Episode 1
Hole
30m7.9 / 10
Richie and Eddie are stranded on the big wheel at the fairground. It gets worse - the wheel is due to be demolished the next day!
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Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall
TV series
Bottom
1991TV-143 seasons7.9 / 10
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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Synopsis
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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Episode 2
Terror
30m8.3 / 10
It is Halloween. After losing the "Spot the Balls" competition and visited by trick or treaters. Richie and Eddie decides to put on their own Halloween party. Where they go off trick or treating, Richie is dressed up as a devil and Eddie is dressed up as a banana, armed with a electric cattle prod, they go to get some money for beer. When Richie and Eddie invite Spudgun and Hedgehog, Richie decides to raise the Devil, so he can have sex with girls in exchange for his soul. But the Devil arrives in the form of Dave Hedgehog's daughter Doreen.
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Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Adrian Edmondson, Rik MayallGuest stars Christopher Ryan, Steven O'Donnell, Lisa Coleman
Episode 3
Break
30m6.9 / 10
Richie and Eddie are going on holiday in Doncaster and they begin to plan what they are going to do and what they are going to take with them.
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Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Adrian Edmondson, Rik MayallGuest stars John Abbott, Jo-Anne Stockham
Episode 4
Dough
30m7.1 / 10
Eddie has been spending a lot of time in his room and Richie finds that he has been printing fake money. Unfortunately local counterfeiter "The Skullcrusher" is not amused and demands money. Luckily the pub quiz night could be their salvation.
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Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Adrian Edmondson, Rik MayallGuest stars Lee Cornes, Christopher Ryan, Steven O'Donnell, Lucy Benjamin, Robert McKewley, Amy Marsden, Peter Geeves, Chris Sanders
Episode 5
Finger
30m8.7 / 10
After coming home from a cricket match, Richie learns Eddie has stolen 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones car keys and they learn 'Cannonball' Taffy O' Jones is getting married to a woman who looks like Ted Rogers. Richie and Eddie steals the car and end up at a hotel where they pretend to a husband and wife.
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Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Adrian Edmondson, Rik MayallGuest stars Victor Spinetti, Kevin Allen, Caroline Gruber, Gareth Marks, Rupert Rainsford, Sue Scott Davison
Episode 6
Carnival
30m8.5 / 10finale
It is the annual Hammersmith carnival where the local residents take part in riots and Richie and Eddie find watching the Carnival from their flat window is the best seats to watch the riots. After going looting, Eddie learns Richie has stolen a BBC camera and they decide to record a prime-time current affairs discussion program and hilarious accidents so they can make money Unaware the video tape is a dirty video of Prime Mininster Tony Blair.
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Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall
Episode information updated Sep 17, 2026
More about Bottom
Cast
Adrian EdmondsonEdward Elizabeth Hitler
Rik MayallRichard RichardClive MantleWoman's Husband
Brian GloverMr. Rottweiller
Mark WilliamsBoris
Lee CornesDick HeadMark ArdenShooting gallery stallholder
Lisa MaxwellMrs LinnekerCredits
- Created by
- Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
- Written by
- Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 18
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
BBC TwoUnited Kingdom
BBCUnited Kingdom
Themes
alcoholalcoholicanarchic comedybachelorboredombreaking the fourth walldark comedyfight
