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Off the Hook

This is independent life: Year One. Meet Danny, a new university 'fresher' who just wants to cut his past loose and get on with his life. However, he's about to get an earth-shattering blast from the past in the form of Shane, his outrageous 'slacker' mate from school. Shane was the 'worst best friend ever'. Blagging his way into last minute clearing, Shane proceeds to gatecrash Danny's entire uni existence and ransack his best-laid plans. Danny and Shane have been friends for as long as they can remember. As they embark on their university adventures, can their friendship withstand the test? Will they even manage to make it to the end of term alive? Sharing the flat with our hapless heroes are the feisty Scarlet and the permanently morose Fred - who has misanthropy down to an art. Fresh Series One sees them muddling through bad dates, worse parties, social mishaps, financial disasters, political coups... and all the other trials and tribulations of life as a fresher.

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Jonathan Bailey
Danny Gordon
Danny Morgan
Shane McKay
James Buckley
Fred

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Young Danny's delight at starting University takes a serious knock-back when he realizes he will be joined by the cheerily obnoxious and thick-skinned Shane, who was "the worst best friend anyone could have" when they were at school. He ends up sharing accommodation with Shane and the introverted, depressive Fred. Danny falls for the comely Becky and is anxious to impress her with, for example,made-up stories about being a volunteer in a leper colony.Thanks to Shane, he ends up posing nude for her art class. Also thanks to Shane he accidentally spikes the punch at a party with a bacteria that brings everybody out in a rash.

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