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Harry & Paul is a BAFTA Award-winning British sketch comedy show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 13 April 2007. Prior to broadcast it was trailed as The Harry Enfield Show.
The show reunites the pair, who had success with Harry Enfield's Television Programme in the 1990s.
The second series of the programme began on BBC One on 5 September 2008. This was the last series from the comedy producer Geoffrey Perkins who died shortly before the programme's second series began. A third series was commissioned and began 28 September 2010 this time on BBC Two to where the show has been moved, because of falling ratings. The fourth series began broadcasting in October 2012.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01
Episode 1April 13, 2007—Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse star in a sketch show, joined by Morwenna Banks and Laura Solon. Characters include the Posh Scaffolders a - S01E02
Episode 2April 20, 2007—Characters include footballer Didier Peskovitch and his manager Jose Arrogantio. - S01E03
Episode 3April 27, 2007—New characters including Kenny Leyton the hopeless boxer, man in the kitchen Jasper Hazelnut and Seventies throwback the Barbican Man, as we - S01E04
Episode 4May 4, 2007—Didier Peskovitch falls foul of his girlfriend in a shopping centre. Nelson Mandela goes shoplifting, a gullible customer visits I Saw You C - S01E05
Episode 5May 11, 2007—New characters the Divorcing Couple join established favourites the Posh Scaffolders, the Computer Billionaires and the Ritchies. The Leccy - S01E06
Episode 6May 18, 2007—Featuring the Posh Scaffolders, Bono and The Edge, Nelson Mandela, Can't Back Down, Pik, the Surgeons, Madonna and Guy, the Computer Billion
Season02
- S02E01
Episode 1September 5, 2008—Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are back with a whole new range of characters in a new series of their sketch show. - S02E02
Episode 2September 12, 2008—There's a visit to an island owned by Jeremy Clarkson and the genial American tourists meet a British politician. - S02E03
Episode 3September 19, 2008—This episode features a 1930s' version of Basic Instinct and Tony Blair starting a new job in the City. - S02E04
Episode 4September 26, 2008—Pik, the friendly but stupid South African gym instructor, has a new American friend and England play Paquador in an important international - S02E05
Episode 5October 3, 2008—Jimmy Snazzbox MBE, a prolific television writer in the 1970s, waxes lyrical about his hit series Omni-busses; Alan Sugar meets the Dragons; - S02E06
Episode 6October 10, 2008—Gillian and Gerald take us on a tour of The Royal Henley Northerner Show 2008, while Nelson Mandela has an encounter with Margaret Thatcher.
Season03
- S03E01Episode 1September 28, 2010—Three generations of the Benefit family disrupt a peaceful library; the elderly Beatles attempt to escape hoards of old lady-boppers; the Dr
- S03E02Episode 2October 5, 2010—This week sees a return to the Seventies for On The Tardis; Parking Pataweyo breaks all records in a high-speed ticket-issuing stunt; two fo
- S03E03Episode 3October 12, 2010—Harry and Paul return for more character comedy.
- S03E04Episode 4October 19, 2010—Harry and Paul return for more character comedy.
- S03E05Episode 5October 26, 2010—The Chocolatier and his arch-rival the Cobblertier meet their nemesis, Marcus branches out from his I Saw You Coming shop with a new alterna
- S03E06Episode 6November 2, 2010—The Benefits appear on quiz show Ask the Dysfunctional Family, the Writer helps the landlady deal with her troublesome husband and all the m
Season04
- S04E01Episode 1October 28, 2012—Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse return in their BAFTA award-winning sketch show with new characters and old favourites. Featuring Victoria
- S04E02Episode 2November 4, 2012—The Minor Royals are confused by a homeless man, the Benefits family go shopping, and in 'When Life Was Simpler' the chaps plan a simple tri
- S04E03Episode 3November 11, 2012—The surgeons return to their youth as members of the Cambridge Footlights, the American cops get arrested, and Marcus meets his match in his
- S04E04Episode 4November 18, 2012—Harry and Paul re-invent themselves as Ricky Gervais, and the 1930s movie original of The King's Speech is unearthed along with 'Sherlock On
- S04E05Episode 5November 25, 2012—Ken and Bryan have an acrimonious split in the Dragons' Den, and we meet the surgeons' 19th-century ancestors.
- S04E06Episode 6December 1, 2012—Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse star in a compilation of some of the best sketches from their BAFTA award winning third series.
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