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Black Books – S01E05 “The Big Lock-Out”

January 22, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

After being burgled, Black Books gets a new alarm and security door fitted, but Manny fails to listen to the unlock code, distracted by a little Subbuteo player in the installer’s hair (“there was a little man … in his hair”). This quickly results in Manny being trapped alone inside with only a quickly-emptied bottle of Absinthe and dead bees for company and Bernard locked outside with just enough money for popcorn and a cinema ticket. Meanwhile, Fran has taken [...]

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Black Books – S01E04 “The Blackout”

January 22, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

Manny stays up watching ‘The Sweeney’ and is mistaken for a policeman after chasing a handbag snatcher. Fran and Bernard exchange stories about their previous day, Bernard recalling a disastrous dinner party with old friends who blanked him and Fran telling him about blanking her boyfriend after catching him with another woman. Original air date: 20 October 2000

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Corner Gas – S01E01 “Ruby Reborn”

January 22, 2012 / Comedy, Corner Gas

Dog River, Saskatchewan is a town where not much happens and the locals like it that way. So, when Brent Leroy starts renting videos at his corner gas station and a big city girl from Toronto moves in to run the coffee shop next door it’s either a sign of the apocalypse or a chance for Dog River to finally have a decent cup of coffee

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Black Books – S01E03 “Grapes of Wrath”

January 22, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

The episode opens with a pre-credits scene in a monastery in Bordeaux, 1900, in which one of the monks (Ben Homewood) rushes to his abbott (Paul Beech), informing him that a bunch of grapes have grown from a rose thorn. They decide to make a wine from the grapes, which they say “will be fit for the Holy Father himself”. After the opening credits, the show returns to its original format, in which Manny (Bill Bailey), after seeing the state [...]

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Black Books – S01E02 “Manny’s First Day”

January 21, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

Bernard wakes up from a boozy night to discover he’s accidentally given Manny a job at the bookshop, then spends the day trying to get rid of him. Manny proving to be a charming, sociable and extremely competent employee, apparently unaware that it’s ‘not that kind of operation’. An offering of wine from Manny and the threat of physical violence from Fran persuade Bernard to keep Manny on board.

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Black Books – S01E01 “Cooking The Books”

January 21, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

After his accountant flees from the police, Bernard is faced with the daunting prospect of doing his own taxes, and resorts to pairing his socks, getting drunk with door-to-door evangelists, and trying to seriously injure himself since it will allow him to defer his tax return. Manny, an accountant, enters Black Books for the first time to buy the The Little Book of Calm on his way to work and somehow manages to swallow it. Fran is distracted from being [...]

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