The BEST Episodes of Inside No. 9
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 10, 2021
Network: BBC Two
Inside No. 9 invites viewers into six very different No. 9s, where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the extraordinary and macabre. From a grand country house where a game of 'sardines' leads to some chilling revelations in a wardrobe; to a very oddly haunted house; to a blood-soaked actor's dressing room in London's West End; to the flat of an apparently happy primary school teacher who becomes the victim of a good deed; these unpredictable tales feature high comedy and claustrophobic horror by turns.
#1 - The 12 Days of Christine
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Apr 2, 2015
Christine Clarke brings a new man back to her flat from a New Year's Eve party, and immediately her life starts to unravel. Who is the terrifying stranger that keeps appearing in the flat at night?
8.16 
#2 - A Quiet Night In
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 12, 2014
Gerald owns a beautiful house with lots of beautiful things in it. Beautiful things that are also extremely valuable. The kind of things that might just become the target of an audacious criminal enterprise.
8.10 
#3 - Once Removed
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 16, 2018
According to the Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale, the three most troubling experiences in life are the death of a spouse, divorce and imprisonment. Moving house is only 32nd on the list. But anything could happen in the last 10 minutes of this episode. Or the 10 minutes before that. Or the first 10 minutes for that matter.
8.08 
#4 - Empty Orchestra
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Mar 7, 2017
At a karaoke party to celebrate a colleague's promotion, a group of office workers decide to express their feelings through their choice of songs.
8.07 
#5 - Misdirection
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 24, 2020
World-famous magician Neville Griffin is extremely protective of his secrets, but student journalist Gabriel is determined to get an interview nonetheless. Griffin actually believes that stealing a magic trick is probably worse than murder. How would he know that, exactly?
8.06 
#6 - Tempting Fate
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 6, 2018
A dead hoarder's flat, a blood-stained floor, a dead rat, and a terrible, inescapable curse from beyond the grave. All in an ordinary day's work for council contractors Keith, Nick and Maz.
8.00 
#7 - The Riddle of the Sphinx
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 28, 2017
A professor at the University of Cambridge attempts to teach a student how to solve a cryptic crossword.
7.90 
#8 - Tom & Gerri
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Feb 19, 2014
Tom is a primary school teacher with ambitious ideas of becoming an author. When he tries to repay a good turn from a late-night caller, he gradually becomes the victim of his own generosity. As time passes, his new friend - Migg - becomes an increasingly dominant part of Tom's life, threatening his relationship with his aspiring actress girlfriend, Gerri.
7.85 
#9 - Cold Comfort
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Apr 16, 2015
It's Andy's first day as a volunteer at the Comfort Support Line call centre, which offers the lonely and desperate a chance to talk about their problems. All the CSL counsellors have their own ways of dealing with clients, coping with the emotional stress and killing time between phone calls. But is Andy really prepared for what's to come?
7.84 
#10 - Zanzibar
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 2, 2018
Welcome to London's Hotel Zanzibar. Our varied guests have travelled from afar. Proposals, plots and prostitutes combine. It's a comedy of errors on floor nine.
7.81 
#11 - La Couchette
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Mar 26, 2015
On board the sleeper from Paris to Bourg St. Maurice, a motley collection of passengers try to get a quiet night's sleep as the train makes its way across France. But as the sleeping compartment fills up, the chances of that begin to look highly unlikely. In Deuxième Classe, everyone can hear you scream...
7.81 
#12 - Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 9, 2018
It's been 30 years since Northern double-act Len and Tommy last appeared on stage together, that fateful night at the Glasgow Pavilion. Then Tommy walked out on Len, and that was curtains for Cheese & Crackers. Until now - and one last gig in front of an invited audience.
7.78 
#13 - To Have and To Hold
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired Jan 23, 2018
When Adrian's career as a wedding photographer starts to get in the way of his own marriage, his wife Harriet is determined to find out why.
7.76 
#14 - Nana's Party
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Apr 23, 2015
It is Nana's special day: it isn't every day you get to be 79. She is excited about spending the afternoon with her whole family - even Pat and Jim, who both love a great practical joke. Her Angela has put on a lovely spread, including a huge cake. But as Nana says, 'Don't worry about the future: you can't predict it'.
7.70 
#15 - Private View
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Mar 21, 2017
A group of strangers are invited to attend a private exhibition at an art gallery, but none of them knows why they were invited.
7.65 
#16 - Sardines
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Feb 5, 2014
It is the day of Rebecca and Jeremy's engagement party, and everyone (well, nearly everyone) has turned up to the old house to wish them well. Except that one of the bedrooms, the one with all the old baggage in it, has been left unlocked...
7.61 
#17 - The Bill
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired Feb 21, 2017
A group of friends go for a night out at a local restaurant. Soon an argument erupts about who is going to pay the bill.
7.56 
#18 - Death Be Not Proud
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 10, 2020
Young couple Beattie and Sam are finally on the property ladder, but the only flat they can afford has a dark and sinister past - one that demands to be heard.
7.53 
#19 - The Stakeout
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired Mar 9, 2020
Two police officers have time to get to know each other on the night shift. But PC Thompson's previous partner died in a brutal attack less than a month ago, the forensics have gone missing and PC Varney is beginning to ask a lot of awkward questions.
7.52 
#20 - Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Mar 14, 2017
After finding a lost shoe in the street, a man becomes fixated on trying to trace its owner.
7.35 
#21 - Thinking Out Loud
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Mar 2, 2020
Seven disparate characters share their stories with a camera, their fates inevitably, inextricably and unknowingly set for a head-on collision.
7.35 
#22 - The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 9, 2015
Two of England's most notorious and feared witch-finders are summoned by Sir Andrew Pike to the unassuming village of Little Happens in order to try an old woman. Elizabeth Gadge stands accused of consorting with the Devil, most lewdly and on divers occasions. If she is found guilty, she will burn. It is very definitely the most exciting event in Little Happens since the business of the escaped cow.
7.33 
#23 - Last Gasp
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 26, 2014
Tamsin is a very sick little girl, so Jan and Graham asked WishmakerUK to brighten up their daughter's birthday. The charity is bringing along a very special guest indeed - none other than the legendary singer Frankie J Parsons.
7.31 
#24 - The Referee's A W***er
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired Feb 3, 2020
The beautiful game. The crunch-clash between United and Rovers in the last match of the season, all safely in the care of the four match officials. A tale of promotion, relegation, corruption, and so, so much more.
7.29 
#25 - Seance Time
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Apr 30, 2015
Having never consulted the spirit world before, Tina isn't quite sure what to expect. Her visit to the spiritualist medium Madam Talbot has been arranged by her sister. Hives, Talbot's assistant in the mundane world, seems quite helpful, but there's something already waiting for Tina on the Other Side, and Hives knows all about it.
7.24