- 8.1/10(19 votes)
#1 - Show Eleven
Loading...S2:E5Sketches: MGM Skit / Death Of A Princess (Apology To The Saudis) / Prostitute / Thatcher actor / Kosher Chewing Gum / Stamp auction / Train carriage cleaners / Multi-ligual Hotel Sign / News vendors / Remote Control / Gerald The Gorilla / Man In Post Office / Kidnapping / Tarts / Princess Anne And Mark Philips / Domino Theory / Neanderthal man / Instant Pot Meals / Bob Wellings / King Of Rock n Roll / Banging On The Ceiling / Train Drums
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 8.1/10(20 votes)
#2 - Show Twenty Five
Loading...S4:E4Sketches: Embarrassed woman / Question Time / Headbangers / Peep-hole / Hey Bob! / Shoplifters / Restaurant / Porn Photographer / Sommelier / One For The Birds / Roughage K / Snooker / Tomorrow's World - Microchip / Hit and run incident / Strange ID parade / Comedy Chestnuts / Shop Stewards / Jackanory
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 8.0/10(19 votes)
#3 - International Darts
Loading...S2:E4Sketches: International Darts / Milkman's Note / Beat The Cliché / One-man bus / Gone With The Wind / Superman / Cinema Age Restrictions / Tramp / Time Out Lonely Hearts / Late Abortion / Jean Paul Satre / Shop Assistants / Euthanasia / Thoucht For The Day / Confessional / Gob Of The Month / And all because the lady loves...
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 8.0/10(24 votes)
#4 - Not The Nine O'Clock In The Morning News
Loading...S3:E1Sketches: The Shining 2 / Cockerel / Punk at a urinal / That's Lies / Made In Britain / Bank pens / Sir Robert Mark / Dick Head / TV Licence Advert / Bank signs / Unemployment / Bhuddist Driving School / Loud man in sex shop / Ansaphone confessional / Vandalised Phone Kiosks / UFO Story / Workaholics / I Like Trucking / National Theatre
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 8.0/10(20 votes)
#5 - Election Special
Loading...S3:E2Sketches: Hedgehog apology / Athletics from Birmingham / Bad Language / Buffet car / Cinema Usher / Shoe Shop Theft / Constable Savage / Fly The Flag / Bath Salts / Laxatives Tested / Burns Unit / Granny's Mini Metro / Explicit Bag / Quick Service Queue / Barbarian Lager / Welsh Choir / England My Leotard / Ice cream van
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.9/10(21 votes)
#6 - Show Twenty One
Loading...S3:E8Sketches: Announcer / Musical aeroplane / Polish cartoon / Radio controlled ospreys / University Challenge / C'est la Vie (Abba skit) / Age Of Consent / Carol Singers / Christmas Blackmail / Multiplex / Thatchula / Shirley Williams / Coffee Commerical / Sexist Cameraman / Sexism Discussion / Door sketch / SPG Man / Swag Card / Now Dry Your Hands / Ayatollah auction
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.9/10(22 votes)
#7 - Made In Wales
Loading...S4:E5Sketches: Lawyers / Thugs on bus / Riot Police / Songs Of Praise / Failed In Wales / Choking on pills / Green man / Car crusher / Brain Death / Nurse trapped inside a patient / Riots / Rumbley's Pies / Made From Whales / What A Lot Of Willies! / Blind man crossing the road / Medical students who aren't / Ah, Come In Rawlinson! / Laid In Wales / Typical Bloody Typical
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.9/10(24 votes)
#8 - Shame
Loading...S4:E6Sketches: Punk road painter / Two Ninnies/Two Ninnies Song / Marc Almond / Jogger trying to cross the road / Pub Grub / Arab identifying his wife's body / Parkinson meets Ian Botham / Zak the Alien / Pork Scratchings / Budget / Barefoot thug / Time, Gentlemen, Please / Hey Wow / Pizza Moment / The Memory Kinda Lingers
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.8/10(28 votes)
#9 - Show Six
Loading...S1:E6Sketches: Royal car visor / Whale delivery / Aliens / John Cleese / General Synod's Life Of Python / Disco For Dentists / Licence fee / Milk float visors / Simultaneous Translation / Donald Sinden / Self-defence / Spies / Sex Shop / Poped / Careers Teacher / Oh! Bosanquet
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.8/10(22 votes)
#10 - Show Twenty Three
Loading...S4:E2Sketches: Ivan The Awful / Game For A Laugh / Public Toilet / Wine Tasting / Home Wine Kit / Aussie Pilot / Does God Exist? / Re-Altered Images / Cricket Commetary / Snooker commentary / Home Organ / Man outside phone box / Tomorrow's World / New Glee / Holiday Habits / Commission for Racial Equality / The Not Team At Home With Their Son / Grow Up You Bastards / Hamlet Advert Skit / Ploughman's Lunch / Mannequins / Pushing a car / Suicide
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.7/10(33 votes)
#11 - Show Two
Loading...S1:E2Sketches: Apology to Princess Margaret / News Headlines / Nicest flag in the EEC / Inflation / Kennedy / Gravity / Equal Opportunities / Blind beggar / Phone Bill Sketch / Forgetful Priests / St Vincent / Rowan's Rant 1 / Suburbs at War / Gay Christian / Keep Fit / Milk Tray
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.7/10(31 votes)
#12 - Show Four
Loading...S1:E4Sketches: Plane Crash / Mission Ineffable / Scunthorpe strangler / Football Replay / Final Demands / Lifeboatmen / Craftsman's Kitchen / I can't feel my legs / Neurotica / Song: Gob On You
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.7/10(21 votes)
#13 - Show Eight
Loading...S2:E2Sketches: Airline Terrorists / Film Certification / Space Invaders / Dinner Party / Awards Ceremony (Sofas) / Alabammy Bound / Prestel / Kleptomania / Vegtarian Hunting Season / Stereoids / Rowan Rants On / Milkman / Ford Cortina / Lead Poisoning / Kiss of life / Government Training Film / Hairdressers / School of archaeology / Aeroplane toilet / Arianna Advert / Boxing in Johannesburg / Rowan Apologises / Clint Eastwood / Debating Point
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.7/10(22 votes)
#14 - Show Twenty
Loading...S3:E7Sketches: Baronet Oswold Ernold Mosley / Punk aerosol / Queen's Visit / Loyal Apology / Iran & Iraq / Barry Manilow / Cargo Cult / Pneumatic Drills / Kidney Donor / Wimpy worker / Party Political Broadcast / Sperm Donor / Acupuncture / Not The Parrot Sketch / Karate For The Deaf / Divorce Ceremony / Nine To Five / Rolf Harris
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.6/10(22 votes)
#15 - Don't Get Your Vicars In A Twist!
Loading...S2:E3Sketches: Russian Army / FIAT Advert / Postman / Railway Announcement / Stout Life / Talking to daffodils / Crime Figures / Out-of-touch Judge / Train cancellation/Announcer breaks down / Glue Sniffing / Suicide / Loud Reporter / James Burke / American Express / President Tito / I Like Bouncing / Abu Ben Adhem
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.6/10(18 votes)
#16 - Show Twelve
Loading...S2:E6Sketches: Guardsmen / Blood bank sign / Morgue / Parkinson with Billy Connolly / Pottery presenter / Hi-Fi Shop / Campari and Soda / Passport Photos / News For The Deaf / Mugging / The Devil: Is He All Bad? / Contagious spots / Origami / Hitchcock Directs The News / Hidden Switch / Janet Street Porter interviews Billy Connolly
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.6/10(19 votes)
#17 - Death Lasers Of Kazaan
Loading...S2:E7Sketches: Confrontation Song / Points Of View / Cannabis / Guinness / Defence Minister / Police station phone call / Metal detector / Restaurant revolutions / Transplant Olympics / Freddie Cosgray / Is smoking safer than crossing the road? / Ayatollah Song / Exam Guide / Police Yob
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.5/10(29 votes)
#18 - Show Five
Loading...S1:E5Sketches: Baby on the bus / Nativity Sketch / New Jeans / Religious fanatic / Nativity II / Hot Gossip / Church Advertising / Medieval Christmas / Ranting Frenchman / Miss World / Amputation / Trial By Egg / ""Probe"" / Bingo / Rowan Rants Again / Nanny Service / Christmas Carol
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.5/10(22 votes)
#19 - Show Twenty Two
Loading...S4:E1Sketches: Taxi in restaurant / Breathalyser / Train Driver / Job Creation Scheme / Punk badge / Air dryers / Hospital signs / Mr Bazouki / Aleebee / Cappuccino / National Bank Of Poland / Criminal driver / Nun stunt display / Polish Show / Nice Video Shame About The Song / Caber tosser
0 CommentsView allDirector:Geoff PosnerWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.4/10(34 votes)
#20 - Show Three
Loading...S1:E3Sketches: John Cleese / Suicide / Stringmakers' strike / National Laundromat Week / Murder Scene Sketch / Vote For Jimmy Carter / Hospital Stores / Ayatollah Sketch / Blue Peter / Preacher / The Dead Crocodile / Hole Sculptor / Restaurant / Restrictive Practices Suite / Irish Football
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.4/10(24 votes)
#21 - Miss World
Loading...S3:E3Sketches: Thatcher out/Thatcher in / Pyjama case / Presidential Aide / Baboons / Walking Into A Tree / TUC Tea Break / Pop Group / Reg Varney / Sooty Surgeon / Soccer Violence / Join The Royal Family / Gay Flasher / Kendal Mint Cake / I Believe / BBC2 Closedown
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.4/10(22 votes)
#22 - Show Seventeen
Loading...S3:E4Sketches: I'm on fire / Nationwide twins / Swedish film centre / ouglas Adams / London tourist board / Sleepy Firemen / Space Salvationists / Girls' Football / Roger Cook / Sir Keith Joseph / Counting Sheep / One Man And His Lion / Return Of Rowan's Rant / Soup and Cocoa / Auld Lang Syne / Controlling TV shows / Big Jobs / Last Of The Mohicans
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.3/10(42 votes)
#23 - Kenny Everett In Not The Nine O'Clock News
Loading...S1:E1Sketches: Clapperboard / Tinker, Tailor / Kenny Everett Sketch / Britt Ekland's car / National Wealth Beds / Wilson's Memoirs / Inflatables / Aliens / Vivisection Sketch / On The Moov / Spinning Head / Man With Ten Legs / Tory Conference / Maori Sketch
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/AWriter:Richard Curtis - 7.3/10(23 votes)
#24 - The Outrageously Expensive Not The Nine O'Clock News Show
Loading...S2:E1Sketches: Grand National Skit / Pinball / Helicopter / Alidair Milne / Wimpy Burgers / Non-Diet Pepsi / Car Vandals / The Cost Of A sketch / Dolphin for President / The lesson I learned from Chappaquiddick / Parkinson Meets Parkinson / Maternity Ward / Perfect evening / Lifeboats / The Nancy Boys / Cottage In Wales
0 CommentsView allDirector:N/A - 7.2/10(21 votes)
#25 - Show Eighteen
Loading...S3:E5Sketches: Ready Brek / Daily Star / Elephant Man / Thieves without stockings to put on their heads but with a pair of tights / Battered Baby / Harty Skit / Sunbed / The Obit / This Is Your Life / Tax Evaders / American Express (Masons) / Open Marriage / Schmidt Old Slag / Cocktail party / Burglar / Cold students / The New Creed / Vicar Breakdown / Lager / All-purpose Advert / Henry Cooper / Chess / Man Alive Skit / Disco which isn't really / Aural sex
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The Best Episodes of Not the Nine O'Clock News
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC Two
Every episode of Not the Nine O'Clock News ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Not the Nine O'Clock News!
Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones...
Episodes
27
Avg. Rating
7.6
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Best Episodes Summary
"Show Eleven" is the best rated episode of "Not the Nine O'Clock News". It scored 8.1/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Richard Curtis, Mel Smith, Andy Hamilton, it aired on 4/28/1980. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Show Twenty Five".