Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2004
Barry thinks his promotion is in the bag, but his chances may not be as strong as he'd hoped. The other smokers are hardly supportive, obsessed as they are with trying to remember the theme tune to The Little House of the Prairie instead.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jul 6, 2004
A colleague drops dead shortly after retiring from work. His sudden death has everybody musing about their own mortality.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2004
The posters are up. Sharon the MD wants everyone to go paintballing, and Janet has been despatched to collect the names of those attending. But with the events of the weekend to discuss the workforce have other concerns.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jul 20, 2004
Robin has lost his lighter, much to the annoyance of an important, nicotine-deprived client. Someone is bound to come in with one soon. Aren't they?
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jul 27, 2004
It's Valentine's day. Someone has left a box of chocolates for one of the smokers. But just who exactly is lucky in love? Meanwhile, Heidi has returned from maternity leave with 'interesting' photos of her new baby.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Aug 3, 2004
It's a rainy lunch hour and everyone is stuck in with nothing to do, apart from Janet who has been instructed to fetch Sharon's lunch a task she seems unusually reluctant to do.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Aug 10, 2004
It's the holiday season and everyone is looking forward to getting away - apart from Barry, with his fear of all forms of transport. Meanwhile, a glamorous new temp is threatening to drive a wedge between the smokers.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2004
It's party time in the smoking room. Lilian is due a birthday surprise she will never forget, and Robin is hoping Ben from the Post Room will finally turn up.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Dec 20, 2004
It's Christmas Eve and the smokers should be winding down. However, out of goodwill - and pressure from Janet - they're staging a Christmas variety show for local pensioners.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2005
Janet's student nephew conducts a psychological study in the office. However academia takes a backseat when the peace of the smoking room is threatened by an angry bee.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2005
Sharon is forced to spend a very uncomfortable half hour in the company of her staff when a heavy snowstorm traps the employees in the smoking room after office hours.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2005
Robin discovers photographs from the 1987 company brochure. Sharon remembers starting as Barry's secretary and the smokers think back on unfulfilled ambitions.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2005
Someone has broken in and vandalised the room, and the smokers all have their suspicions. Robin turns up with a black eye. Sally and Annie hatch a plan.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2005
Despite Sharon's protests, Head Office instructs the company to mark April Fool's Day with suitable practical jokes, in order to boost staff morale.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Aug 30, 2005
A mandatory anti-smoking seminar has been arranged, mainly because Sharon wants to cut down on breaks. However the seminar leaves everyone in dire need of a cigarette.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Sep 6, 2005
Sally saves an old lady from a mugger, to varied reactions from her fellow smokers. But then something happens which really calls upon her heroic qualities.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Sep 13, 2005
The smokers are delighted when Janet's new boyfriend proposes to her - and she celebrates by treating them to champange. Only Robin tries to warn her off.