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Tue, Sep 17, 1991
  • Comedy
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Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

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Cast

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  • Adrian Edmondson
    Adrian Edmondson
    as Edward Elizabeth Hitler
  • Rik Mayall
    Rik Mayall
    as Richard Richard
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Episodes

3 seasons · 18 episodes

Ended · 18 aired
Season 1
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Smells
    Aired · Tue, Sep 17, 1991 · 30m

    Richie buys visits a sex shop to buy some Pakistani pheromones promised to drive women wild, but his night at the pub is less than successful.

  • E2
    Gas
    Aired · Tue, Sep 24, 1991 · 30m

    When the gas man comes around to investigate some suspicious figures, Richie and Eddie have 6 hours, 27 minutes to disconnect the line they illegally connected to next door's mains, which means breaking into the house of the fearsome Mr Rottweiler and his new lady friend.

  • E3
    Contest
    Aired · Tue, Oct 1, 1991 · 30m

    Eddie comes home broke, having spent the pairs' money on pornography to someday show his grandchildren and a large bet on the Miss World contest. The two watch with bated breath as Richie laments his life of unappreciated servitude and Eddie tries to ignore him.

  • E4
    Apocalypse
    Aired · Tue, Oct 8, 1991 · 30m

    An gypsy warns Richie that he will die within 3 days.

  • E5
    's Up
    Aired · Tue, Oct 15, 1991 · 30m

    Having agreed to mind their landlord's shop, the lads are soon at odds with the local community, as well as a gang of looters.

  • E6
    Accident
    Aired · Tue, Oct 29, 1991 · 30m

    The saddest man on Earth has a birthday. Can it get any worse? Richie discovers to his cost that it can.

Season 2
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Digger
    Aired · Thu, Oct 1, 1992 · 30m

    With the aid of modern technology, the Linneker dating agency gives Richie the chance to achieve his life's ambition - to have sex. But will he succeed? If the plot flops, Eddie's on hand to take advantage.

  • E2
    Culture
    Aired · Thu, Oct 8, 1992 · 30m

    Richie and Eddie's TV is taken away. Before the evening is out, they could become chess grand masters or, failing that, go completely bonkers.

  • E3
    Burglary
    Aired · Thu, Oct 15, 1992 · 30m

    Richie and Eddie catch a burglar in the act and resolve to him and flee with his sack of stolen goods, if only they can keep the police off their backs.

  • E4
    Parade
    Aired · Thu, Oct 22, 1992 · 30m

    Richie helps the police with their enquiries, meets a war veteran, and continues to have trouble with the opposite sex.

  • E5
    Holy
    Aired · Thu, Oct 29, 1992 · 30m

    Richie discovers a baby on the doorstep.

  • E6
    's Out
    Aired · Mon, Apr 10, 1995 · 30m

    Richie and Eddie decide to spend two weeks camping in the country, in an inadequate tent, with no food, no money and no chance of survival.

Season 3
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    Hole
    Aired · Fri, Jan 6, 1995 · 30m

    Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler are trapped on a Ferris Wheel - unaware that it's due to be demolished the next morning. They're forced into putting up with one another but thankfully for Eddie, he hasn't forgotten his booze!

  • E2
    Terror
    Aired · Fri, Jan 13, 1995 · 30m

    Following a nasty incident with three small children and a pitchfork on Halloween, Eddie and Richie come to realise the cash potential of trick-or-treating - especially if an electric cattle prod is used on the unwilling.

  • E3
    Break
    Aired · Fri, Jan 20, 1995 · 30m

    Richie and Eddie prepare for their holiday with a vigorous new fitness regime. But not all goes according to plan.

  • E4
    Dough
    Aired · Fri, Jan 27, 1995 · 30m

    Richie has devised a get-rich-quick plan of his own.

  • E5
    Finger
    Aired · Fri, Feb 3, 1995 · 30m

    Eddie and Richie get their revenge on Taffy O'Jones by stealing his honeymoon tickets and making off to the Marvelloso Spendido Hotel to pose as Mr and Mrs O'Jones.

  • E6
    Carnival
    Aired · Fri, Feb 10, 1995 · 30m

    When the local carnival inevitably descends into rioting, Richie loots a BBC van, scoring himself a camera. He and Eddie set about filming their own television shows, but the project rapidly derails into a scheme to blackmail the Prime Minister.