8.0/101 votes#1 - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1987
Alan is blackmailed into passing a bill arming the police.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#2 - Passport to Freedom
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1987
Alan tries to ruin a company of which Sarah has just inherited shares.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#3 - Sex is Wrong
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1987
Alan impersonates Sir Steven, leader of the Campaign for Moral Regeneration.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#4 - Waste Not, Want Not
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1987
Alan secretly has to move 1000 gallons of toxic waste.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#5 - Friends of St. James
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1987
Alan tries to get investors for a Caribbean bank.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#6 - Three Line Whipping
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1987
Alan misses an important vote then appears on TV AM without knowing the result.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#7 - Baa Baa Black Sheep
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1987
Alan's tries to get an American businessman to build a fast food factory in Haltemprice.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#8 - The Party's Over
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1991
Alan tries to help the Labour party win the next election so he can blame them for the impending oil shortage.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#9 - Keeping Mum
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1991
Alan's mum visits and threatens to stay forever unless Alan repeals his new bill abolishing social security.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#10 - Profit of Boom
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1991
MI5 and the KGB ask Alan to start a new cold war because they no longer have anyone to spy on.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#11 - Back from the Mort
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/22/1992
Having survived imprisonment at hard labour in a Russian gulag, Alan attempts a return to politics by joining the European Parliament as representative from an obscure part of East Germany.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#12 - Speaking in Tongues
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/6/1992
Alan schemes to make some illicit profits from the translators who work for the EC.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
8.0/101 votes#13 - A Bigger Splash
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/20/1992
Alan tries to become a war profiteer by arranging shipments of aid to Bosnia.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#14 - Fatal Extraction
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/1989
Alan finds oil on public lands then tries to buy it from a Labour Party leader.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#15 - Live from Westminster
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/1989
Televised debates turns Alan into a media superstar
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#16 - A Wapping Conspiracy
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/1989
Alan is accused of fraternizing with teenaged girls.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#17 - The Haltemprice Bunker
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/1989
Alan needs publicity so he annonunces that he has found a Nazi.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#18 - California Here I Come
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/1989
Alan tries to sell a sitcom to an American producer, but Piers has to bail Alan out of jail first.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#19 - May the Best Man Win
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/1989
Alan tries to sabotage Piers' wedding.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#20 - Piers of the Realm
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/26/1989
Alan files for divorce. Piers gets promoted.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#21 - Labour of Love
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1991
A new MP threatens Alan's status as the most right-wing member of Commons.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#22 - Let Them Sniff Cake
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1991
Alan upsets animal rights activists. A old friend wants a birthday ""cake"" from Alan.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#23 - Natural Selection
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1991
At his annual cocktail party, Alan upsets a local VIP who threatens to take over his seat in the House.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#24 - H*A*S*H
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/29/1992
Alan is worried that European drug lords may interfere with his attempt to make a profit from the forthcoming legalization of marijuana.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
7.0/101 votes#25 - Heil and Farewell
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1992
Alan tries to take over leadership of a neo-Nazi organization.
Director: Graeme Harper
Writer: Maurice Gran
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"Happiness is a Warm Gun" is the best rated episode written by Maurice Gran. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Geoffrey Sax. It aired on 9/13/1987 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Passport to Freedom".