6.9/1031 votes#1 - History Man
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2003
Prentiss McCabe client, Nigel Harting, is a celebrated presenter of television history programmes, who specialises in revealing sensational facts. But he has a secret. Newspaper editor, Marcus Payne, has discovered that Nigel plays fast and loose with his sources. A letter in Latin proving that Anne of Cleves was actually a man is an outright fake. Marcus agrees to shelve this career-destroying revelation if Charles can dig up some shocking and rather more tabloid-compatible filth about Nigel's private life. Meanwhile, Prentiss McCabe is saddled with Big Brother contestant Teresa, recruited as a client because she stripped in the shower. She is now revealed as a bully and a bore and demands that Martin supervises the promotion of her huge and appalling novel.
Director: N/A
Writer: Guy Andrews
7.9/1020 votes#2 - Pope Idol
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/17/2003
Martin and Jamie sense that the world of PR is changing. The profession has developed such a bad reputation that it could do with a bit of spin-doctoring itself. To show that they can make a good impression as well as making money, Prentiss McCabe takes p
Director: N/A
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7.4/1020 votes#3 - Tory Woman
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/2003
How does one go about re-launching a junior shadow spokeswoman who has been marginalised in the Tory party? She referred to her leader as ""pork bum"" and her last ditch attempt to stay in the mainstream of politics is to sponsor a 'Right To Retire' campaig
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1023 votes#4 - Mr. Fox
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/2003
When Health Secretary Simon Wellington wins an injunction preventing newspapers from reporting an incident on Hampstead Heath in which he was allegedly mugged by two men, Charles agrees to help Wellington keep his job. But the survival strategy is threate
Director: N/A
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7.6/1019 votes#5 - Country Life
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/8/2003
Successful novelist Roddy Growse orchestrates the appointment of Prentiss McCabe to represent The Real Country Union, a pressure group that has decided to launch itself as a political party. The group is the brain child of Lord Harcourt who in Charles' ju
Director: N/A
Writer: Guy Andrews
7.7/1020 votes#6 - Crash and Burn
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/2003
A hugely lucrative golden handcuff deal is jeopardised when one of Charles' most successful clients, the stand-up comedian Alan Boardman, is caught on CCTV camera beating up his girlfriend in the Ikea car park. The strategy Charles proposes to save his career is, even by Prentiss McCabes' shoddy moral standards, as unethical as it is shocking. An apocalyptic end seems inevitable for the sultans of spin. Meanwhile in an attempt to sex up their image, the Tory party have approached Prentiss McCabe to launch a youth-led campaign - should they choose as their anthem I Have A Dream by Westlife, It's OK by Atomic Kitten or Blue's All Rise?
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Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Absolute Power Season 1
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Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe as they bring the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute...
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC Two
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"History Man" is the best rated episode of "Absolute Power" season 1. It scored 6.9/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Guy Andrews, it aired on 11/10/2003. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Pope Idol".