Scripted series · BBC Two
Bottom
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Adrian Edmondson
Edward Elizabeth Hitler
18 eps
Rik Mayall
Richard Richard
18 eps
Clive Mantle
Woman's Husband
1 eps
Brian Glover
Mr. Rottweiller
1 eps
Mark Williams
Boris
1 eps
Lee Cornes
Dick Head
3 eps
Mark Arden
Shooting gallery stallholder
1 eps
Lisa Maxwell
Mrs Linneker
1 eps
Paul Bradley
Mr Scrubbs
1 eps
Harriet Thorpe
Woman in Bar
1 eps
Liz Smith
Fortune Teller
1 eps
David Lloyd
Willy
1 eps
Rupert Bates
Mr Wormwood
2 eps
Tip Tipping
Mr Kelly
1 eps
Carla Mendonça
Jenny
1 eps
Roger Brierley
Sir Roger Cobham
1 eps
Helen Lederer
Lady Natasha
2 eps
Cindy Shelley
Kate
1 eps
Kevin McNally
Sex Shop Assistant
1 eps
Roger Sloman
Mr. Harrison
2 eps
Christopher Ryan
Dave Hedgehog
5 eps
Steven O'Donnell
Spudgun
5 eps
Julia Sawalha
Veronica Head
1 eps
Mark Lambert
Gasman
1 eps
Gaby Valenti
Lolly
1 eps
Evie Garratt
Old Lady
1 eps
Michael Redfern
Mr. Cooper
1 eps
Wayne Michaels
Party Guest
1 eps
Kelly Hunter
Mrs Gascoigne
1 eps
Robert Ashe
Ralph Maxwell
1 eps
Rory Bremner
Mr Brough (voice)
1 eps
Brian Croucher
Ted Nugent
1 eps
Andy de la Tour
Chief Inspector Grobbelaar
1 eps
Roy Heather
Mr Man
1 eps
Chris Langham
Tight-Mouthed Larry
1 eps
Robert Llewellyn
Mr N. Stiles
1 eps
Patsy Rowlands
Lil Potato
1 eps
John Wells
Doctor
1 eps
Nick Gillard
Man in wheelchair
1 eps
Jonathan Stratt
PC V. Jones
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Bottom actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Bottom reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
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.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 18 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
199319 episodes
Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one another.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
19916 episodes
8.4IMDbBest episode · S01E02 Gas
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
19926 episodes
8.1IMDbBest episode · S02E05 Holy
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
19956 episodes
8.0IMDbBest episode · S03E05 Finger
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S03E05
Finger
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.
- Directed by Bob Spiers
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S01E02
Gas
The gasman calls to read Eddie and Ritchie's meter. Not a problem? It is when you are getting your gas from an illegal connection to your next-door neighbors gas. Can the boys persuade the meter reader that they don't use gas and stall him until they can disconnect their supply from next door?
- Directed by Ed Bye
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S01E06
Accident
It's Richie's birthday and he has a big party planned, Eddie's friends and all the birds' Richie knows are coming. As he prepares for the party, putting up the decorations, Richie falls and horribly breaks his leg. Will having his leg in plaster and being in a wheelchair ruin his party, will it heck as like!
- Directed by Ed Bye
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S02E05
Holy
Eddie and Richie celebrate Christmas by inviting Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog around for Christmas dinner and a day of fun and games. After a knock at the door Richie finds a baby left on their doorstep. Due to a few misperceptions Richie believes the baby is the Second Coming of Jesus.
- Directed by Ed Bye
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S02E01
Digger
Eddie and Richie join Mrs. Lineker's Love Bureau hoping to find their perfect women. Richies video tells the viewers that he is, in fact, a Duke and this gets him a date with a countess from Moldavia. He invites her to his place and arranges for Eddie to pretend to be his butler for the evening.
- Directed by Ed Bye
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S02E02
Culture
The boys' television has been repossessed and they are at a complete loss, they cannot find anything to keep them occupied, they have tried to do the crossword. Richie decides to challenge Eddie to a game of chess, even though they don't have all the pieces in their set! They decide to improvise and use various odd items to replace the missing pieces.
- Directed by Ed Bye
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E18
Bottom Exposed
S00E05
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons-Grade Y-Fronts Tour
- Directed by Dewi Humphreys
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S00E19
Peter Cook: A Posthumorous Tribute
S00E04
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
- Directed by Dewi Humphreys
- Written by Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
S00E11
Big Bottom Live (The Best Of)
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Paul JacksonProducer
- Ed ByeProducer
- Jon PlowmanExecutive Producer
Writing
- Rik MayallWriter
- Adrian EdmondsonWriter
Direction
- Ed ByeDirector
- Bob SpiersDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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