The WORST episodes of Drop The Dead Donkey
Every episode of Drop The Dead Donkey ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Drop The Dead Donkey!
Welcome to the Globelink News team, primed and ready to bring you the latest news...somehow. Under the ineffective management of Gus, the team bicker, fight, tease, gamble and mock their way through the day's news. Their professional rivalries and domestic traumas are laid bare on the floor of the newsroom. Episodes were recorded close to transmission, to make use of contemporary news events, thus giving the programme a greater sense of realism. Created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, the series had an ensemble cast, making stars of Haydn Gwynne, Stephen Tompkinson and Neil Pearson.
#1 - A Blast from the Past
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/30/1990
Damien is doing a story on slum landlords but when they view the footage, Alex is staggered to learn that her ex husband is involved in the story. Sally and Henry have elocution lessons, and Sally appears on a TV telethon for charity.
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#2 - Don't Mention the Arabs
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1991
Sally has found religion. Henry is writing an obituary of a fellow journalist, who is seriously ill. George is under pressure to shelve Henry's documentary on human rights.
#3 - Alex and the Interpreter
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1991
While George is on holiday Alex runs the office and gets involved with a Russian and his interpreter, who are here to see how the station is run. The Russian proposes, Alex turns him down, but the interpreter accepts. Dave gets her off the hook, by posing as her fiance. Damien is under pressure from Lynn Yates, a reporter from another TV station, to get the best stories..
#4 - The Big Day
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/11/1990
Gus wants Sally to interview the Prime Minister when she comes to the studio, but Alex and George want Henry to do the interview. When an electrician fuses the lights the interview is called off. After Damien fakes another report, George threatens to sack him.
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#6 - The Evangelist
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1991
The Reverend Earl Johnson wants Globelink to cover his shows, but Alex says no. Sally comes to her senses when Earl makes a pass at her. Damien reads the tarot cards, George becomes very upset over his marriage breakup.
#12 - The Godless Society
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1996
A bishop loses his faith just before he is to be on a live GLN interview.
#13 - Death, Disaster 'n' Damien
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/4/1990
On location, Damien fakes a firing squad. He also gets injured organising an animal rights protest, but before he can film it, Alex steps in and the raid is cancelled. To make up for the cancellation and while he is in hospital he tries to film a heart operation.
#15 - The Newsmakers
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/1998
A documentary crew films the demise of Globelink News.
#17 - The New Newsreader
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/1993
A new news reader joins the staff but she is so good that Henry and Sally try to get her the sack. George tries to pluck up courage to ask Helen out but then he learns that she is a lesbian. Dave and Damien go pot holing and get trapped.
#18 - Sex, Lies and Audiotape
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/13/1990
Alex has obtained a top secret audio tape, that the Government wants banned. Sally is taped making love to the sound man, but when Dave makes Henry a copy of Sally's tape, he accidentally uses the secret tape, thus erasing it.
#19 - Joy
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1993
Joy is seeing a married man. After some advice from George, Joy tells his wife, he gets stabbed and Joy is a suspect. Henry and Sally argue over desk space. Dave and Damien fall out.
#20 - The Trevorman Cometh
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1991
Gus brings in an office efficiency expert to help with the job cuts he has in mind. Henry's legs are paralysed due to stress brought about by his experiences in the Korean war. To stop the job cuts, the staff agree to pay cuts as long as Gus is included.
#21 - The Gulf Report
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1991
The book on Globelink News' coverage of the Gulf War is about to be published and George is to be interviewed on TV about it. Sally goes on childrens TV and gets dunked in the gunge tank. Sir Roysten's daughter comes to work at the office and starts dating Dave.
#22 - Damien Down and Out
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1991
While Damien lives on the streets to get to the bottom of a big story, Dave uses his credit cards. George's marriage is on the rocks.
#23 - Hoax
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1991
Henry spends the whole episode trying to solve the last clue in the times crossword, when the answer comes from a surprising source. Sally's mother dies and after the cremation she brings the urn into the office. Damien meets the source who has hoaxed him on several stories.
#25 - The Path of True Love
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1996
Helen holds a dinner party to introduce her lesbian friend to the rest of the office but Damien tries to break them up. Gus finally dates the woman he has been chatting to on the internet but he wants to use Dave's chat up lines. Sally does a radio advert.
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