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The Best Episodes Written By Mark Gatiss

Every TV Episode Written by Mark Gatiss Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Beast of Royston Vasey

    S1:E4

    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.

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  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Escape From Royston Vasey

    S1:E6

    Tubbs & Edward's son David returns. Ben leaves Royston Vasey. Ross reveals a secret.

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  3. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Destination: Royston Vasey

    S2:E1

    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.

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  4. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Anarchy in Royston Vasey

    S2:E5

    Pauline leaves her hostage with Mikey to go in search of food. Geoff and Brian bury Mike alive, and Tubbs and Edward catch a no-tail. Lee finds that Creme Brulee has reformed without him.

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  5. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Royston Vasey and the Monster from Hell

    S2:E6

    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.

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  6. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Man on the Platform

    S1:E1

    A man returning from the WWI battlefront discusses his experience with gay love in the trenches.

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    Director:Mark Gatiss
  7. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Welcome To Royston Vasey

    S1:E1

    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.

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  8. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Road To Royston Vasey

    S1:E2

    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.

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  9. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey

    S1:E3

    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.

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  10. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Lust for Royston Vasey

    S2:E2

    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.

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  11. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Death in Royston Vasey

    S2:E4

    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.

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  12. 9.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Medusa Touch

    S3:E4

    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...

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  13. 9.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - How The Elephant Got Its Trunk

    S3:E6

    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.

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  14. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - A Plague on Royston Vasey

    S2:E3

    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.

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  15. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Turn Again Geoff Tipps

    S3:E3

    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.

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  16. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Beauty and the Beast (Or, Come into My Parlour)

    S3:E5

    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.

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  17. 8.2/10(198 votes)

    #17 - The Great Game

    S1:E3

    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...

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    Director:Paul McGuigan
  18. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The One-Armed Man Is King

    S3:E2

    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.

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  19. 7.9/10(182 votes)

    #19 - The Sign of Three

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Colm McCarthy
  20. 7.8/10(37 votes)

    #20 - The Rules of the Beast

    S1:E1

    English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet a new client —and a legend is about to get fresh blood.

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  21. 7.8/10(19 votes)

    #21 - Three Act Tragedy

    S12:E1

    When a vicar chokes to death on a cocktail while attending a party held by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, Poirot initially dismisses the idea of murder but reconsiders when another guest dies in the same manner.

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  22. 7.7/10(188 votes)

    #22 - The Hounds of Baskerville

    S2:E2

    A hound from hell. Sherlock's most famous case. But is a monster really stalking Dartmoor?

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    Director:Paul McGuigan
  23. 7.6/10(184 votes)

    #23 - The Empty Hearse

    S3:E1

    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.

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  24. 7.6/10(16 votes)

    #24 - Cat Among the Pigeons

    S11:E2

    Poirot finds a connection between a recent murder and a revolution in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Ramat.

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    Director:James Kent
  25. 7.5/10(115 votes)

    #25 - The Final Problem

    S4:E3

    Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.

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Mark Gatiss Ratings Summary

"The Beast of Royston Vasey" is the best rated episode written by Mark Gatiss. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Steve Bendelack. It aired on 2/1/1999 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Escape From Royston Vasey".