The BEST episodes of The Goes Wrong Show

Every episode of The Goes Wrong Show ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Goes Wrong Show!

Award-winning British comic geniuses Mischief, creators of the Broadway and London smash 'The Play That Goes Wrong’, present the hit BBC comedy The Goes Wrong Show, where a fictional amateur group attempt to put on a series of terrible TV plays, all of which end in disaster. Expect huge laughs from the funniest slapstick performers around. ‘I don’t think family entertainment gets better than The Goes Wrong Show. On a par with Pixar in our household’ - Charlie Brooker (creator of Black Mirror).

Last Updated: 4/3/2026Network: BBC OneStatus: Ended

8.42

106 votes

#1 - A Trial to Watch

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/10/2020

A legal drama is to be performed this week, but a set-design problem baffles the stage crew. Throw in a nervous first-time actor, and it’s a recipe for theatrical disaster.

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8.35

94 votes

#2 - 90 Degrees

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/31/2020

A family saga of lust and betrayal set in the hot Deep South gets a trial by fire when it’s ruined by a set. To fix the problem, life and limb are put at risk and gravity is ignored.

8.14

110 votes

#3 - The Pilot (Not the Pilot)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/2020

Our amateur dramatists stage a WW2 drama, rarely performed because of its historical inaccuracy, that’s bedeviled by collapsing sets, a missing actor, and machines with minds of their own.

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8.11

85 votes

#4 - Harper's Locket

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/24/2020

A period romance this week—hindered by a ceiling fan that threatens decapitation and a rain effect that might flood the entire set. There’s also a horse. And a cat.

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8.09

117 votes

#5 - The Spirit of Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/23/2019

Santa’s come to town to solve a little girl’s holiday woes, but there’s no Xmas cheer as he drinks too much sherry, an elf is trapped in the set, and a magical snowman is eaten alive.

Directors: Martin Dennis

Writer: Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer

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7.95

59 votes

#6 - The Most Lamentable...

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2021

Chris returns to the leadership of the Cornley Drama Society and puts on a production of a little-known play by Shakespeare. Colin Shakespeare, that is.

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7.90

69 votes

#7 - Summer Once Again

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2021

A coup in the ranks means that Robert is in charge of this week’s show, and he is not going to accept the usual shambolic standards as they present a Downton-esque family saga.

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7.85

94 votes

#8 - The Lodge

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/2020

A horror story, set in a crumbling old house, becomes a horror show as the play runs short and the actors end up falling off, out of, and through the rickety set.

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7.84

61 votes

#9 - The Cornley Drama Festival (1)

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2021

A different sort of show this week, as Chris asks each cast member to put on their own performance in order to head off a coup.

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7.80

51 votes

#10 - There Is No Escape

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2021

An American prison break drama is this week’s offering from the Cornley Drama Society, full of intrigue, excitement and double cross.

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7.78

59 votes

#11 - The Cornley Drama Festival (2)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2021

Continuing last-week's Disaster Festival, The Cornley Drama Society put on four more performances.