The ceremonial burning of a stolen car marks the end of summer on the Chatsworth Estate in Manchester. Meet the local family — the Gallaghers....

Frank, Manchester’s favourite son and world’s worst father, embarks on a series of adventures with his remarkably well-balanced children...

Puberty catches up with the Gallaghers: Carl discovers sex and ASBOs, Debbie struggles with her grown-up responsibilities and little Liam denounces...

In the fourth series the residents of Manchester's most outrageous estate have two new cops to contend with. But the Gallaghers don't need to worry...

Libby and Frank are supposed to be getting married, but this is put on hold when Frank disappears on his stag night. Mimi tries to find out the...

Frank is still missing and imagines that he is in a parallel universe featuring Doctor Who characters. His ex-wife Monica, having heard that Frank...

Shane finds security work at the local school and helps a boy being bullied by his twin. Frank is still incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital,...

Karen attends the psychiatric hospital as an out-patient and finds that Frank has been there all along.

After weeks of suffering at the hands of his own mental incarceration Frank is almost fully intact of his marbles and is plots his escape. Libby...

It's Carl's 21st birthday, and he gets a job working for the Maguires. However his first job does not go to plan when Kelly steals money which was...

Sita calls the terrorist line in order to teach Chesney a lesson. Shane and Kelly get more than they bargained for when a woman's sexual fantasy,...

Mickey and Shane think of a way to make some extra money. Their final idea was to make a child pornography site which contained no nude images and...

Mimi seems to be suffering with insomnia, however her condition deteriorates when she believes that she may have dementia.

Mickey needs somebody to love, He adopts a cat with FIDS (feline AIDS) and meets Philip who also suffers with AIDS in order to learn more about it....

Libby gets her mother a nurse to look after her when she's at work, all doesn't go to plan when Libby's mother mis-treated. Lillian reveals that she...

Mimi's transvestite brother turns up, but isn't all he appears to be. The Maguires are still at each others throats, and Chesney is in danger as he...

Following his sexual encounter with Letitia's headmistress, Miss Heller, Frank has had his final chance with Libby, who seems taken with the...

Paddy returns to the Chatsworth estate in a coffin, but are the residents in for a shock? Elsewhere, Karen decides that a childrens entertainment...

Avril is busy keeping secrets from her family; with no job and no money, but always a gift to hand, something doesn't quite add up. Mimi has designs...

While cleaning the windows, Jackson spots Letitia kissing Dee Davies in her bedroom. Jackson goes berserk, attacking Dee in front of a social worker...

A new gang has rolled into Chatsworth with an unlikely mission - to save the souls of the community.

Dean Lennox Kelly returns for the landmark 100th episode of Shameless, as Mickey give Mimi an ultimatum: either the new boiler goes or he does; and...

Aidan's bad behaviour ends up seeing him in court. Patty ends up having to decide the outcome. Cilla's abduction sees Mimi being forced to face her...

Marty attempts to find a job and ends up turning to crime to tide him over. Kelly discovers that there's a price on Marty's head. Billy is determined...

Billy needs to start pulling his weight and Mimi decides to test his manhood. Ray's skill with numbers ends up being noticed by Micky who plans a...

Billy and Mimi find the game is up after Micky finds them in a compromising position. Billy is scared as the Maguire brothers want his blood for...