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
491 votes

#2 - Chaos

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 5

Daisy and her new dog are falling in love - which makes Tim jealous. But then events take a sinister turn when the dog is kidnapped by an evil vivisectionist.

Ends
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8.20
480 votes

#3 - Ends

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 7

Daisy and Tim's domestic bliss is threatened when Tim's ex-girlfriend wants to get back together with him.

Leaves
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8.13
449 votes

#4 - Leaves

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 7

With Marsha gone and the house up for sale, Daisy and Tim hatch a plan to save themselves and their friends from oblivion. However, has Daisy had enough? And does Tim really care?

Gone
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8.12
442 votes

#5 - Gone

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 5

A night on the town for Tim and Daisy turns into a fight for survival as the dynamic duo come face to face with an old enemy (not to mention a few new ones).

Dissolution
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8.10
459 votes

#6 - Dissolution

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 6

It's Daisy's birthday but all is not well at 23 Meteor Street. The survival of the group is threatened when Marsha begins to suspect things between Daisy and Tim are not what they seem...

Change
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8.09
413 votes

#7 - Change

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 2

Tim is fired after taking his diappointment in The Phantom Menace out on a young customer. Meanwhile, Daisy struggles to claim her dole money from the job centre.

Panto
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8.00
4 votes

#8 - 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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7.98
546 votes

#9 - Battles

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 4

Daisy receives some bad news from her boyfriend and decides to brighten up her life by getting a dog. Meanwhile, Tim goes paint-balling with his arch-enemy.

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Gatherings
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7.89
682 votes

#10 - Gatherings

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 2

Having finally tackled the task of unpacking and faced with the prospect of having to do some work, Daisy persuades Tim to have a house-warming party.

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Back
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7.87
409 votes

#11 - Back

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 1

Daisy returns from a trip to Asia pursued by a sinister government agency. To make matters worse, Tim seems to have found himself a new flatmate.

Epiphanies
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7.87
525 votes

#12 - Epiphanies

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 6

Tensions are running high. Tim and Daisy are bickering and Mike is facing rejection from his rambling club. Can a night of hedonism sort everything out? It seems worth a try...

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Help
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7.86
433 votes

#13 - Help

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 4

Tim faces a race against time when Daisy accidentally jeopardises his career. Elsewhere, Daisy and Marsha decide to get fit, and Brian decides to tell his mother the truth about his chosen career.

Art
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7.80
593 votes

#14 - Art

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 3

Daisy's world is rocked by the prospect of employment, Brian is shaken by the appearance of a bizarre figure from his theatrical past, and Tim is plagued by the living dead.

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The Romance
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7.75
4 votes

#15 - 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

#16 - 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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7.73
379 votes

#17 - Mettle

Spaced - Season 2 - Episode 3

Sinister sabotage seriously threatens Mike and Tim's chances of winning Robot Wars, while Daisy gets a job in Hell's Kitchen and Brian faces the terrifying prospect of an exhibition.

Strike
star
7.67
3 votes

#18 - 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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Picket
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7.57
7 votes

#19 - 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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Train
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7.50
4 votes

#20 - 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
1098 votes

#21 - Beginnings

Spaced - Season 1 - Episode 1

Tim was a broken-hearted skateboarder, Daisy a directionless, wannabe journalist. Fate kicked them onto the streets to meet for the first time in a greasy spoon.

Up the Women
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7.29
7 votes

#22 - 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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