The Best Episodes Written By Dick Clement

Every TV Episode Written by Dick Clement Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - A Night In
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - A Night In

    S1:E3

    Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.

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

    #2 - Happy Release

    S2:E5

    Fletcher is having a spell in the prison hospital with a broken ankle. He's sharing a ward with old Blanco, who tells him that another inmate has swindled him out of his belongings in a crooked card game. Fletcher hatches a plan to recover Blanco's belongings and to take revenge on the culprit.

    Director:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 0 Episode 1 - Prisoner and Escort - Pilot
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Prisoner and Escort - Pilot

    S0:E1

    Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal and his escorts - soft-hearted Mr Barraclough (Brian Wilde) and authoritarian Mr Mackay (Fulton Mackay) going up to prison.

    Director:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Men Without Women
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Men Without Women

    S1:E6

    Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.

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

    #5 - Just Desserts

    S2:E1

    There's an outbreak of petty pilfering from the inmates in Slade prison. Fletcher is disgusted - after all, stealing may be a job on the 'outside', but it's despicable when it happens 'inside'.

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - The Hustler
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The Hustler

    S1:E2

    Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - New Faces, Old Hands
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - New Faces, Old Hands

    S1:E1

    “Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him the ways.

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - A Day Out
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - A Day Out

    S1:E4

    The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Ways and Means
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Ways and Means

    S1:E5

    Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.

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  10. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Disturbing the Peace
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Disturbing the Peace

    S2:E3

    When Mr Mackay leaves Slade Prison, Fletcher thinks that "happy days are here again". Until, that is, he meets Mr Mackay's replacement.

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  11. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - The Harder They Fall
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Harder They Fall

    S2:E6

    Godber takes up boxing and wins a place in the prison championship, so Fletcher sees a chance for a bit of a flutter. Then Harry Grout takes an interest and insists that the fight is 'fixed'. When one of Grout's rivals takes a similar interest in Godber's opponent, it looks as if nobody can win. Fletcher, however, has other ideas.

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - No Peace For the Wicked
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - No Peace For the Wicked

    S2:E4

    It's Saturday afternoon and Fletcher looks forward to a quiet read. Everyone else seems to have other ideas about how Fletcher should be spending his time.

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  13. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - A Storm in a Teacup
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - A Storm in a Teacup

    S3:E1

    When a bottle of pills goes missing from the Doctor's surgery, Harry Grout is worried that investigation of the theft by the prison authorities will jeopardise some of his activities. Grout insists that Fletcher must find the pills and return them before the warders can take action.

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Poetic Justice
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Poetic Justice

    S3:E2

    Fletcher's new cellmate turns out to be the judge who sentenced him to five years in Slade Prison.

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    A German engineer meets with Colonel Mercier and information is exchanged for money.

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Part 1
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Part 1

    S1:E1

    A historian doing research in Moscow discovers a potential secret about Stalin which leads him into danger as there are those who do not want the secret revealed.

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Heartbreak Hotel
    3.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Heartbreak Hotel

    S2:E2

    Godber gets bad news from his girlfriend. Fletcher tries to provide help and advice, but perhaps daughter Ingrid might provide a more suitable solution to Godber's problems

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  18. undefined Season 5 Episode 14 - The Lost Colony
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Lost Colony

    S5:E14

    Lovejoy meets distant cousins from America, who are visiting England. As well as a female ghost, old Lord Wakering has treasures which once belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh, and both Lovejoy and Mary-John Lovejoy, his American cousin, want them. Some of Lord Wakering's things are stolen, and Lovejoy travels in hot pursuit to the Carolinas, where he is not made welcome. Charlotte has to fly over to get him out of trouble.

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Dick Clement Ratings Summary

"A Night In" is the best rated episode written by Dick Clement. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 9/19/1974 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Happy Release".