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 - Rock Star's House
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/6/1990
A third foray into the funny, farcical and felicitous world of the comical duo whose names begin with the letters 'j' and 's'.
#3 - Dumping Rubbish in the Berkshire Countryside
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1990
Discover how the pyramids were built. Accompany Sir John Harvey-Jones on his latest troubleshoot. And discover why the drivers of F-registration Montegos should beware the next budget.
#4 - Interrupting Des Lynam
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/20/1990
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, so hang the decorations and the fairy lights and join Smith and Jones on a trip to funnyland.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Water Slide
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/1992
Return of the British Comedy Award-winning series starring Mel Smith Griff Rhys Jones. Among the subjects promised in this new series are endangered species, courtship in the 50s, dustcart trophies, traffic wardens, political speeches, the postal system and street vendors - and of course a weekly 'head to head'.
#7 - Traffic Warden
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1992
More subjects are given an unexpected twist - plus musical set-pieces.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Prescription Drugs
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1995
With Jonathan Kydd and Steffanie Pitt.
#14 - 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."
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Women's Shower Room
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/29/1990
A second bumper package of humorous skits featuring loveable, chubby Mel Smith and cheeky chappie Griff Rhys Jones.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Flight Simulator
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1998
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones continue their series of comic sketches. There's a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock 's classic film Rear Window and new dance sensation Conga Britannica.