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The Best Episodes of Agony

Every episode of Agony ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Agony!

Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own...
Genres:ComedyDocumentary
Network:ITV1

Best Episodes Summary

"Arrivals and Departures" is the best rated episode of "Agony". It scored 8.6/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/25/1981. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Conjugal Wrongs".

  • Arrivals and Departures
    8.6/1011 votes
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    #1 - Arrivals and Departures

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/1981

    Jane and Laurence wait for their baby while attending a baby care class run by a strange woman and trying to help Michael deal with a fight with Rob.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Conjugal Wrongs
    8.1/1014 votes
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    #2 - Conjugal Wrongs

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/1979

    Laurence returns when Jane agrees to try some mechanical assistance for their lovemaking.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wedlock, Deadlock
    8.0/1013 votes
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    #3 - Wedlock, Deadlock

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/1979

    Laurence's interest in another woman at the hospital where he works prompts him to suggest that he and Jane have an open marriage agreement.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hospital Romances
    7.8/1011 votes
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    #4 - Hospital Romances

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/1981

    Jane continues helping people from her hospital bed as a black nurse faces the anger of her superior and Val runs off with Andy Evol.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Help
    7.7/1016 votes
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    #5 - Help

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/1979

    Jane Lucas, overworked advice columnist for Person magazine, tries to cope with her usual hectic schedule as she advises a shy transvestite and takes a phone call from her husband informing her he's leaving her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Forever and Never
    7.7/1014 votes
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    #6 - Forever and Never

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/1979

    Jane tries to balance Laurence's demands for attention with Michael and Rob's need for her to mediate a quarrel.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • An Unmarried Couple
    7.6/1014 votes
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    #7 - An Unmarried Couple

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/1979

    Jane tries to get use to being alone and to deal with the reactions from an avid press and an overwrought mother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Problem Parents
    7.6/1012 votes
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    #8 - Problem Parents

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1980

    Jane helps Rob explain his homosexuality to his parents and advises her mother about a smitten Junior Truscombe.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • From Here to Maternity
    7.6/1017 votes
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    #9 - From Here to Maternity

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/1981

    Jane encounters a broad range of opposition when she decides to stop working and be a full time wife and mother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Communications Breakdown
    7.4/1011 votes
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    #10 - Communications Breakdown

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/1981

    Jane's investigation into group therapy uncovers a problem in her marriage and in that of Val and Andy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Back to Reality
    7.2/1012 votes
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    #11 - Back to Reality

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/1980

    Jane returns from vacation and decides to start dating again, but sees Laurence on a tape at a video-dating service talking about how much he loves his wife.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Coming Out... and Going In Again?
    7.2/1012 votes
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    #12 - Coming Out... and Going In Again?

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1980

    Michael appears anonymously on Jane's radio show to answer questions about the homosexual lifestyle, but Junior's blunder exposes his identity with devastating consequences.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy
    7.1/1014 votes
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    #13 - Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/1979

    Jane celebrates her birthday by taking the advice she's been giving to another woman; she leaves Laurence.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Working Girls
    NaN/100 votes
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    #14 - Working Girls

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1980

    Val threatens to moonlight in one of Vincent Fish's erotic films when Diana refuses to give her a raise.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Television Can Damage Your Health
    NaN/100 votes
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    #15 - Television Can Damage Your Health

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/1980

    Jane tries another medium when she makes a television pilot that goes completely off course.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Second Time Around
    NaN/100 votes
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    #16 - Second Time Around

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/1980

    A religiously reformed Andy Evol returns and both he and Jane return to Happening Radio when Junior falls ill.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Woman Alone
    NaN/100 votes
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    #17 - A Woman Alone

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/1980

    Jane is taken hostage during her radio show by a reader unhappy with her advice.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Holy Wars
    NaN/100 votes
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    #18 - Holy Wars

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/1981

    Jane and Laurence's quarrel over having young Michael circumcised uncovers hidden prejudices.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lucas v Lucas
    NaN/100 votes
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    #19 - Lucas v Lucas

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/1981

    Jane and Laurence grow farther apart when their baby is kidnapped by a disturbed man.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rings Off Their Fingers
    NaN/100 votes
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    #20 - Rings Off Their Fingers

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/1981

    Laurence tries to win Jane back and she throws a New Year's Eve party that promises to change many people's lives.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A