The BEST episodes written by Reece Shearsmith
#1 - A Plague on Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 3
Pen-obsessed Pauline tackles Ross about her job prospects or lack thereof, and Edward sets a trap to catch a bride for David. Butcher Hilary Briss has a problem with one of his "special" customers.
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#2 - Destination: Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 1
The carnival comes to town and Pauline starts at the Restart Room as a jobseeker. Val makes a wish on a magic toad that brings back Benjamin. A nosebleed epidemic breaks out at the circus.
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#3 - Lust for Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 2
The nosebleed epidemic continues. Pauline gets a new job as an assistant food science operative at Burger Me! Herr Lipp and students arrive on an exchange visit from Diusberg, and the guesthouse closes for a very private function.
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#4 - Death in Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 4
Hilary Briss and Maurice take an early walk in the woods to collect a "Special Delivery." Mike, Brian, and Geoff get lost on their way to a plastics convention, and Morris is dealt with.
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#5 - Turn Again Geoff Tipps
The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 3
Geoff is fired from his job and leaves in an attempt to make it as a stand-up comedian in London. There he runs into the Legz Akimbo team and Mike.
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#6 - How The Elephant Got Its Trunk
The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 6
After a bag is blown out the window of the Charity Shop Vinnie spots it on a country road and sets out in hot pursuit. Papa Lazarou returns and all the series' loose ends are tied up.
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#7 - Escape From Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 6
Tubbs & Edward's son David returns. Tubbs is thrilled, but Edward is resentful of his son - especially when he reveals he is responsible for the construction of "newroad"! Ben leaves Royston Vasey, taking with him a gift from the Dentons - an itemised bill covering expenses incurred during his stay (phone calls, use of toilet tissue, etc). Ross reveals that he is really an employee for the Social Services. He has Pauline sacked, forcing her to hand over her pens! Edward and David have a little chat. Facing away from Tubbs, he tells her that he no longer wants to build the road. Turning around to reveal his pig-nose, he declares "I want to live locally". Tubbs deserts David and Edward and leaves the shop. Ben approaches Tubbs out on the moors, asking if she is local. Tubbs replies "Yes, I am", and they both head to the shop. Ben tells Tubbs that his friend who went missing had a pair of shoes just like hers.
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#8 - Royston Vasey and the Monster from Hell
The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 6
Roysten Vasey is quarantined as the nosebleed epidemic claims a distinguished victim. The Legz Akimbo Theatre Group comes to town, and there is a wedding at the local shop.
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#9 - Anarchy in Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 2 - Episode 5
Pauline leaves her hostage with Mikey to go in search fo food. Geoff and Brian bury Mike alive, and Tubbs and Edward catch a no-tail. Lee finds that Creme Brulee has reformed without him.
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#10 - The Beast of Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 4
Chinnery examines the so-called "beast", but has he correctly identified it? Also, the Legz Akimbo Theatre Company arrives to perform a play at the local school.
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#11 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 3
An employee working on the new road stumbles into the lair of Edward and Tubbs, breakfast with the Dentons is not what Benjamin was expecting, and a tortoise has an unfortunate encounter with Dr. Chinnery.
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#12 - The Medusa Touch
The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 4
Regular Cast: Mark as Alvin Steele / Les McQueen Steve as Daddy / Nancy Glass / Barbara [voice] / Anne Hand Reese as Noel Glass / Judith Buckle / Terry Lollard B&B proprietors Alvin and Sunny invite their weekend 'Sexplorers' to join them in a voyage of auto-erotic discovery - although Alvin would prefer to be at the garden centre. But who is the mysterious femme fatale in the dwarf conifers and what is the secret of the fearsome 'Medusa'? The Ending: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen is having a fag with his wig off in the backyard of the Windermere when the white van comes crashing through the wall, sending tons of bricks down on him...
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#13 - The Lesbian and the Monkey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 1
Tubbs and Edward somehow survive the fire. Paule struggles to adjust to life out of prison when she discovers true love, and Barbara throws a "gender-bender" party.
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#14 - The One-Armed Man is King
The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 2
Lance bribes hospital disc jockey Mike King to arrange an under-the-counter arm transplant. Meanwhile, Glenn and Barry fail miserably in an attempt to recover outstanding debts.
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#15 - Beauty and the Beast (Or, Come into My Parlour)
The League of Gentlemen - Season 3 - Episode 5
Regular Cast: Mark as Tony / Iris Krell [voice] / Neds / Professor Breastpinch'd Steve as Charlie Hull Reese as Stella Hull / Judee Levinson / Keith Drop CHARLIE & STELLA / MRS LEVINSON: The Hulls' marriage seems to have disintegrated beyond repair and Stella's hooked on playing fruit machines. Meanwhile, Charlie starts working for Judee Levinson at her new beauty salon, the ""Spit and Polish"", doing massages on blindfolded clients, who think it's Judee doing them herself. His healing hands wow the customers, until an old man asks if he can do any ""extras"". Word spreads and the salon is packed with the men of Royston Vasey, blissfully unaware they are being wanked off by Charlie. When Tony comes for one of the ""special massages"", Charlie becomes obsessed with him and falls in love with him, eventually telling Tony he's the masseur with the magic hands. Tony is disgusted and the shit hits the fan: Stella wins big on the fruit machines and jets off overseas, and Judee sacks him.
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#16 - Love Comes to Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 5
Ben tries to escape from the Dentons. Henry and Ally go to the wrong film but try to make the best of it. Geoff gives a very truthful and upsetting speech at Mike's wedding.
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#17 - The 12 Days of Christine
Inside No. 9 - Season 2 - Episode 2
Christine Clarke brings a new man back to her flat from a New Year's Eve party, and immediately her life starts to unravel. Who is the terrifying stranger that keeps appearing in the flat at night?
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#18 - Welcome to Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 1
Ben struggles to take in Auntie Val and Uncle Harvey’s incomprehensible house rules, while Martin poses a threat to the precious things in Tubbs and Edward’s Local Shop. At the local job center, Pauline is furious when someone lands an interview without her help. Taxi driver Babs makes middling progress through her sex change.
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#19 - Andrews Nanotech
Psychoville - Season 2 - Episode 6
The secret of the missing locket is finally exposed and the enormity of what is at stake revealed. But are there enough characters left alive to care?
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#20 - A Quiet Night In
Inside No. 9 - Season 1 - Episode 2
Gerald owns a beautiful house with lots of beautiful, valuable things in it. Things that might become the target of an audacious criminal enterprise.
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#21 - Once Removed
Inside No. 9 - Season 4 - Episode 3
According to the Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale, moving house is only 32nd on the list. But anything could happen in the last ten minutes.
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#22 - The Road to Royston Vasey
The League of Gentlemen - Season 1 - Episode 2
Royston Vasey's new road is under construction: good news for all the town's inhabitants except Tubbs and Edward won't this bring strangers to the town? Judee is off to Antigua for a luxury holiday; Pauline is holding a workshop in selling the Big Issue (a newspaper for the homeless), and Ben is trying to use the telephone at the Dentons. We meet butcher Hillary Briss, Henry and Ally, the video-viewers and Reverend Bernice, Royston Vasey's outspoken lady vicar.
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#23 - Dinner Party
Psychoville - Season 2 - Episode 2
The search for the missing locket continues with the investigation turning to Christopher Biggins for answers. Meanwhile, we find out what happened to Robert and Kerry as we return to the mysterious cottage in the woods.
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#24 - The Riddle of the Sphinx
Inside No. 9 - Season 3 - Episode 2
Nina thinks Professor Squires has all the answers, but neither know what the future holds. With deadly intent, they commence a battle of wits.
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#25 - Empty Orchestra
Inside No. 9 - Season 3 - Episode 3
What better way to celebrate Roger's promotion than a full-on, old-school karaoke session? An evening of hopes, dreams, intrigue, romance, betrayal and an awful lot of singing.
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#26 - Lip Service
Inside No. 9 - Season 6 - Episode 3
Felix is pretty certain his wife is up to something with her boss Dmitri, so he decides to hire some help to prove things one way or the other. When professional lip-reader Iris arrives with her powerful binoculars, the couple stake out a hotel bedroom and start to gather their evidence.
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#27 - Tempting Fate
Inside No. 9 - Season 4 - Episode 6
A dead hoarder's flat, a blood-stained floor, a dead rat and a terrible, inescapable curse from beyond the grave. All in an ordinary day's work for council contractors Keith, Nick and Maz.
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#28 - Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room
Inside No. 9 - Season 4 - Episode 2
Len and Tommy last performed together 30 years ago. Tommy walked out and that was that for the double act - until now.
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#29 - Tom and Gerri
Inside No. 9 - Season 1 - Episode 3
Tom is a primary school teacher with ambitious ideas of becoming an author. When he tries to repay a good turn from a late-night caller, he gradually becomes the victim of his own generosity.
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#30 - Lomax
Psychoville - Season 1 - Episode 2
Mr Lomax enlists the help of his care worker in the quest to complete his unusual collection. Things go from bad to worse when a misunderstanding leads David and his mum to cover up for his incompetence at the murder mystery evening. Robert is surprised when Debbie asks him out on a dinner date and midwife Joy enlightens the morning group with the perils of choosing a water birth.
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#31 - Cold Comfort
Inside No. 9 - Season 2 - Episode 4
It is Andy's first day as a volunteer at the Comfort Support Line call centre. Is he really prepared for what is to come?
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#32 - Zanzibar
Inside No. 9 - Season 4 - Episode 1
Proposals, plots and prostitutes combine for a comedy of errors on floor nine. Welcome to London's Hotel Zanzibar.
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#33 - Hancock
Psychoville - Season 2 - Episode 3
Mr Lomax reveals more about his past and his hatred for Tony Hancock becomes clear. Meanwhile Mr Jelly arrives at a booking meant to be for Mr Jolly and hopes no one will tell the difference.
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#34 - La Couchette
Inside No. 9 - Season 2 - Episode 1
On board the sleeper from Paris to Bourg St Maurice, a motley collection of passengers try to sleep as the train makes its way across France.
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#35 - Joy
Psychoville - Season 1 - Episode 5
Midwife Joy is left alone with her demonstration doll Freddy when a Pinocchio-like miracle happens. David and his mum lure their next victim to a waxwork museum, and Mr Jolly explains to Mr Jelly the reason for the blackmail letters.
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#36 - To Have And To Hold
Inside No. 9 - Season 4 - Episode 4
Adrian photographs weddings, but his own marriage is far from happy. Can they make a fresh start or have they run out of love, trust and time?
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#37 - Ravenhill
Psychoville - Season 1 - Episode 7
All of the characters are drawn back to the scene of their crime. Who has summoned them there and for what terrible purpose? Meanwhile, Kerry takes Robert from the theatre to the heart of the deep, dark woods. Will anyone survive the great day of judgement?
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#38 - Jelly
Psychoville - Season 1 - Episode 3
This episode reveals the story of how Mr Jelly, the one-handed children's entertainer, ended up the way he is. Mr Lomax travels to the private auction of Snappy the Crocodile in Dudley. David and his mum dispatch their next victim disguised as beauticians, and Robert wreaks his revenge on Debbie during a midweek matinee of Snow White.
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#39 - Sunnyvale
Psychoville - Season 2 - Episode 4
Desperate measures are called for as Jeremy Goode searches for the missing library book. Mrs Wren is in peril from several parties and only one man can save her. But will he be bothered?
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#40 - Sardines
Inside No. 9 - Season 1 - Episode 1
At Rebecca and Jeremy's engagement party, guests arrive to wish the couple well but a bedroom with old baggage in it has been left unlocked...
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#41 - Robert
Psychoville - Season 1 - Episode 6
Robert uses Debbie's amnesia for his own ends. A battle of wills ensues with more than cross words flying through the air. Mr Jelly is entertaining an old people's home when a phone call from Mr Jolly plunges him back into danger. Maureen learns the truth about her killing spree. Mr Lomax has acquired a new home help.
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#42 - Nana's Party
Inside No. 9 - Season 2 - Episode 5
It is Nana's special day: it isn't every day you get to be 79. She is excited about spending the afternoon with her whole family, even Pat and Jim.
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#43 - Simon Says
Inside No. 9 - Season 6 - Episode 2
Everyone says the Season 7 finale of fantasy epic The Ninth Circle was pretty disappointing. But not everyone thinks that it has to be the end of the matter.
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#44 - Private View
Inside No. 9 - Season 3 - Episode 5
A very special invitation to a private view of Elliot Quinn's final exhibition of pieces at The Nine Gallery.
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#45 - The Bill
Inside No. 9 - Season 3 - Episode 1
A night out with friends at a local restaurant - sounds like a lot of fun. But ultimately, of course, somebody has to pay.
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#46 - CTRL, ALT, ESC
Inside No. 9 - Season 9 - Episode 4
Jason, Lynne and their two teenage daughters try out their local escape room, The Killer’s Lair. It’s not really the girls’ idea of fun, but they love their dad, and he loves following the clues and solving the puzzles. Will they get out before they run out of time?
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#47 - The Trolley Problem
Inside No. 9 - Season 9 - Episode 2
Blake saves a man from leaping to his death from a bridge. The poor guy probably just needs someone to talk to. But is it a good idea to bring him back home?
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#48 - Boo to a Goose
Inside No. 9 - Season 9 - Episode 1
Late-night passengers get stuck in a tunnel when their train breaks down. Patiently, they wait for the replacement service until a nurse gets her purse stolen and tempers start to fray.
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#49 - Survivors
Psychoville - Season 2 - Episode 1
The survivors of the explosion at Ravenhill Psychiatric Hospital reunite to bury one of their number killed in the blast, but there is to be no rest for the wicked.
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#50 - The Last Weekend
Inside No. 9 - Season 8 - Episode 6
Joe and Chas have been together for nine years. It's a long time to be truly in love with someone. But how long does it take to properly say goodbye?
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