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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E6

    After setting to work on David's house with a nail-gun, Reggie moves in with Anthony in his chaotic flat and exposes Nicola's infidelity in his best man's speech at his mother's wedding. Groomtech is sold but nobody is sacked. However, Reggie is demoted whilst Chris gets his old job back. Nicola returns to the flat where Reggie is enjoying the single life, to tell him that she now has a job and wants him to come home.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E3

    Determining 'not to lose touch with reality', Reggie makes sweeping changes, banning ties and introducing the wearing of slippers, a tea-lady and a bouncy castle to bounce ideas around in. He also gives strangers lifts in his company car. When the boss expresses disapproval, Reggie changes the firm's name to Grot and announces that it will make only useless things. Nicola, now sacked, is bored at home,spending her time mending basket chairs, whilst her father tells Reggie he has cold feet about marrying his mother.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E5

    Reggie hoped riding a cool bike would relieve his anger about British Rail and his nonexistent sex life (even now the spousal agendas don't clash, Nicola's period does), and bragged in advance, but that proves painful once more. Meanwhile, Chris needs to learn about the company and delivers daunting promises to the board after a year of (mis)management.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E4

    Reggie's morbid hatred now extends even to his wedding witness, Monty. At work, he seizes Chris's latest obsession, globalization, to organise a business trip to Helsinki with attractive colleague Jasmine. Having just has a bad row with his wife, he plans meaningless adultery, but once that appears a real option gets cold feet.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E3

    Still dissatisfied with his lot, Reggie considers that perhaps he would make a good teacher and goes to Nicola's school to talk about his work. This is surprisingly well-received and so he invites a school trip to Groomtech. This, however, does not go according to plan.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E5

    Reggie resists the board's efforts to make him conform and stalls when told he must sack a staff member,an announcement which sends Anthony and Steve falling over themselves to keep in with their boss. Told that Groomtech will ultimately be sold and he will be sacked, Reggie plots revenge, including a naff and sexist advertising campaign featuring a leering former CEO.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  7. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E4

    The staff express doubt as to Reggie's viability selling his 'Grot' products – and indeed as to his sanity – but the goods fly off the shelves. The Groomtech chairman, hugely impressed, gives Reggie his next assignment — to cut half the staff. Nicola, feeling neglected as Reggie embraces work with great enthusiasm, initially rejects David after he makes a pass at her but still ends up ringing him. William, desperate to avoid matrimony, unsuccessfully tries to persuade Marion that he is gay.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  8. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E2

    David, the accountant who has just moved in next door, comes to call on the Perrins, who bore him with their troubles. Reggie tries unsuccessfully to sell his home-made bread at the local farmers' market but Groomtech are also in trouble. Sales are slipping and Anthony is the reluctant occupant of Reggie's executive office. When Reggie decides to bite the bullet and ask to be reinstated, he learns that Chris has been sacked and he's been made new managing director.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E1

    Whilst contemplating suicide, Reggie is at a crossroads and resigns from Groomtech, planning to lead a self-sufficient life growing his own vegetables. But money is tight, Nicola is fearful for her job and the best the Job Centre can offer Reggie is shelf-stacking. Mother is planning to marry Nicola's dad, and the therapist is rubbish. With Groomtech facing their largest decrease in disposable razors in years and Chris begging him to return, should Reggie sacrifice his principles and once more chain himself to the capitalist life?

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E6

    Reggie hopes to have solved his commuting nightmare: a bicycle. His haughty claim to leave his fellow passengers forever is dismally retracted after aching all over where he didn't even realising to have muscles. At work, Chris's latest daft idea requires a speaker, and Reggie, the only one on staff showing no interest at all, is designated.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  11. undefined Season 6 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E1

    Sketches include 'The Optician' and 'The Pub'. There's the first instalment of a new Piggy Malone and Charlie Farley serial, 'Stop, You're Killing Me', and music from The Nolan Sisters and Pete Cutters & the Boggers.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  12. undefined Season 6 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E2

    In Stop! You're Killing Me, Piggy and Charlie arrive at Drake's Bottom, the village where all the dead yokels come from. Welsh miners perform in the musical finale.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  13. undefined Season 6 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E3

    Sketches include a customer asking a salesman for some strange ice cream flavours. Ball and Socket spoof Hinge and Bracket in the musical finale.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  14. undefined Season 6 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E6

    Two rhymesters meet at a party. In detective spoof Stop! You're Killing Me, Piggy and Charlie don disguises to get close to the manor house to speak to the lord of the manor.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  15. undefined Season 6 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E5

    In Stop! You're Killing Me, Piggy and Charlie plan to investigate the lord of the manor, but first they must do a spot of ghosthunting. The Two Ronnies perform with steel band The New Sensations in the musical finale.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  16. undefined Season 6 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E8

    Sketches include an appeal on behalf of the indecisive. In the final part of Stop! You're Killing Me, Piggy and Charlie have almost cracked the case of the yokel murders and the gold smuggling operation, but first they must flee danger in a thrilling bicycle chase.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  17. undefined Season 6 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E7

    Two schoolfriends are reunited at an exclusive club for adventurers. In the penultimate instalment of Stop! You're Killing Me, Piggy and Charlie uncover strange goings-on at the local church.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  18. undefined Season 7 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E1

    A man gets more than he bargained for when he goes in search of McCleary's Gold, and a shopkeeper boasts that his store stocks every kind of bean imaginable. Manhattan Transfer provide the music.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  19. undefined Season 7 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E5

    Sketches, songs and monologues with Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker. The duo dress up again for musical finale Down Mexico Way.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  20. undefined Season 7 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E4

    More droll news items and comedy sketches, including a spoof dog food commercial. Manhattan Transfer bring the music.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  21. undefined Season 7 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E2

    More comedy, sketch and song with masters of mirth, Ronnies Corbett and Barker. Special guests are Manhattan Transfer who sing Snooty Little Cutie.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  22. undefined Season 7 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E3

    Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker star in more comedy sketches and songs, including more from Sid and Lil, and George and Edie.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  23. undefined Season 7 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E6

    Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker star in sketches, songs and monologues. Manhattan Transfer provide the music, while the Kamikaze Theatre Company perform in a different sort of musical finale.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  24. undefined Season 7 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E8

    Light entertainment comedy show. Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett present sketches and spoofs while Manhattan Transfer bring the music.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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  25. undefined Season 7 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S7:E7

    A spokesman argues for independence for Ruislip, and a notorious film comes in for some mockery in Last Mango in Paris.

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    Writer:David Nobbs

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David Nobbs Ratings Summary

"Episode 6" is the best rated episode written by David Nobbs. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/18/2010 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Episode 3".