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The Worst Episodes of Absolute Power

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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 Power to BBC Two. Stephen as Prentiss and John as

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Absolute Power Season 1 Episode 1 - History Man
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #1 - History Man

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Guy Andrews

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  2. Absolute Power Season 2 Episode 3 - Blood Bank
    6.9/10(18 votes)

    #2 - Blood Bank

    S2:E3

    The team at Prentis McCabe assume thet Charles is in jail for another month, so they prepare to tackle their new client , Artist, Dean Wheelwright (Richard Katz). It is their job to get him to eneter and win the lucrative turner prize for the years beast contribution to art. However he says he does not want to eneter, so they have a problem.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Absolute Power Season 2 Episode 4 - The Nation's Favourite
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #3 - The Nation's Favourite

    S2:E4

    The firm of Prentiss McCabe are over the moon to hear that Jamie has got them a new Oil sheik client, who wants to buy British Airways. That is until Jamie tells them the client's family name is Rezza Bin-Laden (yes the family of THAT bin Laden ). Charles and Martin are adamant that they don't want him for a client, no matter how rich he is. But finally they are persuaded to have a look at him.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Absolute Power Season 1 Episode 3 - Tory Woman
    7.4/10(21 votes)

    #4 - Tory Woman

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Absolute Power Season 2 Episode 2 - The Trial
    7.5/10(18 votes)

    #5 - The Trial

    S2:E2

    Poor Charles finds himself in the dock, after one of Prentis MaCabe's old clients has a fit of conscience and decides to do the worst thing a client can do. He tells the truth about one of Charles' lies, after becoming a christian and repenting.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Absolute Power Season 1 Episode 5 - Country Life
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #6 - Country Life

    S1:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Guy Andrews

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  7. Absolute Power Season 1 Episode 6 - Crash and Burn
    7.7/10(21 votes)

    #7 - Crash and Burn

    S1:E6

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Absolute Power Season 1 Episode 4 - Mr. Fox
    7.8/10(24 votes)

    #8 - Mr. Fox

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Absolute Power Season 2 Episode 1 - Identity Crisis
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #9 - Identity Crisis

    S2:E1

    The staff of Prentiss MacCabe are worried their phones are being bugged. Charles and Martin have a meeting with their client, the home secretary. The government want to introduce the unpopular identity card and are in desperate need of a PR agency.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Absolute Power Season 1 Episode 2 - Pope Idol
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #10 - Pope Idol

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Absolute Power Season 2 Episode 6 - The House of Lords
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The House of Lords

    S2:E6

    Bugger the House of Lords""; ""Yes, that's exactly the PM's thinking."" The pace of reform in The House of Lords has slowed down, it's still full of the over-privileged, and they keep sending back Government proposals for legislation. So when Charle

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Absolute Power Season 2 Episode 5 - Spinning America
    8.4/10(19 votes)

    #12 - Spinning America

    S2:E5

    American fast food sales are down and images of Ronald McDonald are being burned in the streets - could this be linked to Prentiss McCabe's healthy eating campaign? Or is this a backlash of anti-American feeling post-Iraq?Whatever the cause, the Prent

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"History Man" is the worst rated episode of "Absolute Power". It scored 6.8/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Guy Andrews, it aired on 11/10/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Blood Bank".