31.   The second episode, about a band contest, features a visit from the Backstreet Boys.

32.   The second episode is much better, although not yet ground-breaking television.

33.   The second episode is only marginally better, as Sheldon and Stephanie hit it off too well.

34.   The second episode takes them to a church fete in a picturesque Leicestershire village.

35.   The second episode veers toward high comedy, as Richard and Owen take each other on in a fistfight at the hospital and later land in jail.

36.   The second episode was for treatment of a common complication of such procedures.

37.   The second episode, in fact, seems to take a step backward into the predictable, lower-brow, man-chases-woman comedy format.

38.   The second episode, filmed after ABC bought the show in the fall, is softer in tone.

39.   The show does get better in its second episode, but resorted to a sex plot line to pull itself up.

40.   Then came the second episode.