Black Books
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25:00
It's International Children's Book Week, and Bernard and Manny decide to write their own kids' classic and retire on the proceeds. Meanwhile, Fran is off on a hens' weekend.
Season 2
26:00
26:00It's getting hotter. Manny is terrified that the temperature will reach 88 degrees, Bernard wants a Summer girlfriend and Fran feels that the walls of her flat are closing in - literally.
Season 1 26:00
26:00Manny is fed up with Bernard's filth and calls in a professional cleaner, forcing them to move out for a couple of days.
25:00Having offered Manny a job while drunk, Bernard does his best to get rid of his new charge, who has a tendency to break the rules.
24:00The antics of a foul-tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black, his long-haired and equally long-suffering assistant Manny and his best and only friend - Fran.
Season 3 26:00
26:00Fed up with being stuck in the dusty bookshop on a Friday night, Manny and Fran persuade Bernard to attend a party. After a night of heavy drinking, Bernard has a nasty surprise waiting for him. (Final)
25:00Manny organises a travel-writing festival and invites a charming explorer to talk about his adventures. Meanwhile, Bernard hires an assassin to solve a financial problem with his neighbour.
27:00Bernard Black is back, and he hasn't cheered up. Fran returns from holiday to find that Manny has resigned and Bernard is living amid a pile of rubbish, rotting food and dead badgers.
26:00Bernard and Manny can't hear themselves argue because of the builders next door. Fran suggests a holiday.
26:00Fran tries to discover her inner karma. Bernard finds positive proof that Manny is mad. And Manny discovers a new found confidence.
26:00Fran discovers that she has mid-European relatives living just around the corner - she finds them, becomes one of them, and then immediately wants to get rid of them...
25:00Manny pursues a bag snatcher after a night watching the entire box set of 'The Sweeney'. Meanwhile, Bernard realises that he must have behaved abominably at a dinner party the previous evening.
25:00Follows the antics of foul-tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black, his long-haired equally long-suffering assistant Manny and his best and possibly only friend - Fran.
26:00Manny becomes sick and tired of Bernard bossing him around and decides to walk out.
27:00A new security system proves rather problematic for the characters at Black Books, and results in Bernard being locked out for the evening, while Manny is locked in.
25:00Bernard finds himself interested in the gee-gees and goes to the bookies. Fran teaches Bernard how to play poker and cheat, yet he still finds himself out of his depth and in debt.
27:00Manny's parents come to stay, but Bernard cannot wait for them to leave and Fran is unhappy about pretending to be Manny's girlfriend to corroborate his letters home.
Fed up with being stuck in the dusty old bookshop on a Friday night, Manny and Fran persuade Bernard to attend a party. After a night of heavy drinking, Bernard has a nasty surprise waiting for him. CAST: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey