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Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Man Down Season 1 Episode 1 - It Never Rains...
    7.0/10(214 votes)

    #1 - It Never Rains...

    S1:E1

    Dan has lost his trousers and is in danger of losing his girlfriend. He hates his job, his dad is out to get him, his friends can't help him and there's a tailor on the warpath...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Man Down Season 1 Episode 2 - Mad Nobby
    7.0/10(176 votes)

    #2 - Mad Nobby

    S1:E2

    Dan has lost his girlfriend but, with help from his two best friends, he has a plan to get her back involving two bags of mince and a welder called Mad Nobby... what could possibly go wrong?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Man Down Season 3 Episode 2 - The Calling
    7.3/10(135 votes)

    #3 - The Calling

    S3:E2

    Dan comes face-to-face with his replacement in the classroom, Miss Clarke, and the kids don't take his departure quite the way he hopes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Man Down Season 1 Episode 3 - Desperate Dan
    7.4/10(161 votes)

    #4 - Desperate Dan

    S1:E3

    Dan, unlike his ex-girlfriend, isn't invited to his niece's birthday party. Desperate to impress her, he manages to persuade the family that he can be trusted with getting the party ready.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Man Down Season 1 Episode 4 - Guru
    7.4/10(165 votes)

    #5 - Guru

    S1:E4

    Brian introduces Dan to a guru with a secret, so unbelievably powerful, that he can only tell it to one person at a time.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Man Down Season 2 Episode 2 - Kindness
    7.4/10(132 votes)

    #6 - Kindness

    S2:E2

    When another teacher and - more importantly - a rival for Miss Lipsey's affections delivers a smash-hit school assembly for Community Week, Dan conspires to top it all with a brilliant one of his own involving his drama class and a war veteran. Meanwhile, Jo is exploring her artistic side, while Nesta favours an upset Brian over her idiotic nephew.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Man Down Season 2 Episode 3 - Diversity
    7.4/10(136 votes)

    #7 - Diversity

    S2:E3

    Dan is sent on a diversity course after his complete lack of political correctness alarms headmistress Miss Lipsey, and decides to make an injured Brian part of his idiotic plans. At the beauty salon, Jo hits on the idea of combining two celebrity looks into one genuinely incredible makeover. Comedy, starring Greg Davies and Roisin Conaty

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Man Down Season 2 Episode 4 - The Phant
    7.4/10(125 votes)

    #8 - The Phant

    S2:E4

    After an unwelcome appraisal of his teaching ability, fate conspires to put Dan directly into the path of his childhood nemesis. Jo comes up with a new money-making scheme and Brian is desperate to be published in the local paper.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Man Down Season 3 Episode 1 - The Heist
    7.4/10(131 votes)

    #9 - The Heist

    S3:E1

    Dan is at a crossroads in his life. He must do something as he faces a disciplinary and may lose the only thing he has left in life: his teaching job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Man Down Season 4 Episode 1 - The Home
    7.4/10(130 votes)

    #10 - The Home

    S4:E1

    Dan's quit his job as a teacher and is applying his unique work ethic to a new profession. With Aunt Nesta and his mum in a retirement village, Dan is on a hunt to find his soon-to-be family a home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Man Down Season 1 Episode 5 - Dad's Past
    7.5/10(157 votes)

    #11 - Dad's Past

    S1:E5

    Although still haunted, literally, by the ghost of his ex girlfriend, Dan ends up unexpectedly preparing for a date, with a little help from Brian. Meanwhile his dad offers him a terrifying insight into his own romantic past.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Man Down Season 4 Episode 3 - The Dad Club
    7.5/10(109 votes)

    #12 - The Dad Club

    S4:E3

    Dan is frustrated by the universal lack of respect for his new status as a father, and decides to join a local dads' club. Desperate to fit in, how far will 'Papa Bear' go to impress the other dads? Brian is worried about his daughter's cultural identity, and Jo adds to his stress with her box of 'things I don't understand'.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Man Down Season 2 Episode 1 - Perfect Woman
    7.6/10(157 votes)

    #13 - Perfect Woman

    S2:E1

    Dan is still doing a teaching job that he despises and is being rejected by the girl he believes that will solve everything, Miss Lipsey. Following a chance meeting, Dan goes on a date but things don't g to plan. Brian attempts to connect with his family's pas

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Man Down Season 2 Episode 5 - Dennis
    7.6/10(127 votes)

    #14 - Dennis

    S2:E5

    When pupil Dennis's uncle who is his sole guardian is hospitalized Dan volunteers to look after him for a weekend to impress Emma. Dan grudgingly accepts Nesta as the second mandatory adult but takes a reluctant Dennis cycling with him rather than hunting with her and recruits Jo and Brian for an adventure game which Dennis finds extremely boring. However the lad is suitably impressed when they end up accidentally attending a criminal's lavish funeral.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Man Down Season 3 Episode 3 - Big News
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #15 - Big News

    S3:E3

    Dan struggles to get his 'news' taken seriously, Brian meets the woman of his dreams, Nesta has a big problem to deal with, and 'Daddy' takes things up a gear with Dan.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Man Down Season 4 Episode 2 - The Bear
    7.6/10(126 votes)

    #16 - The Bear

    S4:E2

    Dan presents Emma with a perfect vision of a family and embarks on a journey to rediscover a terrible truth about a misremembered friendship.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Man Down Season 1 Episode 6 - Space Mission
    7.7/10(154 votes)

    #17 - Space Mission

    S1:E6

    Brian finds himself nominated for a Small Business Award and Dan must quickly find a tuxedo and a date to impress his ex. There's also unrest at school when the class realise it could be the end of Space Mission.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Man Down Season 2 Episode 6 - The Heath
    7.7/10(122 votes)

    #18 - The Heath

    S2:E6

    After Jo announces she's marrying a digger-driving rapper from a 'pagan backwater', Dan decides he'll use his best man's speech to impress Miss Lipsey.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Man Down Season 3 Episode 5 - Adopted
    7.7/10(121 votes)

    #19 - Adopted

    S3:E5

    Dan shares the shocking news of his adoption with his best mates and embarks on a search for a life that could have been. Brian's children are bored and a trip to the beach with Jo and Dan sounds far more exciting than their father's dull plans. But will Brian take the risk of getting sand in his beloved Renault Scenic and, more to the point, expose his kids to a day out with his ever-irresponsible friends? Cultural awakenings and jeopardy await.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Man Down Season 4 Episode 4 - The School Trip
    7.7/10(118 votes)

    #20 - The School Trip

    S4:E4

    Dan takes his Behavioural Unit on a historical school trip with desperate hopes of becoming a 'bright light' his troubled kids can follow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Man Down Season 3 Episode 6 - The Party
    7.9/10(136 votes)

    #21 - The Party

    S3:E6

    Having resigned his teaching post Dan is having a leaving party but it gets cancelled when the venue, Jo's shop, is repossessed whilst Daddy spitefully arranges to take Mum away for the weekend so that she will miss it. Brian has his own bad news but when there is a family crisis Dan and Nesta ally to put Daddy in his place and circumstances contribute to Dan changing his mind about emigration - even in the light of news from Emma.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Man Down Season 4 Episode 5 - The Christening
    7.9/10(128 votes)

    #22 - The Christening

    S4:E5

    Dan can't believe his luck when a health visitor suggests a 'daddy day'. But when his son seems a bit cold towards him, Dan becomes increasingly desperate to establish a bond.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Man Down Season 3 Episode 4 - The Visa
    8.0/10(120 votes)

    #23 - The Visa

    S3:E4

    Dan tries to keep his plan to emigrate to the USA moving, but with the complicated issue of a visa to negotiate he knows he needs to draw on all his inner strength.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Man Down Season 4 Episode 6 - The Hearing
    8.2/10(120 votes)

    #24 - The Hearing

    S4:E6

    Dan races against the clock to prove his credentials as a dad, but a terrifying figure from his past surfaces to seek revenge.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"It Never Rains..." is the worst rated episode of "Man Down". It scored 7/10 based on 214 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/18/2013. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Mad Nobby".