Harry & Paul

Harry & Paul

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.

Comedy

Seasons

Episode 1

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2007-04-13

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse star in a sketch show, joined by Morwenna Banks and Laura Solon. Characters include the Posh Scaffolders and the High Ranking Surgeons.

Episode 2

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2007-04-20

Characters include footballer Didier Peskovitch and his manager Jose Arrogantio.

Episode 3

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2007-04-27

New characters including Kenny Leyton the hopeless boxer, man in the kitchen Jasper Hazelnut and Seventies throwback the Barbican Man, as well as established faces Didier Peskovitch, Jose Arrogantio and Nelson Mandela.

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2007-05-04

Didier Peskovitch falls foul of his girlfriend in a shopping centre. Nelson Mandela goes shoplifting, a gullible customer visits I Saw You Coming and the Cafe Polski girls get angry behind the counter.

Episode 5

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2007-05-11

New characters the Divorcing Couple join established favourites the Posh Scaffolders, the Computer Billionaires and the Ritchies. The Leccy Sponging detectives stumble across a murder in a pub and the I Saw You Coming shopkeeper makes another killing.

Episode 6

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2007-05-18

Featuring the Posh Scaffolders, Bono and The Edge, Nelson Mandela, Can't Back Down, Pik, the Surgeons, Madonna and Guy, the Computer Billionaires, the Clean Chavs, the Divorcing Couple and I Saw You Coming.

Episode 1

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2008-09-05

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are back with a whole new range of characters in a new series of their sketch show.

Episode 2

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2008-09-12

There's a visit to an island owned by Jeremy Clarkson and the genial American tourists meet a British politician.

Episode 3

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2008-09-19

This episode features a 1930s' version of Basic Instinct and Tony Blair starting a new job in the City.

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2008-09-26

Pik, the friendly but stupid South African gym instructor, has a new American friend and England play Paquador in an important international football match.

Episode 5

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2008-10-03

Jimmy Snazzbox MBE, a prolific television writer in the 1970s, waxes lyrical about his hit series Omni-busses; Alan Sugar meets the Dragons; and just where is Dave going?

Episode 6

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2008-10-10

Gillian and Gerald take us on a tour of The Royal Henley Northerner Show 2008, while Nelson Mandela has an encounter with Margaret Thatcher. Also, Simon continues his efforts to charm Magda in Cafe Polski - will he finally get the girl?

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2010-09-28

Three generations of the Benefit family disrupt a peaceful library; the elderly Beatles attempt to escape hoards of old lady-boppers; the Dragons' Den considers a pitch for a new British pudding supplement; and the duo revisit the famous diner scene in the Thirties original of When Harry Met Sally.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2010-10-05

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 former football legends get thoroughly confused by a female sports presenter; and The Beatles record a single for the cancer charity Prost Aid.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2010-10-12

Harry and Paul return for more character comedy.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2010-10-19

Harry and Paul return for more character comedy.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2010-10-26

The Chocolatier and his arch-rival the Cobblertier meet their nemesis, Marcus branches out from his I Saw You Coming shop with a new alternative therapy centre, French comedians Jonny and Bing promote some surprising special edition cars, and Film 2010 previews the new Richard Curtis film I Love You.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2010-11-02

The Benefits appear on quiz show Ask the Dysfunctional Family, the Writer helps the landlady deal with her troublesome husband and all the modelling hopefuls spotted by Mike Noughts gather to meet him at his house. The Football Manager is relegated to League One, and the lovelorn customer makes his last ever visit to the Polish cafe.

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2012-10-28

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse return in their BAFTA award-winning sketch show with new characters and old favourites. Featuring Victoria Wood.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2012-11-04

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 trip to the North Pole.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2012-11-11

The surgeons return to their youth as members of the Cambridge Footlights, the American cops get arrested, and Marcus meets his match in his 'I Saw You Coming' shop.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2012-11-18

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 The Buses'.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2012-11-25

Ken and Bryan have an acrimonious split in the Dragons' Den, and we meet the surgeons' 19th-century ancestors.

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 2012-12-01

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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Rating

6.6/10

Release Date

2005-09-20

Episodes

24 (4 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Videos

Production Companies

Tiger Aspect

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