Pie in the Sky Season 5

Pie in the Sky Season 5 has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available on and . Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Richard Griffiths leads a cast with real comic timing. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Pie in the Sky Season 5 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Pie in the Sky Season 5 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 5 of Pie in the Sky includes 8 episodes. It aired from June 1997 to August 1997. This season stars Richard Griffiths, Nicholas Lamont and Marsha Thomason. Richard Griffiths and Nicholas Lamont lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1997. The timing in Pie in the Sky Season 5 is precise enough that even the throwaway lines land on a second watch. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Comedy fans looking for a reliably funny watch will find it in Pie in the Sky Season 5. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Richard Griffiths anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

🎬 Pie in the Sky Season 5 — Episode Guide

Squashed Tomatoes

1997-06-29

DI Crabbe's first job with his new team of PC Guthrie and WPC Morton is to guard a new housing development which has been subjected to vandalism. Nearby villagers claim that one of the houses is built in the path of a centuries old right of way. Henderson is in trouble for growing and selling vari...

Ugly Customers

1997-07-06

Henry Crabbe (Richard Griffiths) is posted to guard a jury deliberating in a fraud case, who have been sequestered in a ghastly hotel. Crabbe has to find out who is intimidating the jurors, and how the villain is getting to them. Meanwhile he comes to the aid of the hotel's talented cook (John Tho...

Pork Pies

1997-07-13

Fisher sends Henry and the squad to a meat factory where animal rights protesters are demonstrating against the owner,Mr. Trubb's use of veal in his Trubbs' Thunderbolt sausages. However, Henry finds to his surprise that the sausages contain soya and are wholly meat-free. Margaret, meanwhile, is con...

Cutting the Mustard

1997-07-20

Henry and his team are called to a private boarding school where police Commander Colin Stilwell's son Alex has been beaten up by local youths. Henry initially encounters a wall of insular hostility from the establishment before Alex points him to another pupil, who has blackmailed the Chemistry tea...

Return Match

1997-07-27

Henry has to solve a series of thefts from lorries and gets unexpected help from private security firm Troubleshooters. Their accuracy is such that he is suspicious of how they came to know of the crimes and believes that there is a possible informer within police ranks feeding them information for ...

The Apprentice

1997-08-03

As Fisher launches a campaign to make the police more popular with young people a boy called Nicky comes to Pie in the Sky, claiming he is there for work experience. Henry uses him in the kitchen and he impresses everyone but then the till is robbed and Nicky, who was not sent by any school, goes mi...

In the Smoke

1997-08-10

The Crabbes holiday in London in a flat owned by ex-policeman Nick Spencer whilst he is in America on business. However Margaret finds his packed suitcase under the bed and hears an answer-machine message from his daughter warning that her violent ex-con boyfriend Danny is on his way to see him. Hen...

Smelling of Roses

1997-08-17

As Henry mysteriously loses his sense of smell he is intrigued when Fisher seems obsessed with arresting tyre exporter Peter Watson and suspects that Fisher, about to divorce his wife, is having an affair with Mrs. Watson. In fact she has discovered that her husband is defrauding her charity and is ...

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