List of Cold Feet Episodes

List Of Cold Feet Episodes

Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series that was written by Mike Bullen and produced by Christine Langan, Spencer Campbell and Emma Benson. The pilot episode was first broadcast on the ITV network on 30 March 1997. Critical acclaim and good ratings for a repeat broadcast led to ITV commissioning a series from production company Granada Television; 32 episodes over five series were broadcast from 15 November 1998 to 16 March 2003. Episodes were typically produced for a 60-minute timeslot on the commercial ITV network. Series 5 had its runtime increased to fill a 90-minute timeslot.

The series follows three couples—Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale), a couple in a fledgling relationship; Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley), a married couple with a newborn son; Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst), a married couple with an infant son and later twin baby girls—as they cope with marriage, children and infidelity. Most episodes feature a separate storyline for each couple, with characters mixing and commenting on events throughout the episode. Other episodes, such as Series 2, Episode 6, have all six characters in the same ensemble story. Mike Bullen based several of the storylines on events from his own life. He has sole writing credit on the pilot and 26 episodes, co-wrote one episode each with Mark Chappell and Matt Greenhalgh, and left the other four to be written by David Nicholls. Each series has three directors, who each helmed two or three episodes.

A reunion episode has been speculated since the series ended; in the 2003 documentary Cold Feet: The Final Call, executive producer Andy Harries stated, "By killing a character, you are truly saying 'this series is over' … until, of course, in 10 years time when money is running a bit short for all of us, we bring it back. What we do with Rachel, I don't know yet—but I have got a few theories." In an interview published in October 2003, Harries told The Daily Telegraph that ITV would "probably" bring back Cold Feet ten years after it ended, and said, "There's a tacit understanding with the actors that we will re-visit it again at the appropriate time." In 2007, a tabloid newspaper quoted an ITV "insider" as saying that a reunion episode would be broadcast to mark ten years since the pilot aired. The report turned out to be a fabrication. At the 2010 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Harries stated that discussions about the series' return were "ongoing", but highlighted a number of factors that would prevent a reunion in the near future. The following day, Harries told Kate Silverton that he had held discussions with Mike Bullen about the series returning, but that it would not be back on television screens in 2011 or 2012.

All episodes have been released on VHS and DVD, and have been made available on itv.com and ITV's iTunes Store.