The following is a list of episodes of the programme and the sketches in each one, omitting the short "vox pops" interstitial segments between sketches.
Pilot (26 December 1987)
Customs Camera
Holiday Photographs
Problems around the Eye Area
The Privatisation of the Police Force
Critics ("Argue the Toss", "Up the Arts", "Oh No, Not Another One")
Deodorant - William Wegman from "Selected Video Works 1970-78"
"How Lovely I Was"
Soup/Suit
Mystery (song)
You Can't Make an Omelette without Breaking Eggs (1st Gordon & Stuart)
The word, "Gay"
Toy Car Showroom
Tales of War
Australian Soap Opera
Series 1 (1989)
Opening: A short "vox pops" sequence followed by photographs being laid out and gathered up again, accompanied by an upbeat piano/whistling theme
Closing: More photographs (for all except Episode 1) and the same theme
Episode 1 (13 January 1989)
Parent Power
Hugh's Poem
Young People
SAS
The West Indies: A Nation of Cricketers
Spoonbending with Mr Nude
Censored
Haircut
Episode 2 (20 January 1989)
Information
Sound Name (Derek Nippl-e)
Language Conversation (Continued in Series Two's "Beauty and Ideas")
America (song)
Chatshow
Spies One (1st Control & Tony)
Beggar
Hand Exercise
Troubleshooters (1st John & Peter)
Episode 3 (27 January 1989)
Hugh's Brain
Gordon and Stuart Eat Greek (2nd Gordon & Stuart)
Costume Design
Doctor Tobacco
Open University
Spies Two (2nd Control & Tony)
Special Squad
Episode 4 (3 February 1989)
Trouser-Competition Introduction
Prize Poem
Awful Smell (Stole My Sketch 1)
Madness
Antique Shop (Stole My Sketch 2)
Spies Three (3rd Control & Tony)
Light Metal (The Bishop & The Warlord) (song)
Bank Loan
Nipples
Inspector Venice (Stole My Sketch 3)
Tomorrow's World
Episode 5 (10 February 1989)
Lavatories
Critics One
Judge Not
Critics Four
Ignored Teacher
That's It (Silhouettes 1)
Hugh's Favourite Sketch
Critics (heavily edited mixture between Critics Two)
Tideymans Carpets Introduction/The Spillage That Wasn't (Tideymans)
Spies/Pigeons (6th Control & Tony)
Trick or Treat (Tideymans)
Play It Again, Sam
Major Donaldson
Dammit 2 (3rd John & Peter) (Tideymans)
"Improvised" Sketch/First Lines (Tideymans)
Episode 3 (23 March 1990)
Swearing
Witness
Over to You
Jewellery
Hugh's Girlfriends
Mystery Objects
Society
Dammit 4 (4th John & Peter)
Bottom Fondling
Episode 4 (30 March 1990)
"Big" Introduction
Dinner With Digby
Returning suits
Hard Man's Record (1st Alan)
Small Talk
Dammit Lavatories (5th John & Peter)
The Robert Robinsons
Spies/Telescope (7th Control & Tony)
Stephen and Hugh become big/"A Bit of Little & Large"
Episode 5 (6 April 1990)
MBE Introduction
This is Dominic Appleguard
Rhodes Boysons
Amputated Genitals
The Cause (1st Jack & Freddy/Neddy) (3rd Gordon & Stuart)
Where Eagles Dare
Episode 6 (13 April 1990)
Satire/Tribute ("Where is the Lid?" song)
Yellow Pages
Beauty and Ideas (Continued from Series One's "Language Conversation")
Anarchy
Dammit Church (6th John & Peter)
First Kiss
Borrowing A Fiver Off
Spies/Firing (8th Control & Tony)
Introducing My Grandfather To...
A Vision of Britain
Wrong Directions (follows the end credits)
Series 3 (1992)
Opening: Silhouettes of Fry and Laurie dancing against a backdrop of palm trees and being blasted off the screen, accompanied by a mariachi-style theme
Closing: A 12-bar blues performed live on piano by Laurie, who also mimics a trumpet solo as Fry mixes the featured cocktail of the episode
Cocktail Ending: Everything in the Till and No Sudden Moves
The 'Hey Jude' sketch was not included on the Region 1 DVD release due to rights restrictions. The sketch remained intact on the Region 2 DVD, as well as on the streaming services Netflix and BritBox.
Episode 4 (30 January 1992)
Get Well Card
"Photocopying My Genitals With ..."
My Ass
My Ass Critique
News Report
Patriotism
AA
Marmalade
Too Long, Johnny (song)
The Red Hat of Patferrick (1st Gelliant Gutfright)
Opening: A narrative whispered by Fry and punctuated with interjections by Laurie, played over a subdued melody and jittery black-and-white clips of the two on a beach, in a parody of a Calvin Klein perfume commercial
Jane's Poem (NOTE: Script appeared in first script book as Stephen's Poem, but the poem is the same, except the line about his wife dying is changed to Jane's grandfather being murdered.)
Smell
All We Gotta' Do (song; Laurie performed this song when he hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 2006)
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