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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!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Agony Season 3 Episode 2 - Arrivals and Departures
    8.6/10(10 votes)

    #1 - Arrivals and Departures

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Agony Season 1 Episode 3 - Conjugal Wrongs
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #2 - Conjugal Wrongs

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Agony Season 1 Episode 4 - Wedlock, Deadlock
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #3 - Wedlock, Deadlock

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Agony Season 1 Episode 5 - Forever and Never
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #4 - Forever and Never

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Agony Season 3 Episode 3 - Hospital Romances
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Hospital Romances

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Agony Season 1 Episode 2 - An Unmarried Couple
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #6 - An Unmarried Couple

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Agony Season 2 Episode 5 - Problem Parents
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Problem Parents

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Agony Season 3 Episode 1 - From Here to Maternity
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #8 - From Here to Maternity

    S3:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Agony Season 1 Episode 1 - Help
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #9 - Help

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Agony Season 3 Episode 4 - Communications Breakdown
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Communications Breakdown

    S3:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Agony Season 1 Episode 6 - Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #11 - Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Agony Season 2 Episode 1 - Back to Reality
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Back to Reality

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Agony Season 2 Episode 3 - Coming Out... and Going In Again?
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Coming Out... and Going In Again?

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Agony Season 2 Episode 2 - Working Girls
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Working Girls

    S2:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Agony Season 2 Episode 4 - Television Can Damage Your Health
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Television Can Damage Your Health

    S2:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Agony Season 2 Episode 6 - Second Time Around
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Second Time Around

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Agony Season 2 Episode 7 - A Woman Alone
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - A Woman Alone

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Agony Season 3 Episode 5 - Holy Wars
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Holy Wars

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Agony Season 3 Episode 6 - Lucas v Lucas
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Lucas v Lucas

    S3:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Agony Season 3 Episode 7 - Rings Off Their Fingers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Rings Off Their Fingers

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

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