8.6/10101 votesLoading...#1 - Black Pudding
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/1995
In a moment of weakness famous cookery writer Hilary Smallwood has given her unscrupulous nephew Colin a Power of Attorney. He has sold her house and put her into a retirement home; now he is trying to steal her recently written memoirs. Hilary calls on Henry Crabbe and her lifelong friend Seymour to help. Meantime there is friction behind the scenes in the restaurant between Steve and John.
Director: Danny Hiller
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 8.6/1092 votesLoading...
#2 - Smelling of Roses
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/17/1997
As Henry mysteriously loses his sense of smell he is intrigued when Fisher seems obsessed with arresting tyre exporter Peter Watson and suspects that Fisher, about to divorce his wife, is having an affair with Mrs. Watson. In fact she has discovered that her husband is defrauding her charity and is using Fisher to trap him. Having seen the case through Henry, feeling used by Fisher to catch Watson, resigns from the police and immediately regains his sense of smell. With Gary turning down the offer of work at another kitchen, Henry and his staff and colleagues have every reason to drink to the continuing success of Pie in the Sky.
Director: Rob Evans
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 8.4/1089 votesLoading...
#3 - Lemon Twist
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/1995
Crabbe has to join ACC Fisher and DS Cambridge on a management development seminar, but Fisher is having a crisis of confidence in 'The Job' and after a rave review, 'Pie' has customers queuing at the door - could this be Crabbe's chance to leave the Force and concentrate on cooking?
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: Andrew Payne
8.3/10106 votesLoading...#4 - Undesirable Elements
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/17/1994
Steve investigates the burglary of Pie in the Sky, while Henry does battle with murderous private sector cops.
Director: Colin Gregg
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 8.3/10103 votesLoading...
#5 - Hard Cheese
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/1995
Henry investigates a prowler fond of older ladies, and begins to suspect the celibate supplier of his cheese.
Director: Jim Hill
Writer: Andrew Payne
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#6 - Brown Bread
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/1995
A diner collapses and dies in the restaurant's toilet. But when the police arrive the body has disappeared. Soon on the scene are two detectives from the Crime Squad, who have a long standing interest in the dead man, and in his missing car. Crabbe tracks down the car before they do and finds a huge sum of money in the boot.
Director: Martin Hutchings
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 8.3/1082 votesLoading...
#7 - Gary's Cake
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1996
An armed hold-up at 'Pie in the Sky' while jewel-rich Mrs. Burdett is present brings DS Stringer to investigate. His abrasive manner alienates all the restaurant staff, including the normally placid Henry. He accuses first Gary, then Nicola and her new boy friend Paul of passing on the information regarding the Burdetts' booking to the thieves. But Henry's judicious questioning of the victim brings the solution, in time for Gary to celebrate two years of sobriety.
Director: Bill Pryde
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 8.2/1090 votesLoading...
#8 - The Mild Bunch
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/5/1995
The man who shot PC Ian Lefebvre is due for release so Fisher wants to keep Lefebvre busy. What better than sending him off with Crabbe in search of two OAP con-women and the perfect bread and butter pudding?
Director: Danny Hiller
Writer: John Milne
- 8.2/1080 votesLoading...
#9 - New Leaf
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1996
When Fisher allocates Henry to guard Sasha Wilkes,due to testify against her gangster husband, in the police 'safe house',D.C.I. Harding,who had expected the job,is resentful. Sasha is initially hostile but,won over by Henry's cooking,comes to confide in him. Harding uses a drug pusher called Vicky, who once knew Henderson, to discredit Henry and also discloses the safe house's location to Wilkes. Henry averts disaster and parts as friends with Sasha but wonders if they were used as bait by Fisher because he already suspected Harding.
Director: Keith Boak
Writer: Robert Jones
- 8.1/1098 votesLoading...
#10 - The One That Got Away
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/1995
Bill Pritchard, an old friend of Henry's and the supplier of fish to the restaurant, is accused of murder when his girl friend's car is found abandoned and the ashes in his smokehouse show traces of human remains. Henry investigates and uncovers an amazing plot to frame Bill and steal the profits from the subsequent sale of his business.
Director: Martin Hutchings
Writer: Richard Maher
- 8.1/1092 votesLoading...
#11 - The Mystery of Pikey
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/12/1995
There's a spate of burglaries, the local police station's closed down and the great and good of Middleton, headed by Mr. Chukky Chicken' Barry Wilkes, want Crabbe to catch the thief, popularly believed to be teenager Karl Elves or 'Pikey'. To their dismay, Crabbe is much more interested in pike than 'Pikey'.
Director: Danny Hiller
Writer: John Milne
- 8.1/1078 votesLoading...
#12 - Coddled Eggs
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/1996
Car crime is on the rise, with most of the vehicles being stolen from the car park at the railway station. Henry's problems mount as he not only has to deal with two separate sets of thieves, but also with a hostile new female Superintendent. Things come to a head when Fisher's car is nicked at the station right under his nose. Back at the restaurant Gary and Margaret are being given a hard time by an over-zealous Food Inspector. Will she do as she is threatening and close the restaurant down?
Director: David Innes Edwards
Writer: John Milne
- 8.0/1089 votesLoading...
#13 - Irish Stew
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/1996
The large family of much-married Irishwoman Kit Kelly book the restaurant for a wedding banquet for her and her new husband, American television writer Byron De Goris. Byron's briefcase is stolen from his hotel and Henry is suspicious of his reaction and even more so when Margaret tells him that the groom is not Byron De Goris but his friend James Jackson. Margaret had known them both thirty years earlier and discovers that Byron killed himself and James assumed his identity. Henry has to find out why.
Director: Keith Boak
Writer: Christina Reid
- 8.0/1083 votesLoading...
#14 - Doggett's Coat and Badge
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/1996
Charles Rider, a wine-loving regular at Pie in the Sky, is being threatened. It turns out he is really Joseph Webb, an ex-burglar turned supergrass, and now in witness protection. His collection includes many valuable bottles of wine, some of them stolen property and formerly owned by a bent policeman. His cronies have tracked Webb down and want the most priceless bottle back. So Rider comes to Henry Crabbe for help. Can Crabbe restore justice while keeping his friend safe?
Director: Danny Hiller
Writer: John Milne
- 8.0/1080 votesLoading...
#15 - Breaking Bread
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1996
The 'Happy Ploughman' food chain has won the franchise for the Police canteen, but is being subjected to deliberate vandalism. An obvious suspect is Flora McKee, a local baker who was not only rejected as a supplier to the firm, but was upset by improper advances made to her by its manager, Geoff Reece. Spurred on by Fisher, Henry tracks down the culprit and solves an old mystery into the bargain.
Director: Paul Harrison
Writer: Robert Jones
7.9/10112 votesLoading...#16 - Once a Copper
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/3/1994
Henry cooks a banquet for a visiting Japanese delegation, and tracks down a criminal from his past, who was presumed dead.
Director: George Case
Writer: John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch
7.9/10101 votesLoading...#17 - A Matter of Taste
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/1/1994
Henry uncovers two separate wine scams in Middleton.
Director: Martin Hutchings
Writer: Richard Maher
7.9/1091 votesLoading...#18 - Endangered Species
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/15/1994
Margaret and Henderson side with Reynard the Fox in opposing a new bypass, while Henry must question his loyalties.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 7.9/1091 votesLoading...
#19 - Money Talks
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 12/31/1995
The restaurant is heavily in debt, and the Crabbe's new bank manager is unsympathetic. Steve and John have left for pastures new, and an agency chef is unsatisfactory. Crabbe learns that Dudley Hooperman is dead, and resurrects his hopes of early retirement. Meantime there is a surveillance operation to be run on a dodgy pizza delivery business.
Director: Martin Hutchings
Writer: Andrew Payne
- 7.9/1081 votesLoading...
#20 - Chinese Whispers
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1996
The Chen family appear to be victims of racial harassment when their Chinese takeaway is set fire to but widowed Mr. Chen will not go to the police so his daughter Mei asks Henry for help, It turns out that Chen is a gambler deeply in debt to a restauranteur in London's Chinatown who has been has been threatening him for the money he owes. When Pie in the Sky makes it to the final of the Great British Grub contest being held in London, Henry uses the trip to visit Chinatown and act as go-between. A winner and a loser return to Middleton come the end of the day.
Director: Bill Pryde
Writer: Andrew Payne
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#21 - An Innocent Man
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/27/1994
Pie in the Sky becomes the scene of a corruption sting, but Henry acts in favour of his customer.
Director: Martin Hutchings
Writer: Andrew Payne
7.8/10101 votesLoading...#22 - A Shot in the Dark
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/10/1994
A narcotics investigation ends in a bitten hand for Fisher, and Henry finds a new source of escargots.
Director: Colin Gregg
Writer: Richard Maher
7.8/10102 votesLoading...#23 - Passion Fruit Fool
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/24/1994
The girlfriend of Henry's dry cleaner is kidnapped by a psychotic ex-lover.
Director: George Case
Writer: Paul Hines
7.8/1098 votesLoading...#24 - Who Only Stand and Wait
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/8/1994
Henderson's neighbour finds a dismembered corpse, which may prove the innocence of an imprisoned man.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: John Milne
- 7.8/1095 votesLoading...
#25 - Dead Right
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/1995
Medium Faith Revelle has received a number of threatening letters and seeks police help. Freddy Fisher, having once sought advice from her in solving a case, wants the whole matter dealt with quietly. But someone has alerted the press. Henry Crabbe and Sgt. Cambridge are assigned to guard Miss Revelle.
Director: Jim Hill
Writer: Lizzie Mickery
The Best Episodes of Pie in the Sky
Every episode of Pie in the Sky ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Pie in the Sky!
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast...
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Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"Black Pudding" is the best rated episode of "Pie in the Sky". It scored 8.6/10 based on 101 votes. Directed by Danny Hiller and written by Andrew Payne, it aired on 2/19/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Smelling of Roses".