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Season 1

  • S01E01 342 spare olympic medals

    • May 12, 1984
    • Channel 4

    A Camping Holiday in Beirut. The first of a new series which will pose such crucial questions as: What do solicitors do for their money? Is the London Marathon your body's way of telling you to stay in bed? Answers to these and many more in this unexpurgated, unrepeatable comedy. [source: TV Times]

  • S01E02 a sunshine cruise in the Persian Gulf

    • May 19, 1984
    • Channel 4

    A Ticket for the Cup Final. Football fans should not miss this golden opportunity to go to Wembley and actually watch some football rather than a procession of TV commentators interviewing players' wives, children, Jack Russell terriers and favourite bits of furniture. [source: TV Times]

  • S01E03 a quiet meal for two with Princess Di's brother

    • May 26, 1984
    • Channel 4

    A British Passport. Yes, this week you can win the chance to become a true-blue Brit, if you can run the 100 metres in under nine seconds, play cricket without tripping over your laces, or beat the world at flower-arranging, bathroom-decorating, long-distance spitting, cracks-in-the-pavement dodging, or heavy-weight tantrum throwing. [source: TV Times]

  • S01E04 Prime Minister Botha's reggae collection

    • June 2, 1984
    • Channel 4

    A Racehorse. An Earthly out of Comatose Donkey. This fine specimen of equine grace could catapult you to fame and fortune. He could immortalise you in the winners' enclosure at the Derby. [source: TV Times]

  • S01E05 a job on 'Sixty Minutes'

    • June 9, 1984
    • Channel 4

    Frank Bough's Cardigan. This you can't miss. For the first time 'Frank Bough' talks openly about his cardigan: the early days, the ups, the downs, the buttons and the little piece of wool that hangs off the sleeve and really irritates him. Also, in tonight's programme, exclusive film of a cabinet minister's lobotomy. [source: TV Times]

  • S01E06 London Bridge (slightly damaged)

    • June 16, 1984
    • Channel 4

    A Night of Sexual Abandon. If you've got sexual problems, this programme could possibly make them worse for you with another hour of unexpurgated late-night comedy. [source: TV Times]

  • S01E07 a camping holiday with Leon Brittan

    • June 23, 1984
    • Channel 4

    Martina Navratilova's Wristband. A special Wimbledon edition asks important questions such as: Why does a certain tennis player grunt like a ruptured buffalo every time he serves? And most important of all: Why doesn't a top commentator take those marbles out of his mouth? [source: TV Times]

  • S01E08 John McEnroe's charm guide

    • June 30, 1984
    • Channel 4

    A Mysterious Rash. The last in this series of useful tips for hypochondriacs looks at the link between a certain astrologer and migraines. Plus, how to develop a phantom hernia, and three ways to turn yellow. So tune in and find out some painless ways to get time off work. [source: TV Times]

Season 2

  • S02E01 A Prawn Biryani with Enoch Powell

    • November 2, 1985
    • Channel 4

    Sex, Death, Religion. These are just some of the very serious topics that will be treated in a totally irresponsible and frivolous way by this late-night comedy team, returning to your screen after a short sabbatical spent in various psychiatric institutions around the country. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E02 Jeffrey Archer (booby prize)

    • November 9, 1985
    • Channel 4

    Comedy mayhem with punchlines such as 'Arsenal, but I'm not hungry' and 'Do you mind lying still while I have one?'. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E03 Ronald Reagan's Beach Boys Albums

    • November 16, 1985
    • Channel 4

    Late night comedy with the Who Dares Wins team. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E04 Derek Hatton's White Flag

    • November 23, 1985
    • Channel 4

    Stress? Nausea? Pain in the back of the neck? Tense nervous headache? Yes, any of these things can be yours, completely free of charge, if you watch 'Who Dares Wins...' the late-night comedy show that can damage your mental health. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E05 Show 5

    • November 30, 1985
    • Channel 4

    Sex, death, disease, amputation, Noel Edmonds - all this and much, much more in this week's show. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E06 Michael Heseltine's Rag Doll

    • December 7, 1985
    • Channel 4

    The late-night comedy show watched exclusively by sophisticated, highly intelligent people who like jokes about Jeffrey Archer, sex and death. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E07 Lord Hailsham's Marbles

    • December 14, 1985
    • Channel 4

    Another visit to the comedy team who are fighting to overcome their psychiatric problems by telling jokes in bad taste. This week watch out for a totally unfair and gratuitous joke about Jeremy Beadle. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E08 A season ticket for Swansea City

    • December 21, 1985
    • Channel 4

    The team celebrates Yuletide with a Herod's eye view of Christmas and melts down Chas and Dave records. Last of the series. [source: TV Times]

  • S02E09 compilation

    • October 25, 1986
    • Channel 4

Season 3

  • S03E01 Edwina Currie's Broomstick

    • November 1, 1986
    • Channel 4

    The return of the disreputable comedy show which has everything - laughter, gaiety, music, rabies and a guest appearance by Edwina Currie.

  • S03E02 Show 2

    • November 8, 1986
    • Channel 4

    More of the disreputable late night comedy show aimed at an audience of insomniacs and viewers too drunk to go to bed. [source: TV Times]

  • S03E03 Show 3

    • November 15, 1986
    • Channel 4

    This late-night comedy show is a Who Dares Wins Special to celebrate the 100th anniversary of that momentous day when the scientist Alexander Fleming discovered that if you left bread in a dish for several weeks it produced a British Rail ploughman's lunch. [source: TV Times]

  • S03E04 Show 4

    • November 22, 1986
    • Channel 4

    The late-night comedy series which was recently voted 'Best Comedy Programme Featuring a Grown Man Dressed Up In a Silly Costume Pretending To Be a Frog'. [source: TV Times]

  • S03E05 Show 5

    • November 29, 1986
    • Channel 4

    Tonight's comedy show includes useful tips on how to maim a disc jockey and avoid criminal prosecution. [source: TV Times]

  • S03E06 Show 6

    • December 6, 1986
    • Channel 4

    Warning - this show is totally unsuitable for anyone called Derek who works in insurance and plays squash. For the rest of you, tonight's show traces the statistical relationship between brain deaths and Arsenal's home fixtures. [source: TV Times]

  • S03E07 Show 7

    • December 13, 1986
    • Channel 4

    Those zany happy wacky funsters appear on your screens again, then get killed by the Who Dares Wins team, who do the rest of the show. [source: TV Times]

  • S03E08 Show 8

    • December 20, 1986
    • Channel 4

    The last in the present series of this universally acclaimed comedy programme. The cast is now available for children's parties, wedding receptions, etc... [source: TV Times]

Season 4

  • S04E01 Show 1

    • April 20, 1988
    • Channel 4

    It's back! The first of a new series of the comedy show that's a must for all intelligent, witty, dynamic, good-looking, sexually attractive people. As for the rest of you, there's probably Indoor Bowls on BBC, unless that's too racy for you. [source: TV Times]

  • S04E02 Show 2

    • April 27, 1988
    • Channel 4

    The story so far: Brad has been abducted by alien beings who want him to mend the windscreen wipers on their spaceship, while Loretta, the glamorous starlet, has begun a doomed relationship with a lesbian warthog.. I'm dreadfully sorry, this is the billing for Santa Barbara. It should say 'Don't miss Who Dares Wins, the very funny comedy show'. I blame the computer. [source: TV Times]

  • S04E03 Show 3

    • May 4, 1988
    • Channel 4

    Tonight, the complex issues of the Middle East, Nicaragua and Afghanistan. The team makes an in-depth analysis of these problems, decides they're too difficult and does lots of jokes instead. [source: TV Times]

  • S04E04 Show 4

    • May 11, 1988
    • Channel 4

    If you are a dull, repressed, drab, boring person who doesn't find anything in life at all funny then do not, repeat do not, watch Who Dares Wins, Channel 4's acclaimed comedy show. It will just upset you. [source: TV Times]

  • S04E05 Show 5

    • May 18, 1988
    • Channel 4

    This show has everything. Sketches, songs, slapstick, surrealism... um... I've run out of 'S' words. Anyway, don't miss the internationally acclaimed comedy show. (Due to the indisposition of Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone and Lassie, their parts will be played by members of the Who Dares Wins team.) [source: TV Times]

  • S04E06 Show 6

    • May 25, 1988
    • Channel 4

    Show 6, and the last of this internationally acclaimed comedy series. The cast of Who Dares Wins are now available for panto. Also for weddings, funerals, baptisms, circumcisions, children's parties, barmitzvahs, SDP conferences, chicken-sexing competitions and gala fridge-openings. All correspondence to Channel Four. [source: TV Times]

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