9.0/1067 votesLoading...#1 - A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/24/1988
Doris, aged seventy-five, is a tidy woman — and when she suffers a fall after trying to clear up after her considerably less thorough home help, Zulema, it becomes apparent that her constant nagging may have been responsible for her husband's early death.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.9/1067 votesLoading...#2 - A Lady of Letters
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1988
Irene Ruddock is not afraid to speak, or rather write, her mind: she writes letters to her MP, the police, the chemist - everyone she can, to remedy the social ills she sees around her.
Director: Giles Foster
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.5/1054 votesLoading...#3 - A Chip in the Sugar
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/1988
Graham is a middle-aged man with a history of mild mental health problems, living with his mother in Leeds.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.4/1037 votesLoading...#4 - Soldiering On
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/1988
Muriel is a strong woman, and always has been — a pillar of the community, a regular charity worker, and a volunteer for Meals on Wheels; and looking after her mentally ill daughter, Margaret, has fortified her resolve — so, after the death of her husband, Muriel is well-prepared to cope with the crisis.
Director: Tristram Powell
Writer: Alan Bennett
8.3/10104 votesLoading...#5 - Bed Among the Lentils
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/1988
Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, as she sees him, vainly insensitive husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affair with a nearby grocer, Ramesh Ramesh, discovering something about herself and God in the process.
Director: Alan Bennett
Writer: Alan Bennett
7.9/1038 votesLoading...#6 - Her Big Chance
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/1988
Lesley is an aspiring actress, who, after a series of unpromising extra roles on television programmes such as Crossroads, finds what she believes to be her big break as the adventurous Travis in a new film for the West German market.
Director: Giles Foster
Writer: Alan Bennett
NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1998
Miss Fozzard is a lonely, middle-aged department store clerk in the Soft Furnishings Department whose free time is mostly spent caring for her brother after he suffers a stroke.
Director: Patrick Garland
Writer: Alan Bennett
NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - The Hand of God
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1998
Celia is a covetous antiques dealer who brazenly aids elderly neighbours for the sole purpose of being in a good position to buy their treasures on the cheap when they die.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Alan Bennett
NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Playing Sandwiches
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1998
Wilfred is, we discover over time, a reformed paedophile living under a false identity and working as a much-praised maintenance man in a public park.
Director: Udayan Prasad
Writer: Alan Bennett
NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - The Outside Dog
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1998
Clean freak Marjory gradually comes to realise that her partner, who works in a slaughterhouse, is using his employment to cover the fact that he's a particularly evil criminal.
Director: Gavin Millar
Writer: Alan Bennett
NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1998
Rosemary is a lonely woman who takes it upon herself to tend to a female neighbour's garden after the latter is arrested for murdering her abusive husband.
Director: Tristram Powell
Writer: Alan Bennett
NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Waiting for the Telegram
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1998
Violet is a confused, elderly woman in a nursing home who has been told by the excited staff she will soon be receiving a congratulatory telegram from the Queen in honour of her one hundredth birthday.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Alan Bennett
The Best Episodes of Talking Heads
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A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett.
Genre:Drama
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"A Cream Cracker Under the Settee" is the best rated episode of "Talking Heads". It scored 9/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by Stuart Burge and written by Alan Bennett, it aired on 5/24/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Lady of Letters".