NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Reservoir Birds
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1997
Sharon and Tracey are working at a casino and agree to take part in a publicity stunt in which Sharon 'appears' to win a million pounds. The sisters are unaware however that they have been set up as thieves by the owner.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gary Lawson, John Phelps
6.2/1027 votesLoading...#2 - Holy Ground
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 12/24/1998
Sharon and Tracey receive a solicitor's letter from Ireland and, with Dorien also having business there, the three girls embark on what could be a very important journey.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1033 votesLoading...#3 - Jobs For The Girls
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/6/1990
In order to make money for Christmas, Sharon becomes a dog-walker and cat-sitter and soon comes up against stiff competition from Dorien's 13-year-old friend Adrian Gold. Meanwhile, Tracey becomes a typist and, after having problems with the typewriter, uses a word processor. She agrees to type up a manuscript for a novel that Dorien has written. Sharon later notices that Dorien's manuscript is largely copied from The French Lieutenant's Woman and Dorien admits she just wanted Sharon and Tracey to think she had a talent.
Director: Sue Bysh
Writer: Sue Teddern
6.6/1031 votesLoading...#4 - Loyalty
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 11/29/1992
Sharon needs eight grand up front when the landlords of her café want to increase the rent in line with her new lease. Tracey refuses to put her house up as collateral and Dorien, who has a few grand to dispose of for tax purposes, gives it to charity after Sharon insults her. Fortunately Sharon has confidence in herself as a business woman to meet the problem head on.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Gary Lawson, John Phelps
6.6/1034 votesLoading...#5 - High Fidelity
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1993
Sharon is looking for a man, but the one she likes is attracted to Tracey.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Jenny Lecoat
6.6/1034 votesLoading...#6 - In at the Deep End
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1994
Sharon thinks installing a swimming pool will be easy, since she has a café full of builders.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Tony Millan, Mike Walling
6.7/1030 votesLoading...#7 - Old Friends
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/1990
While out shopping, Tracey runs into Trish Taylor, her best friend from school and invites her to stay, as Trish has recently left her husband. Sharon feels left out and also worried that when Darryl gets out of prison, Tracey will make her move out. After taking Dorien's advice, Sharon goes out with Trish and they get on well. Meanwhile, Tracey is annoyed with both Sharon and Trish - Trish for constantly talking about the old days and Sharon for not cleaning a saucepan that has been in the sink for several days. Trish soon leaves and goes back to her husband.
Director: Sue Bysh
Writer: John Ross
6.7/1032 votesLoading...#8 - Hungry for Love
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1992
After Darryl comments that she has put on weight Tracey goes on a diet,suffering but losing ten pounds in the process, but when she goes back to see Darryl he is now worried she looks too alluring and needs her reassurance. Dorien cannot fathom why Brett,her hunky young builder,does not want sex with her and assumes he is gay but Sharon gets to find out otherwise.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Geoff Deane
6.8/1034 votesLoading...#9 - Mice
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1990
Tracey is disgusted by the state of Sharon's bedroom and it also appears Sharon's poor levels of hygiene have spread throughout the house when Tracey discovers they have mice. After cleaning the house and buying poison, Sharon buys a cat, but it does not seem to have any effect. Eventually, Sharon rings pest control, who reveals that he has been at Dorien's house trying to get rid of a major mice infestation and the mice have come from her.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Gary Lawson, John Phelps
6.8/1030 votesLoading...#10 - Someone Else's Baby
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/13/1990
With the Antiques Roadshow coming to Chigwell, Sharon, Dorien and Tracey go into Tracey and Sharon's loft. Sharon discovers some letters written by her mother suggesting either she or Tracey were adopted. After some arguing between Sharon and Tracey, Sharon invites round their mother's sister, Auntie Sylvie, who finally tells them that they were both adopted but they are still biological sisters. Meanwhile, Dorien goes to the Antiques Roadshow with a family heirloom, but to her horror discovers the Russian Empire vase is in fact a mid-20th century East End fake.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Frankie Bailey
6.8/1030 votesLoading...#11 - Baby Come Back
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1991
Sharon bumps into Dave, her ex-boyfriend from shortly after the boys were sent down. This brings back all the feelings she had when she had the abortion with Dave's baby. But now she feels ready to settle down, and Dave could be just the right man. All she has to do is tell him that she never had a miscarriage. Meanwhile, Tracy gets all motherly when Garth comes home for the weekend.
Director: Nic Phillips
Writer: Sue Teddern
6.8/1032 votesLoading...#12 - A Brush with the Law
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1993
At last it seems as if Sharon has found romance, but the path of true love is rocky. For Tracey, a business venture with Dorien has its own hazards.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Sue Teddern
6.8/1032 votesLoading...#13 - Moving
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1994
Tracey considers a move to the country, as Garth settles into the flat above the café.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Gary Lawson, John Phelps
6.8/1032 votesLoading...#14 - Birds on a Plane
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 12/26/2014
Dorien is treating Sharon and Tracey to a Christmas trip to the Canaries, but will it be plane sailing?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1031 votesLoading...#15 - Cuckoo
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/1991
Sharon's flat is now housing belligerent squatters Cedric and Egbert; her neighbour has also been acquiring mail-order items using Sharon's identity. Chris offers to sort things out - with the aid of 'Batty' Harold and his mates, who specialise in GBH.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Peter Tilbury
6.9/1030 votesLoading...#16 - Time and Tides
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1992
Dorien is depressed because she has reached the menopause but hormone replacement treatment soon puts the smile back on her face. Tracey is annoyed because she feels Darryl fails to give Garth sufficient praise but all is sorted out on a visit. But can Sharon and Chris' little problem, his infertility, be solved by adopting a Bulgarian orphan?
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Geoff Rowley
6.9/1028 votesLoading...#17 - The Chigwell Connection
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/1992
When the case against Darryl's associate Trevor Mimms is thrown out of court due to unreliable evidence from Inspector Tatum - who arrested Darryl and Chris - the sisters wonder if their lads might have been fitted up by Tatum and start a campaign to free the Chigwell Two. Tracey goes on daytime TV and finds a lawyer to fight the case but she comes to realise that she may be kidding herself. Dorien is unsympathetic until Marcus is arrested as a suspected drugs baron. When Trevor gets sent down for another robbery the sisters realise the truth but he does give them a Christmas bonus,as do Tatum and,after Marcus' name is cleared, Dorien.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran
6.9/1033 votesLoading...#18 - Dead Loss
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1993
A family tragedy wins Sharon's husband leave from prison—but he takes the opportunity to do a runner.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Geoff Rowley
6.9/1034 votesLoading...#19 - All Gone Pear Shaped
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1993
Sharon faces a crisis in her relationship with Colin, Tracey has a new friend, and Dorien feels left out. In Chigwell, feathers are ruffled.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Sue Teddern
7.0/1034 votesLoading...#20 - Young Guns
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1990
Garth brings home a 17-year-old handsome school friend, Richard, for the holidays. Sharon and Tracey suspect Garth is gay and Dorien tells them she thinks Richard is also gay. When Tracey tells Darryl, he is concerned about the effects of people finding out that his son could be gay. Soon after, Tracey and Sharon speak to Garth, who says he is not gay. Moments later, Dorien says she was wrong about Richard being gay, as she has just slept with him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Keith Lindsay, Martin Tomms
7.0/1033 votesLoading...#21 - Muesli
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1990
The release of a fellow inmate plunges Darryl into depression. The anguish rubs off on Tracey, who decides that in an attempt to understand what Darryl is going through, she will live like a prisoner for the weekend. Sharon decides to join her and they set up the spare bedroom like a prison cell. When Dorien gets locked out of the house while Marcus is away, she stays at Tracey and Sharon's and acts like a prison officer. On Sunday, Dorien returns to her house to find that it has been burgled and forgets to unlock Tracey and Sharon. After a short while, they climb out of the window and throw roof tiles in an attempt to get Dorien's attention. However, when one tile ends up going through the car of a police officer investigating Dorien's burglary, they end up in a real prison cell. Meanwhile, Darryl's cell mate, Gary, cheers him up by trying to relive how Darryl spent his weekends before being sent to prison.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson
7.0/1028 votesLoading...#22 - Confidence
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1991
With money tight, Sharon has taken a job, but Tracey seems reluctant to follow, despite Sharon and Dorien's encouragement. Tracey admits to having little confidence, having never been allowed to work during her marriage, but Sharon volunteers her to do some voluntary work for Siobhan, the editor of the prisoners' dependents newsletter. Sharon then goes with Tracey when she goes to apply for a receptionist job but is worried about the application form, which makes her realise how few qualifications and little experience she has. Sharon gets the job by lying on the application form.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Gary Lawson, John Phelps
7.0/1034 votesLoading...#23 - Wipe That Smile Off Your Tape
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1992
Sharon wants a man and submits a video tape of herself to a video dating agency. She meets laddish Mike,who takes her to a Rolling Stones concert and claims to know all the big names in rock but is exposed by Garth. Tracey thinks Sharon would be better off with shy,stammering Jimmy and organizes a meeting but she had forgotten that Dorien had also submitted a tape.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Miles Tredinnick
7.0/1027 votesLoading...#24 - Nine And A Half Days
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1992
Sharon has a new man in her life, Gil, and this time it could be the real thing as far as she's concerned. The only trouble is that he wants her to move to Norfolk with him and Tracey is not happy. Oddly enough though it's Chris,who is having problems in prison, who persuades her to stay.
Director: Terry Kinane
Writer: Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran
7.0/1032 votesLoading...#25 - A Beautiful Game
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1993
Tracey manages a boys' football team, while Dorien finds a psychic who will change her life. In the end, the two worlds collide.
Director: Charlie Hanson
Writer: Geoff Deane
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"Reservoir Birds" is the worst rated episode of "Birds of a Feather". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Gary Lawson, John Phelps, it aired on 12/27/1997. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Holy Ground".