NaN/100 votesLoading...#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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - 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...
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - 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.
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#14 - 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.
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#15 - 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.
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#16 - On Thin Ice
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1995
When Briggs and Louis investigate an attack on a top figure skater, the pair wind up on ice but fail to gain marks for artistic interpretation.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - 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?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Sacked
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/1996
Briggs and Louis mistake the new Superintendent for a stripper at Cattams farewell party.
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#23 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Special Branch
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/1997
The Superintendent selects the duo for a particularly sensitive assignment. His granddaughter has become involved in an anti-road protest and he needs Louis and Briggs to 'rescue' her.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - 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...
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The Worst Episodes of The Detectives
Every episode of The Detectives ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
Worst Episodes Summary
"What The Butler Saw" is the worst rated episode of "The Detectives". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Ed Bye and written by N/A, it aired on 1/27/1993. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hostage".
