The Best Episodes Directed By Mike Vardy

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Part 3

   S1:E311/19/1995

   Having resigned as Foreign Secretary, Makepeace launches a blistering attack in the House of Commons directed not only at the government in general but at the Prime Minister in particular. He then moves across the aisle to sit on the opposition benches. For his part, Urquhart takes it all in stride quite sure of his position and his ability to retain the leadership of the party.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Part 4

   S1:E411/26/1995

   Not having secured enough votes on the first ballot to retain the party leadership, Urquhart plots to not only keep him in place as PM but to win the next general election. He is desperate to surpass Margaret Thatcher's length of service and decides that to emulate her is likely the best approach: starting a war in Cyprus, his own little Falklands, as he describes it to his wife.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Hit and Run

   S2:E59/29/1975

   A case of mistaken identity provides tragic circumstances when a hit goes wrong; Regan and Carter manage to break the hit-and-run ring, and then try to stop another accident.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Lady Luck

   S3:E1212/13/1976

   Regan knows the identity of a robber, but has a difficult time proving his guilt.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Digging for Dirt

   S4:E38/7/1998

   A reclusive senior is holding up a real estate deal by refusing to leave her condemned apartment building. Hetty is offered a fabulous bribe when she discovers something suspicious about the structure.

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   5.6/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Part 2

   S1:E211/12/1995

   Having sacked his Parliamentary Private Secretary, Urquhart casts about for a replacement. At the suggestion of Geoffrey Booza Pitt he gives serious consideration to backbench MP Claire Carlsen, despite the fact that she is carrying on an affair with Foreign Secretary Tom Makepeace. Claire is clearly playing both sides of the fence to ensure her own place in the hierarchy, regardless of what the future may hold.

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   5.3/10(6 votes)

   #7 - Part 1

   S1:E111/5/1995

   Approaching his 65th birthday, PM Francis Urquhart begins to see the end of his career. Not that he has the intention of resigning anytime soon. He does however hope to establish a legacy, one for the history books and one to provide his pension. For the latter, his wife Elizabeth introduces him to Mr Nures, a Turkish-Cypriot businessman who will contribute handsomely to the Urquhart Trust if the upcoming boundary commission report provides a ruling favorable to Turkish-occupied Cyprus.

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   1.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - The Bigger They Are

   S4:E810/26/1978

   Regan discovers that successful people will stop at nothing to keep skeletons buried.

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   #9 - Rumpole and the Age of Miracles

   S5:E312/7/1988

   Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in an ecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery - of which the bishop takes a dim view. Rumpole's colleagues Ballard and Erskine-Brown appear for the prosecution.

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