Episodes (6)

Welcome to Royston Vasey
S01E01 · Welcome to Royston Vasey

Jan 11, 1999

Innocent young Benjamin Denton arrives in the isolated village of Royston Vasey where pre-operation transsexual cabbie Barbara takes him to the house of his weird aunt and uncle Val and Harvey and their naughty little twin daughters. Benjamin has come to meet his friend Martin but has reckoned without Edward and Tubbs,a paranoid couple who run the local shop for locals only and,fearing that a proposed new road will bring strangers to the village,kill incomer Martin and the policeman investigating his disappearance. Elsewhere Mr. Chinnery,an incompetent vet,puts the ...

The Road to Royston Vasey
S01E02 · The Road to Royston Vasey

Jan 18, 1999

Benjamin makes unsuccessful efforts to ring Martin but is interrupted by Val. Judee Levinson is off on holiday to Antigua and gives instructions to her cleaner Iris,who keeps on about her husband's sexual appetites. Hilary Briss,the Royston Vasey butcher,is seen as a man who gives 'special' offers to certain clients. Pauline holds a workshop for her restart clients though it is essentially a lesson in selling the Big Issue. When Ross protests she shows him up in a role play that puts Micky in a good light. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint arrive at the 'local' shop to serve the ...

Nightmare in Royston Vasey
S01E03 · Nightmare in Royston Vasey

Jan 25, 1999

Pauline is angry when she discovers that her clients have been stealing her precious pens,with most of the anger,as usual,being directed towards Ross. Benjamin has an unpleasant breakfast-time experience when Harvey lectures him on the merits of drinking one's own water. Chinnery tries to treat a tortoise which refuses to eat but his use of compressed air as a cure has the inevitable disastrous result whilst magistrate Maurice is not impressed by Hilary Briss's latest tempting offer. A workman for the new road goes into the local shop and shows Tubbs an atlas. For the...

The Beast of Royston Vasey
S01E04 · The Beast of Royston Vasey

Feb 01, 1999

Watched by Edward through binoculars Chinnery examines the remains of the 'Beast of Royston Vasey' and faints at what he finds. However the beast turns out to comprise bits of animals stolen from the Roundabout Zoo, so Edward's plan fails. To the horror of right wing vicar Bernice Woodall, Legz Akimbo, a theatre group whose motto is Put Yourself Inside a Child, arrive to perform a play about gays at the local primary school though the children are unimpressed and certain company members fall out. Having left sweets for the scarecrow in Farmer Tinsel's field - in which...

Love Comes to Royston Vasey
S01E05 · Love Comes to Royston Vasey

Feb 08, 1999

Brian is getting married to Cheryl, whom Geoff, the best man, detests. However Geoff manages to get to the end of his speech with no trouble - but then pulls a gun on the groom. Harvey and Val give the toads an honorable funeral but Benjamin, desperate to leave Royston Vasey, rings Barbara. However she has advertised in the small ads to meet a man and erroneously believes Benjamin to be her date. At Stump Hole, the caves which form the village's tourist attraction - named after a deceased prostitute - Mike, the tour guide is still traumatised by the death of a child ...

Escape from Royston Vasey
S01E06 · Escape from Royston Vasey

Feb 15, 1999

Edward and Tubbs' son David, who has been away at college, comes into the shop and stuns them by revealing that his construction company is behind the new road-building. He is anxious to take his mother to London but when she goes to meet him she finds he looks like Edward and has' decided' to stay in the village. Chinnery goes to Tinsel's farm to help a cow to calf and puts his hand up the animal's backside. Unfortunately,with his customary incompetence, he kills it so that when Barbara arrives at hospital for her operation and finds that Chinnery is the surgeon she ...

About

The League of Gentlemen Season 1 (1999) is released on Jan 11, 1999 and the latest season 4 of The League of Gentlemen is released in 2017. Watch The League of Gentlemen online - the English Comedy TV series from United Kingdom. The League of Gentlemen is directed by Steve Bendelack and created by Jeremy Dyson with Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton. The League of Gentlemen is available online on BritBox and BritBox Amazon Channel.

An interweaving narrative that chronicles the antic of such diverse characters as a transgender taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women to marry, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people.

As know as:

Kretének klubja, The League of Gentlemen, ザ・リーグ・オブ・ジェントルメン, Liga Gentilomilor, Liga džentlmena

Countries:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Stream Service:

BBC

Production Companies:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Reviews

Tom Shales
Washington Post
Way beyond flaky or mere wackiness, The League of Gentlemen flirts with a kind of profundity in its lunacy, making macabre commentary on the inherent dangers of isolating people and leaving them to their own devices.
by rottentomatoes, Apr 03, 2019
Linda Stasi
New York Post
It's like dousing yourself in one endless Monty Python skit.
by rottentomatoes, Apr 03, 2019
Neil Genzlinger
New York Times
It is comedy far more outlandish, far more deranged than nature ever intended comedy to be.
by rottentomatoes, Sep 17, 2018

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