8.6/10 11 votes#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.
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- 8.1/10 14 votes
#2 - Conjugal Wrongs
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/1979
Laurence returns when Jane agrees to try some mechanical assistance for their lovemaking.
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- 8.0/10 13 votes
#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.
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- 7.8/10 11 votes
#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.
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- 7.7/10 16 votes
#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
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- 7.7/10 14 votes
#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.
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- 7.6/10 14 votes
#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.
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- 7.6/10 12 votes
#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.
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- 7.6/10 17 votes
#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.
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- 7.4/10 11 votes
#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.
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- 7.2/10 12 votes
#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.
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- 7.2/10 12 votes
#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.
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- 7.1/10 14 votes
#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.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#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.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#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.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#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.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#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.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#18 - Holy Wars
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/1981
Jane and Laurence's quarrel over having young Michael circumcised uncovers hidden prejudices.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#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.
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#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.
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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 personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmond, Anna Raeburn, Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds. It was made for the ITV network by LWT. Although a comedy, Agony sometimes dealt with issues that were seen as taboo at the time such as drug use, racism, abortion, interracial relationships, and swinging, and was the first British sitcom to portray a gay couple as non-camp, witty, intelligent and happy people. It also openly mocked the government, the ruling classes, and religion, and occasionally contained dark and dramatic storylines.
Genres:ComedyDocumentary
Network:ITV1
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Agony" is "Arrivals and Departures", rated 8.6/10 from 11 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Arrivals and Departures" aired on 1/25/1981 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Conjugal Wrongs".