List of Black Books episodes


Black Books is an English sitcom television series created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan, and written by Dylan Moran, Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. It premiered on 29 September 2000 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and ended on 15 April 2004. The show spans 18 episodes over three series. The original 45 minute pilot, recorded in 1998, has not been broadcast and all other episodes were approximately 25 minutes long. Moran has stated that there will be no more episodes and The Times reported the series has been "killed off".
All three series of Black Books were released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2006. The first two series were released in North America the same year and the third series was released in 2007. A complete DVD box set with additional features, titled "The Complete Black Books" was released in 2007. A limited edition DVD box set, titled "The Definitive Collector's Edition," was released in 2010 and included additional features, a booklet of liner notes and a wine bottle opener.
Black Books is set in the eponymous London bookshop Black Books and follows the lives of its owner Bernard Black his assistant Manny Bianco and their friend Fran Katzenjammer. The show featured a number of guest stars throughout its original run, including Omid Djalili, Martin Freeman, Johnny Vegas, Rob Brydon, Simon Pegg and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Series overview

Episodes

Original unaired pilot

Series 1 (2000)

Series 2 (2002)

Series 3 (2004)

Extras

  1. "Bernard's Letter" — The reply that a typically furious Bernard writes to the editor of a publishing firm after they refuse to publish the novel that he had spent the entire weekend writing.
  2. "Commentary" — Every episode in the first and second series has a commentary from Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig.
  3. "Black Dolls" — A doll-version of Black Books in which Fran takes Manny into the real world where she feeds him drugs and grapes. Manny eventually decides that the real world is too tough for him, and after a 'talk' from Bernard he promises to stay in the shop.