The Best Episodes Written By Dick Clement

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - A Night In

   S1:E39/19/1974

   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 - Happy Release

   S2:E511/21/1975

   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.

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   #3 - Prisoner and Escort - Pilot

   S0:E14/1/1973

   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.

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   #4 - Men Without Women

   S1:E610/10/1974

   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 - Just Desserts

   S2:E110/24/1975

   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 - The Hustler

   S1:E29/12/1974

   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 - New Faces, Old Hands

   S1:E19/5/1974

   “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 - A Day Out

   S1:E49/26/1974

   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 - Ways and Means

   S1:E510/3/1974

   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 - Disturbing the Peace

    S2:E311/7/1975

    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 - The Harder They Fall

    S2:E611/28/1975

    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 - No Peace For the Wicked

    S2:E411/14/1975

    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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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - A Storm in a Teacup

    S3:E12/18/1977

    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 - Poetic Justice

    S3:E22/25/1977

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

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Episode 1

    S1:E11/9/2013

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

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Part 1

    S1:E13/19/2005

    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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    3.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Heartbreak Hotel

    S2:E210/31/1975

    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 - The Lost Colony

    S5:E1412/27/1993

    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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