Crackanory

1. S01E01Bitter Tweet & What Peebee Did NextNovember 13, 2013—Are you sitting comfortably? Jackanory gets a reboot as famous faces read comic tales. Jack Dee and Sally Phillips narrate stories about a T
2. S01E02Fakespeare & What Do You Say?November 20, 2013—Rebecca Front reads a story about a hack writer who discovers a lost Shakespeare play. Kevin Eldon then narrates the tale of an ungrateful m
3. S01E03The Teacup Has Landed & Pleasure DomeNovember 27, 2013—Twisted tales read by Harry Enfield and Sarah Solemani. An office worker takes on a high-street coffee chain and a downtrodden librarian gai
4. S01E04The Translator & Road to HellDecember 4, 2013—When a hungover Sabine accidentally mis-translates an exchange at a diplomatic summit, she realizes she can influence world politics by bein
5. S01E05Becoming Zoe & My Former SelfDecember 11, 2013—An unremarkable postman turns himself into the perfect boyfriend for a girl he has fallen in love with by reading her mail and absorbing all
6. S01E06Head in the Clouds & the NewsreaderDecember 18, 2013—Stephen Mangan and Hugh Dennis narrate funny yarns about a newsreader interviewing an evil dictator and a care assistant who moonlights as a

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01In Space No One Can Hear You Clean & the Weather ManSeptember 24, 2014—A cleaner is accidentally launched into space and a weatherman finds that he can control the weather in darkly comic tales read by Vic Reeve
2. S02E02Man's Best Friend & Return to SenderOctober 1, 2014—A scientist creates the perfect wife - using his dog's brain and a prisoner escapes from jail by posting herself out in two twisted tales re
3. S02E03The Surprise & the Crisis PlanOctober 8, 2014—David Mitchell and Katherine Parkinson read two dark tales in which a group of party guests fear for their lives and the survivors of an ear
4. S02E04Self Storage & the Obituary WriterOctober 15, 2014—Johnny Vegas and Meera Syal read two more twisted tales of a man who finds relics from his dodgy past and a murderous obituary writer.
5. S02E05The Untangler & Murder He WroteOctober 22, 2014—A man with a gift for untangling things tries to woo a princess and a wife is framed for murder by her husband in two tales narrated by Warw
6. S02E06Let Me Be the Judge & I'm Still HereOctober 29, 2014—A TV talent show judge gets a taste of their own medicine and a street performer poses as a statue in order to foil an art heist in two more

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01Uncivil War & Dread and BreakfastDecember 7, 2015—Things get out of control at a historical re-enactment group when evidence suggests history may have taken a different course. A young coupl
2. S03E02The Catchment Area & the Frogbeast of PontfiddDecember 8, 2015—A couple desperate to get their 'gifted' daughter into the best local school move into a makeshift camp. In 1901, a photographer attempts to
3. S03E03The Zombie That Roared & the Sat Nav Did ItDecember 9, 2015—When his friend Craig is attacked by zombies, Brian swears to pick them off one by one. In the second tale a disgraced police detective thin
4. S03E04The Last Laugh & AbbatnoirDecember 10, 2015—An am-dram group must keep their audience laughing when a bomb is discovered. In the second story a girl gets a job at an abattoir but can't
5. S03E05The Truth About Suz & the Vexed MessageDecember 11, 2015—After lying to his colleagues about being married, Alan must find a date for the office awards night. A man gets into trouble when he sends
6. S03E06Unlucky for Sam & Bob's HouseDecember 12, 2015—A student tries to convince his superstitious, elderly landlady that her beliefs are unfounded. A man tries to prevent his girlfriend discov

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01A Close SlaveJanuary 30, 2017—In the household of a playwright in Ancient Rome, a slave helps his master to finish writing his latest opus. Little does the slave know tha
2. S04E02Living with a LieJanuary 31, 2017—A frustrated writer invents an elderly relative as an excuse to get time off work so that he can start work on his novel. When the doorbell
3. S04E03The Despot of TeaFebruary 1, 2017—An out of work actor agrees to take part in making an advert for tea in an isolated former Soviet-bloc country. Years later he returns to th
4. S04E04The SurvivorFebruary 2, 2017—In 1850, a man wakes from a long illness to find that he is being cared for by a group of strangers and a beautiful woman. If, as they insis
5. S04E05Proxy LadyFebruary 6, 2017—Beth is contacted out-of-the-blue by a reclusive woman who has used Beth's picture on a dating website. Now she wants Beth to pose as her an
6. S04E06Devil's HaircutFebruary 7, 2017—In New York City in the 1940s, the baritone in a barbershop quartet unwittingly agrees to sell his soul to the devil to make sure that his g
7. S04E07The DisappearanceFebruary 8, 2017—In London in 1910, an illusionist performs his famed "the lady vanishes" act. Only this time his assistant really has vanished without a tra
8. S04E08PickledFebruary 9, 2017—A down on his luck man, a former aristocrat who squandered away his fortune, stumbles upon an old house with a mysterious inhabitant.

Season 4 ranked & reviewed