SERIES 1 - First broadcast 1991

1. Smells

After yet another unsuccessful night out, Richie and Eddie decide upon a drastic course of action and venture to the local sex shop in pursuit of two cans of spray-on pheromone. Despite convincing themselves that their purchase has worked, the only thing it attracts is most of Hammersmith’s canine population.

First broadcast: 17th Sept 1991

2. Gas

When the meter-reader from the gas board interrupts their game of cards Richie and Eddie are reminded of the giant tube linking their gas supply to that of their neighbour, Mr. Rottweiler. They try to prevent the gas man discovering the real reason their meter reading is at ‘000000’, including beating him to near-death and planning to eat him, before breaking in next door to remove the source of the problem. The fact that their neighbour is in bed with a pretty girl provides a welcome obstacle to them completing the task in hand.

First broadcast: 24th Sept 1991

3. Contest

Eddie comes home in a bad mood after being stripped of his dole money for having ‘too many savings’, in actual fact the princely sum of eleven pounds eighty. It is then revealed, to Richie’s chagrin, that Eddie has wasted that as well, on a second hand ‘jazz mag’ and by putting a bet on Miss World. The latter ensures it is not too long before they are both eagerly watching the contest on TV to see if fate has smiled upon them. Unsurprisingly, it hasn’t.

First broadcast: 30th Sept 1991

4. Apocalypse

Richie’s routine call to scrounge money off his Auntie Olga leads to him making the pleasant discovery that she has died and left him a pile of cash, so within hours he and Eddie are down at the fairground blowing it all. When things go belly-up and they are forced to hide in a fortune-teller’s tent, Richie is not best pleased to hear that he is going to die within three days. Cue him frantically trying to preserve his meager existence, whilst Eddie hatches a plan to achieve the opposite.

First broadcast: 7th Oct 1991

5. ‘S Up

Eddie and Richie’s typically slovenly Sunday is rudely interrupted when their landlord bursts through the door in a panic. However Mr Harrison is more than welcome when they discover that he isn’t after the rent money, but that he needs them to cover for him in the corner shop while he attends his mother’s funeral, which he forgot all about. Of course within about ten minutes the lazy pair have emigrated to the building’s roof to watch the cricket, making for interesting proceedings below.

First broadcast: 14th Oct 1991

6. Accident

It is Richie’s birthday and he has recycled the usual fictitious birthday cards he often sends to himself in an attempt to look popular. This of course is driving Eddie up the wall, so he is not overly concerned when Richie falls and breaks his leg, putting him in a wheelchair. This does not stop him throwing a disastrous party, in which Eddie, Spudgun and Hedgehog decide they enjoy themselves infinitely more when Richie is locked in the airing cupboard.

First broadcast: 28th Oct 1991