The BEST episodes of Rab C. Nesbitt
Every episode of Rab C. Nesbitt ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rab C. Nesbitt!
Rab C Nesbitt is a drunken, string vested lay about who lives with his long suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanizing Jamesie Cotter. He's offering his philosophical outlook on life to whoever will listen.
#1 - Cuts
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2011
Jamesie's philandering ways finally catch up with him when he learns he is about to become a father - and when he comes clean to Ella, she performs a spot of amateur surgery on her unfaithful husband. Meanwhile, Rab ends up in the next hospital bed to his friend after an accident with the cake knife at Peaches' birthday party.
#2 - Heal
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2010
Rab and Mary welcome their son Gash back to the family home and become reacquainted with their granddaughter Peaches. Meanwhile, Jamesie shows just how far he'll push it to get a woman into bed.
#3 - Signal
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/28/2010
When a mobile phone mast appears in Govan, Rab turns rabble-rouser to fire up the community. It's driving everyone up the pole, but is it really damaging their health? Nesbitt seeks justice; the mob just want a nice bit of compensation.
#4 - Fight
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2011
The drop-in centre falls victim to council cuts, so Rab fights back, but when a spot on local radio and a meeting with the council leader amount to nothing, he feels it is time for a grand public gesture - burning himself at the stake. As the string-vested hero prepares to become Govan's answer to Joan of Arc, Mary wastes no time in getting herself a new flame as she considers starting an affair with one of her cleaning clients.
#5 - Role
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2011
Peaches chooses Rab as her role model for a school project, but when he recognises her teacher as a fellow member of his self-help group, he wonders how he can live up to her expectations when Miss Carruth knows he likes more than a tipple. Jamesie hits 60 and starts a much-needed business venture - a crack den for OAPs.
#6 - Stool
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2011
The new minister arrives at Rab's church with two serious drawbacks - she is a woman and English.
#7 - Property
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/11/1998
Mary gets mugged while out walking, and Gash decides to leave his wife and go off with her sister.
#8 - Pie
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1996
Shug comes to Govan and wants to start up his own pie shop but he doesn't know about the local pie mafia, who don't like outsiders on their turf.
#9 - Duel
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/4/1998
Rab goes on a booze cruise to Millport which opens up some old wounds for him.
#10 - Cocktails
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/28/1998
The relief barman at the pub is an ex Broadmoor resident called Mad Dog, who quickly leaves Rab and Jamesie struggling with a problem involving 'fashionable drugs'.
#11 - New
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/21/1998
The thought of a new Labour government and a new daughter-in-law, makes Rab start to feel his age.
#12 - Binge
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/5/1997
Rab and Jamesie take Gash out on a traditional three day drinking binge before he gets married.
#13 - Bulbs
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/29/1997
Rab joins Jamesie's trip to Amsterdam to supposedly see the bulbfields but on arrival, Rab finds out that Jamesie is only interested in the red lights there.
#14 - Semmitry
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/22/1997
Rab is in the hospital cancer ward and the constant attention of the hospital reverend is starting to get on his nerves.
#15 - Growth
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/15/1997
After a visit to the doctor, Rab is diagnosed with a cancerous growth and has to undergo chemotherapy treatment.
#16 - Wild
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/8/1997
Rab is spending a lot of time at his newly acquired allotment, which causes Mary to look for her own excitement with an old boyfriend.
#17 - Fast
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/1997
Mary seems strangely calm when told that Rab's benefits have been suspended.
#18 - Father
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1996
Rab recalls his family history after finding his long lost brother Gash Sr.
#19 - Racket
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1996
The Nesbitts appear on an american style talk show after being accused of annoying their next door neighbour to death.
#20 - Fugue
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2011
The bottom falls out of the cleaning business, so Mary and Ella put their singing talents to good use by forming a girl band - and after a successful first gig, they set their sights on winning Govan's Got Talent. Meanwhile, Rab and Jamesie set themselves up as `Hunks for Hire', sexy male cleaners for bored housewives - and a misleading advert means they get plenty of interest.
#21 - Community
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/18/1998
Everyone in Govan is sad at the news that Country singer Marilou Devine has tragically passed away, except for Rab who has just been sentenced to community service.
#22 - Back
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/1998
Rab is suffering from a bad back, but that doesn't stop Jamesie from sticking an emotional knife into it.
#23 - Heat
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/14/1999
After serving a jail sentence for setting fire to the house because Mary had gone off with Jamesie, Rab gets a job as a dishwasher but is still planning to get his revenge.
#24 - Commons
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/21/1999
MP Tony Welthorpe agrees to swap lifestyles with Rab, after being challenged to see if he can live on state benefits for a month.
#25 - Night
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/28/1999
Rab can't get to sleep because of his bad back, and matters are made worse by the arrival of Jamesie, who is hiding from a disgruntled husband with a shotgun.