Cold Feet
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- For the feeling of anxiety, see Cold feet.
| Cold Feet | |
 Cold Feet final series VHS Cover |
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| Format | Comedy Drama |
| Run time | 50 to 75 Minutes |
| Starring | James Nesbitt Helen Baxendale John Thomson Robert Bathurst Hermione Norris Jacey Sallés Kimberley Joseph Sean Pertwee |
| Channel | ITV1 |
| Production company | Granada Television |
| Related shows | Coupling; Friends |
| Airdates | March 30, 1997 – March 16, 2003 |
| No. of episodes | 33 |
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. The original cast were James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris. 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 Marsden, as well as the seemingly down-to-earth Pete and Jenny Gifford.
The working title was "Love, Life And Everything Else". DVDs of all series have been released. The actual title of Cold Feet is said to eminate from Adam's remark to Rachel in the pilot episode when he gets 'cold feet' about them living together.
Repeats of the show are now airing on ITV3.
A short-lived United States version starring David Sutcliffe and Jean Louisa Kelly aired on NBC in 1999.
[edit] Plot summary
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. The final episode was watched by 10.7 million viewers in the UK with 42.3% share.
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