8.7/1091 votesLoading...#1 - Stage Struck
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/1977
When Alan and Ruth are cast as lovers in a play written by a new tenant, Hilary, a jealous Rigsby decides to take up acting.
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8.7/1084 votesLoading...#2 - Pink Carnations
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/1978
Rigsby tries to find a woman through an ad in the personals column and receives a surprising response.
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8.5/1094 votesLoading...#3 - The Permissive Society
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1975
Philip arranges a blind date for Alan, so he can be alone with Ruth, who's been let down by her latest suitor.
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8.5/1091 votesLoading...#4 - Food Glorious Food
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1975
Rigsby has to choose between his pride and his stomach when Philip challenges his ability to go without food for three days.
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8.5/10112 votesLoading...#5 - Things That Go Bump in the Night
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/19/1975
Rigsby tries to spook Alan by telling him that the boarding house is haunted.
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8.4/1086 votesLoading...#6 - A Perfect Gentleman
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/1975
A well-bred new tenant brings out Rigsby's aristocratic aspirations.
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8.4/1095 votesLoading...#7 - For the Man Who Has Everything
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/26/1975
Rigsby spends Christmas alone, but both Alan and Philip return early looking for some solitude for romance.
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8.3/10105 votesLoading...#8 - A Night Out
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/1974
Rigsby, Alan, Philip and Ruth go out to an upmarket restaurant (which has a strict dress code) for Ruth's birthday. Rigsby borrows his new lodger Spooner's suit, without his permission.
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8.3/1089 votesLoading...#9 - A Body Like Mine
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1975
Rigsby reluctantly joins a communal fitness craze.
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8.3/1071 votesLoading...#10 - Clunk Click
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/26/1977
Rigsby tries to impress Ruth with a fancy new car.
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8.2/1076 votesLoading...#11 - Fawcett's Python
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/10/1977
Ruth becomes indignant with Marilyn, the new tenant, who is an exotic dancer with an unusual prop in her act.
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8.2/1072 votesLoading...#12 - Suddenly at Home
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/24/1977
Rigsby jumps to a drastic conclusion when a hypochondriac tenant is taken to the hospital.
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8.2/1072 votesLoading...#13 - Great Expectations
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/1978
Rigsby persuades Ruth to impersonate his estranged wife so he can collect an inheritance from his great uncle.
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8.1/10104 votesLoading...#14 - Black Magic
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/13/1974
Rigsby is sceptical but intrigued by a ritual which Philip shows him - banging his spear on the ground to summon a woman.
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8.1/1098 votesLoading...#15 - All Our Yesterdays
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/3/1974
Rigsby has to tell an ill-tempered wrestler to turn down the volume on his radio.
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8.1/1072 votesLoading...#16 - The Good Samaritans
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/3/1977
Even the callous Rigsby becomes concerned over a depressed new tenant who has suffered a series of business and personal problems.
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8.1/1070 votesLoading...#17 - Come On In the Water's Lovely
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/1978
Rigsby finally proposes to Ruth when he receives his long awaited divorce papers.
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8.0/10101 votesLoading...#18 - Charisma
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/27/1974
Alan wears an earring to attract the opposite sex, which Rigsby disapproves of. Alan sneaks Maureen into his room; Rigsby hears her and ejects her.
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8.0/1086 votesLoading...#19 - Moonlight and Roses
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/1975
Rigsby jumps to the conclusion that Ruth has fallen in love with him.
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8.0/1079 votesLoading...#20 - Last of the Big Spenders
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1975
Rigsby tries to seduce a new tenant while fending off bill collectors.
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8.0/1076 votesLoading...#21 - The Cocktail Hour
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/17/1977
Alan becomes engaged to a girl from a snobbish family.
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8.0/1077 votesLoading...#22 - Hello Young Lovers
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/1978
Ruth befriends a young couple who have moved in, fleeing from her disapproving father.
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8.0/1071 votesLoading...#23 - Under the Influence
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/1978
Rigsby persuades a tenant behind on his rent to hypnotize Ruth and plant the idea she's madly in love with Rigsby.
Director: N/A
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7.9/10100 votesLoading...#24 - The Prowler
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/10/1975
Ruth's screams of a prowler brings Rigsby to her side and prompts a visit from the regional crime squad.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1072 votesLoading...#25 - That's My Boy
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/1977
Rigsby returns from his holidays to find that Ruth has returned and that an infant is being passed around for care.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Rising Damp
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Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"Stage Struck" is the best rated episode of "Rising Damp". It scored 8.7/10 based on 91 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/19/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pink Carnations".