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Reception: Episode 5: Birthday Boy

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Episode 5: Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy

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Danny and Clarissa have a surprise birthday party planned for Brian - will he survive it?

Danny and Clarissa have a surprise birthday party planned for Brian - will he survive it? Stars Adrian Scarborough, Amit Shah, Morwenna Banks. From September 2013.

Reception is a sitcom about two men sitting behind a desk, starring Adrian Scarborough, Morwenna Banks and Amit Shah. Written by Paul Basset Davies.

Clarissa's inexplicable obsession with Brian goes into overdrive when he's late for work and Danny tells her he's at the doctor's. Clarissa accesses Brian's personnel files, searching for clues about his health and breeding prospects, and she discovers it's his birthday. She persuades Danny to help her plan a surprise party, but their schemes are disrupted by the arrival of Brian's elderly father, who is even more eccentric than his son. Meanwhile, Brian's new sinus tablets seem to be affecting him very strangely.

Will Brian survive his birthday, and why have a stripper, a policeman and an alien arrived to help him celebrate it?

Producer: Anna Madley
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