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Harry & Paul

TV·2005–2012·4 seasons, 24 episodes·BBC One·Comedy·30m·Created by Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield

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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

Season016Episodes2007AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Harry & Paul S01E01Episode 1April 13, 2007Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse star in a sketch show, joined by Morwenna Banks and Laura Solon. Characters include the Posh Scaffolders a
  2. S01E02Harry & Paul S01E02Episode 2April 20, 2007Characters include footballer Didier Peskovitch and his manager Jose Arrogantio.
  3. S01E03Harry & Paul S01E03Episode 3April 27, 2007New characters including Kenny Leyton the hopeless boxer, man in the kitchen Jasper Hazelnut and Seventies throwback the Barbican Man, as we
  4. S01E04Harry & Paul S01E04Episode 4May 4, 2007Didier Peskovitch falls foul of his girlfriend in a shopping centre. Nelson Mandela goes shoplifting, a gullible customer visits I Saw You C
  5. S01E05Harry & Paul S01E05Episode 5May 11, 2007New characters the Divorcing Couple join established favourites the Posh Scaffolders, the Computer Billionaires and the Ritchies. The Leccy
  6. S01E06Harry & Paul S01E06Episode 6May 18, 2007Featuring the Posh Scaffolders, Bono and The Edge, Nelson Mandela, Can't Back Down, Pik, the Surgeons, Madonna and Guy, the Computer Billion

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season026Episodes2008AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Harry & Paul S02E01Episode 1September 5, 2008Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are back with a whole new range of characters in a new series of their sketch show.
  2. S02E02Harry & Paul S02E02Episode 2September 12, 2008There's a visit to an island owned by Jeremy Clarkson and the genial American tourists meet a British politician.
  3. S02E03Harry & Paul S02E03Episode 3September 19, 2008This episode features a 1930s' version of Basic Instinct and Tony Blair starting a new job in the City.
  4. S02E04Harry & Paul S02E04Episode 4September 26, 2008Pik, the friendly but stupid South African gym instructor, has a new American friend and England play Paquador in an important international
  5. S02E05Harry & Paul S02E05Episode 5October 3, 2008Jimmy Snazzbox MBE, a prolific television writer in the 1970s, waxes lyrical about his hit series Omni-busses; Alan Sugar meets the Dragons;
  6. S02E06Harry & Paul S02E06Episode 6October 10, 2008Gillian and Gerald take us on a tour of The Royal Henley Northerner Show 2008, while Nelson Mandela has an encounter with Margaret Thatcher.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season036Episodes2010AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Episode 1September 28, 2010Three generations of the Benefit family disrupt a peaceful library; the elderly Beatles attempt to escape hoards of old lady-boppers; the Dr
  2. S03E02Episode 2October 5, 2010This 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
  3. S03E03Episode 3October 12, 2010Harry and Paul return for more character comedy.
  4. S03E04Episode 4October 19, 2010Harry and Paul return for more character comedy.
  5. S03E05Episode 5October 26, 2010The Chocolatier and his arch-rival the Cobblertier meet their nemesis, Marcus branches out from his I Saw You Coming shop with a new alterna
  6. S03E06Episode 6November 2, 2010The Benefits appear on quiz show Ask the Dysfunctional Family, the Writer helps the landlady deal with her troublesome husband and all the m

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season046Episodes2012AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01Episode 1October 28, 2012Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse return in their BAFTA award-winning sketch show with new characters and old favourites. Featuring Victoria
  2. S04E02Episode 2November 4, 2012The 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
  3. S04E03Episode 3November 11, 2012The surgeons return to their youth as members of the Cambridge Footlights, the American cops get arrested, and Marcus meets his match in his
  4. S04E04Episode 4November 18, 2012Harry and Paul re-invent themselves as Ricky Gervais, and the 1930s movie original of The King's Speech is unearthed along with 'Sherlock On
  5. S04E05Episode 5November 25, 2012Ken and Bryan have an acrimonious split in the Dragons' Den, and we meet the surgeons' 19th-century ancestors.
  6. S04E06Episode 6December 1, 2012Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse star in a compilation of some of the best sketches from their BAFTA award winning third series.

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

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