Episode Guide
Right ladies. So far, I have seen the episodes shown in the second screening, comprising Bookshop, Ladies and Drink, and those transmitted. The titles below were used in production, and have kind of stuck. The order given is that of expected transmission based on the most up-to-date information available. Of course, the episodes that have gone out already have already gone out, so the order is correct. Clear? Clear.
- “Queen”. The Queen
comes to visit the pub in the celebrations for the 500th
anniversary of the East End. Chas ’n Dave are booked for a right
Royal Knees-Up. Unfortunately, things are not all as they appear.
Tx 24/06/2001, 21:50, BBC2. Version: fake laugh track. - “Drink”. Competition
with another local sports pub is hotting up, so Barry and Garry accept
the challenge by their rival landlord to a drinking competition. It’s
vital they win, or they will have to close, but Garry can’t hold
his drink, so he goes in search of some training from the world’s
finest. But can they get away with it without breaking the Pearly Queensbury
Rules and, crucially, the Cockney Code? Includes a parody of Fight Club.
Tx 01/07/2001, 22:00, BBC2. Version: fake laugh track. - “Bookshop”. Tamsin Greig
plays Julia Robbins, a wealthy US movie star who moves to the east end
as she’s told it’s the new Notting Hill. Barry and Garry devise
a scheme to draw Robbins, and thus customers, into their pub, by making
it into a bookshop. However, when Robbins finds out that her trust has
been betrayed by lover Dodgy Phil, she moves out of the area.
Tx 08/07/2001, 21:50, BBC2. Version: reduced fake laugh track. - “Sixties”. The pub is turned
into The Cockney Cavern, a music venue. The next big teen sensations,
The Cockneys, come for the warm up gig.
Tx 08/07/2001, 21:50, BBC2. Version: reduced fake laugh track. - “Caine”. When scientists
prove that pubs which become restaurants make the most money, Dodgy
Phil has the idea to turn the pub into a restaurant. When Barry and
Garry reveal they can only cook toast, it’s decided that the restaurant
needs to be a celebrity restaurant, where people don’t care what
they're eating. So the pub is turned into a themed Michael Caine restaurant.
The real Michael Caine seeks relief…
Tx 15/07/2001, 21:50, BBC2. Version: reduced fake laugh track. - “Ladies”. When three rival
groups of football supporters occupy the pub, terrified of drunken male
violence Barry and Garry decide to open a women's pub. Garry is especially
keen on the idea, imagining a utopian existence. Unfortunately, the
contractor they hire is not all she's cracked up to be. The plot of
this episode is virtually indistinguishable from the Springfield Monorail
episode of The Simpsons, but the jokes are completely different. Germaine
Greer (author of The
Female Eunach) guests singing Stand
By Your Man. Her real voice? Probably
Tx 22/07/2001, 21:50, BBC2. Version: low laugh track.
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