Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2019
In London's Shepherd's Bush, Stacey visits married couple Thomas and Cathy and their 7-year-old son, Stanley. Cathy and Thomas have an open relationship and live a polyamorous life. They also share their home with Australian Nicole, who is part of their relationship, making it a ‘Throuple'.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 11, 2019
Stacey spends the weekend with the Saccone Jolys – one of Britain's most popular YouTube families (they have nearly 2 million subscribers). They have four children who have all been featured in online videos ever since they were born.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 18, 2019
In Brighton, Stacey stays with Matt and Adele and their three children, 8 year old Ulysses, 4 year old Ostara and baby Kai. Adopting childled parenting, Matt and Adele believe that kids don't need rules – just freedom to choose how they live and learn. They co-sleep with their parents, do not attend mainstream school, decide what they eat and when they eat, have no fixed bedtime and the parents are against mainstream medication.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2019
Stacey travels to Preston to spend time with a family who have encouraged their teenage son, Kyle, in his amateur career as an MMA cage fighter since the age of four. Kyle is now 14 and home schooled, so he can concentrate on his fighting. Stacey goes to watch Kyle in a big cage fighting competition - where he will be fighting in front of a large crowd - to see if he has what it takes to be a champion and Stacey questions whether it is right to put your child in the cage.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2019
Stacey stays with the Preston family from Ashton-under-Lyne who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormons.
Eldest son of three, Adam, is 17 and deciding whether to become a missionary for the next two years. This means he could be spreading the word anywhere in the world that the church decides to send him. Stacey will be joining the family at the time of this lifechanging decision for Adam and finding out what it's like to grow up with the strict parenting code of the church - including no caffeine, alcohol, sex before marriage and strictly chaperoned dating. The family also hold controversial views on same-sex relationships, which Stacey is keen to discuss.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2019
Stacey visits the Arkwright family, in their beautiful Georgian Manor House – Hatton House - in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside. Johnnie Arkwright is a direct descendent of Sir Richard Arkwright (who made his money opening the first factory in the Industrial Revolution). Stacey will challenge her views and theirs on privilege, discussing inherited wealth, hunting and private education.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: May 3, 2021
Stacey sleeps over at the home of the Sediles, where Lillian, a mother of two, is a member of the growing community of ‘tradwives' – a group of women who have rejected career ambitions in favour of becoming the archetypal traditional housewife. Stacey joins Lillian and her husband Felipe, ‘the boss' of the household, as they celebrate 10 years of marriage and questions if this promise to obey their husbands makes these women as happy as they suggest.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: May 10, 2021
Stacey spends the weekend with professional model Keisha and her seven-year-old daughter Dior, who is following in her mother's footsteps. She joins them for a weekend of modelling shoots and learns how the experience of black women in fashion has changed over two generations.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: May 17, 2021
Stacey travels to the remote Hebridean island of Gometra to spend an off-grid weekend with aristocrat Roc Sandford and his two daughters Blue and Savannah. She learns how Roc raised a brood of eco-warriors; and how deeply he and his children are involved in the controversial Extinction Rebellion and HS2 campaigns.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: May 24, 2021
Stacey heads to Nottingham to spend the weekend with Reece Oliver and his family. Reece brought a taste of the African savannah to Nottinghamshire when he moved two lions and a puma into his back garden near the picture-postcard village of Strelley. Stacey talks to Reece about the controversy surrounding keeping wild animals in cages, asks what drives him to keep wild animals as pets -- and looks at the effect his lifestyle has had on those around him.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: May 31, 2021
Rabbi Mordechai and his American-born wife Blima are parents of nine children, aged between one and 16. As members of the Hasidic Jewish movement, Chabad, they live a strictly Orthodox Jewish lifestyle at home - adhering scrupulously to ancient rules covering everything from diet to marital relations. But theirs isn't an inward-looking or isolated life: Mordechai ministers to a congregation of 800 families across the community with various levels of observance.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jun 7, 2021
Stacey learns about a different sort of parenting when she stays with Dom and Kellie Evans in Wales. Dom and Kellie's lives were upended when their two sons, Lucus and Alexander, were diagnosed with Down's Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy respectively. Stacey sees first-hand the joys and frustrations of raising children with disabilities and learns how their eldest daughter Isabella's sign-language communication with Lucus has turned the pair into an unlikely YouTube sensation.
Season 3
Episode: S03 Special | Airdate: Mar 8, 2022
Stacey Dooley spends the weekend with inspirational body positive advocate Harnaam Kaur in this International Women's Day special.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2022
Former glamour model Carla Bellucci has built her career around creating noisy and controversial headlines about herself and her family. Stacey joins Carla for her 40th birthday weekend and explores her motivations for choosing a lifestyle, which has earned her the title - Britain's Most Hated Woman.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2022
While her peers were collecting bus passes and pensions, Sherry embarked on a more unusual career - S&M. Stacey discovers what her family make of this lifestyle.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2022
After mum-of-three Jemma was diagnosed with incurable Stage 4 cancer, Stacey discovers how those closest to her are dealing with her terminal diagnosis.
Episode: S03 Special | Airdate: Aug 3, 2023
Stacey reflects on episodes from previous series of W's Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, with a new perspective on family life and parenting as a first-time mother. The episode will also feature Stacey's partner, Kevin Clifton and provide an exclusive first glimpse at their life as a family of three.