9.1/1019 votes#1 - The Germans
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1975
Sybil goes into the hospital for toe surgery, leaving Basil to cope with a fire drill single-handed. After a couple of blows on the head, Basil tells some German guests where Germany went wrong in WWII.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Connie Booth
8.9/1021 votes#2 - The Hotel Inspectors
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1975
Some inspectors are in town and Basil gets paranoid, so he alternately fawns over and offends his guests.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Connie Booth
8.8/1033 votes#3 - Mr. Bean
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1990
Mr. Bean attends a mathematics exam, where he tries to copy from a student under the nose of the invigilator, when he realizes that he has studied the wrong maths equations. Afterwards, he surreptitiously changes into his swimming trunks so as not to be noticed by someone sitting nearby at a beach. And later struggles to stay awake during a church service and obnoxiously sings the refrain of the hymn "All Creatures of Our God and King," much to the annoyance of the man sitting next to him, Mr. Sprout.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Richard Curtis
8.4/1019 votes#4 - Gourmet Night
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1975
To bring the right type of crowd into the hotel Basil establishes a Gourmet Night.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Connie Booth
8.3/1031 votes#5 - The Curse of Mr. Bean
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/30/1990
Mr. Bean goes to a swimming pool, where he finds himself scared to death on the high diving board. When he's done, he tries several different ways to get his car out of the parking garage after he realizes he doesn't have enough money to do it the normal way. After that, he sits on a park bench and uses an unusual method of making himself a sandwich. Finally, he goes to a cinema and tries to survive a terrifying horror movie with his girlfriend.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Richard Curtis
8.3/1019 votes#6 - The Wedding Party
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1975
Basil wants 'none of that' going on in his rooms and suspects some guests and Polly of carrying on.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Connie Booth
8.3/1023 votes#7 - The Builders
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1975
The Fawltys take a holiday and leave Polly and Manuel to run the place just as O'Reilly's builders come to redo the lobby.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Connie Booth
8.2/1041 votes#8 - The Return of Mr. Bean
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1990
Mr. Bean goes to a department store and buys various items. Afterwards, he goes to a fancy restaurant where he tries to dispose his awful-tasting meal. And finally, Bean goes to a Royal greeting and gets into mischief.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Richard Curtis
8.2/1026 votes#9 - A Touch of Class
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1975
A confidence trickster comes to stay at the hotel, just after Basil has taken an ad in a posh magazine to upgrade the clientele.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Connie Booth
7.9/1015 votes#10 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1969
Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle
7.7/1019 votes#11 - Whither Canada?
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1969
Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle
7.6/1016 votes#12 - Sex and Violence
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1969
Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle
7.5/1015 votes#13 - Owl Stretching Time
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1969
Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle
7.0/104 votes#14 - Lamb to the Slaughter
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/1979
An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Robin Chapman
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"The Germans" is the best rated episode directed by John Howard Davies. It scored 9.053/10 based on 19 votes. It was written by Connie Booth. It aired on 10/24/1975 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Hotel Inspectors".