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.

Last Updated: 8/15/2024Network: BBCStatus: Ended
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Rough Direction
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#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.

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Traffic Warden
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#2 - Traffic Warden

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1992

More subjects are given an unexpected twist - plus musical set-pieces.

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Runaway Bus
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#3 - Runaway Bus

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1992

More comedy sketches, musical set-pieces, and a 'head to head' problem that needs to be discussed.

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Your Parents Going to be Staying Long ?
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#4 - Your Parents Going to be Staying Long ?

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1992

Another fast-moving sequence of sketches, songs and 'head-to-head' problems.

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Griff Can't Find His Car
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#5 - Griff Can't Find His Car

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1992

The award-winning duo. More fun and frolics from the slightly larger one who comes from London and the slightly thinner one who comes from Wales.

I Don't Care
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#6 - I Don't Care

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/1992

Last in the comedy series starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. A collection of comic items as the double award-winning duo add to the gaiety of nations.

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Bad Microphones
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#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.

Writer: Simon Godley
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Prescription Drugs
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#8 - Prescription Drugs

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1995

With Jonathan Kydd and Steffanie Pitt.

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Missing Link
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#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."

Writer: Simon Godley
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Griff has Stage Fright
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#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.

Writer: Simon Godley
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Tails
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#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.

Writer: Simon Godley
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Dr. Jekyll
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#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.

Directors: Martin Shardlow
Writer: Arthur Ellis
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Cookery
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#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.

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Morgue
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#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.

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Massage
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#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.

Writer: Arthur Ellis
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Hookers
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#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.

Writer: Arthur Ellis
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Spilled Drink
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#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.

Writer: Arthur Ellis
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Catflap
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#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.

Writer: Arthur Ellis
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Alarm Clock
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#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.

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Tanker
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#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.

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Tie Man of the Year
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#21 - Tie Man of the Year

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1998

This week Griff tries to combat Mel's snoring and the duo unearth a long-lost satire programme of the sixties.

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New TV
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#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.

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Hello Wembley
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#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.

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Raz Soap Powder
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#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.

Directors: Martin Shardlow
Writer: Arthur Ellis
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George Smiley, British Spy
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#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.

Directors: Martin Shardlow
Writer: Arthur Ellis
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