The Best Episodes Written By Mark Gatiss
Every TV Episode Written by Mark Gatiss Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Mark Gatiss Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Mark Gatiss is "The Beast of Royston Vasey", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Steve Bendelack". "The Beast of Royston Vasey" aired on 2/1/1999 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Escape From Royston Vasey".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - The Beast of Royston Vasey
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/1999
Chinnery examines the so-called "beast", but has he correctly identified it? Also, the Legz Akimbo Theatre Company arrives to perform a play at the local school.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
10.0/10 1 votes#2 - Escape From Royston Vasey
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/1999
- Tubbs & Edward's son David returns. Tubbs is thrilled, but Edward is resentful of his son-especially when he reveals he is responsible for the construction of ""newroad""! - Ben leaves Royston Vasey, taking with him a gift from the Dentons: an itemised bill covering expences incurred during his stay (phone calls, use of toilet tissue, etc). - Ross Reveals that he is really an employee for the Social Services. He has Pauline sacked, forcing her to hand over her pens! - Edward and David have a little chat. Facing away from Tubbs, he tells her that he no longer wants to build the road. Turning around to reveal his pig-nose, he declares ""I want to live locally"". Tubbs deserts David and Edward and leaves the shop. - Ben approaches Tubbs out on the moors, asking if she is local. Tubbs replies ""Yes, I am"", and they both head to the shop. Ben tells Tubbs that his friend who went missing had a pair of shoes just like hers. The credits roll...
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
10.0/10 1 votes#3 - Destination: Royston Vasey
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/2000
The carnival comes to town and Pauline starts at the Restart Room as a jobseeker. Val makes a wish on a magic toad that brings back Benjamin. A nosebleed epidemic breaks out at the circus.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
10.0/10 1 votes#4 - Anarchy in Royston Vasey
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/2000
Pauline leaves her hostage with Mikey to go in search fo food. Geoff and Brian bury Mike alive, and Tubbs and Edward catch a no-tail. Lee finds that Creme Brulee has reformed without him.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
10.0/10 1 votes#5 - Royston Vasey and the Monster from Hell
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/2000
Roysten Vasey is quarantined as the nosebleed epidemic claims a distinguished victim. The Legz Akimbo Theatre Group comes to town, and there is a wedding at the local shop.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
10.0/10 1 votes#6 - The Man on the Platform
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/31/2017
A man returning from the WWI battlefront discusses his experience with gay love in the trenches.
Director: Mark Gatiss
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 1 votes#7 - Welcome To Royston Vasey
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/1999
Ben struggles to take in Auntie Val and Uncle Harvey’s incomprehensible house rules, while Martin poses a threat to the precious things in Tubbs and Edward’s Local Shop. At the local job center, Pauline is furious when someone lands an interview without her help. Taxi driver Babs makes middling progress through her sex change.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 1 votes#8 - The Road To Royston Vasey
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/1999
Royston Vasey's new road is under construction: good news for all the town's inhabitants except Tubbs and Edward won't this bring strangers to the town? Judee is off to Antigua for a luxury holiday; Pauline is holding a workshop in selling the Big Issue (a newspaper for the homeless), and Ben is trying to use the telephone at the Dentons. We meet butcher Hillary Briss, Henry and Ally, the video-viewers and Reverend Bernice, Royston Vasey's outspoken lady vicar.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 1 votes#9 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/1999
An employee working on the new road stumbles into the lair of Edward and Tubbs, breakfast at the Denton's is not what Benjamin was expecting, and a tortoise has an unfortunate encounter with Dr. Chinnery.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 1 votes#10 - Lust for Royston Vasey
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/2000
The nosebleed epidemic continues. Pauline gets a new job as an assistant food science operative at Burger Me! Herr Lipp and students arrive on an exchange visit from Diusberg, and the guesthouse closes for a very private function.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 1 votes#11 - Death in Royston Vasey
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/2000
Hilary Briss and Maurice take an early walk in the woods to collect a "Special Delivery." Mike, Brian, and Geoff get lost on their way to a plastics convention, and Morris is dealt with.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 2 votes#12 - The Medusa Touch
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2002
Regular Cast: Mark as Alvin Steele / Les McQueen Steve as Daddy / Nancy Glass / Barbara [voice] / Anne Hand Reese as Noel Glass / Judith Buckle / Terry Lollard B&B proprietors Alvin and Sunny invite their weekend 'Sexplorers' to join them in a voyage of auto-erotic discovery - although Alvin would prefer to be at the garden centre. But who is the mysterious femme fatale in the dwarf conifers and what is the secret of the fearsome 'Medusa'? The Ending: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen is having a fag with his wig off in the backyard of the Windermere when the white van comes crashing through the wall, sending tons of bricks down on him...
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.0/10 2 votes#13 - How The Elephant Got Its Trunk
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2002
After a bag is blown out the window of the Charity Shop Vinnie spots it on a country road and sets out in hot pursuit. Papa Lazarou returns and all the series' loose ends are tied up.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.5/10 2 votes#14 - A Plague on Royston Vasey
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/2000
Pen-obsessed Pauline tackles Ross about her job prospects or lack thereof, and Edward sets a trap to catch a bride for David. Butcher Hilary Briss has a problem with one of his "special" customers.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.5/10 2 votes#15 - Turn Again Geoff Tipps
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2002
Geoff is fired from his job and leaves in an attempt to make it as a stand-up comedian in London. There he runs into the Legz Akimbo team and Mike.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.5/10 2 votes#16 - Beauty and the Beast (Or, Come into My Parlour)
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2002
Regular Cast: Mark as Tony / Iris Krell [voice] / Neds / Professor Breastpinch'd Steve as Charlie Hull Reese as Stella Hull / Judee Levinson / Keith Drop CHARLIE & STELLA / MRS LEVINSON: The Hulls' marriage seems to have disintegrated beyond repair and Stella's hooked on playing fruit machines. Meanwhile, Charlie starts working for Judee Levinson at her new beauty salon, the ""Spit and Polish"", doing massages on blindfolded clients, who think it's Judee doing them herself. His healing hands wow the customers, until an old man asks if he can do any ""extras"". Word spreads and the salon is packed with the men of Royston Vasey, blissfully unaware they are being w* off by Charlie. When Tony comes for one of the ""special massages"", Charlie becomes obsessed with him and falls in love with him, eventually telling Tony he's the masseur with the magic hands. Tony is disgusted and the s* hits the fan: Stella wins big on the fruit machines and jets off overseas, and Judee sacks him.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.2/10 181 votes#17 - The Great Game
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/8/2010
A strange clue in an empty room, a blood-soaked car, a priceless Old Master, a deranged bomber. With the clock ticking, the curtain rises on a battle of wits between Sherlock, John and the shadowy stranger who seems to know all the answers...
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.0/10 2 votes#18 - The One-Armed Man Is King
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2002
Lance bribes hospital disc jockey Mike King to arrange an under-the-counter arm transplant. Meanwhile, Glenn and Barry fail miserably in an attempt to recover outstanding debts.
Director: Steve Bendelack
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.9/10 167 votes#19 - The Sign of Three
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2014
Sherlock faces his biggest challenge of all – delivering a Best Man’s speech on John’s wedding day! But all isn’t quite as it seems. Mortal danger stalks the reception – and someone might not make it to the happy couple’s first dance. Sherlock must thank the bridesmaids, solve the case and stop a killer.
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.8/10 36 votes#20 - The Rules of the Beast
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2020
English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet a new client —and a legend is about to get fresh blood.
Director: Jonny Campbell
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.7/10 174 votes#21 - The Hounds of Baskerville
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2012
A hound from hell. Sherlock's most famous case. But is a monster really stalking Dartmoor?
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.6/10 170 votes#22 - The Empty Hearse
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Two years on from reports of his Reichenbach Fall demise, Sherlock resurfaces as London comes under threat of a huge terrorist attack. John, though, has mixed feelings – he's delighted by the return of his best friend, but harbours worries that the consulting detective's reappearance will have an adverse affect on his settled domestic life, in particular his romance with Mary Morstan.
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.6/10 103 votes#23 - The Final Problem
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2017
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.
Director: Benjamin Caron
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.5/10 33 votes#24 - Blood Vessel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/2020
The crew and passengers aboard the Russian ship, The Demeter, are locked in a life-or-death struggle to stop Count Dracula before he reaches England.
Director: Damon Thomas
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.2/10 68 votes#25 - The Unquiet Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/9/2005
Charles Dickens and the Doctor team up as corpses stalk the streets of Victorian Cardiff.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Mark Gatiss