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8.6
Father Ted

Father Ted (1995)
7.9
Big Train

Big Train (1998)
8.3
Bottom

Bottom (1991)
8.2
Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner (2011)

Episode Power Rankings

The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.

#1
S1E6 8.6
Bonus Ball

After losing £20,000 to Andrew Lloyd Webber in a celebrity poker game, Toast finds himself being hunted by musical superstar and part-time theatre-land enforcer, Michael Ball. Needing cash quick, a desperate Toast agrees to dub some gay art house porn. When his nemesis, Ray Purchase, catches him in bed with his wife again, Toast is caught up in a life or death showdown with both Purchase and Ball on the stage of his appalling play... Meanwhile his agent, Jane Plough, thinks he may have won the role of James Bond, if he survives.

#2
S3E3 8.3
Hamm on Toast

Toast experiences the charisma of Mad Men star Jon Hamm, and Toast and his brother Blair visit their dying father - guest Brian Blessed - in his castle to find out who will inherit the Toast fortune.

#3
S3E1 8.2
Over the Moon

Live on chat show Lorraine Toast tells a tale that could not only topple the US Government but also destroy the entire world. Meanwhile, he's got an outdoor production of Macbeth to prepare for.

#4 Fool in Love S2E6 8.1
#5 The End S1E5 8.0
#6 Desperate Measures S2E2 8.0
#7 The Moose Trap S2E3 8.0
#8 Buried Alive S2E5 8.0
#9 Global Warming S3E6 8.0
#10 Submission S1E4 7.9

▼ Lowlights

#19 S1E0 The Unspeakable Play 7.2

Pilloried by the public after appearing in a controversial West End play, actor Steven Toast is recently-divorced and living with his friend Ed Howzer-Black and Ed's elderly mistress Goodhouse, an agoraphobic who has not left the house in two years for fear of a local flasher. He would move into the club where his shell-shocked ex-soldier brother Blair lives but Ray Purchase, a rival actor who caught Toast in bed with his wife, prevents it. Toast auditions to play a gay detective in 'Summer Time Murders' but has to audition in prison since the producer Cliff Promise has been sent down for racial chanting and the audition leads to a riot. After a long-winded voice-over session, Toast returns home to watch 'Crimewave' on TV and finds that Purchase, who also works as a police artist, has used his face in the Identikit picture of the flasher.

#18 Man of Sex S3E5 7.7
#17 Match Fit S2E1 7.8
#16 Vanity Project S1E3 7.8
#15 Afternoon Tea S1E2 7.8

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Series Trajectory

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Season Momentum

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If You Liked This

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8.6
Father Ted

Father Ted (1995)
7.9
Big Train

Big Train (1998)
8.3
Bottom

Bottom (1991)
8.2
Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner (2011)