Not Going Out delivered in a deadpan manner. This is the comedy style Lee Mack and Tim Vine have used both in stand-up and in "The Sketch Show", to the extent that an occasional one-liner from their solo performances is slipped in. This is mostly one sided with Kate/Lucy typically being the victims of the joke. Sight gags are also frequently used, while gags and witticisms are incorporated into almost every line of script. For the first series, episodes were written by Mack and Andrew Collins, with members of the cast credited for additional material. Because the eight episodes of the second season
TV Comic this period was perhaps "Battle of the Planets" (drawn by former "Dan Dare" artist Keith Watson), which ran from 1981 to 1983. The publication ultimately closed in 1984, after 33 years, due to declining sales. The last issue contained no warning in its pages of the title's discontinuation, nor of it being merged with another comic; instead, "TV Comic" simply failed to appear the following week. However, both "The A-Team" and the "Tales of the Gold Monkey" strips, which had been running until this point, concluded with frames stating "The End". TV Comic TV Comic was a British comic book