The BEST episodes of The Midnight Beast
Every episode of The Midnight Beast ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Midnight Beast!
This sitcom features the band members alongside a host of comedic guest stars, who are depicted as wannabe musicians struggling to make it. Other characters include Sloman, their perverse neighbour; Chevy, their iniquitous manager; and Zoe, Stef's long-suffering girlfriend. As well as slipping into wild music videos, the series sees the band having to cope with day-to-day challenges like sharing a dingy East London flat, trying to impress girls when they have no cash, and working out who has to sleep on the kitchen floor. The series charts their failures and successes as they try to claw and hobble through a sea of bizarre obstacles and unsavoury characters toward pop stardom.
#1 - Someone Called Sam
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/5/2012
The Midnight Beast are a young, potty-mouthed band trying to make it big in the music industry. The band move in to a high-rise dump in East London, where they scam free pizzas and eat cat food to stay alive. The band attempt to set up a gig in a trendy club only to be kicked out for stealing drinks and lemons to stave off scurvy.
#2 - Father's Day
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/12/2012
Stef stays up all night editing a rubbish animated video for the band's new track Booty Call. And Dru miraculously receives a maintenance cheque from his long-estranged dad.
#3 - Hardcore
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/19/2012
When the Beast's manager Chevy finally gets them a gig on a TV show, the boys are hit by a crisis of confidence after bumping into a mouthy hardcore band who are also appearing.
#4 - Hey Ladies
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/26/2012
The Midnight Beast are at crisis point... Dru has become hypnotised by his war video games and Ash is being led around by the lump in his pants, leaving Stef to keep the band together.
#5 - Boyband
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/2/2012
Unbeknown to the guys, Dru makes a devil's pact with a major label, but will the group really trade in their independence and become just another boyband?
#6 - The Sloman Show
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/2012
The Sloman Show: In this final episode, a 'best of' show, Sloman breaks into the band's flat after a party, where he sets up a makeshift studio to broadcast all their secrets and videos.
#7 - The Twilight Beast
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/2014
Stef, Dru and Ash get a job in a local ex-bingo hall run by fearsome East End granny Sylvia and her granddaughters Ronnie and Hope. Their first task is to put on a birthday party for 16-year-old Hope and her friends, but Stef is reeling from discovering that his girlfriend Zoe is now his ex-girlfriend and is going out with chart-topping rapper Sexual P. While Stef works on his own crazy idea for the party, Ash and Dru decide on a Twilight theme. But when everyone turns up for the party, it's not exactly what they had hoped for. Includes three brand new songs: Broadway-inspired opener I Swear, Stef's gospel number Black Guy, and Sexual P's hit 5-a-Day Flex.
#8 - Fight or Flight
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/2014
The guys are skint, in spite of their new job at the bingo hall. Having entered a bunch of competitions, all they've won so far is a packet of Femidoms. They are now pinning their hopes on the local Birdman competition, but preparation is delayed while they help their neighbour Sloman come up with a convincing plan to win back his wife, who wants a divorce. Dru trains Sloman up for the big showdown, which sees Sloman take on his wife in the ring at the bingo hall. But will Sloman put up enough of a fight to win her back? And will the boys make it to the Birdman competition on time? This show contains two new songs: the calypso-inspired Plenty More Fish and the metal stomper Übercurrent.
#9 - Beast Holiday Ever
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/2014
The guys have saved up enough money to go on holiday. They're all set to go until Stef discovers that Ash has changed all of their passport photos for selfies. In light of this, they have to set their sights closer to home and end up camping under a holiday billboard in a local car park. But will the boys survive the week without killing each other? This show has two new songs: Holiday, featuring a sample from Cliff Richard and The Shadows' classic hit Summer Holiday, and When I'm Older, in which the boys imagine what life will be like when they're old and grey... it's not pretty.
#10 - Going Solo
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/2014
The boys perform at a lesbian wedding reception, but Ashley's decision to perform their hit song Lez Be Friends results in a row that leads to him embarking on a solo career. He launches his new look at an open mic night after taking advice from Sloman, and despite not being able to play the guitar, he gains the support of the crowd and talent manager Terror Moses. Meanwhile, Stefan and Andrew end up going their separate ways after failing to recruit a new member. Comedy, starring Stefan Abingdon, Andrew Wakely and Ashley Horne
#11 - They Came Upon a Midnight Beast
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/2014
When the boys go back to their old school for Careers Day, it is revealed that they became friends while producing the Nativity play.
#12 - Quiz Night Beast
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2014
The guys have settled into their jobs at the bingo hall, but Sylvia is in deep financial trouble. Can they save the hall with a high-stakes pub quiz?