mates 1995-09-25 · 25 min Simon sends a tape to his ex-flatmates showing him living it up in the Alps. However, a mix-up of exchange rates means his overdraft is the size of the Matterhorn.

E5 My Uncle Monty 1995-10-02 · 25 min A big win at the roulette wheel in Monte Carlo leads Simon on to wheeling and dealing at the Cannes Film Festival and a decision to stake everything on his friend Paul's movie project.

E6 My Big Sister 1995-10-09 · 25 min Knackered from his travels, Simon decides to take in a Norwegian health resort and relax. Unfortunately, it's run by a money-mad American.

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