The BEST episodes written by Sam Bain

Takeover
star
10.00
2 votes

#1 - Takeover

The Story of Tracy Beaker - Season 2 - Episode 13

A mystery takes over the DG when chairs are being re-arranged, shoelaces tied together and other spooky phenomena. Bouncer and Lol are convinced it is the Case of the Night Stalker but when it turns out to be Lol sleepwalking, Justine and Louise have a great time teasing him.

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Hollywood
star
10.00
2 votes

#2 - Hollywood

The Story of Tracy Beaker - Season 2 - Episode 9

When the home all discover the wonders of the film camera in an attempt to get adopted, everyone tries their own method: Tracy films herself with the camera, with the help of Cam, and talks about why she should be adopted, while Louise tries to cry her way into the hearts of the viewer and Lol and Bouncer try and film the torture that they have to endure in the house, as their way of trying to attract foster parents.

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British Hospital
star
9.10
139 votes

#3 - British Hospital

Childrens Hospital - Season 4 - Episode 7

A look at the British version of "Childrens Hospital".

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Episode 4
star
8.50
119 votes

#4 - Episode 4

Babylon (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 4

The team struggle to cope after recent events. Liz is under attack because of how she handled the situation with the Commissioner. Finn takes advantage and positions himself as advisor to Inglis. Sharon is tasked with finding the fugitive bomber. Clarkey wants Davina to leave Banjo, who's growing suspicions lead to a devastating event in work.

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Episode 3
star
8.17
119 votes

#5 - Episode 3

Babylon (2014) - Season 1 - Episode 3

Robbie's first day in the armed response unit turns into a baptism of fire as Tony and Banjo find out what he's made of. Miller decides to give Liz his full support, but an unexpected invitation from the deputy mayor leaves her with serious questions about her boss. Meanwhile, Davina and Clarkey consider taking their relationship to the next level, which would mean coming clean to their partners, and a bomb threat at the Thameside Exhibition Centre leads to tragedy.

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Threeism
star
8.12
393 votes

#6 - Threeism

Peep Show - Season 9 - Episode 3

As Jeremy's love life takes a surprising turn, Mark deals with his own matters of the heart. A girl he has had a crush on since university is launching her new book, so he seizes the opportunity to see her, telling himself it is endurance, not stalking. He invents a fictitious dinner party to get her into the flat, but things do not look good when she calls to ask if she can bring her husband. In an effort to bolster numbers, Mark gets Jeremy and his friends on board last minute, and by the end of the night the truth about Jez's new romance is revealed to all.

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Holiday
star
8.07
435 votes

#7 - Holiday

Peep Show - Season 4 - Episode 5

Jeremy takes Mark on a stag weekend, with a rented canal boat. There, they meet two sisters, Aurora and Lucy, and their father. Jeremy falls in love with Aurora, whilst Lucy becomes sexually attracted to Mark. The father offers Mark a job in India, a way out of his impending marriage to Sophie, whilst Jeremy accidentally kills, and then eats a bit of Aurora's dog.

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Mark's Women
star
8.05
501 votes

#8 - Mark's Women

Peep Show - Season 5 - Episode 6

Mark gets into online gaming and live role play with Dobby and wonders whether she may be The One. Meanwhile, Mark and Sophie finally sort out their annulment. Jeremy joins a cult.

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Jeremy Therapised
star
8.02
696 votes

#9 - Jeremy Therapised

Peep Show - Season 8 - Episode 1

Mark has asked Dobby to move in with him, and Jeremy is faced with the prospect of moving out to make way. But Jeremy has been dragging his heels and Mark is increasingly worried that Dobby will move in with his rival, Gerrard instead.

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St. Hospitals
star
8.00
635 votes

#10 - St. Hospitals

Peep Show - Season 7 - Episode 1

Mark and Jeremy are at the hospital awaiting the birth of Mark's baby. Sophie is determined to have a natural birth and doesn't want Mark to transfer any of his anxiety to the baby. Meanwhile, Jeremy is convinced he will never get over losing Elena, until he meets Zahra, whose boyfriend is in a coma.

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Man Jam
star
8.00
621 votes

#11 - Man Jam

Peep Show - Season 7 - Episode 2

Dobby, the object of Mark's desires, is now dating a graphic designer named Simon. Both Gerrard and Mark are determined to win her affections. Ben offers Jeremy the ideal job as head of development for his music web site.

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Wedding
star
7.98
496 votes

#12 - Wedding

Peep Show - Season 4 - Episode 6

It's Mark's wedding day. He is torn about whether he should go through with it or not. Jeremy discourages him but Mark continues. On the way to the reception, Sophie breaks down and runs away. Jeremy comforts Mark as the 'El Dude Brothers' are reunited.

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Das Boot
star
7.98
525 votes

#13 - Das Boot

Peep Show - Season 6 - Episode 6

Time is running out for Jeremy as Elena and Gail's marriage is imminent. However, he thinks there may be a way to get Gail off the scene and win Elena back. Meanwhile Mark, although conflicted about becoming a father, is worried that Jeff is becoming a potential rival dad. He decides that he's going to learn to drive so that he can take Sophie to the hospital when the baby arrives. Sophie is delighted, but learning to drive doesn't prove that easy.

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A Beautiful Mind
star
7.96
561 votes

#14 - A Beautiful Mind

Peep Show - Season 7 - Episode 3

Jeremy holds a book group at the flat in an effort to try and impress Zahra but apart from Mr Nice, Jeremy has never read a book. Mark is concerned by not being able to satisfy Dobby's sexual needs and decides to get some help for the problem.

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Shrooming
star
7.95
636 votes

#15 - Shrooming

Peep Show - Season 3 - Episode 3

Jeremy plans to throw a secret magic mushroom party in the flat, where he hopes to seduce his ex, Big Suze. But when Mark suddenly comes home from work with gastric flu, Jeremy's plans go to pieces.

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Handyman
star
7.94
466 votes

#16 - Handyman

Peep Show - Season 4 - Episode 4

Jeremy meets his hero, techno musician Russell "The Orgazoid". He ends up working as his handyman, which leads Mark to become suspicious, as it seems that Jeremy's job consists of making smoothies for him. Meanwhile Mark meets Sally at his school reunion, one the few girls who actually ever liked him. It turns out that she has married one of Mark's childhood tormentors, Foz. Mark decides to try and seduce Sally whilst Sophie is away on a business trip.

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Jeremy's Mummy
star
7.92
502 votes

#17 - Jeremy's Mummy

Peep Show - Season 5 - Episode 4

Jeremy's tortured relationship with his very sweet mother comes under the spotlight. It emerges that Jez has been living off handouts from his mum for years and now he's in line for half of her £40,000 bequest from an aunt. Jeremy's need to self destruct kicks in immediately, as does Mark's inability to stop his excruciating attempts to ingratiate himself with any mature grown-up. He adores Jeremy's mum and hero-worships her Scots Guardsman boyfriend.

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The Party
star
7.92
492 votes

#18 - The Party

Peep Show - Season 6 - Episode 5

As a last desperate hurrah before the baby arrives, Mark and Jeremy decide to throw a party. Mark sees it as his final opportunity to reignite his relationship with Dobby, while Jeremy imagines it's a chance to make Elena insanely jealous. But as the evening proceeds, it all becomes a bit of an emotional roller-coaster.

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Big Mad Andy
star
7.88
600 votes

#19 - Big Mad Andy

Peep Show - Season 8 - Episode 4

Jeremy finally agrees to leave the flat and move in with Super Hans. Mark employs a decorator, Andy, to repaint the kitchen, and Jeremy helps out by giving him free 'life-coaching' advice. Meanwhile, Mark enrolls on a business studies evening course and meets Stephanie an attractive older woman.

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Quantocking
star
7.86
494 votes

#20 - Quantocking

Peep Show - Season 3 - Episode 6

Mark worries he and Sophie are drifting apart and proposes. Elsewhere Super-Hans decides to give up drugs, and Jeremy once again gets intimate with past love Big Suze.

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Jeremy in Love
star
7.86
533 votes

#21 - Jeremy in Love

Peep Show - Season 6 - Episode 3

Jeremy realises that he's in love with Elena and decides to be generally less selfish to win her affection. He also thinks it might be a good idea to tell her he loves her, but Mark isn't so sure...

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Quantocking II
star
7.82
553 votes

#22 - Quantocking II

Peep Show - Season 8 - Episode 6

Dobby is offered a job in New York by ex-boyfriend Simon. Uncertain about the offer, Dobby suggests that she and Mark spend a weekend in the country. The perfect time, as far as Jeremy is concerned, to get a few things off his chest.

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The Interview
star
7.80
840 votes

#23 - The Interview

Peep Show - Season 1 - Episode 2

Jeremy faces a dilemma: money vs. art. Should he put all his time and effort into his music and try to 'make it' or should he be like Mark and get a 9 to 5 job to pay the bills (including three months of rent owed to Mark). Sophie is still the object of Mark's desires and he still fumbles about trying desperately to let her know how he feels.

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Jeremy's Manager
star
7.78
569 votes

#24 - Jeremy's Manager

Peep Show - Season 5 - Episode 5

Jeremy and Super Hans get a band manager and play a Christian rock festival. Mark comes along as their roadie, and learns how to have sex properly for the first time in his life.

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Gregory's Beard
star
7.77
391 votes

#25 - Gregory's Beard

Peep Show - Season 9 - Episode 2

Mark and Jeremy are reunited in the flat, Super Hans prepares for his wedding day, putting Mark under pressure as his best man. But there's a perk - Dobby will be there.

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The Test
star
7.77
592 votes

#26 - The Test

Peep Show - Season 6 - Episode 2

Mark makes a final play for Dobby, the object of his desires. Meanwhile, Jeremy meets a new love, Russian émigré Elena. Both guys are determined to impress, but one of them is an expectant father. And when the pregnant Sophie spills the beans, both Mark and Jeremy's worlds change forever.

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The Affair
star
7.76
534 votes

#27 - The Affair

Peep Show - Season 6 - Episode 4

Mark discovers that Jeremy's girlfriend Elena has a guilty secret. But should he tell him when Jez is clearly so happy? In addition to this, Alan Johnson offers Mark the chance to go into business with him. Mark, while reassuring himself that this is his dream offer, begins to see Johnson in a new light. Big Suze inadvertently brings Mark and Jeremy's problems to a head

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Jeremy at JLB
star
7.75
618 votes

#28 - Jeremy at JLB

Peep Show - Season 6 - Episode 1

Newly promoted Mark decides to enjoy his additional power and wealth by splashing out on a boiler, a 'creamy elephant' sofa and by finding Jeremy a job in the office. Things are also looking promising for Mark in his pursuit of Dobby, the company IT girl. However, a routine fire drill puts his plans into total disarray.

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Business Secrets of the Pharaohs
star
7.75
684 votes

#29 - Business Secrets of the Pharaohs

Peep Show - Season 8 - Episode 2

Mark gets a lucky break when his book, 'Business Secrets of the Pharaohs', is accepted by a 'publisher'. Jeremy, in an attempt to kick-start his career, enrols on a life-coaching course.

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Episode 1
star
7.75
261 votes

#30 - Episode 1

Fresh Meat - Season 4 - Episode 1

Halfway through the second term, an unannounced visit from JP's older brother Tomothy makes the Hartnell Avenue residents realise how close to the end of the year and their university lives they really are. Howard has created a secret revision den in the cellar, but as a series of texts from Candice could upend his plans, it falls on Josie to educate him about the difference between what people say and what they actually mean. Meanwhile panicked Student Union President Oregon seeks the counsel of her support officer Rosa as she attempts to win a prestigious scholarship in the US, but will her self-penned motivational book be the answer? Vod comes up with a scheme to help with her money troubles, and Kingsley is on the lookout for love, but possibly in all the wrong places. But before the housemates knuckle down to some hard-core studying, JP has plans for one last big blow out.

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Dance Class
star
7.73
687 votes

#31 - Dance Class

Peep Show - Season 2 - Episode 1

Can you love two people at the same time? Jeremy believes you can, and his gorgeous new American girlfriend puts his taboo bashing beliefs to the test. Mark believes you can only love one person. Besides, he and Sophie, the object of his unrequited love, are getting on really well, especially since he starting hacking into her emails.

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Wedding
star
7.73
645 votes

#32 - Wedding

Peep Show - Season 2 - Episode 6

Jeremy and Nancy are getting married, for visa reasons. Mark, determined to save his friend, will do whatever it takes to stop them...

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The Love Bunker
star
7.73
600 votes

#33 - The Love Bunker

Peep Show - Season 8 - Episode 3

Simon, Dobby's ex-boyfriend, invites Mark, Dobby, Jeremy and Superhans to join him and his friends for a paintballing weekend. Mark is convinced that Simon is using the weekend as a cover to get back with Dobby, and Jeremy is convinced he can life coach Neil, Simon's best friend.

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The William Morris Years
star
7.68
433 votes

#34 - The William Morris Years

Peep Show - Season 9 - Episode 1

Time has not healed the rift between former friends Mark and Jeremy. When Jeremy has to ask for a loan, Mark sees his chance for revenge...

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Gym
star
7.67
496 votes

#35 - Gym

Peep Show - Season 4 - Episode 3

In order to avoid spending time with Sophie, Mark gets a gym membership. Whilst there he discovers that Jeremy's ex-wife Nancy is working there. Mark tells Jeremy who then becomes desperate to get back together with her. He decides to take a job as a cleaner at the gym and sets about stopping her from dating Mark's personal trainer Matt.

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Sistering
star
7.64
589 votes

#36 - Sistering

Peep Show - Season 3 - Episode 4

Mark's plans for an enjoyable and productive week off work go out the window when his sister comes to stay. Jeremy clearly has the hots for her, and when Mark warns him to back off, Jeremy just wants her more...

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Jeremy's Broke
star
7.64
432 votes

#37 - Jeremy's Broke

Peep Show - Season 5 - Episode 3

Jeremy finally runs out of money and finds himself on a downward spiral of hunger, homelessness and criminality. Meanwhile Mark needs to find a girlfriend before his birthday party.

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Spin War
star
7.63
520 votes

#38 - Spin War

Peep Show - Season 5 - Episode 2

Mark and Sophie return to work, while Jeremy renews his acquaintance with the depraved Super Hans, in yet another filthy, funny episode.

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Sectioning
star
7.63
558 votes

#39 - Sectioning

Peep Show - Season 3 - Episode 2

Mark and Sophie are finally beginning to go steady when Sophie is moved away from London for work. Mark is devastated, so Sophie offers phone sex as a solution, which Mark nervously accepts. Meanwhile, Jeremy is forced to consider getting an old friend sectioned.

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Jurying
star
7.61
506 votes

#40 - Jurying

Peep Show - Season 3 - Episode 5

Jeremy gets called for jury service but soon complicates things by falling for the defendant. Elsewhere, Mark & Sophie go clubbing.

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Episode 2
star
7.61
41 votes

#41 - Episode 2

Ill Behaviour - Season 1 - Episode 2

After Charlie's attempted escape, Joel and Tess decide they need to keep a closer eye on him. Tess is tracking the story of Charlie's disappearance on the web as the police launch an appeal. The news of his cancer diagnosis has leaked, and the most popular theory is suicide. Good news for Joel and Tess, terrible news for his wife Kira and the kids. So as not to arouse suspicion, Joel decides he should go and see Kira. However, while comforting her, he finds himself enjoying taking on Charlie's role in this ready-made family. Meanwhile, back at the house, Nadia is drawn into increasingly frank and intimate chats with Charlie, whose 'enlightened spiritual guru' act convinces her to try to clean up. Has he completely won her over or is he just using her to plan another escape?

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Sophie's Parents
star
7.59
534 votes

#42 - Sophie's Parents

Peep Show - Season 4 - Episode 1

Mark continues to dread the impending doom of his wedding day, still questioning his actions from the previous season. Both Mark and Jeremy meet Sophie's parents and brother- leading to disaster with arson, sex with a parent and drunken arguments.

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Episode 3
star
7.59
34 votes

#43 - Episode 3

Ill Behaviour - Season 1 - Episode 3

After Charlie's second escape attempt is thwarted, Joel and Tess decide to secure him behind bars in the cellar of the house.

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Episode 1
star
7.58
420 votes

#44 - Episode 1

Fresh Meat - Season 2 - Episode 1

It's the beginning of the Spring Term and Kingsley has returned with a whole new image. Josie has decided to turn over a new leaf by becoming friends with Heather, a girl from her course and a self-styled 'mental dental'. JP's great friend Giles has transferred from Exeter. Vod is skint and Paul Lamb, the invisible flatmate has gone, so it's time to find a replacement...

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Mugging
star
7.58
611 votes

#45 - Mugging

Peep Show - Season 3 - Episode 1

Mark has a run-in with some muggers, who steal his precious blackberry - and put him off his stroke with Sophie as a result... Meanwhile, Jeremy faces a tricky dilemma over the love of his life and a potential threesome.

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Chairman Mark
star
7.54
499 votes

#46 - Chairman Mark

Peep Show - Season 8 - Episode 5

Jeremy, desperate to avoid living with Superhans, sparks up an old relationship with Mark's siser Sara, and moves in with her and her five-year-old son, Joshy. Mark, meanwhile, in an attempt to deal with a damp patch on his bedroom wall, launches a campaign to be elected chairman of the freehold committee of Apollo House.

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Mark Makes a Friend
star
7.52
742 votes

#47 - Mark Makes a Friend

Peep Show - Season 1 - Episode 4

Mark attends a work conference and in the process makes a new friend, Alan Johnson, which upsets the 'El Dude' partnership. This forces Jeremy to consider who could replace Mark as flatmate and best friend. Super Hans is the potential replacement, but he doesn't match up as well. Mark grows a moustache, like his new hero, Johnson whilst Jeremy is haunted by flashbacks to 'the one bad thing' that happened when he was wrecked with Super Hans.

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On the Pull
star
7.51
774 votes

#48 - On the Pull

Peep Show - Season 1 - Episode 3

Mark and Jeremy go to a party to try and find some long lost love, or perhaps someone for the night. At the party Mark meets a cool goth 'teenager' named Valarie, who wants to take their acquaintance to the next level: bowling! This gives Jeremy a chance to hook up with Toni, and allows Mark to take his mind off of Sophie … or will it?

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The Man Show
star
7.50
617 votes

#49 - The Man Show

Peep Show - Season 2 - Episode 5

Mark becomes depressed about Sophie living with Jeff, but Jeremy is not sure that self-mutilation is the answer. Besides, Jeremy and Jeff are getting on horribly well.

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University Challenge
star
7.50
598 votes

#50 - University Challenge

Peep Show - Season 2 - Episode 4

Mark, determined to forget Sophie, makes an effort to go out with April - but manages to blur the line between enthusiastic new boyfriend and stalker. Jeremy joins a new band, Executioners Bong, but insists that he is neither a roadie nor the equivalent of Bez.

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