The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door is a British documentary television series broadcast on Channel 5 since 1 April 2014. The show follows some of the most extreme cases of fallouts between neighbours all over the country, using real-life interviews and reconstruction. The show has proven to be one of the most popular shows on the channel.
Premise The hour-long show goes behind closed doors to find out what happened between neighbours when disputes arise, following some of the most extreme cases in the country. The dispute is usually told mostly from the point of view of the neighbour who reported their experiences to the show's producers, starting with how the feud started and then, to how it escalated. Both neighbours are approached for comment by the producers however. During each episode, up to 4 stories of neighbourly disputes can be covered, with the show normally going back and forth between them. The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door relies heavily on reconstructions.
Episodes The first series aired on Tuesday nights at 8 PM (GMT). Starting with the second series, the show has aired on Wednesday nights at 8PM.
Series Episodes Premiere Finale 1 6 2 7 3 6 4 8 5 21 6 11 7 10 8 5
Series 1 (2014) +EpisodeAir DateDescription101/04/2014The Chawner family, who have caused over 600 complaints from angry neighbours, move into a quiet suburban street in Blackburn. A psychiatrist in Clapham battles a huge renovation next door and thumping basslines, pounding walls and slamming doors are depriving a mother and her family of sleep.208/04/2014Posters aimed at naming and shaming one of the residents of Withycombe, Somerset, for taking part in a government-backed badger cull result in him and his family being driven out by animal rights activists. In Woodford Green, north-east London, an ambitious house extension results in all light being blocked to one neighbouring property and huge cracks appearing in the other, while a Bournemouth woman ends up having a restraining order taken out against her after erecting a gated driveway before receiving official approval.315/04/2014Another selection of residential feuds, featuring Barnsley pensioners Barry and Phyllis Roddis's dispute with a neighbour who was scrapping cars in his driveway, which led to him waging a nine-year campaign of intimidation against them. Plus, in Streatham, south London, Richard and Philomena Chadwick have been battling for five years to evict squatters whose bongo-playing parties and rooftop sunbathing have invaded the privacy of their once secluded garden.422/04/2014The De Ropers' hopes of a peaceful life in Yeovil, Somerset, were rudely shattered by their neighbour Peter Stoodley's 120 noisy chickens, and they spent their first two years in their new home battling to persuade the authorities to ban him from keeping animals. In a quiet Anglesey village, 67-year-old Pamela Booth's discovered that her neighbour had been fraudulently using her bank card to steal more than £1,000 over 10 months, while a 24-year-old wannabe rapper in Dagenham, east London, generated more than 80 complaints after repeatedly keeping residents awake by playing loud music into the early hours in his flat.529/04/2014In the Worcestershire village of Broadway, two families were taken advantage of by a cafe owner to whom they lent £120,000 between them, each unaware that they were not the sole investor. In Bristol, Tim Wrigley ended up being on the receiving end of intimidation and abuse after tiring of his neighbour's increasing demands and bizarre gifts, while a Nottingham mother and son resort to filming their noisy neighbour after months of endless loud music, shouting and personal threats.606/05/2014Close friends Janet Perrie and Fiona Hope moved to the South Ayrshire village of Dipple in search of an idyllic new life for themselves and their 22 dogs. Unfortunately for them, other residents were enraged by the noise, smell and mess and wasted no time in contacting the authorities. In a cul-de-sac in Leicestershire, the Pollard, Walne and Elliott families have been harassed by 68-year-old Leslie Collins for more than a decade after they complained about the noise from an illegal wood-waste business he was running from his home. He then began to target them with increasingly intimidating behaviour - including mooning, two-finger salutes, shouting abuse, cutting holes in hedges and spying on them with binoculars.
Series 2 (2014) +EpisodeAir DateDescription124/09/2014In Nottingham, the Johnsons reveal how a repair bill for a joint chimney eventually led to them taking their neighbour to court, while Robert Crowley's dream home in Devon turned into a nightmare owing to years of conflict with the Kellaway family, whose members occupy three houses on his street.201/10/2014A dispute with the residents of a mobile home leads to a man being attacked with a hammer, and a woman decides to tackle a dog mess problem in the communal area of her council block. The programme also follows the attempts of a couple to find evidence that their neighbour is subjecting them to a psychological campaign of terror.307/10/2014Steve and David were once good friends, but are now embroiled in an ongoing dispute that started with a simple off-the-cuff remark and soon spiralled into an all-out war over the ownership of a hedge. Also featured is a man who sent some workmates round to the house of a former mayor to collect money for unpaid building work, but ended up on the wrong side of the law himself when she complained to the police about his behaviour.414/10/2014Two older men are seen fighting in the street over a new driveway and a fence, a row about parking leads to violence and a woman is arrested because of a drainpipe.521/10/2014Wiltshire couple Edward Lea and his wife found their happy retirement was short-lived when an imposing 8 ft breeze-block wall - dubbed the Great Wall of China - was built by their neighbour between their properties. In Scotland, Karen Ryrie and her elderly mother are fed up with living opposite John Tyer, his three dogs and a huge family of rabbits. Following their complaint about the smell, Karen's subsequent accusation of assault has made the dispute far more serious. Elsewhere, Linda Bird had not been expecting to wear headphones around the house when she moved to Bedfordshire for a quiet life, but the issue has escalated beyond excessive noise to become a battle over boundaries with neighbour Stanislav Fajdel.628/10/2014A dispute between households arising from investments made into a business venture that later failed, and the fury surrounding the construction of an extension that saw damage to an adjacent property. Plus, updates on people and stories featured in previous programmes, including the latest whereabouts of rowdy rapper Elvis Turasinze, who drove his neighbours berserk with his beat-making.
Series 3 (2015) +EpisodeAir DateDescription102/04/2015A dispute involving a female student and the man living upstairs descends into violence, while Doug and Mavis moved into a new house with their menagerie of animals and were stunned when a neighbour complained about the noise, but that turned out to be just the beginning of their troubles.208/04/2015Carol and Trevor Gilmour hoped to renovate a barn and turn it into their dream home, but have been forced to live in a caravan during a long-running dispute with their neighbour over the property's front garden. Plus, a young couple gather shocking footage of the constant harassment they endured, and a farmer is suspected of killing a family's dogs.315/04/2015An incident featuring a wheelie bin and a birthday cake sparks a bitter conflict between two neighbours in Wales, and there are explosive consequences when householders take the law into their own hands after continuous loud music drives them to distraction. Meanwhile, a Suffolk man faces eviction after his fellow residents report his toxic cars to the local environmental health office.422/04/2015In Shropshire, a man moves in to his parents' home to help put a stop to a neighbour's harassment, but events escalate into violence. In Essex, a mother and her daughter find what seems to be the perfect house, only for their lives to be made a misery after they object to a planning application for an extension. Two elderly residents who feel they are the victims of noise from next door have to deny any wrongdoing themselves when the police arrive on their doorstep.529/04/2015A Devon woman finds herself spending a night in the cells after a dispute with a neighbour who just happens to be a policeman, while a York man gets an unexpected soaking after an argument with the person next door. In Glasgow, an upset over an invitation leads to a hospital visit and a criminal record for one unhappy homeowner.606/05/2015A quiet Suffolk street is torn apart by a 71-year-old man believed to be deliberately breaching the peace, while the Fergusons in Wolverhampton experience trouble with their neighbour, whose extension begins to invade their space. Plus, former soldier Philip Taylor from Whitby, North Yorkshire, takes the law into his own hands after his neighbours purchase a strip of grassland that he had tended for many years and deny him access to his caravan.
Series 4 (2015)