The Worst Episodes of Bugs

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   #1 - Manna From Heaven

   S1:E75/20/1995

   A new type of food called Phodex has been created and it is made from some sort of algae. Ros, Ed and Beckett are called to investigate about this stuff, and Ros ends up getting trapped in some room, with the oxygen levels slowly decreasing. However, Ed and Beckett realise all is not right when the creator of Phodex tells them that Ros has gone to the hairdressers. They find her just in time and she is OK. However, a short while later, the team find out the secret of Phodex, that it is toxic when exposed to ultra violet light, and Ros ends up eating some contaminated Phodex, and starts to die. There is soon a race against time for Ed and Beckett to save Ros and the other people who have eaten the toxic Phodex, and Ros' condition gradually begins to deteriorate, as her vision goes blurred and she keeps collapsing. However, she manages to save the day, by finding out what the code is to the place that has the antidote. She has to read an electronic organiser, but will she get the passwor

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Gregory Evans

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   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Gregory Evans
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   #2 - Shotgun Wedding

   S1:E54/29/1995

   Ros, Ed and Beckett are called in to protect Anna Fabrizi, a visiting Italian politician who has vowed to fight political corruption in her country. Ed takes on the role of the man hired to kill Anna and he finds himself in a situation where he has to decide between Anna's life and his own...

   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Colin Brake

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   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Colin Brake
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   #3 - Newton's Run

   S2:E86/1/1996

   Newton the dog is the new creation of a scientific lab. Newton is ‘a robot dog' who is just like any other dog, except that when a special controller is turned on, he is controlled by it. A group of ‘bad guys' want to use this technology, as they can use Newton to get to places they can't. Beckett decides to look after Newton and take him on a little ride on a train. Little does he know that the baddies are hot on his trail and he ends up losing Newton. The baddies find Newton and give him a little bomb, sending into a building that contains many different types of weapons that are for use in WW3. The team find this out and Beckett goes to find Newton.

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Calvin Clements Jr.

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   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Calvin Clements Jr.
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Out of the Hive

   S1:E14/1/1995

   Ros and Beckett first meet, after Beckett is forced to leave The Hive when he is framed for leaking information. The real traitor turns out to be Beckett's boss, Cottrell, working alongside his lover, Elena Johnson. The pair are trying to steal SACROS, a device which jams satellite signals. Beckett, Ros and Ed race against time to save Beckett's job and SACROS, and to stop Cottrell and Elena.

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Duncan Gould

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   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Duncan Gould
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Assassins Inc

   S1:E24/8/1995

   Ros, Ed and Beckett's first customer appears in the form of Irene Campell, who turns out to have conned Beckett into helping her continue doing her business. Roland Blatty, a friend of Ros' who own the new Bureau of Weapons is trying to put a stop to the devices Irene sells, which have killed countless people. The team race against time to stop Irene and her legal adviser, Morasco and at the same time save Ed from a microbe that is killing him.

   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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   #6 - All Under Control

   S1:E34/15/1995

   Ros, Ed and Beckett are called in to investigate the mysterious plane that went ‘out of control' for a while. However, while Ros is checking out the aeroplane, it suddenly decides to take off!!! Ros is left in the plane and it takes off, and Ed and Beckett discover that there is a man behind it all, controlling the plane like a remote control one. Ros starts to panic as the fuel gradually gets lower and lower, and Ed goes to find the man behind it, telling Ros that she might have to land the plane herself.

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Duncan Gould

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   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Duncan Gould
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Stealth

   S1:E65/6/1995

   An attempt to steal a revolutionary new car with an advanced guidance system is foiled by the Bugs team. The thieves then turn their attention to a millitary vehicle powered by a radioactive RTG, and Ros and Beckett have to cliumb onto the moving driverless vehicle, to stop the explosion from breaking the radioactive container and killing off most of the people in the country.

   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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   #8 - What Goes Up... (1)

   S2:E14/6/1996

   Ed is put into training to go up in a space shuttle, mainly to find out who is trying to stop the launch of it, and not to actually go up in it. But, of course, he ends up having to go up with another woman pilot. However, the ‘baddie' trying to stop the launch makes the shuttle 'breakdown' (so to speak) and they end up getting ‘stuck in space.....'

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Colin Brake

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   Writer:Colin Brake
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - ... Must Come Down (2)

   S2:E24/13/1996

   Concluding Part from last week! Ed is put into training to go up in a space shuttle, mainly to find out who is trying to stop the launch of it, and not to actually go up in it. But, of course, he ends up having to go up with another woman pilot. However, the 'baddie' trying to stop the launch makes the shuttle 'breakdown' (so to speak) and they end up getting 'stuck in space.....'

   Director:Brian Farnham

   Writer:Colin Brake

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   Writer:Colin Brake
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Bugged Wheat

    S2:E34/20/1996

    A special sort of wheat, being developed so that it is resistant to all known crop diseases is destroyed by intruders breaking into the European Agronomy Council and spray a viroid over the crop. Beckett goes undercover as a sceintist to invesitigate the viroid and dicovers that the plan is to spray the viroid over crops in the world and then deliver a special anti-viroid, which will save the world from starvation and make the makers of the anti-viroid very rich. Ros, however, has problems of her own, when her car is infested with killer wasps and the brakes won't work, and she can't open the doors...

    Director:Sandy Johnson

    Writers:Miles Millar, Alfred Gough

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    Director:Sandy Johnson

    Writers:Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Whirling Dervish

    S2:E44/27/1996

    The Bugs team are called in to prevent a cartel of the world airlines from sabotaging Strate Air, a successful new airline. Hector Jerome, the airline cartel's main agent, becomes a target for the Bugs team and they discover he is in possession of a deadly new fighter plane- the Dervish. The Bugs team fight to stop them from shooting down Strate Air planes out of the sky, with Ed in the position to either shoot the plane down or die.

    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Colin Brake

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    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Colin Brake
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Blackout

    S2:E55/4/1996

    A woman called Pascal holds a building full of people hostage, claiming to be comcerned about the enivornment. However, her intensions are found out to be not that caring, as she plans to steal a lot of money and also the isotope triggers, which would cause a big explosion. the Bugs team fight to get back the triggers and stop Pascal's lover driving off with a fortune stolen from a bank

    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Frank De Palma

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    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Frank De Palma
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Gold Rush

    S2:E65/11/1996

    A room full of gold is infected with a new sort of virus that quite literally eats gold. It is up to Ros to make an antidote to return the gold to normal, and she doesn't have long- after some time, and once the gold has reached a certain temperature, it will be irreversible and the gold will be lost forever. Ed is trapped in the room with the gold and also two security things that continuously try to shoot him. Beckett decides to get Ed out of the room, as the antidote Ros creates is harmful to humans, but his only way to get to it is by going through a tunnel filled with toxic fumes.

    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writers:Bruno Heller, Alison Leathart

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    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writers:Bruno Heller, Alison Leathart
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    #14 - Schrodinger's Bomb

    S2:E75/25/1996

    Cassandra and ‘Daddy' strike a deal with Jean-Daniel and Ros ends up getting kidnapped by him. Roland Blatty has a ‘brush with death' when he is left in a room filled with lots of ticking bombs. Ed and Beckett go to save Ros, and end up having to use a chain saw to free her as she was handcuffed to a steering wheel, and inside the car there was a hand grenade. Beckett spends the final scene, sawing the steering wheel, to free Ros' wrists, and Jean- Daniel returns to the Bactrian Kings tombs to retrieve the Niobian 5 that was left there.

    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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    #15 - Blaze of Glory

    S3:E17/19/1997

    First of a two parter to start off Series 3. A man called Mc-hage's business is desperately trying to be sabotaged, and he calls in Ros, Ed and Beckett to investigate. It turns out that just recently, Mc-Hage's son, Christopher, committed suicide and Ed goes to see Mc-Hage's daughter, Kitty Mc-Hage, to find out more about the business. Kitty decides to blow up half of London, using a chemical weapon that is under the ‘family' business. Beckett goes to The Bureau of Weapons Technology (the place where Roland used to work), where he meets Jan and Alex. Jan manages to con him into working at the Bureau, because of his financial problems and the fact that she catches him and Alex looking at Code: Red files. The team manage to stop the chemical weapon going off, just in time, but Ed realises that there is another bomb in the ‘Battle wagon' (an invention of Kitty's). Ed ends up getting blown up with the ‘wagon'

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Price of Peace

    S3:E38/2/1997

    A new engine killer wepaon is stolen whilst Ed and Alex are testing it. Beckett escorts a statsman, Van Straaten to a peace conference, their vehicle is stopped using the engine killer, and they are held hostage by Virghiz nationals, who do not want the peace treaty to go ahead. They want Beckett's secret codes for Prject Darkling, so they can attack their enemies in Virghiz. Beckett escapes, but Van Straaten is left behind.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Nuclear Family

    S3:E58/16/1997

    A foreign president is critically ill and everyone thinks he is dying, and there is no cure for his disease. Then, an English doctor discovers a way of saving his life, but he has to wait to undergo the operation. It is then found out that there is a traitor within the embassy, and the finger is instantly pointed at his much younger wife. All of Bureau Two believe her to be the traitor, except Beckett, who won't believe it (does he ever?) and thinks that the security guard is responsible. He and Nataliar (the wife) are then kidnapped by the people the traitor is working for, and one woman sets up a bomb next to them, with green pressure pad to detonate it. Ros, of course sets this off.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    #18 - Fugitive

    S3:E68/23/1997

    Ros is set up and sent into custody. Even Jan seems to believe that she is guilty, but Beckett loyally stays beside her and tries to get her out. Ros eventually manages to escape and runs into the comforting arms of Channing. Ros realises that the ‘mole' is actually at the SSD (where she was sent into custody) and finds out who it is. The problem is that all the SSD people still think its her, and she is wanted for theft and murder, neither of which she did. She finally manages to make them see who it is. When things have pretty much got back to normal, Channing then tells Ros he is merging worth an American company and is moving to California, and that he wants her to go with him...

    Director:Matthew Evans

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Happy Ever After?

    S3:E78/30/1997

    The team are investigating about the mysterious disapearence of a woman called Julia, kidnapped at her own wedding. Ros and Beckett go to the location she is being kept at, and Ros is shot whilst trying to escape. She is taken to hospital and is OK, but Channing tellls her that her job is just too dangerous and that she shoulddefinatly go to America with him, and Breckett also tells her that she should go. Ed is caught when he tries to rescue Julia, and they discobver that the person behind it all is Julia's husband, Mark. They are trapped underneath a bomb and find a narrow tunnel to escape through. Beckett has to dis-arm a bomb and Ros lets herself out of the Bureau and goes to the Bureau to help them.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Hell and High Water

    S4:E58/8/1998

    The Bugs team are called in to investiagte why the crew on board the Searanger, an oil rig, have suddenly gone silent. After investigation, they discover that the team they are with on the oil rig are not the really crew, and they work with the last surviving member, Paul Grey, to stop a satellite falling onto the Earth. Ros finds beckett unconscious in a room, and they are forced to work closely when they are left to do, betrayed by Paul Grey.

    Director:Christopher King

    Writer:Alex Stewart

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    Writer:Alex Stewart
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Jewel Control

    S4:E78/29/1998

    Ros' friend, Sorrel marries Richard Blenko, a two faced man with a silver tongue, who'd give anything to save his own life. He promises a gangster as many emeralds as he'd like in exchange foir his life, using Sorrel's own father, Mr Mandrake, to do so. Mandrake is kidnapped whilst staying at becket's place, who went off with Christa when he was supposed to be assuring Mandrake's safety. Sorrel and Ros are also kidnapped. The gangsters steal the emeralds and then leave a bomb in the bunker where Ros, Sorrel, Mr Madrake and Richard are. Beckett, Jan and a trainee, Melissa have to stop the bomb and the gansters, before it is too late.

    Director:John Stroud

    Writers:Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty

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    Writers:Colin Brake, Stuart Doughty
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Down Among the Dead Men

    S1:E44/22/1995

    Ed and Beckett go 'under cover' and end up on board a submarine. They are, however, found out to be fakes and, whilst Ed escapes, Beckett is left on the submarine with a money hungry man, eager to gain access to a bank and steal some diamonds a long the way. Beckett ends up getting trapped on the submarine, as it slowly fills with water. The man, meanwhile, has got his associate to steal these diamonds, but their plan is foiled when Ros enters the scene. Ed goes under the sea to search for the submarine and but will he find Beckett in time?

    Director:Andrew Grieve

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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    Writer:Stephen Gallagher
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Hot Metal

    S1:E85/27/1995

    R-6 is a new type of metal, and it has an explosive nature. A man called DaSilva decides to take advantage of this property of the metal and tries to steal it. The Bugs team are involved and try to stop DaSilva leaving the country with the metal to make it into deadly weapons.

    Director:Ken Grieve

    Writer:Alan Whiting

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    Writer:Alan Whiting
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    #24 - A Sporting Chance

    S1:E96/3/1995

    A special formula has been developed which enhances the performance of athletes. However, no-one has considered the after effects, which are that when the person's heart reaches a certain rate, the body can't cope and the person drops down dead. Ed comes to realise this when he is having a karate match with a person who has been injected with the stuff, and the man goes hyper, then falls down dead (whoops!). Ros eventually goes to find out more about the stuff, and ends up with another hyper person chasing her, then he suddenly collapses. however, Ros is still caught and taken away by the developer of the formula, to be his new guinea-pig.

    Director:Ken Grieve

    Writer:Colin Brake

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    Writer:Colin Brake
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    #25 - Pulse

    S1:E106/10/1995

    Many small companies are being bought up by two mysterious men and Ros, Ed and Beckett are called to investigate. When the manager in another company is suddenly blown up, Beckett takes his place. The two suspicious people turn out to be Jean-Daniel and his brother, Patrick. They realise that Beckett is not the real manager and Jean-Daniel goes round to ‘Gizmos' (the place where Ros, Ed and Beckett were based in Series One) Beckett ends up being kidnapped. Ed's friend, Clare, has also got mixed up in the brothers' plans, and her daughter, Katie, has been held hostage until she gives them exactly what they want. Jean-Daniel's brother is killed. Beckett and Katie manage to escape and stop Jean-Daniel's plans, and reposition the missile that stops any type of computer generated items from working, to where they are.

    Director:Brian Farnham

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher

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    Director:Brian Farnham

    Writer:Stephen Gallagher