8.1/1074 votesLoading...#1 - Three Line Whipping
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1987
Alan misses an important vote then appears on TV AM without knowing the result.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
8.1/1077 votesLoading...#2 - The Haltemprice Bunker
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/1989
Alan needs publicity so he annonunces that he has found a Nazi.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
8.0/1057 votesLoading...#3 - Labour of Love
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1991
A new MP threatens Alan's status as the most right-wing member of Commons.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.9/1064 votesLoading...#4 - A Wapping Conspiracy
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/1989
Alan is accused of fraternizing with teenaged girls.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.9/1064 votesLoading...#5 - Piers of the Realm
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/26/1989
Alan files for divorce. Piers gets promoted.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.9/1057 votesLoading...#6 - The Party's Over
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1991
Alan tries to help the Labour party win the next election so he can blame them for the impending oil shortage.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.8/1077 votesLoading...#7 - Sex is Wrong
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1987
Alan impersonates Sir Steven, leader of the Campaign for Moral Regeneration.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.8/1065 votesLoading...#8 - Fatal Extraction
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/1989
Alan finds oil on public lands then tries to buy it from a Labour Party leader.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.8/1064 votesLoading...#9 - May the Best Man Win
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/1989
Alan tries to sabotage Piers' wedding.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.8/1054 votesLoading...#10 - Let Them Sniff Cake
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1991
Alan upsets animal rights activists. A old friend wants a birthday ""cake"" from Alan.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.7/1054 votesLoading...#11 - Keeping Mum
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1991
Alan's mum visits and threatens to stay forever unless Alan repeals his new bill abolishing social security.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.7/1049 votesLoading...#12 - The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/26/1992
With his fortunes falling in Europe, Alan tries to get himself appointed to a government post back in England.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.6/1052 votesLoading...#13 - Profit of Boom
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1991
MI5 and the KGB ask Alan to start a new cold war because they no longer have anyone to spy on.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.5/1069 votesLoading...#14 - Baa Baa Black Sheep
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1987
Alan's tries to get an American businessman to build a fast food factory in Haltemprice.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.5/1062 votesLoading...#15 - Live from Westminster
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/1989
Televised debates turns Alan into a media superstar
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.5/1053 votesLoading...#16 - Natural Selection
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1991
At his annual cocktail party, Alan upsets a local VIP who threatens to take over his seat in the House.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.5/1047 votesLoading...#17 - Heil and Farewell
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1992
Alan tries to take over leadership of a neo-Nazi organization.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.4/1095 votesLoading...#18 - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1987
Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.4/1079 votesLoading...#19 - Passport to Freedom
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1987
Alan tries to ruin a company of which Sarah has just inherited shares.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.4/1072 votesLoading...#20 - Friends of St. James
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1987
Alan tries to get investors for a Caribbean bank.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.3/1071 votesLoading...#21 - Waste Not, Want Not
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1987
Alan secretly has to move 1000 gallons of toxic waste.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.3/1050 votesLoading...#22 - Back from the Mort
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/22/1992
Having survived imprisonment at hard labour in a Russian gulag, Alan attempts a return to politics by joining the European Parliament as representative from an obscure part of East Germany.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
7.0/1065 votesLoading...#23 - California Here I Come
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/1989
Alan tries to sell a sitcom to an American producer, but Piers has to bail Alan out of jail first.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
6.8/1047 votesLoading...#24 - H*A*S*H
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/29/1992
Alan is worried that European drug lords may interfere with his attempt to make a profit from the forthcoming legalization of marijuana.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
6.8/1046 votesLoading...#25 - Speaking in Tongues
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/6/1992
Alan schemes to make some illicit profits from the translators who work for the EC.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
The Best Episodes of The New Statesman
Every episode of The New Statesman ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The New Statesman!
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"Three Line Whipping" is the best rated episode of "The New Statesman". It scored 8.1/10 based on 74 votes. Directed by Geoffrey Sax and written by Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks, it aired on 10/18/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Haltemprice Bunker".