Absolutely Fabulous (series 2)

The second series of the British television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous premiered on BBC One on 27 January 1994 and concluded on 10 March 1994, consisting of six episodes.

Absolutely Fabulous
Series 2
UK DVD cover
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes6
Release
Original networkBBC One
Original release27 January (1994-01-27) –
10 March 1994 (1994-03-10)
Series chronology

Cast and characters

Main

Special guest

Guest stars

Special guest stars

Episodes
Main article: List of Absolutely Fabulous episodes
No.
overall		No. in
series		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
71"Hospital"Bob SpiersJennifer Saunders27 January 1994 (1994-01-27)LLVS602K
Patsy becomes the subject of a tabloid sex scandal following an affair with a married MP. She subsequently agrees to an interview with Hello! magazine, though the reporter has no idea who Patsy is. Meanwhile, Edina checks into a hospital for surgery due to a pain in her big toe. Patsy tags along, planning to undergo a chemical peel and an eyelid rejuvenation procedure before the Hello! photographer arrives. While anesthetised, Edina dreams that she is on her deathbed, as idealised versions of family and friends visit her. In an adjoining operating room, Patsy dreams about a successful Hello! spread where she looks young. Edina awakens to find that her pains were caused by a stray acupuncture needle that worked its way from her cranium to her toe. Patsy's facelift is botched, resulting in her skin being burned off her face. The Hello! spread is also a disaster, with the article reporting Patsy's age as 49, blaming her for the sex scandal and revealing her horrific facelift.
82"Death"Bob SpiersJennifer Saunders3 February 1994 (1994-02-03)LLVS606L
Edina's father has died, and a grief-stricken Saffron is horrified by her mother's apathy. However, upon realising her own mortality, Edina decides to buy expensive artwork to "bequeath to the nation" when she dies. Marshall stops by with his new girlfriend, Sondra, a grief counselor who panics upon discovering that the corpse is to be brought to Edina's living room for the wake. Saffron, completely fed up with Edina's selfish attitude, bans her mother from the funeral, leaving her and Patsy to drown their sorrows. Edina suddenly decides she wants to go to the funeral, taking Patsy along. At the cemetery, Edina stumbles drunkenly into her father's grave and Patsy falls into another open grave nearby. No one offers to help as the two struggle to climb out.
93"Morocco"Bob SpiersJennifer Saunders10 February 1994 (1994-02-10)LLVS605S
Edina and Patsy travel to Marrakech for a photo shoot. They are accompanied by Saffron, who is interested in studying the local indigenous peoples for school. There, Edina and Patsy soon meet up with an old friend, Humphrey, who introduces himself to Saffron by sexually harassing her. At dinner, it is revealed that Patsy spent a year living as a man until "it fell off", according to Edina. The following day, during a shopping trip to an outdoor bazaar, Patsy becomes fed up with Saffron and sells her to white slavers. Later, Edina and Patsy venture out into the country for the photo shoot, but end up stranded in the wrong part of town. After wandering around for a day or two, hopelessly lost, the pair stumble upon Saffron wearing a burqa and are rescued. They spend the last few days of their trip drugged and unconscious, while it is implied that Saffron had a secret sexual encounter with a young hotel staffer.
104"New Best Friend"Bob SpiersJennifer Saunders24 February 1994 (1994-02-24)LLVS604Y
Edina is in a hurry to get the house ready for the minimalist tastes of her friend Bettina and husband Max. As a result, Saffron temporarily moves into her university's halls of residence and Patsy is pretty much ignored. When Bettina and Max arrive, however, they are no longer into minimalism and turn out to be the angry, frantic parents of a newborn baby. Patsy reaches her limit with Edina's plans and storms out. Edina tries to be patient with her houseguests, but they cause so much havoc in the house that she leaves for a while. At Joe's Cafe, Edina and Patsy try to go one up from each other: Patsy gatecrashes a lunch with Zandra Rhodes and Britt Ekland, claiming that they all knew each other years ago, and Edina forces her client Lulu to have lunch with her. Both lunches end awkwardly. Back home, Saffron returns to find Edina plotting to get rid of Bettina and Max. As Saffron and Gran comfort Bettina, Edina and Max have a quick fling which can be heard via the baby transmitter in the kitchen! Bettina and Max leave, and it turns out that that was the intended result of Edina's fling. She and Patsy make up after.
115"Poor"Bob SpiersJennifer Saunders3 March 1994 (1994-03-03)LLVS601R
Edina finds out that both Marshall and Justin have cut off their alimony payments, thereby leaving her "poor". Dreading being forced to do community service in "urine-stinking old people's homes for the incontinent", she reluctantly agrees to economise. However, a trip with Patsy to the supermarket is more than they bargained for; on the way there, they assault a driver who beeps her horn at them, and when they arrive at the supermarket, they fill three trolleys with groceries and steal a case of champagne. Edina's "smaller" Alfa Romeo car gets clamped outside Harvey Nichols, and they are later arrested for drunk driving and many other charges. On the day of the trial, Edina tries to justify her actions, but it makes no difference; in addition to a huge fine, she and Patsy are sentenced to community service. Their task is to install loft insulation into an old people's home.
126"Birth"Bob SpiersJennifer Saunders10 March 1994 (1994-03-10)LLVS603E
Patsy causes a fire in the kitchen by falling asleep with a lit cigarette. The following day, Edina considers a new look for the kitchen as well as her bedroom. The center of life in the Monsoon house soon shifts to the living room, where Saffron is planning on having a friend over for a study session on the beginnings of life, though it is later clear that she has far more erotic plans. Edina and Patsy, who are supposed to go out later, want to hang around for the meeting, but everything changes when Gran accidentally locks all three inside the room. As they are shut inside, they exchange stories about their own births: Saffron was supposedly born on a carpet of roses, Edina's birth was all about sterilisation, and an abandoned Patsy entered the world via her mother's Bohemian lair in Paris. Gran unlocks the door, and Edina and Patsy leave. The episode ends with a flashback to Edina planning on giving Saffron up for adoption.

Accolades
Award Year Category Recipient(s) Result
International Emmy Awards 1994 Popular Arts (for "Hospital") Absolutely Fabulous Won[lower-alpha 1]
British Comedy Awards Best TV Comedy Actress Jennifer Saunders Nominated
Best BBC Sitcom Absolutely Fabulous Nominated
British Academy Television Awards 1995 Best Comedy (Programme or Series) Jon Plowman, Bob Spiers and Jennifer Saunders Nominated[1]
Best Comedy Performance Joanna Lumley Won[1]
CableACE Awards International Dramatic or Comedy Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries Jon Plowman Nominated

Home media

VHS
  • "Series 2" – volume 1 ("Hospital"/"Death"/"Morocco") – 19 October 1994[2]
  • "Series 2" – volume 2 ("New Best Friend"/"Poor"/"Birth") – 19 October 1994[3]
  • "The Complete Series 2" – 3 June 1996[4]
  • As part of the "Series 1–3" VHS set (6-VHS set)[5]
  • As part of the "Series 1–4" VHS set – 25 November 2002 (8-VHS set)[6]
  • "The Complete Series 2" re-release – 25 November 2002[7]

DVD

United Kingdom

  • "The Complete Series 2" – 1 October 2001[8]
  • As part of the "Series 1–4" DVD set – 25 November 2002 (5-disc set)[9]
  • As part of the "Absolutely Everything" DVD set – 15 November 2010 (10-disc set includes series 1–5 and specials)[10]
  • As part of "Absolutely Everything: Definitive Edition" – 17 March 2014 (11-disc set includes series 1–5, specials and 20th Anniversary specials)[11]

United States

  • "The Complete Series 2" – 13 March 2001[12]
  • "The Complete Series 2" (re-release) – 13 September 2005[13]
  • As part of the "Series 1–3" DVD set – 13 March 2001 (4-disc set)[14]
  • As part of the "Series 1–3" DVD set re-release – 4 October 2005 (4-disc set)[15]
  • As part of the "Absolutely Everything" DVD set – 27 May 2008 (9-disc set includes series 1–5 & specials)[16]
  • As part of the "Absolutely All of It!" DVD set – 5 November 2013 (10-disc set includes series 1–5, specials and 20th Anniversary specials)[17]

Australia

  • "The Complete Series 2" – 28 February 2002[18]
  • As part of the "Absolutely Everything" DVD set – 20 April 2006 (9-disc set includes series 1–5 and specials; excluding "The Last Shout")[19]
  • As part of the "Complete Collection" DVD set – 5 April 2011 (10-disc set includes series 1–5 and specials)[20]
  • As part of "Absolutely Everything: Definitive Edition" – 30 April 2014 (11-disc set includes series 1–5, specials and 20th Anniversary specials)[21]

Notes
  1. Tied with Red Dwarf

References
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