The Best Episodes of Hot Metal Season 1

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(16 votes)

   #1 - The Tell-Tale Heart

   S1:E12/16/1986

   Entrepreneur Twiggy Rathbone buys a failing Fleet Street newspaper, The Daily Crucible, and the first coup of the new managing editor Russell Spam is an exclusive smear of Prince Andrew's latest girlfriend and the discovery of Nikita Khrushchev, alive and well in Switzerland.

   Director:Unknown

   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick
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   6.3/10(12 votes)

   #2 - The Modern Promethius

   S1:E22/23/1986

   The Crucible launches an all-out campaign supporting a return to capital punishment by interviewing murder victims through a seance and interviewing the brother of a state executioner who hanged himself. Spam discovers the man identified as Khrushchev is a fake, and the fellow dies during a live televsion interview.

   Director:Unknown

   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick
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   6.6/10(13 votes)

   #3 - Beyond the Infinite

   S1:E33/2/1986

   Spam launches an anti-Red campaign against Father Teasdale, and introduces ""Wobblevision"" to the page three beauties as a circulation ploy. Bill Tytla receives a mysterious tip that a nurse knows something sinister about the death of Donald Kubelsky, the Khrushchev impersonator.

   Director:Unknown

   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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4. 

   6.9/10(10 votes)

   #4 - Casting the Runes

   S1:E43/9/1986

   Kettle and Spam continue their persecution of Father Teasdale by adding charges of lycanthropy, Rathbone rails against Spitting Image, and Tytla looks into charges (from an anonymous source calling himself ""Sore Throat"") that the police are involved in covering up the Kubelsky murder.

   Director:Unknown

   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick
5. 

   6.6/10(10 votes)

   #5 - The Slaughter of the Innocent

   S1:E53/16/1986

   Rathbone negotiates a compromise to keep Father Teasdale's church open, Kettle stumbles on a multiple birth, and Tytla is caught while searching for Sore Throat's papers.

   Director:Unknown

   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick
6. 

   6.1/10(11 votes)

   #6 - The Respectable Prostitute

   S1:E63/23/1986

   Stringer springs back into action as he gets to the bottom of the Khrushchev impersonator's death and uncovers a political sex scandal.

   Director:Unknown

   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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   Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick
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