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Season 1

  • S01E01 Smells

    • September 17, 1991
    • BBC Two

    Richie and Eddie return home after another depressing night down the pub trying to pick up women and failing miserably. Richie is beginning to think that he is never going to get the chance to do it' until Eddie suggests that he puts an ad in the local paper. This idea revitalizes Richie and he begins to read through the dating pages of the local rag. There he spots an ad for a pheromone spray that women are unable to resist, this is something that appeals to him even more and the two of them decide that they are going to have to try this out!

  • S01E02 Gas

    • September 24, 1991
    • BBC Two

    The gasman calls to read Eddie and Ritchie's meter. Not a problem? It is when you are getting your gas from an illegal connection to your next-door neighbors gas. Can the boys persuade the meter reader that they don't use gas and stall him until they can disconnect their supply from next door?

  • S01E03 Contest

    • October 1, 1991
    • BBC Two

    Eddie and Richie have an argument over whether or not to watch the Miss World contest on their TV. An argument started by Eddie having spent most of the £11.80 they had to last them two months on a second hand copy of Parade magazine.

  • S01E04 Apocalypse

    • October 8, 1991
    • BBC Two

    After inheriting £600 from Richie's Auntie Olga, the two decide to spend it down the Funfair, where Richie learns that he is destined to die in three nights time. He goes to the lengths of kicking Eddie out to escape his fate, but can't do anything when the Grim Reaper comes knocking!!!

  • S01E05 's Up

    • October 15, 1991
    • BBC Two

    When Richie and Eddie's landlord has to leave to attend his mother's funeral, he leaves the two in charge of their shop, but something like this isn't going to stop Richie and Eddie from relaxing on Sunday, as the two decide to watch some cricket.

  • S01E06 Accident

    • October 29, 1991
    • BBC Two

    It's Richie's birthday and he has a big party planned, Eddie's friends and all the birds' Richie knows are coming. As he prepares for the party, putting up the decorations, Richie falls and horribly breaks his leg. Will having his leg in plaster and being in a wheelchair ruin his party, will it heck as like!

Season 2

  • S02E01 Digger

    • October 1, 1992
    • BBC Two

    Eddie and Richie join Mrs. Lineker's Love Bureau hoping to find their perfect women. Richies video tells the viewers that he is, in fact, a Duke and this gets him a date with a countess from Moldavia. He invites her to his place and arranges for Eddie to pretend to be his butler for the evening.

  • S02E02 Culture

    • October 8, 1992
    • BBC Two

    The boys' television has been repossessed and they are at a complete loss, they cannot find anything to keep them occupied, they have tried to do the crossword. Richie decides to challenge Eddie to a game of chess, even though they don't have all the pieces in their set! They decide to improvise and use various odd items to replace the missing pieces.

  • S02E03 Burglary

    • October 15, 1992
    • BBC Two

    A burglar breaks into Richie and Eddies place and manages to get caught by them. Once they have him tied up they have to decide what to do with him and the loot he has stolen from other houses.

  • S02E04 Parade

    • October 22, 1992
    • BBC Two

    Richie and Eddie are taken to the Police station to take part in an identity parade and find themselves in an argument with a Falklands war veteran over their participation in the war.

  • S02E05 Holy

    • October 29, 1992
    • BBC Two

    Eddie and Richie celebrate Christmas by inviting Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog around for Christmas dinner and a day of fun and games. After a knock at the door Richie finds a baby left on their doorstep. Due to a few misperceptions Richie believes the baby is the Second Coming of Jesus.

  • S02E06 's Out

    • April 10, 1995
    • BBC Two

    After losing a bet, Richie and Eddie are forced to spend a week camping in Wimbledon Common, and the only supplies they have are a tin opener and a packet of chocolate Hob-Nobs. However, their food problems may soon be solved, as Eddie plans on eating a Womble!

Season 3

  • S03E01 Hole

    • January 6, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Richie and Eddie are stranded on the big wheel at the fairground. It gets worse - the wheel is due to be demolished the next day!

  • S03E02 Terror

    • January 13, 1995
    • BBC Two

    It is Halloween. After losing the "Spot the Balls" competition and visited by trick or treaters. Richie and Eddie decides to put on their own Halloween party. Where they go off trick or treating, Richie is dressed up as a devil and Eddie is dressed up as a banana, armed with a electric cattle prod, they go to get some money for beer. When Richie and Eddie invite Spudgun and Hedgehog, Richie decides to raise the Devil, so he can have sex with girls in exchange for his soul. But the Devil arrives in the form of Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen.

  • S03E03 Break

    • January 20, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Richie and Eddie are going on holiday to Bridlington! Well, actually to Doncaster only 25 miles away . Excited about the holiday, Richie and Eddie begin planning their holiday and decide what they are going to do and what they are going to take with them.

  • S03E04 Dough

    • January 27, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Eddie has been spending a lot of time in his room and Richie finds that he has been printing fake money. Unfortunately local counterfeiter "The Skullcrusher" is not amused and demands money. Luckily the pub quiz night could be their salvation.

  • S03E05 Finger

    • February 3, 1995
    • BBC Two

    After coming home from a cricket match, Richie learns Eddie has stolen 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones car keys, and learn that he is getting married to a woman who looks like Ted Rogers. Richie and Eddie steal the car and end up at a hotel where they pretend to be husband and wife.

  • S03E06 Carnival

    • February 10, 1995
    • BBC Two

    It is the annual Hammersmith carnival, where the local residents take part in riots, and Richie and Eddie find their flat window to be the best place to watch from. After going looting, Eddie learns Richie has stolen a BBC camera, and they decide to make money recording their own films. They are unaware that the camera contains a dirty video of the Prime Minister.

  • SPECIAL 0x17 Bottom: Exposed

    • April 19, 2024

    Adrian Edmondson gives a first-hand account of making the hit show, Bottom, with the late, great Rik Mayall, alongside contributions from a host of the show's cast, crew and famous fans.

  • SPECIAL 0x18 Digger (Extended)

    • April 19, 2024

    Extended cut of Season 2, Episode 1.

  • SPECIAL 0x19 Holy (Extended)

    • April 19, 2024

    Extended cut of Season 2, Episode 5.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Bottom Live

    • September 27, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour

    • October 1, 1995
    • BBC Two

    The first Bottom Live was squalid, violent and downright hilarious - The Big Number 2 Tour Live is all that and more. Filmed during the 1995 sell out nationwide tour which left over 500,000 fans standing on their seats and screaming for more, The Big Number 2 Tour features Adrian Edmonson as Eddie and Rik Mayall as Richie at their most demoniacal, violent and uncensored best. The problem is sex! From the Queen to a sheep, they desperately and catastrophically try to press the flesh at every available opportunity whilst farting, fighting and cursing their way through their disgusting and sleazy lives. Bottom Live "The Big Number 2 Tour", is the funniest and most outrageous comedy you will ever see. Grab your Bottom now.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Bottom Live 3: Hooligans Island

    • October 1, 1997
    • BBC Two

    Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson are back - even bigger and more Bottomly than ever - with Bottom Live 3 Hooligan's Island. Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour we find Richie and Eddie marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific. Will they build a raft and escape? Grasp the opportunity to embrace the earthly paradise around them? Or will they simply bicker and fart, fight, puke, poke and masturbate their way through 100 minutes of the most hilariously outrageous live situation comedy on offer in Britain today?

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

    • October 1, 2001
    • BBC Two

    You laughed at their antics in 'The Young Ones'. You loved them as the Dangerous Brothers. You enjoyed their gross-out humour as Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler in 'Bottom' on the telly. Then it got even better when they took their 'Bottom' show on the road - live, with loads of improvised moments of hilarity. Now it's Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in their biggest ever tour - 'Bottom Live 4'. This is the recorded version of their most recent show, entitled '2001 - An Arse Oddity'. It's their first time working together since making the film 'Guest House Paradiso' in 1999, so you know you're in for a bloody good time.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

    • October 1, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson star as the criminally insane no-hopers Richie and Eddie, who plan to save the world (and possibly destroy it trying) from a conflict much bigger than a mere Gulf War - the fight between good and underpants. Eddie has invented a time travelling toilet to help them along the way...

  • SPECIAL 0x6 25 Years of Mindless Violence

    • January 1, 2004
    • BBC Two

    For 25 years, Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson have been kicking the s**t out of each other: on TV, on tape and on the stage... This is a definitive anthology of those eye-watering moments: 25 years of thwacking, headbutting and gouging, bottling, brick lobbing, attempted dentistry with spades, setting each other on fire, and removing vital organs with ordinary household objects... Every single gouge, punch and belt, not only from the three TV series of Bottom and the five Bottom Live videos, but also from The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap, The Dangerous Brothers and The Comic Strip Presents...the meat hooks up the nose, the thong removal with an oxyacetylene torch, the blazing farts after eating 'The Sprouts of Doom', Vyvyan kicking his head down the railway track, the 'Towering Inferno' impression that went wrong... Watch if your testicles dare - It's a screaming hardcore pile of b*ll*@ks from hell.

  • SPECIAL 0x7 Guest House Paradiso

    • March 12, 1999
    • BBC Two

    Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!

  • SPECIAL 0x8 Fluff - Series 1

    • November 4, 1996
    • BBC Two

    Meet Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler, two pimples on life's bottom - whose ever desperate search for cash, women and the good life had established them as the most disgusting, repulsive, needlessly violent losers on television. So when, during recordings, Rik and Ade mess up, miss cues, forget lines, or reach for misplaced props, are they contrite, polite, discreet and charming? ARE THEY F**K! Such antics are merely the spur to the juvenile sniggers, competitive swearing, two fingered and other hand salutes and ad-libs too disgusting to find their way to the screen. So whether you're a dedicated Bottom delver or just pick at an occasional Bottom, this is your backstage pass to the most bad-arsed comedy of the 90s - a collection of bloopers, out takes, corpses and more than a fair share of pure ring-tingling- bollock-ups that are right up your alley.

  • SPECIAL 0x9 Fluff - Series 2

    • November 4, 1996
    • BBC Two

    Meet Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler, two pimples on life's bottom - whose ever desperate search for cash, women and the good life had established them as the most disgusting, repulsive, needlessly violent losers on television. So when, during recordings, Rik and Ade mess up, miss cues, forget lines, or reach for misplaced props, are they contrite, polite, discreet and charming? ARE THEY F**K! Such antics are merely the spur to the juvenile sniggers, competitive swearing, two fingered and other hand salutes and ad-libs too disgusting to find their way to the screen. So whether you're a dedicated Bottom delver or just a pick at an occasional Bottom, this is your backstage pass to the most bad-arsed comedy of the 90s - a collection of bloopers, out takes, corpses and more than a fair share of pure ring-tingling bollock-ups that are right up your alley.

  • SPECIAL 0x10 Fluff - Series 3

    • November 4, 1996
    • BBC Two

    Meet Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler, two pimples on life's bottom - whose ever desperate search for cash, women and the good life had established them as the most disgusting, repulsive, needlessly violent losers on television. So when, during recordings, Rik and Ade mess up, miss cues, forget lines, or reach for misplaced props, are they contrite, polite, discreet and charming? ARE THEY F**K! Such antics are merely the spur to the juvenile sniggers, competitive swearing, two fingered and other hand salutes and ad-libs too disgusting to find their way to the screen. So whether you're a dedicated Bottom delver or just pick at an occasional Bottom, this is your backstage pass to the most bad-arsed comedy of the 90s - a collection of bloopers, out takes, corpses and more than a fair share of pure ring-tingling bollock-ups that are right up your alley.

  • SPECIAL 0x11 Big Bottom Live (The Best Of)

    • November 15, 1999
    • BBC Two

    This combination of all the best bits of their three live performances and the making of Guest House Paradiso is superb. The countless sexual inuendos, bottom burps and violent toilet humour is cleverly followed by the making of their film. It contains footage on how they achieved all the special effects including the shooting green vomit and Richie (Rik Mayall) being blown up in a red rubber suit. A great video from the kings of alternative comedy

  • SPECIAL 0x12 The Dangerous Brothers Present World of Danger

    • August 18, 1993
    • BBC Two

    The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous". They appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live. The act was, in essence, a prototype of the career which the pair were to forge over the next twenty years in such shows as Mr Jolly Lives Next Door; Filthy, Rich and Catflap; and Bottom- two low-life loser perverts hitting each other in spectacular slapstick ways. It was arguably more hazardous than much of the material which was to follow in later incarnations - stage props in the brief run included a live (and very large, although apparently lethargic) crocodile, blank-firing submachine guns, and Edmondson apparently consuming Vim, a well-known UK brand of powder toilet cleaner. One of the early sketches went wrong when a stunt to set fire to Edmondson's trousers left him with serious burns - although much of this was left on the broadcast version. Sketches included World Of Danger (AKA The Towering Inferno) Big Stunt Torture - featuring Norman Lovett Crocodile Snogging (which featured a live crocodile) Flying Zebra Exploding Politicians (in which Richard Dangerous attempts to become the 41st President of the United States of America) How To Get Off With A Lady - featuring Edmondson's wife Jennifer Saunders Babysitting - featuring Morwenna Banks as the wife and John Bird as the husband. Dangervision Kinky Sex One sketch guest-starred Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie. When the Dangerous Brothers interrupt their flower arranging routine, Fry & Laurie inform them they have been banned. The Brothers leave, only to return moments later disguised as The Ben Elton Brothers. One of the final sketches prepared for Saturday Live was entitled 'Kinky Sex'. This fell foul of Channel 4 censors who banned it. The duo responded by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on whi

  • SPECIAL 0x13 Guest House Paradiso - Making Of

    • BBC Two

  • SPECIAL 0x14 Guest House Paradiso - Outtakes

    • BBC Two
  • SPECIAL 0x15 Guest House Paradiso - Trailer

    • BBC Two
  • SPECIAL 0x16 Peter Cook Posthumous Tribute

    Rik and Ade's sketch from the Peter Cook Posthumous Tribute.