- 8.6/10(20 votes)
#1 - The Bureau of Weapons (1)
S2:E9A deadly powerful creature called Cyberax has escaped from a computer and then suddenly Cyberax the company is born, by no other than Jean-Daniel. He creates a machine that takes over some of the user's mind. Once they have finnished using the Cyberax headset, it leaves a little bit of itself behind. when the person finds out about Cyberax again, as they forget all memories to do with Cyberax, their brains go into overload and they kill themselves. Roland Blatty (the old bureau chief) gets hold of one of these headsets and blows his brain up when Ed jokingly says that he hopes that Roland has had the system checked for viruses. The whole Bureau team are also wiped out when they too discover the deadly truth about Cyberax. Beckett decides that the only way to stop this is to pretend that he has used the headset and had his brain blown up (so to speak) and he is taken away by Cassandra, who is now working with Jean-Daniel. Jean-Daniel realises that Beckett wouldn't do something so stupid
0 CommentsView allDirector:Stephen GallagherWriter:Andrew Grieve - 8.6/10(18 votes)
#2 - Pandora's Box
S4:E6The legendary tomb of King Arthur is supposedly at a site, where suddely a lot of people are becoming ill and new owners have stopped all normal work. beckett goes undercover to find out what is going on, and with the help of the others, they discover that the digging for the tomb has unearthed a plague. Alex falls ill with the pague and Ros works at finding her a cure. She is also worried about Beckett, who insists to stay at the site and stop the men from letting more people die and shows for the first time since they split up that she still cares for him.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 8.3/10(17 votes)
#3 - Whirling Dervish
S2:E4The Bugs team are called in to prevent a cartel of the world airlines from sabotaging Strate Air, a successful new airline. Hector Jerome, the airline cartel's main agent, becomes a target for the Bugs team and they discover he is in possession of a deadly new fighter plane- the Dervish. The Bugs team fight to stop them from shooting down Strate Air planes out of the sky, with Ed in the position to either shoot the plane down or die.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Colin Brake - 8.3/10(17 votes)
#4 - Blackout
S2:E5A woman called Pascal holds a building full of people hostage, claiming to be comcerned about the enivornment. However, her intensions are found out to be not that caring, as she plans to steal a lot of money and also the isotope triggers, which would cause a big explosion. the Bugs team fight to get back the triggers and stop Pascal's lover driving off with a fortune stolen from a bank
0 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Frank De Palma - 8.3/10(12 votes)
#5 - Money Spiders
S4:E9Two baddies (Zephyr and Wymark) create some ‘spiders' that route around networks looking for juicy bits of information that they can use to black mail people in a ‘get rich quick' scheme using something called Catflap. The Bugs team are called in when a man has this happen to him, and they set up a trap to lure the people responsible to them. However, this goes horribly wrong and Zephyr and Wymark end up with what they think is Catflap (actually it is just a fake.) So, they turn to Adam Mosby for help and blackmail him by saying that they will kill Alex if he doesn't get Catflap from The Hive for them. He agrees and gives it to them in the second part. Ros and Ed go to investigate about Zephyr and Wymark, but are caught and forced to make a run for it, to the top of the building. Luckily Ed has some equipment with him and they absailing down the side of the building. But, Ros gets stuck half way down, as she is panicky about getting caught (her glove got caught in the figure of eight)
0 CommentsView allDirector:John Stroud - 8.2/10(17 votes)
#6 - What Goes Up... (1)
S2:E1Ed is put into training to go up in a space shuttle, mainly to find out who is trying to stop the launch of it, and not to actually go up in it. But, of course, he ends up having to go up with another woman pilot. However, the ‘baddie' trying to stop the launch makes the shuttle 'breakdown' (so to speak) and they end up getting ‘stuck in space.....'
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Colin Brake - 8.2/10(10 votes)
#7 - Twin Geeks
S4:E8Some Twin bright sparks decide that the world does not take them seriously enough, and plan to pay back the company that sacked them, years before. Beckett gets caught up in the process and is Beckett-napped (haha), whilst Ros is having a hard time facing up to the fact that ex-boyfriend Channing sold her designs to a new firm. So, she decides to buy them back, with the help of an old friend, who works at a bank. Alex and Adam go to investigate more about the ‘twin geeks'. However, they are trapped in a room, and the temperature is gradually decreasing, so Ed comes to the rescue. Ros goes to find Beckett, who has a little device attached to his wrist that will make a bomb explode just above him, if he walks to far away from it. This bomb is attached to the ceiling by an electromagnet, and Ros releases this and Beckett catches the bomb and has to run around with this. Ed saves Alex and Adam just in time, but gets jealous when she is more concerned about Adam, than thanking him. Beckett
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 8.0/10(17 votes)
#8 - Schrodinger's Bomb
S2:E7Cassandra and ‘Daddy' strike a deal with Jean-Daniel and Ros ends up getting kidnapped by him. Roland Blatty has a ‘brush with death' when he is left in a room filled with lots of ticking bombs. Ed and Beckett go to save Ros, and end up having to use a chain saw to free her as she was handcuffed to a steering wheel, and inside the car there was a hand grenade. Beckett spends the final scene, sawing the steering wheel, to free Ros' wrists, and Jean- Daniel returns to the Bactrian Kings tombs to retrieve the Niobian 5 that was left there.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Stephen Gallagher - 8.0/10(21 votes)
#9 - A Cage for Satan (2)
S2:E10Another second parter to end the Series. Cyberax's destructive nature has entered Ros' brain and Beckett and Ed find themselves racing against time (and the fact that if Ros finds out about the true nature of Cyberax, her mind will explode) to save her. Beckett ‘foils' Jean-Daniel's plans, but in the process accidentally tells Ros the truth about Cyberax, and Ed has to kill her, electrocuting her. The reason being that ‘because Cyberax is a virus in the memory, you have to shut down the system and reboot with a completely new set of instructions'- (as said by Ed).
0 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Unknown - 8.0/10(1 votes)
#10 - Hollow Man
S3:E4A man creates a holo-imager which is used on the new £100 notes. Another guy, North, who helped design the holo-imager and who is also supposedly dead, turns up alive, and is trying to make fake £100 notes to ‘up' his bank balance. Ros goes to dinner with the man who created the holo-imager and he ends up being told to shoot her, but he lets her go.
0 CommentsView all - 7.9/10(16 votes)
#11 - ... Must Come Down (2)
S2:E2Concluding Part from last week! Ed is put into training to go up in a space shuttle, mainly to find out who is trying to stop the launch of it, and not to actually go up in it. But, of course, he ends up having to go up with another woman pilot. However, the 'baddie' trying to stop the launch makes the shuttle 'breakdown' (so to speak) and they end up getting 'stuck in space.....'
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Colin Brake - 7.8/10(16 votes)
#12 - Gold Rush
S2:E6A room full of gold is infected with a new sort of virus that quite literally eats gold. It is up to Ros to make an antidote to return the gold to normal, and she doesn't have long- after some time, and once the gold has reached a certain temperature, it will be irreversible and the gold will be lost forever. Ed is trapped in the room with the gold and also two security things that continuously try to shoot him. Beckett decides to get Ed out of the room, as the antidote Ros creates is harmful to humans, but his only way to get to it is by going through a tunnel filled with toxic fumes.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew Grieve - 7.8/10(12 votes)
#13 - Girl Power
S4:E3Carly, a 14 year old girl breaks into The Hive and for some reason Ros is put in charge of her, which she is not too happy about. Beckett is moving into a rather run-down flat which Alex found for him, and his friendship with Ros is rather ‘rocky'. Carly is taken off Ros' hands by a man who turns out to be a baddie after an ancient funeral mask that the Bureau are looking after. He manages to con Carly into stealing the mask and once she realises why they want it, she runs off and hides it. Soon, both Ros and Carly are held prisoner until Carly gives the whereabouts of the mask. They are trapped under a lift. Carly manages to get out and tell Alex and Ed where it is hidden, and they quickly find it.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Gwennan Sage - 7.7/10(17 votes)
#14 - Bugged Wheat
S2:E3A special sort of wheat, being developed so that it is resistant to all known crop diseases is destroyed by intruders breaking into the European Agronomy Council and spray a viroid over the crop. Beckett goes undercover as a sceintist to invesitigate the viroid and dicovers that the plan is to spray the viroid over crops in the world and then deliver a special anti-viroid, which will save the world from starvation and make the makers of the anti-viroid very rich. Ros, however, has problems of her own, when her car is infested with killer wasps and the brakes won't work, and she can't open the doors...
0 CommentsView allDirector:Sandy Johnson - 7.7/10(10 votes)
#15 - Absent Friends
S4:E1Ros is missing and Beckett, Alex and Ed are desperately searching for her. However, they find her car a river with some of her blood in it, and presume that she is dead. Beckett won't accept this, and sobs his little heart out at Ros' house. He ends up quitting from the bureau, to devote his time to searching for Ros. Beckett goes to see Ros' Mum, her ex-fianceé, Terry and does everything he can to determine Ros' whereabouts. Ros is actually alive and well (naturally) and is working with Terry. Ed and Alex are given a job to transport what they think is something that saves lives- but they were given false information. Beckett is also where Alex and Ed are, still trying to find leads on what happened to Ros, and then Ros suddenly appears, steals the stuff that Alex and Ed are looking after, with Terry and two other people and runs to Terry's van As she starts the van, and starts to drive off, she sees Beckett, but is told by Terry to keep driving. She does as he says, leaving behind Be
0 CommentsView allDirector:Gwennan SageWriter:Colin Brake - 7.7/10(10 votes)
#16 - Sacrifice to Science
S4:E2Ros is still missing, although now the others know that she is not actually dead. Ros decides to ring Beckett and ask him to meet her, and Beckett quickly rushes to where she is. They meet on a bridge and Beckett is demanding an explanation, but Ros is too upset to give an answer. they go to see the others (Terry, Chris and Morag) who voice their opinions on Bureau 2 becoming involved; they don't like it one bit, especially Terry, who ideally wants to pick up where he and Ros left off, but he realises that that is never going to happen, because Ros is together with Beckett. However, because Beckett's Jeep had a bug on it the people trying to stop Ros and Terry find out where they are, and Chris and Morag are killed. Then they decide to blow up the base where Ros, Terry and Beckett are. They presume they are dead, but they managed to escape just in time. Beckett and Ros are walking in the hospital garden together and Beckett asks for an explanation. Ros tells him exactly what happened t
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 7.7/10(13 votes)
#17 - The Enemy Within
S4:E10Ros has yet another brush with death, this time because she was shot in the head by Zephyr. As she fights for her life in hospital throughout the episode, Beckett is desperately trying to find the people (Wymark and Zephyr) who put her there. Zephyr and Wymark end up in the same hospital as there is the new G-5 chip there which they need to gain enough processing power to con a bank into giving the m a few million pounds. Many things interrupt the surgery being performed on Ros (by a rather eccentric surgeon) including a power cut brought on by Wymark shooting the main power cables, leaving it up to Beckett and Ed to put it back to normal (which they manage to do, of course). At the end, Ros wakes up and is OK, and Beckett actually kisses her, putting the hope in everybody's hearts that they are actually going to get back together. However, this vision is quickly destroyed, as after Alex and Adam's wedding, Beckett and Christa are talking together and Christa practically proposes to h
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 7.5/10(15 votes)
#18 - Newton's Run
S2:E8Newton the dog is the new creation of a scientific lab. Newton is ‘a robot dog' who is just like any other dog, except that when a special controller is turned on, he is controlled by it. A group of ‘bad guys' want to use this technology, as they can use Newton to get to places they can't. Beckett decides to look after Newton and take him on a little ride on a train. Little does he know that the baddies are hot on his trail and he ends up losing Newton. The baddies find Newton and give him a little bomb, sending into a building that contains many different types of weapons that are for use in WW3. The team find this out and Beckett goes to find Newton.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Calvin Clements Jr. - 7.4/10(12 votes)
#19 - Hell and High Water
S4:E5The Bugs team are called in to investiagte why the crew on board the Searanger, an oil rig, have suddenly gone silent. After investigation, they discover that the team they are with on the oil rig are not the really crew, and they work with the last surviving member, Paul Grey, to stop a satellite falling onto the Earth. Ros finds beckett unconscious in a room, and they are forced to work closely when they are left to do, betrayed by Paul Grey.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Christopher KingWriter:Alex Stewart - 7.4/10(10 votes)
#20 - Jewel Control
S4:E7Ros' friend, Sorrel marries Richard Blenko, a two faced man with a silver tongue, who'd give anything to save his own life. He promises a gangster as many emeralds as he'd like in exchange foir his life, using Sorrel's own father, Mr Mandrake, to do so. Mandrake is kidnapped whilst staying at becket's place, who went off with Christa when he was supposed to be assuring Mandrake's safety. Sorrel and Ros are also kidnapped. The gangsters steal the emeralds and then leave a bomb in the bunker where Ros, Sorrel, Mr Madrake and Richard are. Beckett, Jan and a trainee, Melissa have to stop the bomb and the gansters, before it is too late.
0 CommentsView allDirector:John Stroud - 7.1/10(10 votes)
#21 - The Two Becketts
S4:E4A man breaks into a building, and although he tries to escape, he is caught. He then asks for Beckett, saying that he will only talk to him, and no-one else, and although becket doesn't know who he is, he goes to meet him. Once he reaches the place and sees the man, he simply says ""You,"" and punches him. The man then reveals that he is Beckett's father. Beckett takes his Dad to his house, where he tries to exlpain why he ran out on Beckett 10 years ago, after his Mum's funeral. He then explains that he was trying to find out about the whereabouts of a man who is after the two witnesses that will send him to prison. Ed goes to check it out, only to see that the man has escaped. Both of the witnesses are kidnapped and Beckett's Dad finally reveals that he wants to see the man go down because he killed Beckett's Mum. So, Beckett and his Dad go to find the man, as well as the two witnesses and Alex, who got mixed up in the whole thing.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#22 - Down Among the Dead Men
S1:E4Ed and Beckett go 'under cover' and end up on board a submarine. They are, however, found out to be fakes and, whilst Ed escapes, Beckett is left on the submarine with a money hungry man, eager to gain access to a bank and steal some diamonds a long the way. Beckett ends up getting trapped on the submarine, as it slowly fills with water. The man, meanwhile, has got his associate to steal these diamonds, but their plan is foiled when Ros enters the scene. Ed goes under the sea to search for the submarine and but will he find Beckett in time?
0 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Stephen Gallagher - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#23 - Hot Metal
S1:E8R-6 is a new type of metal, and it has an explosive nature. A man called DaSilva decides to take advantage of this property of the metal and tries to steal it. The Bugs team are involved and try to stop DaSilva leaving the country with the metal to make it into deadly weapons.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Ken GrieveWriter:Alan Whiting - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#24 - A Sporting Chance
S1:E9A special formula has been developed which enhances the performance of athletes. However, no-one has considered the after effects, which are that when the person's heart reaches a certain rate, the body can't cope and the person drops down dead. Ed comes to realise this when he is having a karate match with a person who has been injected with the stuff, and the man goes hyper, then falls down dead (whoops!). Ros eventually goes to find out more about the stuff, and ends up with another hyper person chasing her, then he suddenly collapses. however, Ros is still caught and taken away by the developer of the formula, to be his new guinea-pig.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Ken GrieveWriter:Colin Brake - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#25 - Pulse
S1:E10Many small companies are being bought up by two mysterious men and Ros, Ed and Beckett are called to investigate. When the manager in another company is suddenly blown up, Beckett takes his place. The two suspicious people turn out to be Jean-Daniel and his brother, Patrick. They realise that Beckett is not the real manager and Jean-Daniel goes round to ‘Gizmos' (the place where Ros, Ed and Beckett were based in Series One) Beckett ends up being kidnapped. Ed's friend, Clare, has also got mixed up in the brothers' plans, and her daughter, Katie, has been held hostage until she gives them exactly what they want. Jean-Daniel's brother is killed. Beckett and Katie manage to escape and stop Jean-Daniel's plans, and reposition the missile that stops any type of computer generated items from working, to where they are.
0 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Stephen Gallagher


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Every episode of Bugs ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bugs!
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and...
Seasons4
- 8.6/10(20 votes)
#1 - The Bureau of Weapons (1)
S2:E90 CommentsView allDirector:Stephen GallagherWriter:Andrew Grieve - 8.6/10(18 votes)
#2 - Pandora's Box
S4:E60 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 8.3/10(17 votes)
#3 - Whirling Dervish
S2:E40 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Colin Brake - 8.3/10(17 votes)
#4 - Blackout
S2:E50 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Frank De Palma - 8.3/10(12 votes)
#5 - Money Spiders
S4:E90 CommentsView allDirector:John Stroud - 8.2/10(17 votes)
#6 - What Goes Up... (1)
S2:E10 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Colin Brake - 8.2/10(10 votes)
#7 - Twin Geeks
S4:E80 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 8.0/10(17 votes)
#8 - Schrodinger's Bomb
S2:E70 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Stephen Gallagher - 8.0/10(21 votes)
#9 - A Cage for Satan (2)
S2:E100 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Unknown - 7.9/10(16 votes)
#11 - ... Must Come Down (2)
S2:E20 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Colin Brake - 7.8/10(16 votes)
#12 - Gold Rush
S2:E60 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew Grieve - 7.8/10(12 votes)
#13 - Girl Power
S4:E30 CommentsView allDirector:Gwennan Sage - 7.7/10(17 votes)
#14 - Bugged Wheat
S2:E30 CommentsView allDirector:Sandy Johnson - 7.7/10(10 votes)
#15 - Absent Friends
S4:E10 CommentsView allDirector:Gwennan SageWriter:Colin Brake - 7.7/10(10 votes)
#16 - Sacrifice to Science
S4:E20 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 7.7/10(13 votes)
#17 - The Enemy Within
S4:E100 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 7.5/10(15 votes)
#18 - Newton's Run
S2:E80 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Calvin Clements Jr. - 7.4/10(12 votes)
#19 - Hell and High Water
S4:E50 CommentsView allDirector:Christopher KingWriter:Alex Stewart - 7.4/10(10 votes)
#20 - Jewel Control
S4:E70 CommentsView allDirector:John Stroud - 7.1/10(10 votes)
#21 - The Two Becketts
S4:E40 CommentsView allDirector:Brian Grant - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#22 - Down Among the Dead Men
S1:E40 CommentsView allDirector:Andrew GrieveWriter:Stephen Gallagher - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#23 - Hot Metal
S1:E80 CommentsView allDirector:Ken GrieveWriter:Alan Whiting - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#24 - A Sporting Chance
S1:E90 CommentsView allDirector:Ken GrieveWriter:Colin Brake - 7.0/10(1 votes)
#25 - Pulse
S1:E100 CommentsView allDirector:Brian FarnhamWriter:Stephen Gallagher
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"The Bureau of Weapons (1)" is the best rated episode of "Bugs". It scored 8.6/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by Stephen Gallagher and written by Andrew Grieve, it aired on 6/8/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pandora's Box".