The BEST episodes of Alas Smith and Jones
Every episode of Alas Smith and Jones ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Alas Smith and Jones!
Alas Smith and Jones is a British comedy sketch television series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones that ran on BBC One and BBC Two from 31 January 1984 to 14 October 1998. From series 5 in 1989 the 'Alas' title was dropped and became simply Smith and Jones.
#1 - Rough Direction
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1995
Last in the series of fast-moving comedy and sharp-edged sketches, from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. With guests Stratford Johns and Geraldine James.
#2 - Traffic Warden
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1992
More subjects are given an unexpected twist - plus musical set-pieces.
#7 - Bad Microphones
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1995
The long-time collaboration between Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones continues as they return with a six part comedy series full of observational humour, man-to-man duologues and hard-hitting lunacy.
#8 - Prescription Drugs
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1995
With Jonathan Kydd and Steffanie Pitt.
#9 - Missing Link
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1995
Maggie Philbin joins Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in their new comedy series to launch Thick Aid - a charity helping the stupid to help themselves. Plus, other comic sketches including the problem of ordering food in a Japanese restaurant, and Mel worrying that he is getting too old to, "pull the birds."
#10 - Griff has Stage Fright
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1995
More fast-moving comedy and sharp-edged sketches from Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Including sketches about a visit to a brothel which specialises in correction, a cabinet minister who has trouble with his equipment, and the duo consider adopting children from foreign countries. Tonight's special guest is Lynda Baron.
#11 - Tails
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1995
In a programme originally scheduled for 13 September, Dinsdale Landen plays an unintelligible country squire when he joins Mel and Griff. The duo discuss the joys of body piercing and present sketches including a comic look at the law of probability.
#12 - Dr. Jekyll
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/21/1984
Witness Margaret Thatcher 's finest hour, sample the exciting qualities of real ale and spend a day with the Great Gobbo in this week's tasteful programme.
#13 - Cookery
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/1997
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones return with six new programmes of comic sketches, characters and the traditional head-to-head chats.
#14 - Morgue
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/26/1997
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones star in the second of six programmes of new comic sketches, characters and the traditional head-to-head dialogues.
#15 - Massage
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/3/1997
Tonight, Mel thinks he has a resemblance to Tom Cruise, and Mr Green and Mr Brown try to pick up some free wine at the bottle bank.
#16 - Hookers
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/10/1997
Tonight's show features a spoof of the James Bond films, the return of the cabaret duo, and Jimbo and Timbo the incompetent builders trying to eat a Chinese takeaway.
#17 - Spilled Drink
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/17/1997
This week's programme features a modern slant on the ten commandments, the advent of widescreen TV, and the special effects men at a fertility clinic.
#18 - Catflap
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/24/1997
The last in the current series of comic sketches, characters and head-to-head confrontations with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The programme features the sound effects men in charge of Hitler's Nuremberg Rally PA system, a look at life in an inflation-hit South American republic and the resident cabaret musos dispensing more words of wisdom.
#19 - Alarm Clock
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1998
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones return for another series of comic sketches, including more head-to-head discussions.
#20 - Tanker
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1998
Mel and Griff try to find out if their friend Frank, played by Alun Armstrong, is wearing a toupee.
#22 - New TV
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1998
The duo play soldiers with a timekeeping problem, Mel goes to an all-night celebrity party, and there's a head-to-head on the problems of managing an all girl band.
#23 - Hello Wembley
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/26/1990
Tonight's show guarantees no references to Christmas, hangovers, boxing, sleighbells, or the works of Charles Dickens.
#24 - Raz Soap Powder
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/14/1984
Guest stars Tony Robinson and Brenda Blethyn. This is your only chance to discover what the Pope really gets up to at home, how the French Resistance resisted and the secret of Roger Moore's success.
#25 - George Smiley, British Spy
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/28/1984
Join the police on a night siege and probe the soft underbelly of the pop world. Yes, it's another exciting episode in the Smith and Jones 'Guide to Life'. This week: how to become a barbed-wire consultant and solve the enigma of correlation.