Cold Feet

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Template:For Cold Feet is a British comedy/drama, made by Granada Television, broadcast on the ITV network and shown in five series between 1997 and 2003. It starred James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst, Hermione Norris, Kimberley Joseph, Jacey Salles and Sean Pertwee. The show was selected "Best TV Comedy Drama" in the British Comedy Awards in 1999 and in 2000, and Best Drama Series at the British Academy Television Awards 2002.

It followed the loves, lives, luck and losses of three socially-varying couples; middle class and easy-going Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley, slightly more upper-crust and unhappy David and Karen Marsdale, as well as the seemingly down-to-earth Pete and Jenny Gifford.

The original title was 'Love, Life And Everything Else'. This wasn't a working title, for the first broadcast series it was the programme's actual title and the opening sequences had to be altered for repeat showings. DVD's of all series have been released, although the last series has been bizarrely edited (compacting editions together rather than showing them as they were when seen on television). The reason for this is fairly unknown.

A short-lived United States version starring David Sutcliffe and Jean Louisa Kelly aired on NBC in 1999.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the pilot, Adam's schoolfriend Pete is trying desperately to start a family with his ever-more irritable wife while Rachel's best friend Karen is having immense trouble bringing up her own children as her husband is a high-powered, absent-minded businessman. Adam and Rachel meet thanks to a minor crash in a supermarket car park and - although tempers flared initially - they soon realised a deep bond. Audience-gripping plotlines involving cancer, infidelity and a disastrous Millennium trip to Holy Island followed during the next five series. By the end of the show's run; David had indulged in an affair to the cost of his marriage, Jenny moved to America for an apparently brighter future and Adam sufferred horrendously after Rachel - the mother of his child, after much heartache caused by repeated fears of infertility - died unexpectedly in yet another car crash shortly after they had purchased their first home together.

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