The best episodes of Back
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- 01
Andrew has transformed the pub and a party is held for what would have been Laurie's 69th birthday, but Stephen finds out some big news about Andrew.
- 02
A rejuvenated Stephen heads back to the John Barleycorn, where pub landlord Andrew is feeling restricted
- 03
Andrew helps Alison's parents to make a life-changing decision. So Alison and Stephen conspire to solve the Andrew problem once and for all. Meanwhile, Geoff's relationship collapses.
- 04
Stephen and Alison try to track down Andrew's birth mother, but have they crossed a line?
- 05
After Andrew is left a share of the business in Laurie's will, he and Stephen have very different ideas about how to clear the pub's debts.
- 06
The foster-brothers are visiting the pub's suppliers and spreading news of Laurie's death. In trying to help Stephen get over Alison, Andrew reveals a shocking truth. Geoff has been left in charge of the pub and takes it back to the 70s.
- 07
Stephen wonders whether Charismatic Mike (Anthony Head), one of Ellen's ex-lovers, could be his biological father
- 08
The family set about clearing up after the disastrous pub fire, and Stephen makes some quite startling discoveries about life, death and Andrew.
- 09
Stephen's on a health kick, Cass embraces student living and Geoff has a dramatic change in his relationship status. But things soon start to unravel.
- 10
The Barleycorn is called upon to host a pub quiz. Can Stephen redeem himself after he fumbled the jackpot question and incurred his dad's fury last time?
- 11
Now he has a stake in the family business, Andrew decides to make drastic changes to the John Barleycorn pub in order to try and bring in a younger crowd.
- 12
After the loss of his father, Stephen is preparing to take over the family business but on the day of the funeral there is an unexpected mourner at the graveside whose reappearance changes everything.
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