Stressed Eric

Nativity

Eric's son Brian has part as sheep number six in the school Nativity but he's never been on stage before, how will he react to the pressure.

Eric, disturbed by Maria, the au pair, and her boyfriend romping next door, thinks everyone is sexually active apart from him and plunges him into a stressful depression. A former girlfriend rings and his problems melt away.

Pony

Eric's severely allergic daughter Claire dreams of having a pony and going to the gymkhana, but finding her a pony is the easy bit.

Hospital

A job interview awaits Eric, one that seems to represent his last chance of escaping the hell that is Data Dept. However, on his way to the interview Eric is involved in an accident and carted off to hospital...

Potato

Eric is a single father who finds it hard to cope with the stresses of modern day life. He tries to get a pay rise.

Tidy

Eric is a single father struggling with the hassles of modern day life. He has to tidy his office for an important visit.

Cricket

Stressed single parent Eric Feeble is upstaged every year at the school cricket match by his neighbour Ray Perfect.

Bursting

With a bladder the size of Norway and every loo occupied, the last thing Eric needs is to be fronting his company's pitch to build London's biggest-ever reservoir.

Team

Eric is on a work team-building exercise and is partnered with Alison who proves to be as useless in the forest as she is in the office.

Tent

Eric falls for the mother of his daughter's best friend Julie. When the allergy-prone pals camp in the back garden, Eric is called upon to nurse Julie through the night.

Crush

The ghastly girl next door, Heather Perfect, captures the heart of young Brian Feeble - forcing Eric to steer his son through the minefield of first love.

Au Pair

Eric sacks his au pair Maria when he finds out about her less than squeaky clean extra-curricular activities. She undergoes an extraordinary transformation.

Drool

Eric's boss has a menopausal crush on a pretty young thing from the canteen and over promotes her.

United Kingdom

BBC Two

Eric is 40, and lives in London. He is a middle class single father (divorced) with two kids and a crippling mortgage. His son is so dim he's been kept back at school three years running. His daughter is a frail, allergy-ridden waif of six. His wife has left him for a Buddhist and his au-pair is an unreliable waster. Even the family next door are successful and wealthy, a stressful reminder of what his life could have been.At work too, there is no respite, a series of stress related illnesses have seen him demoted from Sales through half a dozen offices to the dark, dank, wastelands of the Data Department next to the gentlemen's lavatory.Each week Eric faces up to the important issues that concern a single father today, from, "How do you compensate your children for the lack of a female role model?" to: "How do you ask for sex in your forties without getting arrested?"He also deals with everyday problems such as how to build a flatpack wardobe without the instructions and how to do "Remembrance of Things Past" in charades.

Stressed Eric

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