The BEST episodes written by Graham Linehan
#1 - Are You Right There Father Ted?
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 1
A perfect square of dirt on the window and an ill-conceived and unfortunately-timed impression lead to rumours that Ted is a bit of a racist.
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#2 - Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 6
After losing a bet to Dick Byrne, Ted has to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse, just when the Bishop's about to visit Craggy Island to see an image that miraculously appeared on Ted's skirting board...
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#3 - New Jack City
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 9
Jack is rushed to St. Clabbert's Old Priests Home when his hands become worryingly hairy. And his replacement is even more of a nightmare than the great man himself...
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#4 - Tentacles of Doom
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 3
Three bishops are on their way to Craggy Island to upgrade the Holy Stone of Clonrickert to a Class II relic, and Ted is determined that Dougal and Jack be on their best behaviour. As if...
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#5 - The Plague
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 6
Father Dougal is very excited about his new pet rabbit, Sampras. Meanwhile, rabbit-phobic Bishop Brennan is due to arrive to investigate a case of suspected nude sleepwalking by Father Jack.
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#6 - Speed 3
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 3
When Ted gets Pat Mustard, Craggy Island's randy milkman, sacked, Dougal takes over the round. But Pat plants a bomb on the milk float to get his revenge. Can Ted save Dougal?
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#7 - Episode 4
Big Train - Season 1 - Episode 4
The difficulties of being a police sketch artist are uncovered and there is an alternative interpretation of the famous film 'Matter of Life'. Adolf Hitler is in an unusually jovial frame of mind and the World Stare-Out Championships continue with Nanak versus Duran.
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#8 - Going to America
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 8
Ted accepts a job offer in America, with his very own parish in Beverly Hills. But with his ambition about to be realised, Ted's only problem is how to tell the others.
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#9 - The Mainland
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 4
A trip to the mainland always leads to trouble, and Ted is deeply nervous at the prospect. But what will go wrong this time?
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#10 - Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest
Father Ted - Season 1 - Episode 6
Sister Mulligan's visit to Craggy Island ends dramatically when Father Jack drinks a bottle of polish and dies. Ted and Dougal's grief's tempered by the fact that he's left them half a million pounds.
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#11 - The Work Outing
The IT Crowd - Season 2 - Episode 1
Jen's heart soars when 'Philip from Six' visits the basement to borrow Heat, and invites her to the theatre. But her hopes of finding true love are dashed when Roy and Moss invite themselves along.
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#12 - A Song for Europe
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 5
Ted and Dougal decide to enter the 1996 Eurosong Contest. With inspired lyrics, a jaunty tune and the right attitude, they stand a good chance. Don't they?
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#13 - The Speech
The IT Crowd - Season 3 - Episode 4
Jen makes enemies of Roy and Moss after trying to assert herself more after being named as Employee of the Month. Douglas discovers that the woman who he loves is not quite as she seems.
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#14 - Flight into Terror
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 10
Flying back from a visit to a particularly holy shrine, Ted, Jack and Dougal find themselves in mortal danger when Dougal visits the cockpit and does something really, really stupid.
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#15 - Night of the Nearly Dead
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 7
Singing sensation Eoin McLove, at Number One for 27 weeks with My Lovely Mayo Mammy, secretly visits Mrs Doyle for tea after she wins a poetry competition.
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#16 - Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 8
Easter is fast approaching, so Ted decides to get on with the important business of sacrificing something for Lent... but what should he choose?
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#17 - Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 2
Ted bets the annual heating allowance on Chris the sheep to win the island's annual sheep trials.
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#18 - Cooking the Books
Black Books - Season 1 - Episode 1
Bernard’s dodgy accountant has to go on the run, leaving him ill prepared to fill out his own tax return. In fact Bernard would rather do anything than fill it out.
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#19 - Grapes of Wrath
Black Books - Season 1 - Episode 3
Bernard and Manny accept a house-sitting job to get away from their new cleaner. They also drink some wine.
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#20 - Escape from Victory
Father Ted - Season 3 - Episode 5
It's the annual All-Priests Over 75s Five-a-Side Football Challenge Match against Rugged Island and Ted realises that Father Dick Byrne will stop at nothing to win.
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#21 - Entertaining Father Stone
Father Ted - Season 1 - Episode 2
Life's always dull on Craggy Island, but it gets even duller when Father Paul Stone visits. Six years he's been coming to holiday with Ted, and the protracted silences have taken their toll...
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#22 - The Blackout
Black Books - Season 1 - Episode 4
A hyper, coffee fueled Manny is mistaken for a policeman.
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#23 - Hell
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 1
Ted, Dougal and Jack head off on their summer holidays to Father O'Rourke's caravan in Kilkenny. Unfortunately, a run-in with some naked neighbours gets the holy men's holiday off to a sticky start.
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#24 - Episode 6
The Fast Show - Season 2 - Episode 6
BBC introduces Monkfish the chauvinistic cop, Piles Soylent appears on Jazz Club with his band The Jazz Mess, Thats Amazing presenter shows off a magical pen, The Posh Cockneys asks for directions.
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#25 - The Dinner Party
The IT Crowd - Season 2 - Episode 4
Jen's hopes for a sophisticated dinner party are dashed when she has to invite Roy, Moss and Richmond, and, for some reason, Roy finds something hilarious about her new boyfriend's name: Peter File.
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#26 - Think Fast, Father Ted
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 2
There's a leaky roof threatening to collapse on Father Jack, and Ted receives a car from Bishop Brennan for a raffle prize, but as usual, things go horribly wrong.
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#27 - The Final Countdown
The IT Crowd - Season 4 - Episode 2
Moss becomes a celebrity by beating all records on a popular puzzle show. Roy is mistaken for a window cleaner. Jen is preoccupied with Douglas's secret meetings.
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#28 - Friendface
The IT Crowd - Season 3 - Episode 5
Jen introduces Roy and Moss to a new social networking website, and then finds out why some friendships are best left in the past.
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#29 - And God Created Woman
Father Ted - Season 1 - Episode 5
Novelist Polly Clarke, author of the steamy 'Bejewelled with Kisses', comes to stay on the island, and Ted thinks she's fallen for him.
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#30 - The Passion of Saint Tibulus
Father Ted - Season 1 - Episode 3
After a night gossiping with Father Hernandez over the longest game of Cluedo in history, Ted and Dougal are bullied into being moral crusaders by Bishop Brennan, with disastrous results.
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#31 - Aunt Irma Visits
The IT Crowd - Season 1 - Episode 6
Jen is subject to powerful mood swings around a certain time every month, and Moss and Roy develop similar symptoms. Can a big bar of chocolate, Dirty Dancing on DVD and a girly night out help?
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#32 - Bad Boys
The IT Crowd - Season 4 - Episode 5
Roy and Moss become juvenile delinquents for the day and have an uncomfortable experience at a shopping centre.
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#33 - Episode 2
The Fast Show - Season 3 - Episode 2
An actor takes six hours in makeup, Colin Hunt tries to fix the photocopier, Monkfish goes undercover, Johnny Nice Painter has a panic attack, Indecisive Dave talks about the England Squad, Roger Nouveau attends a football match, Competitive Dad watches his sons on stage.
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#34 - Are We Not Men?
The IT Crowd - Season 3 - Episode 2
A new football website allows Roy and Moss to pass as 'proper' men for a momentous couple of days. Meanwhile, Jen is trying to date a man who looks like a magician.
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#35 - Episode 5
The Fast Show - Season 2 - Episode 5
Unlucky Alf finds a girlfriend, Renee and Roy talks about flying, Carl Hooper talks about animal freaks, The Tweed Man buys a pair of trousers.
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#36 - Episode 4
The Fast Show - Season 3 - Episode 4
The Ghoul gives a tip on a football match, The Off-Roaders are living in the wild, Dave Angel The Eco Warrior talks about global warming, Ron Manager talks about baldness, A Rambler asks for directions, Thats Amazing discusses Robots, Arthur Atkinson appears in a seventies sex comedy.
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#37 - Competition Time
Father Ted - Season 1 - Episode 4
It's the All Priests Look-A-Like competition and Ted is determined that this year he will defeat his fellow priests from Rugged Island.
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#38 - Manny's First Day
Black Books - Season 1 - Episode 2
After Manny’s help with the tax return Bernard is persuaded to hire him in the shop. Unfortunately he actually sells some books, much to Bernard’s annoyance.
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#39 - Italian for Beginners
The IT Crowd - Season 4 - Episode 4
Roy gets obsessed by his latest girlfriend's sad family history, while Jen tells an absolute whopper to get some attention.
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#40 - Rock-a-Hula Ted
Father Ted - Season 2 - Episode 7
An aggressive protest singer arrives on the island just as Ted is to judge the Lovely Girls competition. How will Ted deal with this clash of feminism and womanhood?
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#41 - Episode 7
The Fast Show - Season 2 - Episode 7
Professor Denzil Dexter steals a skull from another labratory, Bob Fleming tries out some cough medicine, Indecisive Dave talks about his holidays, Arthur Atkinson swears in front of his audience, Competitive Dad plays Monopoly, Chris the Crafty Cockney looks after a woman's bag.
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#42 - Episode 8
The Fast Show - Season 3 - Episode 8
The Off-Roaders go White Water Rafting, Colin Hunt goes to a restaurant, Ted and Ralph attend Mrs Ted's funeral service, Chanel 9 presents a childrens program, Dave Angel Eco Warrior explores Naturism.
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#43 - Episode 3
The Fast Show - Season 3 - Episode 3
The Squeamish Zoo keeper is feeding the penguins, Chris the Crafty Cockney is talking to a newspaper seller, The Suit You Tailors show a new boy the ropes, The Deaf Stuntman throws himself off a roof, The Off-Roaders go Potholing, Competitive Dad tries weightlifting.
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#44 - Good Luck, Father Ted
Father Ted - Season 1 - Episode 1
Fame beckons for Ted when Terry MacNamee phones up to interview him for 'The Television'. Unfortunately, the filming at the local beauty spot coincides with the arrival of Funland on Craggy Island.
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#45 - The Big Lock-Out
Black Books - Season 1 - Episode 5
The shop gets a new security system that no-one can work.
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#46 - Tramps Like Us
The IT Crowd - Season 3 - Episode 3
Jen, Roy and Moss find their lives moving in different directions after a disappointing settlement to a sexual harassment suit. Jen seeks pastures new, and Roy ends up out in the cold.
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#47 - Episode 3
The Fast Show - Season 1 - Episode 3
Ron Manager talks about Soccer, The Off-Roaders get stuck, Ralph finds Ted fishing, A Chorus Girl surprises everyone with her singing, Unlucky Alf tries to catch a bus, Tommy Cockles talks about the late comedian Arthur Atkinson, Prof Denzil Dexter builds a time machine, Mime from the Isle of Man by Jack Pott and Tom Bowler.
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#48 - Men Without Women
The IT Crowd - Season 2 - Episode 6
Douglas hires Jen as his new PA, giving Moss and Roy free rein in the office. How will they cope without her, and how will she cope with Douglas's unwelcome advances?
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#49 - Episode 5
The Fast Show - Season 3 - Episode 5
Chris the Crafty Cockney is feeling depressed, The Deaf Stuntman rides his bike into the docks, Competitive Dad plays Tennis, Chanel 9 has its annual awards, Old Archie talks about religion, A posh man goes to buy a suit from the Suit You Tailors.
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#50 - He's Leaving Home
Black Books - Season 1 - Episode 6
Manny runs away from the bookshop into the arms of a beard loving photographer.
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