The BEST episodes written by Jessica Hynes

The Poem
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8.67
3 votes

#1 - The Poem

Up the Women - Season 1 - Episode 3

The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle try to win approval to become an official league of the Women's Social and Political Union.

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Chaos
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8.26
478 votes

#2 - Chaos

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 5

Colin goes missing when Tim takes him out for a late night walk, and at first Daisy suspects that Tim has deliberately got rid of him. Later, they receive a note tipping them off that Colin has been dognapped by an evil vivisectionist! They gather the troops and start a rescue mission.

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Ends
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8.19
469 votes

#3 - Ends

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 7

Tim's ex Sarah calls him up and wants to get together, Tim is over the moon at the idea of them getting back together, though Mike and Daisy are less impressed and worried about him getting hurt again. Meanwhile, Mike is up for re-evaluation for the TA, and is delighted to be let back in. Tim meets up with Sarah and it turns out she really does want to try again with him, but at the last moment he sees sense and declines, not wanting to give up all his has with Daisy and his friends.

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Up the Women
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8.17
6 votes

#4 - Up the Women

Up the Women - Season 1 - Episode 1

Margaret has discovered the women's suffrage movement and invites the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle to become (the hilariously ineffectual) Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage.

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Leaves
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8.14
440 votes

#5 - Leaves

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 7

When Tim, Daisy and the others discover that Marsha has put the place up for sale, they panic and start trying to make plans to find her and win her back. Meanwhile, Daisy is offered a job on a local newspaper back home, and decides to take it, and Sophie is also leaving for a new job - though hers is in Seattle. After successfully getting through to Marsha, Tim finds the note from Daisy saying she's leaving. He is forced to send Mike to take Sophie to the airport whilst he rushes to the train station to persuade Daisy to stay.

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Gone
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8.11
430 votes

#6 - Gone

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 5

When Sophie has to cancel a date with Tim at short notice, he and Daisy decide to go out for the evening, leaving Mike and Brian in charge of walking Colin. Tim and Daisy's adventures include bumping into Tim's old enemy Duane Benzie, a group of angry teens who are trying to score, and losing their keys.

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Dissolution
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8.10
448 votes

#7 - Dissolution

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 6

The gang go out for dinner to celebrate Daisy's birthday, and Marsha gets very suspicious as Tim flirts constantly with Sophie and seems to pay no attention to Daisy. She eventually tells Daisy that she saw the two of them kissing, leading Daisy to admit that she and Tim aren't really a couple and never were. Marsha is devastated to find out that they'd all been lying to her, and storms out of the restaurant and then the flat.

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Change
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8.08
400 votes

#8 - Change

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 2

The fighting between Marsha and her daughter Amber escalates, until Amber finally storms out, leaving Marsha with an empty room. Meanwhile, Daisy is still out of work, and Tim has been fired for getting a bit too worked up about The Phantom Menace. The two of them head to the dole office together, but after Daisy is refused any money, things look bad. Especially when they arrive home to find Mike has moved upstairs into the now spare room.

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Picket
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8.00
6 votes

#9 - Picket

Up the Women - Season 1 - Episode 2

Keen to put the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage on the map, the women plan to picket the post office with placards.

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Panto
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8.00
4 votes

#10 - Panto

Up the Women - Season 2 - Episode 6

The members of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Request Women's Suffrage are in turmoil over creative differences as they try to decide which pantomime to perform for Helen's factory workers. Eva wants to put on The Dirty Princess - her version of Cinderella - while Margaret hopes to stage the story of Joan of Arc.

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Battles
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7.97
536 votes

#11 - Battles

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 4

After being dumped by her boyfriend, Daisy decides she needs companionship and heads to the pound to get herself a dog, not realizing that Tim is scared of dogs. Meanwhile, Tim and Mike go paint balling, and meet up with Duane Benzie, the man who Tim's ex girlfriend Sarah left him for.

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Gatherings
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7.90
672 votes

#12 - Gatherings

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 2

Once the new roommates have finished unpacking, Daisy is looking for any excuse not to sit down and do some work. So, she persuades Tim to throw a housewarming party, complete with the paperboy as a guest, a homemade foil mirror ball, and Prefab Sprout on the stereo!

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Back
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7.87
400 votes

#13 - Back

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 1

Daisy returns from her Eastern travels to find Mike has been living in her room, and that the enigmatic stranger she met on the way may have been even more mysterious than she thought. Turns out that he swapped bags with her, and she's now being followed by secret agents keen to get to the contents.

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Epiphanies
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7.85
513 votes

#14 - Epiphanies

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 6

Tim's friend Tyres stops by the flat and invites the two "friends" out for a night of clubbing. They decide to take him up on the offer, and round up Mike, Brian and Twist to join them.

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Help
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7.85
422 votes

#15 - Help

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 4

Tim is delighted but nervous as anything when Damian Knox of Darkstar Comics asks him to bring in his portfolio. The last time they met, Knox cruelly put down Tim's work, hence Tim drew a less than flattering portrait of him. Daisy puts this drawing into Tim's portfolio, trying to help, and leaving Tim with a short time to retrieve the drawing, with the assistance of Mike and Tyres.

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Art
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7.80
585 votes

#16 - Art

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 3

Brian receives an invitation to the new performance art show of his ex-partner Vulva. He plucks up the courage to go, along with Tim and Daisy, but is treated horribly by Vulva. Tim comes to the rescue after his violence tendencies are brought out by a bowl of Twiglets. Meanwhile, Daisy has a magazine interview which doesn't go too well, and the experience leads her to try a little performance art of her own.

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The Romance
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7.75
4 votes

#17 - The Romance

Up the Women - Season 2 - Episode 1

The members' attempt at a hunger strike in support of their sisters is thwarted when Gwen arrives with cheese for everyone. Meanwhile, Emily is initially angry that Helen is trying to set her up with eligible bachelor Bertie Smuth, while Myrtle suspects there's something amiss and encourages Thomas to challenge Bertie for Emily's affections.

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Bowls
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7.75
4 votes

#18 - Bowls

Up the Women - Season 2 - Episode 3

Margaret leads a protest about women's exclusion from playing and watching sport. She trades in her South American moth collection for a camera so that the women can take photographs of themselves with various sporting equipment for a pamphlet. After receiving unexpected guests from New Zealand, the suffragettes learn that in some parts of the world women cannot only vote, but they also play bowls.

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Mettle
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7.72
365 votes

#19 - Mettle

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 3

Mike and Tim are through to the quarter finals of Robot Wars, but trouble is brewing as a rival team who didn't get through decide to sabotage their efforts. Meanwhile, Brian is invited to do an installation at an art gallery, and Marsha goes along to offer support and enjoy the free booze.

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Strike
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7.67
3 votes

#20 - Strike

Up the Women - Season 2 - Episode 2

The female workers at Helen's factory go on strike as they want more pay, prompting Margaret to write a speech to attract new support for their cause. Meanwhile, Eva, Myrtle and Gwen knock back Dr Hamm's Invigorator, a fizzy tea he prescribes for sluggishness.

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Train
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7.50
4 votes

#21 - Train

Up the Women - Season 2 - Episode 4

Margaret intends to take the group on a day trip to London to deliver an impassioned speech in support of the cause, but a series of incidents results in all women being banned from the train station. Emily's plan to send Margaret to the capital on Frank's bike doesn't work out and Helen is typically smug until someone has a brainwave.

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Beginnings
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7.42
1076 votes

#22 - Beginnings

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 1

Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg) and Daisy Steiner (Jessica Stevenson) meet each other in a cafe and are soon planning on moving in together. The only problem is the advert for the flat they're planning on renting is for a professional couple only. Tim suggests they pretend to be a couple. They do this and are soon living in the flat below the Landlady and above the strange man in the basement.

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