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Births, Deaths and Marriages

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Sitcom set in a local authority register office, written by and starring David Schneider

Births, Deaths and Marriages: Series 2

David Schneider

Sarah Hadland

Sandy McDade

Russell Tovey

Sally Bretton

Kate O'Sullivan

Simon Greenall

Simon Jacobs

Births, Deaths and Marriages: Series 2: Episode 5: Lady Buoy's Visit

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Series 2

Episode 5

Episode 5: Lady Buoy's Visit

Lady Buoy's Visit

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Malcolm is stressed due to a very important visit by the office's patron, Lady Wilton-Buoy

Chief registrar Malcolm Fox is stressed because of a very important visit by the office's patron, while Lorna is trying to organise their first ever civil funeral at the same time.

Births, Deaths and Marriages is the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life.

Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? He's married thousands of women.

Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit in our new age of austerity.

There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the only parent in the office, is a mother to them all.

In episode five, Malcolm's stressed because of a very important visit by the office's patron, Lady Wilton-Buoy, while Lorna is trying to organise their first ever civil funeral at the same time. Lorna has also just been on an internet date which ended up with her going to see a stage hypnotist - but she doesn't remember what happened.

Writers: David Schneider & Simon Jacobs

Producer: Simon Jacobs
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