Show cover for The Detectives

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".

  • Collared
    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

  • Hostage
    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

  • Studs
    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

  • D.C. Of Love
    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

  • The Great Escaper
    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

  • Dutch Cops
    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

  • Sparring Partners
    8.3/10 30 votes

    #7 - Sparring Partners

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/30/1994

    Briggs and Louis masquerade as the manager and trainer of a boxer as they investigate a steroid that promotes raw aggression - and enhances sexual prowess.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: N/A

  • Rear Window
    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

  • Fur Coat, No Knickers
    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

  • Witness
    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

  • Strangers In Paradise
    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

  • Between A Rock And A Hard Place
    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

  • The Curse Of The Comanches
    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

  • Sacked
    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

  • What The Butler Saw
    7.8/10 43 votes

    #15 - What The Butler Saw

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/1993

    When the Earl of Lisson is murdered, Briggs and Louis try to discover ""who dunnit"".

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: N/A

  • Acting Constables
    7.8/10 39 votes

    #16 - Acting Constables

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/1993

    Briggs and Louis are assigned to act as advisors for a TV police drama.

    Director: Ed Bye

    Writer: N/A

  • Flash
    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

  • Cardiac Arrest
    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

  • Teed Off
    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

  • Never Without Protection
    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

  • Twitchers
    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

  • Back To Class
    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

  • The Beast Of Hackney Marshes
    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

  • Art Attack
    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

  • The Wembley Stadium Mystery
    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