9.0/10 38 votes#1 - Collared
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/2/1994
Suspended after an unfortunate incident involving a suspected bomb in a briefcase, Briggs and Louis decide to gain favour by nicking some serious East End villains.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/10 57 votes#2 - Hostage
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/1993
A fanatical murderer has escaped from prison and Superintendent Cottam orders Briggs and Louis to catch him but the two detectives would rather be watching the F.A. Cup Final.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 41 votes#3 - Studs
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/24/1993
Briggs and Louis find themselves on an assignment in Jersey. It isn't long before they get on the wrong side of Jim Bergerac.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 30 votes#4 - D.C. Of Love
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1995
As a lonely and meaningless retirement beckons after 25 years on the force, the boys are given the task of finding 'The Black Widow' after a series of gruesome lonely hearts murders.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 31 votes#5 - The Great Escaper
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/15/1996
Louis and Briggs are cuffed to a notoriously slippery customer as they escort him to his latest prison by train. So how do they end up crossing the Yorkshire moors carrying a toilet door?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 31 votes#6 - Dutch Cops
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/23/1994
On Customs and Excise duty, Briggs and Louis find themselves trapped in the back of a pilchard lorry - with a large quantity of diamonds.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 36 votes#8 - Rear Window
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/6/1994
Louis witnesses a brutal crime of passion while confined to a wheelchair, but has trouble convincing Briggs that it wasn't all in his mind.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 36 votes#9 - Fur Coat, No Knickers
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/15/1996
Louis and Briggs are called in to investigate a murder that has taken place during the re-creation of a medieval battle scene. However they are more concerned with the police football quiz.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 33 votes#10 - Witness
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/9/1994
Two tough detectives are required to go undercover at a monastery. Unable to find any, the Super employs Briggs and Louis.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 41 votes#11 - Strangers In Paradise
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/3/1993
Gangster Tony Mazola has been murdered. Superintendent Cottam thinks that gang warfare may be about to start. He sends Briggs and Louis on an undercover assignment to the Paradise Club in the East End of London.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 32 votes#12 - Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1995
After 30 years of watching and waiting, Superintendent Cottam ropes the boys into helping him catch notorious bullion thief, Ronnie Richardson.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 31 votes#13 - The Curse Of The Comanches
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/1997
When Briggs and Louis, helped by a mysterious Commanch Chief, go on the hunt for a sacred Indian carving, they soon find themselves on the trail of tragedy, death and disaster...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 29 votes#14 - Sacked
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/1996
Briggs and Louis mistake the new Superintendent for a stripper at Cattams farewell party.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 27 votes
#17 - Flash
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1995
After mixing their drinks at the policemen's ball, Louis and Briggs confront a new horror involving a flasher, a Marquess and the commissioner's wife.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 36 votes#18 - Cardiac Arrest
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1997
When a gang member is shot during a getaway, Briggs and Louis are dispatched to the hospital. But with so many sick people, doctors and nurses around, Louis' hypochondria knows no bounds...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 37 votes#19 - Teed Off
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/1993
Johnny McKenna is an arms dealer and a keen golfer. Briggs and Louis have to get evidence of his illegal activities.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 31 votes#20 - Never Without Protection
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/16/1994
A Duchess keeps appearing in the tabloids canoodling withher police bodyguards. What the Super needs are two completely unappealing detectives...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 30 votes#21 - Twitchers
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1995
Briggs and Louis are assigned a case protecting the eggs of a newly-discovered breeding pair of red kites. Teir lack of enthusiasm soon turns to panic as the eggs are stolen.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 28 votes#22 - Back To Class
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/29/1996
After Briggs and Louis manage to murder the last female white-flippered turtle on the planet, they are only too pleased to investigate a drug scandal at an exclusive girls school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 29 votes#23 - The Beast Of Hackney Marshes
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1997
A night patrolling the marshes, on the lookout for an escaped bear, is really not what our heroes had in mind - particularly when their umbrella act for the Super's variety show is really coming together.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 29 votes
#24 - Art Attack
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1995
When forced to transfer into the Fine Arts Squad, our heroes are despatched to recover the latest artistic creation of 'enfant terrible' Hadyn Smailes - a pair of maracas, a tin of peaches and a fish tank of the artist's own urine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 31 votes
#25 - The Wembley Stadium Mystery
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/1996
Although Louis and Briggs have been assigned to a security operation at Wembley Stadium, they have their minds on winning the police table football tournament.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Detectives
Every episode of The Detectives ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Detectives!
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Detectives" is "Collared", rated 9/10 from 38 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Collared" aired on 3/2/1994 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Hostage".
