The BEST episodes directed by Steve Bendelack

#1 - Tea Room

Jam and Jerusalem - Season 1 - Episode 2

When the Women's Guild decide they want a coffee room at the local church, they hold a "bring and buy" sale to pay for the health and safety standards.

#2 - Destination: Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 1

The carnival comes to town and Pauline starts at the Restart Room as a jobseeker. Val makes a wish on a magic toad that brings back Benjamin. A nosebleed epidemic breaks out at the circus.

#3 - Lust for Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 2

The nosebleed epidemic continues. Pauline gets a new job as an assistant food science operative at Burger Me! Herr Lipp and students arrive on an exchange visit from Diusberg, and the guesthouse closes for a very private function.

#4 - A Plague on Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 3

Pen-obsessed Pauline tackles Ross about her job prospects or lack thereof, and Edward sets a trap to catch a bride for David. Butcher Hilary Briss has a problem with one of his "special" customers.

#5 - Death in Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 4

Hilary Briss and Maurice take an early walk in the woods to collect a "Special Delivery." Mike, Brian, and Geoff get lost on their way to a plastics convention, and Morris is dealt with.

#6 - How The Elephant Got Its Trunk

The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 6

After a bag is blown out the window of the Charity Shop Vinnie spots it on a country road and sets out in hot pursuit. Papa Lazarou returns and all the series' loose ends are tied up.

#7 - Escape From Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 6

Tubbs & Edward's son David returns. Tubbs is thrilled, but Edward is resentful of his son - especially when he reveals he is responsible for the construction of "newroad"! Ben leaves Royston Vasey, taking with him a gift from the Dentons - an itemised bill covering expenses incurred during his stay (phone calls, use of toilet tissue, etc). Ross reveals that he is really an employee for the Social Services. He has Pauline sacked, forcing her to hand over her pens! Edward and David have a little chat. Facing away from Tubbs, he tells her that he no longer wants to build the road. Turning around to reveal his pig-nose, he declares "I want to live locally". Tubbs deserts David and Edward and leaves the shop. Ben approaches Tubbs out on the moors, asking if she is local. Tubbs replies "Yes, I am", and they both head to the shop. Ben tells Tubbs that his friend who went missing had a pair of shoes just like hers.

#8 - Turn Again Geoff Tipps

The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 3

Geoff is fired from his job and leaves in an attempt to make it as a stand-up comedian in London. There he runs into the Legz Akimbo team and Mike.

#9 - Royston Vasey and the Monster from Hell

The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 6

Roysten Vasey is quarantined as the nosebleed epidemic claims a distinguished victim. The Legz Akimbo Theatre Group comes to town, and there is a wedding at the local shop.

#10 - Martin Chambers, Andy McCluskey, David McAlmont, Bob Mortimer

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 1 - Episode 3

#11 - Anarchy in Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 5

Pauline leaves her hostage with Mikey to go in search fo food. Geoff and Brian bury Mike alive, and Tubbs and Edward catch a no-tail. Lee finds that Creme Brulee has reformed without him.

#12 - The Beast of Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 4

Chinnery examines the so-called "beast", but has he correctly identified it? Also, the Legz Akimbo Theatre Company arrives to perform a play at the local school.

#13 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 3

An employee working on the new road stumbles into the lair of Edward and Tubbs, breakfast with the Dentons is not what Benjamin was expecting, and a tortoise has an unfortunate encounter with Dr. Chinnery.

#14 - The Medusa Touch

The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 4

Regular Cast: Mark as Alvin Steele / Les McQueen Steve as Daddy / Nancy Glass / Barbara [voice] / Anne Hand Reese as Noel Glass / Judith Buckle / Terry Lollard B&B proprietors Alvin and Sunny invite their weekend 'Sexplorers' to join them in a voyage of auto-erotic discovery - although Alvin would prefer to be at the garden centre. But who is the mysterious femme fatale in the dwarf conifers and what is the secret of the fearsome 'Medusa'? The Ending: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen is having a fag with his wig off in the backyard of the Windermere when the white van comes crashing through the wall, sending tons of bricks down on him...

#15 - The Lesbian and the Monkey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 1

Tubbs and Edward somehow survive the fire. Paule struggles to adjust to life out of prison when she discovers true love, and Barbara throws a "gender-bender" party.

#16 - The One-Armed Man is King

The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 2

Lance bribes hospital disc jockey Mike King to arrange an under-the-counter arm transplant. Meanwhile, Glenn and Barry fail miserably in an attempt to recover outstanding debts.

#17 - Beauty and the Beast (Or, Come into My Parlour)

The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 5

Regular Cast: Mark as Tony / Iris Krell [voice] / Neds / Professor Breastpinch'd Steve as Charlie Hull Reese as Stella Hull / Judee Levinson / Keith Drop CHARLIE & STELLA / MRS LEVINSON: The Hulls' marriage seems to have disintegrated beyond repair and Stella's hooked on playing fruit machines. Meanwhile, Charlie starts working for Judee Levinson at her new beauty salon, the ""Spit and Polish"", doing massages on blindfolded clients, who think it's Judee doing them herself. His healing hands wow the customers, until an old man asks if he can do any ""extras"". Word spreads and the salon is packed with the men of Royston Vasey, blissfully unaware they are being wanked off by Charlie. When Tony comes for one of the ""special massages"", Charlie becomes obsessed with him and falls in love with him, eventually telling Tony he's the masseur with the magic hands. Tony is disgusted and the shit hits the fan: Stella wins big on the fruit machines and jets off overseas, and Judee sacks him.

#18 - Love Comes to Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 5

Ben tries to escape from the Dentons. Henry and Ally go to the wrong film but try to make the best of it. Geoff gives a very truthful and upsetting speech at Mike's wedding.

#19 - Welcome to Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 1

Ben struggles to take in Auntie Val and Uncle Harvey’s incomprehensible house rules, while Martin poses a threat to the precious things in Tubbs and Edward’s Local Shop. At the local job center, Pauline is furious when someone lands an interview without her help. Taxi driver Babs makes middling progress through her sex change.

#20 - Sudden Death

Jam and Jerusalem - Season 1 - Episode 1

Sal's husband dies and at the funeral her son James announces he is firing her from the family owned clinic. Sal joins the local Women's Guild to pass her time, as does Kate the bereavement councillor.

#21 - The Road to Royston Vasey

The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 2

Royston Vasey's new road is under construction: good news for all the town's inhabitants except Tubbs and Edward won't this bring strangers to the town? Judee is off to Antigua for a luxury holiday; Pauline is holding a workshop in selling the Big Issue (a newspaper for the homeless), and Ben is trying to use the telephone at the Dentons. We meet butcher Hillary Briss, Henry and Ally, the video-viewers and Reverend Bernice, Royston Vasey's outspoken lady vicar.

#22 - Marie DuSantiago, Mark Little, Shaggy, Suggs

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 2 - Episode 1

#23 - Louise, Math Priest, Norman Blake, Jeff Green

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 2 - Episode 7

#24 - Zoë Ball, Louis Eliot, Graham Norton, Keith Duffy

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 3 - Episode 4

#25 - Shovell, Ashley Slater, Cathy Dennis, Graham Norton

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 1 - Episode 2

#26 - Gary Barlow, Edwyn Collins, Jeff Green, Tony Wright

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 2 - Episode 2

#27 - The Mercedes

Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 5

Sheila Bloom - also known as 'Bitchface' - almost runs Adam over on his birthday. When Dad reveals that he used to have a thing with Bitchface years ago, the boys can't believe it and Mum's not happy.

#28 - The Date

Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 6

Adam comes home to find the house looking immaculate and the table set for five. The doorbell rings and in walks Tanya Green, the girl Mum has been trying to set up with Adam.

#29 - Mark Owen, Lisa l'Anson, Shovell, Richard Fairbrass

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 2 - Episode 5

#30 - Episode 8

Little Britain - Season 1 - Episode 8

Matt Lucas and David Walliams take a comic look at life in Britain. Sebastian helps out with an important visit from the Italian Prime Minister, and Vicky Pollard goes back to school.

#31 - Mani, Rick McMurray, Lemmy, Richard Fairbrass

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 3 - Episode 2

#32 - The Jingle

Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 2

Adam and Jonny are desperate to know why Dad keeps peering into his underpants with a magnifying glass.

#33 - Billy Bragg, Sarah Blackwood, Richard Fairbrass, Neil Morrissey

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 2 - Episode 3

#34 - John Moloney, Toyah Wilcox, Saul Davie, Tom Wright

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 3 - Episode 3

#35 - Two Can Play at That Game

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000) - Season 2 - Episode 7

Jeff and Jeannie investigate an empty department store, where a crook's love of playing games has reached lethal extremes. But Jeff and Marty's relationship has reached such a nadir that Marty is cast adrift in Rhadamanthus-On-Sea.

#36 - Tundra

The Mighty Boosh - Season 1 - Episode 4

In an attempt to compete with daring adventurer Dixon Bainbridge, Howard and Vince set off in search of the Egg of Mantumbi - with the assistance of Gary Numan. Into the whiteness, the nothingness of the Arctic Tundra, the boys come face to face with hideous ice demon Black Frost. Luckily, Vince has befriended a polar bear.

#37 - Nick Heyward, Marcella Detroit, Martin Rossiter, Jonathan Ross

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 1 - Episode 5

#38 - Episode 2

Ill Behaviour - Season 1 - Episode 2

After Charlie's attempted escape, Joel and Tess decide they need to keep a closer eye on him. Tess is tracking the story of Charlie's disappearance on the web as the police launch an appeal. The news of his cancer diagnosis has leaked, and the most popular theory is suicide. Good news for Joel and Tess, terrible news for his wife Kira and the kids. So as not to arouse suspicion, Joel decides he should go and see Kira. However, while comforting her, he finds himself enjoying taking on Charlie's role in this ready-made family. Meanwhile, back at the house, Nadia is drawn into increasingly frank and intimate chats with Charlie, whose 'enlightened spiritual guru' act convinces her to try to clean up. Has he completely won her over or is he just using her to plan another escape?

#39 - Peter Hook, Ace, Clare Grogan, Alan Davies

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 1 - Episode 7

#40 - Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, Math Priest, Jeff Green

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 3 - Episode 6

#41 - Episode 3

Ill Behaviour - Season 1 - Episode 3

After Charlie's second escape attempt is thwarted, Joel and Tess decide to secure him behind bars in the cellar of the house.

#42 - The Dress

Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 4

Mum finds out that Dad didn't throw away his boxes of old magazines. Adam and Jonny are convinced that Mum's friend's daughter has a face like a foot. And Jim's distraught when Wilson goes missing.

#43 - Donna McPhail, Roachford, Cerys Matthews, Jonathan Ross

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 3 - Episode 1

#44 - The Curtains

Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 3

Mum's excited about the new curtains, but the boys and Grandma think they're horrible. Dad drops Mum's beef casserole on the kitchen floor, so Jonny and Adam head to the pub.

#45 - The Sofabed

Friday Night Dinner - Season 1 - Episode 1

Dad has forgotten that he asked a man off eBay to come and pick up their old sofabed, which gets stuck on the stairs, trapping Mum and Adam upstairs. Will Mum ever get to see Masterchef?

#46 - Saffron, Brian Molko, David Baddiel, Bruce Dickinson

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 2 - Episode 6

#47 - Episode 6

Little Britain - Season 1 - Episode 6

Matt Lucas and David Walliams take a comic look at life in Britain. There is good news for Dennis, and Marjorie Dawes bumps into Paul while out shopping.

#48 - Episode 1

Ill Behaviour - Season 1 - Episode 1

Just as Joel has reconnected with his friends he discovers that Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer - Hodgkin's Lymphoma. And he's horrified to learn that he is refusing chemotherapy. Joel recruits Tess and Nadia to try and persuade Charlie to change his mind, but to no avail. Refusing to give up, Joel uses his 'dirty divorce money' to rent a remote country house and buy black market chemotherapy drugs. He enlists Tess to join him in kidnapping Charlie and sedating him while they administer the chemo. However, doing so is not quite as easy as they hoped, and Joel decides to hire Nadia to stay with them as their live-in doctor. All is going to plan until Charlie tries to escape!

#49 - Episode 4

Little Britain - Season 1 - Episode 4

Matt Lucas and David Walliams take a comic look at life in Britain. Their gallery of outrageous characters here includes Marjorie Dawes, Lou and Andy, and Bubbles.

#50 - Mary Ann Hobbs, Justin Currie, Billy Bragg, Jonathan Ross

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Season 3 - Episode 7