The BEST episodes of Birds of a Feather
Every episode of Birds of a Feather ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Birds of a Feather!
Sharon (Pauline Quirke) lives in a council flat, while her sister Tracey (Linda Robson) lives in a luxurious house on a private estate. The two women lead very different lives until their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon moves in with Tracey to keep her company and to help pay the bills. They quickly become close friends with their neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph), whose chief interest in life is chasing after much younger men.
#2 - Just Visiting
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/1989
Sharon and Tracey try to come to terms with the husbands' imprisonment—and to explain the situation to Tracey's son Garth.
#3 - Gimme Shelter
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2014
Mouthy Sharon’s living in an Edmonton tower block and is clearly down on her luck, her older sister Tracey’s still living in Chigwell with son Travis, while man-eating Dorien has repackaged herself as Foxy Cohen, author of the sex blockbuster Sixty Shades of Green.
#4 - Sunday
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/30/1998
In pursuit of a wedding present for Garth, the girls visit an antiques market which is being held in an old warehouse. On their arrival, it looks as if they might be in for a long night.
#5 - Mummies and Daddies
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/1998
Tracey is shocked to hear that Garth has apparently abandoned pregnant ex-girlfriend Kimberley - "typical male behaviour", according to Sharon. Meanwhile, Dorien needs to get to her boyfriend Richard’s before he returns home to find the malicious answer message she has left him.
#6 - Baggage
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1998
Sharon and Tracey attend a school reunion. Margie is still a bully, and Poxy Loxy is as leery as ever - though he does give Tracey a perfect chance to play a wicked prank. Meanwhile, Dorien meets someone from the past.
#7 - The Essex Patient
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1998
Tracey and Sharon hit on a name for their new cleaning business: 'Maids of Ongar'. After a strenuous day's work though Sharon begins to feel ill.
#8 - Business
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/16/1991
Sharon and Tracel fall out over an inheritance.
#9 - Flavour of the Month
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/1991
Desmond, an 'old prison friend' of Darryl's, turns up at Dalentrace. With a squash injury keeping Marcus at home - and curtailing Dorien's amorous adventures - Sharon suggests that the accident-prone Desmond acts as temporary chauffeur.
#10 - Keeping Up Appearances
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1991
Chris wins the premium bond, so Sharon tries to force his signature to keep the money for herself. Meanwhile, when Tracy visits Daryl, she finds him to be unkept and unclean. When Sharon comments on this, Tracy kicks her out.
#11 - Baby Come Back
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1991
Sharon bumps into Dave, her ex-boyfriend from shortly after the boys were sent down. This brings back all the feelings she had when she had the abortion with Dave's baby. But now she feels ready to settle down, and Dave could be just the right man. All she has to do is tell him that she never had a miscarriage. Meanwhile, Tracy gets all motherly when Garth comes home for the weekend.
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#12 - Relative Strangers
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/16/1997
Dorien has moved in with her mother after being kicked out by Marcus, but then discovers her husband has been leading a double life. Darryl throws Sharon out of his house after a heated argument leaving Sharon with no choice but to move in with Chris.
#13 - Model
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/1998
Sharon attracts interest from an unexpected quarter, while Tracey pays a surreptitious visit to a clinic.
#14 - Porridge
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/23/1997
Sharon is frantically trying to keep Chris out of her bed, and is prepared to go to any lengths to get a home of her own. Dorien is determined to win custody of the house and, posing as a barmaid, tracks down Marcus’s mistress in order to find out some home truths.
#15 - Rising Damp
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/30/1997
Tracey is anxious to make up for lost time, and heads out on the pull - but whatever happened to uncomplicated sex? While Garth is baffled by his mum's behaviour, Sharon gets on the TV to appeal for Chris's release, but ends up fighting the channel’s mascot - a man dressed as a dog.
#16 - Three up, Two Down
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/7/1997
Dalentrace is in jeaopardy as Sharon and Tracey sink into debt; Dorien's generosity cannot be a permanent solution. Tracey is becoming a decisive woman, and is taking matters into her own hands. Garth, meanwhile, decides to move in with his girlfriend Kimberly.
#17 - Are You Being Served?
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/14/1997
Tracy and Sharon are now living in their new house, as Dor comes to visit after her recent trip to Monaco. She comes back with the news that she slept with Ralph Gardener, head of Central Water, who is currently all over the media. She comes up with the plan to cash in by making up a story about being pregnant. Meanwhile, Sharon decides that she wants to have a baby, and gets Dor to hook her up with someone, while Tracy is completely against both of their plans.
#18 - Never the Twain
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/21/1997
Dorien is holed up in a Lake District hotel, devising juicy titbits with journalist David Kane. Sharon has started thinking about adoption, while Garth is worried about his dad. The sisters set off to visit their husbands in their new prison, Slade, while Dorien is pampered in the hotel.
#19 - Three's Company
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/28/1997
Sharon is still assessing men for their reproductive potential making Tracey feel rather uncomfortable. 'Nouveau destitute' Dorien suddenly recalls she has a very rich mother-in-law, while Tracey drops the bombshell that she is pregnant and isn't sure it's Darryl's.
#20 - Reservoir Birds
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1997
This is a duplicate of s00e10. What's wrong with you? Why are these fucked up duplicates constantly entered here?
#21 - Trouble and Strife
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1998
When Sharon wrecks Tracey's bed, it is the final straw. She promises to get a job and make a contribution - especially with Tracey's baby on the way. A stint in an abattoir ends when she is sacked for stealing meat, but Dorien is looking for a cleaner.
#22 - Maids of Ongar
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1998
The girls are short of money, and go to see bank manager Martin Mann. But they suffer a bout of giggles after Tracey calls him 'Mr Mann', and he refuses to lend to the wives of bank robbers - particularly as he was the bank manager Darryl and Chris robbed.
#23 - Can't Judge a Book
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1998
Chris comes up with a surprise, while Sharon's contentment is shattered by the medical advice all women dread—she's got to lose weight
#24 - Money
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1998
Tracey receives an endowment policy for Garth in the post, and finds herself facing a dilemma—should she hand the money over or take Sharon's advice and squander it on herself?
#25 - Ghost
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/16/1998
The heavily pregnant Tracey is fed up with Sharon's slobbish habits - in particular her tendency to leave all the kitchen drawers open. But Sharon insists she didn't leave them like that, and when things start to go bump in the night, Tracey becomes convinced they're sharing the house with a poltergeist; thus, the girls and Dorien hold a seance.