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Absolutely Fabulous

Season 1

6 listed hours · 1992–2012 · BBC One

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

Sweetie darling: fashion PR as self-destruction, champagne as plot, two women who refuse respectability. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley treat aging, money, and taste as contact sports. British import comedy that dared U.S. living rooms — female excess without apology, ancestor of every later show that let women be disasters on purpose.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) on BBC One as the first listed season of 5 — 6 listed hours, 1992-11-12–1992-12-17 from “Fashion” (S01E01) to “Birthday” (S01E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 Fashion

    Fashion: Saunders and Lumley treating taste as contact sport, champagne already the plot, BBC import as a U.S. dare.

  1. S01E01

    Fashion

    Patsy's new job is not what she was expecting and Eddie turns up in New York where she meets her on the top of a building in a helicopter before heading back to London. There is also a sneak peek at them in 25 years time.

  2. S01E02

    Fat

    Edina's weight problem becomes critical when she hears she is going to be visited by her reed-like model friend from the 60s. When her doctor refuses to give her diet pills, best friend Patsy has some simple advice: 'liposuction on the stomach and hips, bum lift, boob job and lose a rib'.

  3. S01E03

    France

    Edina and Patsy head to Provence on holiday, but things do not go as expected. Bubble and Saffron come to their rescue.

  4. S01E04

    Iso Tank

    Edina tries out the latest "in" experience: the immersion tank. It's just the first in a string of bizarre events - she also attends an open day at Saffron's school and adopts some Romanian babies.

  5. S01E05

    Magazine

    Patsy decides to do a TV makeover show, but disaster strikes when she falls out with the models. Will Saffy agree to take part and save the day?

  6. S01E06

    Birthday

    Edina turns 40 - and she's not happy about it! But Saffy organises a birthday lunch with Eddy's exes and their new partners to celebrate the occasion.

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