French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders pay their own comic tribute to the popular drama serial The House of Eliott and former Top of the Pops dance group Pan's People, and discuss minor members of the Royal family.
Dawn and Jennifer begin their fourth series with an uncanny send up of the Stephen King thriller Misery (1990). Plus Jennifer is having "one of those Marlene days"; Jen is desperately trying to "dash" from a work meeting; Ken and Duane's The Sound of Music focuses on David Bowie, they also introduce a special guest video from Dickens' Daughters; the Fat Blokes are delivering the work mail; and Dawn joins Jennifer in her new kitchen to discuss who's "got it all", this week it's French movie icon Gérard Depardieu. There's also a new ad for "Pretty Dawny" stockings, for legs that go on forever.
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders pay comic homage to "The Silence of the Lambs" and give a preview of a new blockbusting Jackie Collins mini-series "Lucky Bitches".
Dawn and Jennifer attempt to get funding for a series via the internal BBC process of offers.
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Did each season build or fizzle? Green means the finale outscored the premiere. Red means the opposite. Longer arrows, bigger swings.
How steady is each season? Tightly clustered dots mean reliable quality. Scattered dots mean a wild ride.
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