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Help with name of sitcom!

Can anyone help me remember the name of a sitcom which was shown on ITV, I think in the mid to late 1990s. It started with a yuppie type engaged couple moving into a new home and the woman backs out of the drive in her car just as the man next door is going by on his bike. He swerves to avoid her and falls over a hedge/fence and breaks his arm/leg. She starts to look after him because the accident was her fault and at first she doesn't like him but then starts to be attracted to him. He is quite the opposite of her fiance, who I think was a lawyer or estate agent. The neighbour is a scruffy student type who shares the flat next door with a couple of hippie type friends. The fiance can't stand him especially when his girlfriend begins to like this man. He schemes to get the neighbour and his friends kicked out of the flat. The woman eventually sees the true nature of her fiance and falls for the neighbour instead. I think the series ran for two seasons. I especially remember the bit where she backs out her drive and nearly knocks over the neighbour on his bike as ITV ran this bit as a trailer quite a lot before the series started. I have completely forgotten the name of the show and can't remember the names of any of the actors either! I don't think they were that well known. Does it ring a bell with anyone? Pleae help! I'd love to remember the name of the show or the name of the actors.

Sorry Rosie, it doesn't sound like anyone's got any idea on this. Is there anything else you can tell us about it at all? Approximate ages of the two main characters, some rough idea of their appearance perhaps? Whether it's set any specifically?

It was a long shot! People I ask don't recall this series either! The two main characters were in their mid 20s. The woman had blonde bobbed hair and the man was thin and maybe slightly like Jason Priestly from Beverly Hills 90210. I can't remember much myself except that I liked the series. It's a pity my memory for names is so lousy!

How certain are you of it being a 1990s series?

https://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/channel/itv1/

I'm pretty sure it was a 1990s TV series although not a 100%. I have a feeling it started after 'The Darling Buds of May' finished, which was in 1993 and before or about the same time as 'Kiss Me Kate' with Caroline Quentin which was 1998. Infuriating as it is, I think this is one mystery I will have to give up on!

Nothing to do with Denise Van Outen is it?

No, Denise Van Outen wasn't in it.

Nothing to do with Pauline Quirk is it?

Puts me in mind of 'Outside Edge' but I'm sure you'd have mentioned the cricket.

I can't think of any student/hippie/scruffy types in Outside Edge either though.

In honesty I haven't seen it since it was on - but I thought there was a yuppie & a scruff. Oh well, someone will get there eventually.

I hope so!
It's annoying me now, that none of us can get it... :)

You sure it wasn't an advert?

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