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The Worst Episodes of Hot Metal

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Hot metal is a London Weekend Television sitcom about the British Newspaper industry broadcast between 1986 and 1988. The daily crucible, the dullest newspaper in Fleet Street, is suddenly taken over by media magnate Terence "Twiggy"

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 7 - The Rat Sat on the Cat
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - The Rat Sat on the Cat

    S2:E7

    Twiggy threatens to demolish an 11th century church and replace it with the new tower block. Harry defends a Crucible story about cat food.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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  2. Hot Metal Season 1 Episode 6 - The Respectable Prostitute
    6.1/10(11 votes)

    #2 - The Respectable Prostitute

    S1:E6

    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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  3. Hot Metal Season 1 Episode 2 - The Modern Promethius
    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #3 - The Modern Promethius

    S1:E2

    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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  4. Hot Metal Season 1 Episode 3 - Beyond the Infinite
    6.6/10(13 votes)

    #4 - Beyond the Infinite

    S1:E3

    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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  5. Hot Metal Season 1 Episode 5 - The Slaughter of the Innocent
    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #5 - The Slaughter of the Innocent

    S1:E5

    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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  6. Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 2 - The Joker to the Thief
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #6 - The Joker to the Thief

    S2:E2

    Spam sets up Lipton for a serious assault when he imprisons an overweight woman and wires her jaw shut while he and Kettle pursue a sex scandal at an innocent pre-school. Maggie Troon follows up a lead about a mass murder involving the family of a High Court judge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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  7. Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 3 - The Hydra's Head
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #7 - The Hydra's Head

    S2:E3

    Lipton tries to vet every story as Spam begins publishing 24 hours a day, Kettle competes with the Daily Star to save a Nicarauguan horse from the glue factory, and Maggie Troon discovers another murder as she continues to investigate the judge and his family.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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  8. Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 5 - Crown of Thorns
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #8 - Crown of Thorns

    S2:E5

    Lipton begins to lose his grip on reality as the buxom beauties of page three go on strike, Twiggy opens ""Rat World"", Kettle infiltrates EastEnders, and Maggie Troon discovers odd evidence of an alien presence at the mass murder site.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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  9. Hot Metal Season 1 Episode 4 - Casting the Runes
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #9 - Casting the Runes

    S1:E4

    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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  10. Hot Metal Season 1 Episode 1 - The Tell-Tale Heart
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    #10 - The Tell-Tale Heart

    S1:E1

    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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  11. Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 4 - The Twilight Zone
    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #11 - The Twilight Zone

    S2:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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  12. Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 6 - Unleash the Kracken
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Unleash the Kracken

    S2:E6

    Maggie continues to dig into the Hitchcock murders amid rumors of UFOs while Spam and Lipton try different ways of spiking a critical government report on newspaper standards and practices.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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  13. Hot Metal Season 2 Episode 1 - Religion of the People
    7.7/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Religion of the People

    S2:E1

    Twiggy finds a replacement for the missing Harold Stringer, Greg Kettle acquires a government list of all known AIDS carriers and Spam signs up God as an advice columnist through Sergeant-Major Ken Lutterworth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Andrew Marshall, David Renwick

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Rat Sat on the Cat" is the worst rated episode of "Hot Metal". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Andrew Marshall, David Renwick, it aired on 3/10/1989. This episode scored 6.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Respectable Prostitute".