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Episode 1 (Aired 9 September 2011)

Lee's Team: Miranda Hart and Nick Hewer

Home Truths

Nick: "When filming is over for the day, Lord Sugar and I sometimes wind down by playing ping-pong over the boardroom table." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Jack: "I was once commissioned to paint a portrait of Gyles Brandreth's cat." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

This Is My...

Miranda: "This is Zazie and we once had a trial together for a professional ladies' football team, but we didn't make the grade." Lee: "This is Zazie; I once cut off her ponytail on the school bus, thinking she was my mate, Paul." Nick: "Zazie is my neighbour's daughter; she offered to mend my computer and inadvertently emailed to everybody in my address book a picture of my big toe." David's Team: Nick Answer: Miranda

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "I killed a rat with my BAFTA." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Rob: Possession: "This is the sweatshirt that my wife and I put on together when we're cosying up on a chilly evening. We call it the cuddle jumper." David's Team: True Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Winners: Lee's Team (5-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Nick Hewer

Episode 2 (Aired 16 September 2011)

Lee's Team: Kevin Bridges and Katy Wix

Home Truths

Terry: "I deliberately set fire to my colleagues' script whilst they were live on air." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: True

Kevin: "I once found a suitcase and took it to the police station. When they opened it it contained 34 bunches of bananas." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Robert: "As a child I had so many imaginary friends we formed an imaginary gang." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

This Is My...

Katy: "This is Tony and he freed me from a vending machine when I got my foot stuck in the push compartment." Lee: "This is Tony and until today I had never met this man before, but the person that was supposed to be doing this tonight didn't turn up. So, I grabbed the first person I saw outside the studio." Kevin: "This is my mate, Tony. We were once questioned by the police for stealing a life-size cardboard cutout of Hugh Grant." David's Team: Katy Answer: Kevin

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "When I was 12 I saved up all my pocket money and bought a rowing boat that I never used." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: True

Lee: "After an incident with a permanent marker, I had to go to my son's Parents' Evening with a mustache and glasses drawn on my face." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Terry: "Every year, I signal the start of Christmas dinner by taking my seat opposite Mrs. Wogan and firing a pistol loaded with a blank or blanks." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Winners: David's Team (6-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Sir Terry Wogan

Episode 3 (Aired 23 September 2011)

Lee's Team: Louie Spence and Bill Turnbull

Home Truths

Katherine: "I was so sure that wombles were real, I used one as an example of a mammal in a GCSE biology exam." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: True

David O'Doherty: "I am currently seeing a hypnotist to cure me of my compulsion to visit hypnotists." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

This Is My...

Katherine: "This is Mark; he's my recycling man, and last year he put a note through my door, saying he thought we were eating too many take-aways." David Mitchell: "This is Mark; he saved me from choking in Argos after I swallowed one of their little pens." David O'Doherty: "This is Mark, and together we started a lost animals detective agency." Lee's Team: David O'Doherty Answer: David O'Doherty

Quick-Fire Lies

Louie: "I make myself cry before every big dance performance to get rid of any excess water weight." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Lee: "I can tell the circumference of someone's head just by looking at them." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Winners: David's Team (6-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: David O'Doherty

Episode 4 (Aired 29 September 2011)

Lee's Team: Charlie Brooker and Nina Wadia

Home Truths

Gregg: "I always make toast by ironing the bread. It tastes much better that way." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Charlie: "I once refused to pick up my girlfriend from the station because I couldn't bear to step over a spider that was between me and my front door." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

Nigel: "I once went on a date with a flamenco dancer who turned out to be a man." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: True

This Is My...

Nina: "This is John; he was the first person ever to have a drink at The Queen Vic and the first person ever to have a curry at my restaurant, The Argy Bargy." Lee: "This is John, and he is the previous owner of my house, who still pops 'round with his deck chair so he can sit in my garden on sunny days." Charlie: "This is John; on Valentine's day when I was 17, I presented him with a dustbin for his daughter." David's Team: Nina Answer: Charlie

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "Every Sunday I treat myself to a relaxing bath with three squirts of Fairy Liquid in it." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

David: "My parents recently forced me to have a new kitchen fitted because my flat embarrassed them." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

Gregg: "Possession: This is one of my history books. I read them in the sauna to make them look old." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: True

Winners: Draw (6-6)

Individual Liar of the Week: Nigel Havers

Episode 5 (Aired 7 October 2011)

Lee's Team: Marcus Brigstocke and Phil Tufnell

Home Truths

Greg: "For my first term at university, I rented a bathroom in a student house and slept in the bathtub every night." Lee's Team: True Answer: Lie

Phil: "I'm haunted by a recurring dream in which I'm a potato." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

This Is My...

Greg: "This is my friend, Ian. One night after getting drunk together, he was wrongly arrested on suspicion of murder." David: "This is Ian; I sat next to him on a plane and he had such a fear of flying that I had to hold his hand throughout takeoff and landing." Konnie: "This is Ian; when he brought his lizards onto Blue Peter, one of them went missing. Later that evening I found it in my handbag." Lee's Team: Konnie Answer: Greg

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "I once had to show my boss an intimate area of my body to prove why I was late for work." David's Team: True Answer: True

David: "I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Greg: "I used to try and scare school friends by planting a particular drawing in their pocket signifying death." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: True

Winners: David's Team (7-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Greg Davies

Episode 6 (Aired 14 October 2011)

Lee's Team: Sarah Millican and Jon Richardson

Home Truths

Sarah: "I once wet myself in a car and then blamed it on my friend's dog." David's Team: True Answer: True

Frank: "I was once driven to A&E in an ice cream van. In place of a siren, the driver turned on the musical chimes." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Bill: "I was saved from drowning by a character from the children's show, Rainbow." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

This Is My...

Jon: "This is Kathy and we crashed into each other while we were both on our driving test." Lee: "This is Kathy; she's the hotel receptionist that I had to phone from my room when I found a peacock in my hotel room." Sarah: "This is my friend, Kathy. We fooled the newspapers into reporting that she'd been left under the spell of a hypnotist at a hen party." David's Team: Sarah Answer: Sarah

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "When I'm at home, I amuse myself by shaving only half my face and doing that thing where you have a conversation between two people." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

Jon: "Possession: This is the emergency kit that I keep in my car at all times." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

Winners: Lee's Team (7-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Sarah Millican

Episode 7 (Aired 21 October 2011)

Lee's Team: Victoria Coren and Rhod Gilbert

Home Truths

Rhod: "I was sacked from my job at a zoo when my boss found out I'd been taking photos of the animals wearing hats." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Mackenzie: "Possession: This is my orchidometer. It was a present from my sister." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

This Is My...

Chris: "This is Simon; in a virtual world we're married." David: "This is Simon; he has a large tattoo of my face on his knee." Mackenzie: "This is Simon, and when I hoaxed my school by burying some treasure, Simon found it and the police were called." Lee's Team: Mackenzie Answer: Mackenzie

Quick-Fire Lies

Lee: "I once helped my mum and dad look for something they'd lost using a Ouija board." David's Team: True Answer: True

Victoria: "If I ever get stuck on a crossword clue I phone Tim Henmon for help. He hasn't let me down yet." David's Team: True Answer: Lie

Rhod: "I once paid for some tapas with a Nissan Micra." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

Winners: Lee's Team (6-4)

Individual Liar of the Week: Mackenzie Crook

Episode 8 (Aired 28 October 2011)

Lee's Team: Barry Cryer and Sue Perkins

Home Truths

Dara: "On doctor's advice, I have to sleep in a cycle helmet due to the violent nature of my dreams." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Lorraine: "I once presented an episode of TV-am whilst drunk." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

Barry: "I have written and had published a trilogy of romantic novels under a female pen name." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

This Is My...

Barry: "This is Rhod; he drives my favourite bus, and whenever I see it I shout, 'Hello, darling!'" Lee: "This is Rhod, and after we accidently took each other's baggage from the carousel, I ended up having to wear his clothes for three days on holiday." Sue: "This is lovely Rhod. He's my local butcher, and when I won 'Maestro,' he had a whole pig in the window, and he stuck my face on its face and he put a little conducting baton in its trusses to celebrate." David's Team: Sue Answer: Barry

Quick-Fire Lies

David: "Possession: This is my bear, Tablecloth, customs officers once cut his head off and searched him for smuggled goods." Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Lee: "Possession: I spent an entire year in a plasticwork class at school and this was the only thing I managed to make." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

Winners: Lee's Team (8-3)

Individual Liar of the Week: Barry Cryer

Episode 9 (Aired 25 November 2011)

Home Truths

Mackenzie Crook: "When I won the Pirates of the Caribbean Sandcastle Competition, Keith Richards was so angry he stamped on my drawbridge and threw Johnny Depp's bucket in the sea." Lee's Team: True Answer: Lie

Miranda Hart: "Last year whilst house-sitting for friends, I had to shout for help for two hours when I got stuck in their children's Wendy house." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Bill Turnbull: "I have drunk rum from a human skull." David's Team: Lie Answer: True

Rebecca Front: "I have vomited in Cliff Richard's hedge." Lee's Team: True Answer: True

Sarah Millican: "I once ruined a christening party when I was overheard calling the baby ugly on a baby monitor." David's Team: True Answer: Lie

Nick Hewer: "Possession: This is a hat from my hat collection. I wear one whenever I throw a dinner party." David's Team: True Answer: True

Katherine Parkinson: "Me and my husband have a fake laugh that we do at parties to signal when it's time to leave." Lee's Team: True Answer: Lie

Bill Turnbull: "Possession: This is my conversation book. In it I've written a list of topics that I refer to should I ever run out of things to talk about." David's Team: Lie Answer: Lie

Rob Brydon: "For one week I appeared in a Dear Deidre photo casebook in The Sun newspaper." David's Team: Lie Lee's Team: Lie Answer: Lie