Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1Series One Outtakes 2000-04-30
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S0 · E2Series Two Outtakes 2001-09-01
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S0 · E3Series Three Outtakes 2004-04-30
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S0 · E4Black Dolls 2002-04-30
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.
S0 · E5Bernard's Letter 2004-04-30
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.
S0 · E6Deleted Scenes - Series 2 Episode 1 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E7Deleted Scenes - Series 2 Episode 5 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E8Deleted Scenes - Series 3 Episode 1 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E9Deleted Scenes - Series 3 Episode 2 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E10Deleted Scenes - Series 3 Episode 3 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E11Deleted Scenes - Series 3 Episode 4 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E12Deleted Scenes - Series 3 Episode 5 Air date unannounced
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S0 · E13Deleted Scenes - Series 3 Episode 6 Air date unannounced
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S1 · E1Cooking the Books 2000-09-29
Bernard’s dodgy accountant has to go on the run, leaving him ill prepared to fill out his own tax return. In fact Bernard would rather do anything than fill it out.
S1 · E2Manny's First Day 2000-10-06
After Manny’s help with the tax return Bernard is persuaded to hire him in the shop. Unfortunately he actually sells some books, much to Bernard’s annoyance.
S1 · E3Grapes of Wrath 2000-10-13
Bernard and Manny accept a house-sitting job to get away from their new cleaner. They also drink some wine.
S1 · E4The Blackout 2000-10-20
A hyper, coffee fueled Manny is mistaken for a policeman.
S1 · E5The Big Lock-Out 2000-10-27
The shop gets a new security system that no-one can work.
S1 · E6He's Leaving Home 2000-11-03
Manny runs away from the bookshop into the arms of a beard loving photographer.
S2 · E1The Entertainer 2002-03-01
Fran decides to take up piano lessons with a very prominent teacher, however all doesn't go to plan and she ends up having to ask Manni for a favour. Meanwhile Bernard asks a girl out and once again Manni is called upon for a favour.
S2 · E2Fever 2002-03-08 · 25 min
On a scorching hot day, Manni tries to maintain his body temperature so it doesn't go over 88 degrees; Fran has problems with a new neighbour, and Bernard tries to find an appropriate "summer girl".
S2 · E3The Fixer 2002-03-15
Bernard and Manni have to deal with a gangster turned writer who plans to hold a reading of his autobiography at the book shop, however he can't read. Meanwhile Fran gets an office job where she isn't quite sure what she is meant to be doing.
S2 · E4Blood 2002-03-22
Manni and Bernard try to keep up with modern book shops and in doing so Manni helps Fran get over her boredom by encouraging her to look up her family tree.
S2 · E5Hello Sun 2002-03-29
Fran tries to cleanse her lifestyle by taking up yoga and going on a radical diet, while Bernard and Manni receive some books on Freud and their lives descend into his famous theories.