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Season 1
8.0/10227 votesLoading...New Faces, Old Hands
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1974
“Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him the ways.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
7.7/10202 votesLoading...The Hustler
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1974
Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.2/10212 votesLoading...A Night In
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1974
Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.2/10196 votesLoading...A Day Out
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1974
The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
7.6/10176 votesLoading...Ways and Means
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1974
Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.0/10182 votesLoading...Men Without Women
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1974
Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement