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The Best Episodes of Festival

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

Best episode
S1E11 The Comedy of Errors
7.412 votes
Top season
Season 1
7.4avg
Binge time
1d 6h
32 episodes
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Festival Season 1 Episode 11 - The Comedy of Errors
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    S1:E11

    Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.

    Director:Peter Duguid
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Festival Season 1 Episode 1 - Fallen Angels
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E1

    Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

    Director:Alan Bromly
    Writer:Noël Coward

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  3. Festival Season 1 Episode 2 - The Duel
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E2

    No description available

    Director:Charles Jarrott
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Festival Season 1 Episode 3 - I Want to Go Home
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E3

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Festival Season 1 Episode 4 - Stephen D
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E4

    Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.

    Director:Anthony Page
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Festival Season 1 Episode 5 - The Human Voice
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E5

    During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Festival Season 1 Episode 6 - Krapp's Last Tape
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E6

    On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.

    Director:Prudence FitzGerald
    Writer:Samuel Beckett

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  8. Festival Season 1 Episode 7 - The Bald Prima Donna
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E7

    There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Festival Season 1 Episode 8 - Stalingrad
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E8

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Festival Season 1 Episode 9 - The Fire Raisers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E9

    In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Festival Season 1 Episode 10 - Little Eyolf
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E10

    A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Festival Season 1 Episode 12 - The Respectful Prostitute
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E12

    A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Festival Season 1 Episode 13 - Lysistrata
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E13

    A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

    Director:Prudence FitzGerald
    Writers:Aristophanes, Marc Brandel, Patric Dickinson

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  14. Festival Season 1 Episode 14 - August for the People
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E14

    Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Festival Season 1 Episode 15 - Trevor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E15

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Festival Season 1 Episode 16 - The Lady of the Camellias
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E16

    An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Festival Season 1 Episode 17 - Say Nothing
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E17

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Festival Season 1 Episode 18 - The Master of Santiago
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E18

    No description available

    Director:Christopher Morahan
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Festival Season 1 Episode 19 - Under Milk Wood
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E19

    One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Festival Season 1 Episode 20 - A Florentine Tragedy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E20

    No description available

    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Festival Season 1 Episode 21 - The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E21

    Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Festival Season 1 Episode 22 - Murder in the Cathedral
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E22

    T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Festival Season 1 Episode 23 - The Inner World of Miss Vaughan
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E23

    No description available

    Director:Gilchrist Calder
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Festival Season 1 Episode 24 - Ring Round the Moon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E24

    Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Festival Season 1 Episode 25 - Justin Thyme
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E25

    Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Comedy of Errors" is the best rated episode of Festival. It scored 7.4/10 from 12 votes. Directed by Peter Duguid and written by Unknown, it aired on January 1, 1964. This episode scored 7.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Fallen Angels".

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