The BEST episodes written by Ben Elton
#1 - Goodbyeee
Blackadder - Season 4 - Episode 6
Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.
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#2 - Demolition
The Young Ones - Season 1 - Episode 1
Rick, Neil, Mike and Vyvyan learn that the council plans to rip down their home. Vyvyan tries to demolish it himself from the inside and Neil wants to commit suicide.
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#3 - Bambi
The Young Ones - Season 2 - Episode 1
The reprobates from Scumbag College test their mental dexterity against Footlights College on a TV quiz show - but not before Vivian loses his head.
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#4 - Oil
The Young Ones - Season 1 - Episode 2
Mike, Neil, Vyvyan and Rick move into their new home. Vyvyan thinks he has found oil in the basement and Mike quickly takes control of the situation by ordering the others to do the digging.
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#5 - Summer Holiday
The Young Ones - Season 2 - Episode 6
The housemates are trying to find ways to amuse themselves during the summer holidays, but then Mr Balowski turns up and evicts them. Now it's a matter of survival, so they decide to rob a bank.
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#6 - General Hospital
Blackadder - Season 4 - Episode 5
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.
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#7 - Duel and Duality
Blackadder - Season 3 - Episode 6
The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place.
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#8 - Boring
The Young Ones - Season 1 - Episode 3
Oblivious to terrorists, dancing vegetables, and card-playing mice, the boys complain of being bored.
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#9 - Smear Campaign
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Season 1 - Episode 6
Richie and Eddie have given up showbiz and begun a career as the scum. As journos they're digging up dirt on Midge Ure and Mrs Thatcher and what they can't find they make up. But watch out ! Now Richie's dug up his ballpoint there's no stopping him. Who else is he going to smear with his evil lies? and if Brucie and Tarby aren't safe - Who is?
#10 - Breakfast Television
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Season 1 - Episode 5
Keep your finger on the remote control - Richie's about to become enormous! He's got a showbiz job reading the gossip on TV AM with those megastar totties Anne Diamond and the Pink Goddess. But his rise to stardom hits an obstacle. When he finds himself plastered over the papers. Things get worse when Eddie and Richie are caught Mooning to three million viewers.
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#11 - Mr. Bean
Mr. Bean - Season 1 - Episode 1
Story 1: Mr Bean sits an exam and is blissfully happy until, too late, he realizes that he has studied the wrong maths equations. Story 2: Mr Bean tries to change into his swimming trunks at the beach without anyone seeing his bits. Story 3: Mr Bean tries to stifle a sneeze in church.
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#12 - Bomb
The Young Ones - Season 1 - Episode 4
The students wonder what to do when an unexploded bomb lands in their house. Mike sees an opportunity to make money, Rick wants to use it as a blackmail tool and Vyvyan tries to detonate it, but Neil's just worried about surviving the inevitable blast.
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#13 - Bells
Blackadder - Season 2 - Episode 1
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.
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#14 - Ink and Incapability
Blackadder - Season 3 - Episode 2
Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy.
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#15 - Corporal Punishment
Blackadder - Season 4 - Episode 2
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.
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#16 - Cash
The Young Ones - Season 2 - Episode 2
The gang are desperately short of cash, forcing Neil to get a job. The army turn him down but he gets on surprisingly well being a police officer instead. Meanwhile, Vyvyan announces he's pregnant.
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#17 - Beer
Blackadder - Season 2 - Episode 5
Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer drinking contest.
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#18 - Interesting
The Young Ones - Season 1 - Episode 5
The boys decide to throw a party, but before long it descends into chaos. A preachy Christian turns up, Rick gets annoyed when their guests arrive early, Cinderella appears, and Vyvyan tries to impress some girls.
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#19 - The Green Eyed Monster
The Thin Blue Line - Season 2 - Episode 7
Inspector Fowler proposes to Sergeant Dawkins so as to help his chances for promotion, but his lack of sensitivity during the proposal prompts her to leave him instead. Fowler tries to find a new woman, but loses his interest when he hears that Dawkins is now with someone called "Toby."
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#20 - Yuletide Spirit
The Thin Blue Line - Season 1 - Episode 7
Goody buys Fowler a puncture repair kit and Habib some lingerie, but accidentally gives them the wrong presents, and matters are made more complicated when Dawkins believes the lingerie is a gift for her from Fowler.
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#21 - Alternative Culture
The Thin Blue Line - Season 2 - Episode 4
Constable Habib finds her younger sister holding drugs during a drug raid in a rave club, and hides the drugs to protect her, but she is discovered and charged for withholding evidence. Fowler, unhappy with the injustice, does his best to protect Habib.
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#22 - A Death in the Family
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Season 1 - Episode 4
Great news! Richie's dad's about to croak and Richie's all set to do an advertisment for a flower company at his funeral. Until, worse luck his dad recover's and Richie's going to loose everything! Unless of course his dad still dies... Things get heavy when Eddie and Richie find themselves in a gay bar propositioning men. But what they're doing in Foxy and Mr Men oven gloves with enough rat poison to kill an army is anybody's guess.
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#23 - Nob and Nobility
Blackadder - Season 3 - Episode 3
After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.
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#24 - Come on You Blues
The Thin Blue Line - Season 2 - Episode 5
Gasforth Football Club is about to play Premiership team Chelsea, and Mayoress Wickham orders Fowler and his officers to personally see to it that nothing goes wrong in exchange for her recommending him for an MBE. However, things get complicated when the football players get up to no good.
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#25 - Private Plane
Blackadder - Season 4 - Episode 4
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.
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#26 - Chains
Blackadder - Season 2 - Episode 6
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.
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#27 - Major Star
Blackadder - Season 4 - Episode 3
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.
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#28 - Sense and Senility
Blackadder - Season 3 - Episode 4
The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre.
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#29 - Ism Ism Ism
The Thin Blue Line - Season 2 - Episode 2
Dawkins discovers circumstantial evidence of a domestically abused wife, Grim applies to join the Todgers, and Mayoress Christabel Wickham informs Fowler of the presence of an illegal immigrant in Gasforth. Fowler apparently solves the crimes, but soon realises that they seemed a little too easy.
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#30 - Money
Blackadder - Season 2 - Episode 4
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.
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#31 - Court in the Act
The Thin Blue Line - Season 2 - Episode 1
Grim and Boyle enlist the help of Fowler and his officers to search the home of a suspected drug-dealer, and Goody finds the drugs in the kitchen. But the too-obvious location, Boyle's discretion and Grim's uncomfortableness lead Fowler to believe something is going on behind the arrest.
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#32 - Head
Blackadder - Season 2 - Episode 2
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.
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#33 - The Quality of Mercy
Upstart Crow - Season 1 - Episode 6
There is money to be made investing in cargos from the New World, but while Marlowe invests in tobacco and potato products, Will would rather invest in building a new theatre. But when Will's savings go missing, he is forced to make a rather unusual bargain with his rival Robert Greene. Kate's frustration with the lack of roles for women leads her to make a rather dramatic intervention...
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#34 - Time
The Young Ones - Season 2 - Episode 4
Neil gets kidnapped by a medieval knight, while Rick believes he's finally managed to seduce a woman.
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#35 - Flood
The Young Ones - Season 1 - Episode 6
A spell of bad weather means the friends must find ways to amuse themselves inside the house. As they play hide-and-seek, Jerzy Balowski is transformed into an axe-wielding maniac.
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#36 - Honey Trap
The Thin Blue Line - Season 1 - Episode 3
After Fowler drunkenly admits to having kissed Habib during a pub quiz match, Dawkins begins to suspect the two of having an affair behind her back when Grim enlists Fowler and Habib's help in catching a criminal via entrapment.
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#37 - The Queen's Birthday Present
The Thin Blue Line - Season 1 - Episode 1
It is the tenth anniversary of Fowler and Dawkins' relationship, but Fowler manages to forget, being instead more concerned with the Queen's Official Birthday.
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#38 - Dish and Dishonesty
Blackadder - Season 3 - Episode 1
Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List.
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#39 - Amy and Amiability
Blackadder - Season 3 - Episode 5
After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman.
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#40 - Rag Week
The Thin Blue Line - Season 1 - Episode 4
It's Rag Week in Gasforth, and Fowler and his men are frequently disturbed by teenagers in scary masks – that is until a bank robbery by three men in rag masks occurs while Dawkins is there, leaving it uncertain whether or not the robbery is genuine.
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#41 - What Bloody Man Is That?
Upstart Crow - Season 1 - Episode 5
The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford. On the way, they meet three witches who have some surprising predictions to make about Will's future, leading to a very serious case of house envy.
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#42 - Dead Milkmen
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Season 1 - Episode 1
Richie wakes up feeling sexy then discovers Eddie is also in his bed. Richie worries that he has caught Eddie's 'trouser rash.' Eddie has his head under the back of Richie's robe on a rash hunt when the milkman walks in. Richie smashes the milkman over the head with some milk bottles and inadvertently kills him. They hide the bod in the cub. Soon, several more milkmen die as Richie and Eddie dash to the hospital to foil a paternity suit being brought against Richie in a dastardly plot to get hold of Richie's cash.
#43 - Potato
Blackadder - Season 2 - Episode 3
After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.
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#44 - Sick
The Young Ones - Season 2 - Episode 5
A bout of illness puts a strain on Vivian's usual easygoing approach to communal living. The somewhat delicate matter of Rick's lost virginity raises further consternation.
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#45 - Captain Cook
Blackadder - Season 4 - Episode 1
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.
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#46 - Game Show
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Season 1 - Episode 2
Richie appears on a TV game show with disastrous results. He also has trouble with a blackmailer. Eddie dabbles in the art world.
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#47 - Love Is Not Love
Upstart Crow - Season 1 - Episode 4
Will completes his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner. But will the fair youth and the dark lady like them as much as he hopes? And is Anne likely to be impressed that her husband's 154 hot new love poems don't contain much about her?
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#48 - Dinner Party
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Season 1 - Episode 3
Ritchie has invited some of his showbiz pals to dinner. Getting the food ready proves a problem, which eventually makes him a fugitive from the law. Luckily, Ralph Filthy come to the rescue.
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#49 - Night Shift
The Thin Blue Line - Season 1 - Episode 5
Pestered by his ex-wife, Fowler reluctantly agrees to let his son Bill stay with him and Dawkins for a fortnight. When Dawkins overhears Bill making love to his girlfriend in the bedroom, she becomes envious and attempts to talk Fowler into going to see a sex therapist. Guest appearance by Sheila Gish.
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#50 - The Play's the Thing
Upstart Crow - Season 1 - Episode 2
Will's controversial new play is about to be presented to Queen Elizabeth, but it goes missing and the finger of suspicion points to his best friend and fellow author KIt Marlowe. The playwright has to scramble desperately to come up with a way to recover his stolen masterpiece, though given its politically sensitive content, is he really wise to want it back?
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