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• Of Funerals And Fish (4 Jan 73)

Series 1

1. Short Back and Palais Glide (12 Nov 73)
2. Inventor Of The Forty Foot Ferret (19 Nov 73)
3. Pate And Chips (26 Nov 73)
4. Spring Fever (3 Dec 73)
5. The New Mobile Trio (10 Dec 73)
6. Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts (17 Dec 73)

Series 2

1. Forked Lightning (5 Mar 75)
2. Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty, Then? (12 Mar 75)
3. The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire (19 Mar 75)
4. Some Enchanted Evening (26 Mar 75)
5. A Quiet Drink (2 Apr 75)
6. Ballad For Wind Instruments And Canoe (9 Apr 75)
7. Northern Flying Circus (16 Apr 75)

Series 3

1. The Man From Oswestry (27 Oct 76)
2. Mending Stuart's Leg (3 Nov 76)
3. The Great Boarding-House Bathroom Caper (10 Nov 76)
4. Cheering Up Gordon (17 Nov 76)
5. The Kink In Foggy's Niblick (24 Nov 76)
6. Going To Gordon's Wedding (1 Dec 76)
7. Isometrics And After (8 Dec 76)

Series 4

1. Ferret Come Home (9 Nov 77)
2. Getting On Sydney's Wire (16 Nov 77)
3. Jubilee (23 Nov 77)
4. Flower Power Cut (30 Nov 77)
5. Who Made A Bit Of A Splash In Wales, Then? (7 Dec 77)
6. Greenfingers (14 Dec 77)
7. The Bandit From Stoke-On-Trent (4 Jan 78)

Special

• A Merry Heatwave (1 Jan 78)

Special

• Small Tune On A Penny Wassail (26 Dec 78)

Series 5

1. Full Steam Behind (18 Sep 79)
2. The Flag And Its Snag (25 Sep 79)
3. The Flag And Further Snags (2 Oct 79)
4. Deep In The Heart Of Yorkshire (9 Oct 79)
5. Earnshaw Strikes Again (16 Oct 79)
6. Here We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder (23 Oct 79)
7. Here We Go Again Into The Wild Blue Yonder (30 Oct 79)

Special

• And A Dewhirst Up A Fir Tree (27 Dec 79)

Special

• Whoops (25 Dec 81)

Series 6

1. In The Service Of Humanity (4 Jan 82)
2. Car And Garter (11 Jan 82)
3. The Odd Dog Men (18 Jan 82)
4. A Bicycle Made For Three (25 Jan 82)
5. One Of The Last Few Places Unexplored By Man (1 Feb 82)
6. Serenade For Tight Jeans And Metal Detector (8 Feb 82)
7. From Wellies To Wet Suit (15 Feb 82)

Special

• All Mod Conned (25 Dec 82)

Series 7

1. The Frozen Turkey Man (30 Jan 83)
2. The White Man's Grave (6 Feb 83)
3. The Waist Land (13 Feb 83)
4. Cheering Up Ludovic (20 Feb 83)
5. The Three Astaires (27 Feb 83)
6. The Arts Of Concealment (6 Mar 83)

Special

• Getting Sam Home (27 Dec 83)

Special

• The Loxley Lozenge (30 Dec 84)

Series 8

1. The Mysterious Feet Of Nora Batty (10 Feb 85)
2. Keeping Britain Tidy (17 Feb 85)
3. Enter The Phantom (24 Feb 85)
4. Catching Digby's Donkey (3 Mar 85)
5. The Woollenmills Of Your Mind (10 Mar 85)
6. Who's Looking After The Cafe Then? (17 Mar 85)

Special

• Uncle Of The Bride (1 Jan 86)

Special

• Merry Christmas Father Christmas (28 Dec 86)

Series 9

1. Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings? (4 Jan 87)
2. The Heavily Reinforced Bottom (11 Jan 87)
3. Dried Dates And Codfanglers (18 Jan 87)
4. The Really Masculine Purse (25 Jan 87)
5. Who's Feeling Ejected, Then? (1 Feb 87)
6. The Ice-Cream Man Cometh (8 Feb 87)
7. Set The People Free (15 Feb 87)
8. Go With The Flow (22 Feb 87)
9. Jaws (1 Mar 87)
10. Edie And The Automobile (8 Mar 87)
11. Wind Power (15 Mar 87)
12. When You Take A Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible (22 Mar 87)

Series 10

1. The Experiment (16 Oct 88)
2. The Treasure Of The Deep (23 Oct 88)
3. Dancing Feet (30 Oct 88)
4. That Certain Smile (6 Nov 88)
5. Downhill Racer (13 Nov 88)
6. The Day Of The Welsh Ferret (20 Nov 88)

Special

• Big Day At Dream Acre (27 Dec 87)

Special

• Crums (24 Dec 88)

Series 11

1. Come Back Jack Harry Teesdale (15 Oct 89)
2. The Kiss And Mavis Poskit (22 Oct 89)
3. Oh Shut Up And Eat Your Choc Ice (29 Oct 89)
4. Who's That Bloke With Nora Batty, Then? (5 Nov 89)
5. Happy Anniversary, Gough And Jessie (12 Nov 89)
6. Getting Barry Higher In The World (19 Nov 89)
7. Three Men And A Mangle (26 Nov 89)

Special

• What's Santa Brought For Nora, Then? (23 Dec 89)

Series 12

1. Return of the Warrior (2 Sep 90)
2. Come In Sunray Major (9 Sep 90)
3. The Charity Balls (16 Sep 90)
4. Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous (23 Sep 90)
5. That's Not Captain Zero (30 Sep 90)
6. Das (Welly) Boot (7 Oct 90)
7. The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built (14 Oct 90)
8. The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression (21 Oct 90)
9. Roll On (28 Oct 90)
10. A Landlady For Smiler (4 Nov 90)

Special

• Barry's Christmas (27 Dec 90)

Series 13

1. Quick, Quick, Slow (18 Oct 91)
2. Give Us A Lift (25 Oct 91)
3. Was That Nora Batty Singing? (1 Nov 91)
4. Cashflow Problems (8 Nov 91)
5. Passing The Earring (15 Nov 91)
6. Pole Star (29 Nov 91)

Special

• Situations Vacant (22 Dec 91)

Series 14

1. By The Magnificent Thighs Of Ernie Burniston (25 Oct 92)
2. Errol Flynn Used To Have A Pair Like That (1 Nov 92)
3. The Phantom Of The Graveyard (8 Nov 92)
4. The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer (15 Nov 92)
5. Ordeal By Trousers (22 Nov 92)
6. Happy Birthday Howard (29 Nov 92)
7. Who's Got Rhythm? (6 Dec 92)
8. Camera Shy (13 Dec 92)
9. Wheelies (20 Dec 92)

Special

• Stop That Castle! (26 Dec 92)

Series 15

1. How To Clear Your Pipes (24 Oct 93)
2. Where There's Smoke There's Barbeque (31 Oct 93)
3. The Black Widow (7 Nov 93)
4. Have You Got A Light Mate? (14 Nov 93)
5. Concerto For Solo Bicycle (21 Nov 93)
6. Stop That Bath (28 Nov 93)
7. Springing Smiler (5 Dec 93)
8. There Are Gypsies At The Bottom Of Our Garden (12 Dec 93)
9. Aladdin Gets On Your Wick (19 Dec 93)

Special

• Welcome To Earth (27 Dec 93)

Special

• The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti (1 Jan 95)

Series 16

1. The Glory Hole (8 Jan 95)
2. Adopted By A Stray (15 Jan 95)
3. The Defeat Of The Stoneworm (22 Jan 95)
4. Once In A Moonlit Junkyard (29 Jan 95)
5. The Space Ace (5 Feb 95)
6. The Most Powerful Eyeballs In West Yorkshire (12 Feb 95)
7. The Dewhirsts Of Ogleby Hall (19 Feb 95)
8. The Sweet Smell Of Excess (26 Feb 95)

Series 17

1. Leaving Home Forever Or Till Teatime (3 Sep 95)
2. Bicycle Bonanza (10 Sep 95)
3. The Glamour Of The Uniform (17 Sep 95)
4. The First Human Being To Ride A Hill (24 Sep 95)
5. Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure (1 Oct 95)
6. Desperate For A Duffield (8 Oct 95)
7. The Suit That Turned Left (15 Oct 95)
8. Beware Of The Elbow (22 Oct 95)
9. The Thing In Wesley's Shed (29 Oct 95)
10. Brushes At Dawn (5 Nov 95)

Special

• A Leg Up For Christmas (24 Dec 95)

Special

• Extra! Extra! (29 Dec 96)

Series 18

1. The Love Mobile (20 Apr 97)
2. A Clean Sweep (27 Apr 97)
3. The Mysterious C.W. Northrop (4 May 97)
4. A Double For Howard (11 May 97)
5. How To Create A Monster (18 May 97)
6. Deviations With Davenport (25 May 97)
7. According To The Prophet Bickerdyke (1 Jun 97)
8. Next Kiss Please (8 Jun 97)
9. Destiny And Six Bananas (15 Jun 97)
10. A Sidecar Named Desire (22 Jun 97)

Special

• There Goes The Groom (28 Dec 97)

Series 19

1. Beware Of The Oglethorpe (4 Jan 98)
2. Tarzan Of The Towpath (11 Jan 98)
3. Truly And The Hole Truth (18 Jan 98)
4. Oh Howard, We Should Get One Of Those (25 Jan 98)
5. The Suit That Attracts Blondes (1 Feb 98)
6. The Only Diesel Saxophone In Captivity (8 Feb 98)
7. Perfection - Thy Name Is Ridley (15 Feb 98)
8. Nowhere Particular (22 Feb 98)
9. From Audrey Nash To The Widow Dilhooley (1 Mar 98)
10. Support Your Local Skydiver (8 Mar 98)

Series 20

1. The Pony Set (18 Apr 99)
2. How Errol Flynn Discovered The Secret Scar Of Nora Batty (25 Apr 99)
3. Who's Thrown Her Tom Cruise Photographs Away? (2 May 99)
4. What Happened To Barry's Nose? (16 May 99)
5. Optimism In The Housing Market (23 May 99)
6. Will Barry Go Septic Despite Listening To Classical Music? (30 May 99)
7. Beware The Vanilla Slice (6 Jun 99)
8. Howard Throws A Wobbler (13 Jun 99)
9. The Phantom Number 14 Bus (20 Jun 99)
10. Ironing Day (27 Jun 99)

Special

• Last Post And Pigeon (2 Jan 00)

Series 21

1. Lipstick And Other Problems (2 Apr 00)
2. Under The Rug (9 Apr 00)
3. Magic And The Morris Minor (16 Apr 00)
4. Elegy For Fallen Wellies (23 Apr 00)
5. Surprise At Throstlenest (30 Apr 00)
6. Just A Small Funeral (7 May 00)
7. From Here To Paternity (14 May 00)
8. Some Vans Can Make You Deaf (21 May 00)
9. Waggoner's Roll (28 May 00)
10. I Didn't Know Barry Could Play (4 Jun 00)

Series 22

1. Getting Barry's Goat (1 Apr 01)
2. The Art Of The Shorts Story (8 Apr 01)
3. The Missing Bus Of Mrs Avery (15 Apr 01)
4. Hey! Big Vendor (22 Apr 01)
5. Enter The Hawk (29 Apr 01)
6. Gnome And Away (6 May 01)
7. A Hair Of The Blonde That Bit You (13 May 01)
8. A White Sweater And A Solicitor's Letter (20 May 01)
9. Why Is Barry At An Angle? (27 May 01)
10. The Coming Of The Beast (3 Jun 01)

Special

• Potts In Pole Position (30 Dec 01)

Series 23

1. A Brief Excursion In The Fast Lane (6 Jan 02)
2. The Mystical Squeak Of Howard's Bicycle (13 Jan 02)
3. Mervyn Would Be Proud (20 Jan 02)
4. The Incredible Ordeal Of Norman Clegg (27 Jan 02)
5. Beware Of The Hot Dog (3 Feb 02)
6. In Search Of Childlike Joy And The Farthest Reaches
   Of The Lotus Position (10 Feb 02)
7. A Chaise Longue Too Far (17 Feb 02)
8. Exercising Father's Bicycle (24 Feb 02)
9. Sadly, Madly, Bradley (3 Mar 02)
10. It All Began With An Old Volvo Headlamp (10 Mar 02)

Special

• A Musical Passing For A Miserable Muscroft (29 Dec 02)

Series 24

1. The Lair Of The Cat Creature (5 Jan 03)
2. Ancient Eastern Wisdom - An Introduction (12 Jan 03)
3. A Pickup Of The Later Ming Dynasty (19 Jan 03)
4. The Secret Birthday Of Norman Clegg (26 Jan 03)
5. In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses The Gulf Stream (2 Feb 03)
6. The Miraculous Curing Of Old Goff Helliwell (9 Feb 03)
7. The Frenchies Are Coming (23 Feb 03)
8. The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff (2 Mar 03)
9. The Second Husband And The Showgirls (9 Mar 03)
10. All Of A Florrie (16 Mar 03)

Special

• A Short Blast Of Fred Astaire (21 Dec 03)

Series 25

1. Jurassic - No Parking (8 Feb 04)
2. The General's Greatest Battle (15 Feb 04)
3. Spores (29 Feb 04)
4. Happy Birthday, Robin Hood (7 Mar 04)
5. Who's That With Barry And Glenda? - It's Not Barry and Glenda (14 Mar 04)
6. An Apple A Day (21 Mar 04)
7. Barry Becomes A Psychopathic Killer But Only Part Time (28 Mar 04)
8. Things To Do When Your Wife Runs Off With A Turkish Waiter (4 Apr 04)
9. Beware Of Laughing At Nora's Hats (11 Apr 04)
10. Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful (18 Apr 04)

Special

• Variations On A Theme Of The Widow Winstanley (19 Dec 04)

Series 26

1. The Swan Man Of Ilkley (13 Mar 05)
2. Watching The Clock (20 Mar 05)
3. Has Anyone Seen A Peruvian Wart? (27 Mar 05)
4. Hermione (The Short Course) (10 Apr 05)
5. Who's That Mouse In The Poetry Group? (17 Apr 05)
6. Available For Weddings (24 Apr 05)
7. The McDonaghs Of Jamieson Street (1 May 05)
8. The Afterthoughts Of A Coop Manager (8 May 05)
9. Lot Number 8 (15 May 05)
10. Little Orphan Howard (29 May 05)

Special

• Happy Entwistle And Jackson Day (18 Dec 05)

Series 27

1. Follow That Bottle (5 Mar 06)
2. How To Remove A Cousin (12 Mar 06)
3. Has Anyone Seen Barry's Midlife Crisis? (19 Mar 06)
4. The Genuine Outdoors Robin Hood Barbi (26 Mar 06)
5. Barry In Danger Of Reading And Aunt Jessie (2 Apr 06)
6. Who's That Merry Man With Billy, Then? (9 Apr 06)
7. Who's That Talking To Lenny? (16 Apr 06)
8. Oh Look! Mitzi's Found Her Mummy (23 Apr 06)
9. Plenty Of Room In The Back (30 Apr 06)

Special

• A Tale Of Two Sweaters (28 Dec 06)

Series 28

1. The Second Stag Night Of Doggy Wilkinson (15 Jul 07)
2. What Happened To The Horse? (29 Jul 07)
3. Variations On A Theme Of Road Rage (5 Aug 07)
4. In Which Howard Gets Double Booked (12 Aug 07)
5. Will The Nearest Alien Please Come In (19 Aug 07)
6. Elegy For Small Creature And Clandestine Trackbike (26 Aug 07)
7. The Crowcroft Challenge (2 Sep 07)
8. Must Be Good Dancer (9 Sep 07)
9. In Which Howard Remembers Where He Left His Bicycle Pump (16 Sep 07)
10. Sinclair And The Wormley Witches (23 Sep 07)

Series 29

1. Enter The Finger (22 Jun 08)
2. Will The Genuine Racer Please Stand Up (29 Jun 08)
3. A Short Introduction To Cooper's Rules (6 Jul 08)
4. Is Jeremy Quite Safe? (13 Jul 08)
5. All That Glitters Is Not Elvis (20 Jul 08)
6. Eva's Back In Town (27 Jul 08)
7. In Which Romance Isn't Dead - Just Incompetent (3 Aug 08)
8. The Mischievous Tinkle In Howard's Eyes (10 Aug 08)
9. Of Passion And Pizza (17 Aug 08)
10. It's Never Ten Years (24 Aug 08)
11. Get Out Of That, Then (31 Aug 08)

Special

• I Was A Hitman For Primrose Dairies (31 Dec 08)

Series 30

1. Some Adventures Of The Inventor Of The Mother Stitch (19 Apr 09)
2. The Mother Of All Mistakes - Or Is It? (26 Apr 09)
3. Will Howard Cross The Atlantic Single-Handed? (3 May 09)
4. Who's That Looking Sideways At Nelly? (10 May 09)
5. Nobody Messes With Tony The Throat (17 May 09)
6. Will Stella Find True Love With Norris Fairburn? (24 May 09)
7. Will Randolph Make A Good Impression? (31 May 09)
8. In Which Romance Springs A Leak (7 Jun 09)
9. Variations On A Theme Of Father's Day (14 Jun 09)
10. Goodnight Sweet Ferret (21 Jun 09)

Series 31

1. Behind Every Bush There Is Not Necessarily A Howard (25 Jul 10)
2. Happy Camping (1 Aug 10)
3. The Rights Of Man (Except For Howard) (8 Aug 10)
4. Howard And The Great Outdoors (15 Aug 10)
5. Look Whose Wheel's Come Off (22 Aug 10)
6. How Not To Cry At Weddings (29 Aug 10)