List of The Catherine Tate Show episodes

The Catherine Tate Show is a British comedy sketch series that premiered on 16 February 2004. It aired on BBC Two from 2004 to 2006 and on BBC One from 2007 to 2014. Three series were aired between 2004 and 2006, with two Christmas specials between 2005 and 2007 and a Comic Relief special in 2007. It went on to include specials between 2009 and 2015 in a spin-off show which featured the Nan Taylor character.

A total of 20 episodes have been aired to date, plus four specials of "Nan". The series was co-written by the show's leading character Catherine Tate.

Series overview[]

Series		Episodes	Originally aired
Series		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	6	16 February 2004 (2004-02-16)	22 March 2004 (2004-03-22)	BBC Two
	2	6	21 July 2005 (2005-07-21)	25 August 2005 (2005-08-25)
	2	Special	20 December 2005 (2005-12-20)
	3	6	26 October 2006 (2006-10-26)	30 November 2006 (2006-11-30)
	3	Special	25 December 2007 (2007-12-25)		BBC One
	Nan specials		15 December 2009 (2009-12-15)	30 December 2015 (2015-12-30)	BBC One

Episodes[]

Series 1 (2004)[]

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions) ^[1]
1	1	"Episode 1"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta	16 February 2004 (2004-02-16)	N/A (<2.40)^[a]
2	2	"Episode 2"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta	23 February 2004 (2004-02-23)	N/A (<2.40)^[a]
3	3	"Episode 3"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten & Arthur Mathews	1 March 2004 (2004-03-01)	N/A (<2.08)^[a]
4	4	"Episode 4"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten & Aschlin Ditta	8 March 2004 (2004-03-08)	N/A (<2.37)^[a]
5	5	"Episode 5"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Arthur Mathews & Mathew Horne	15 March 2004 (2004-03-15)	N/A (<2.33)^[a]
6	6	"Episode 6"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne, Bruce Mackinnon & Aschlin Ditta	22 March 2004 (2004-03-22)	N/A (<2.20)^[a]

Series 2 (2005)[]

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions) ^[1]
7	1	"Episode 1"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta	21 July 2005 (2005-07-21)	3.50
8	2	"Episode 2"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta	28 July 2005 (2005-07-28)	2.97
9	3	"Episode 3"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate & Aschlin Ditta	4 August 2005 (2005-08-04)	2.89
10	4	"Episode 4"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate & Aschlin Ditta	11 August 2005 (2005-08-11)	3.55
11	5	"Episode 5"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Steve Pemberton	18 August 2005 (2005-08-18)	2.48
12	6	"Episode 6"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Jenny Lecoat & Aschlin Ditta	25 August 2005 (2005-08-25)	3.92
Special
13	S	"The Catherine Tate Christmas Show"	Christine Gernon	Catherine Tate	20 December 2005 (2005-12-20)	5.66

Series 3 (2006)[]

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions) ^[1]
14	1	"Episode 1"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson	26 October 2006 (2006-10-26)	4.81
15	2	"Episode 2"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson	2 November 2006 (2006-11-02)	4.25
16	3	"Episode 3"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson	9 November 2006 (2006-11-09)	4.92
17	4	"Episode 4"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson	16 November 2006 (2006-11-16)	4.00
18	5	"Episode 5"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson	23 November 2006 (2006-11-23)	4.06
19	6	"Episode 6"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta, Gordon Anderson & Jonathan Harvey	30 November 2006 (2006-11-30)	4.15
Special
20	S	"Christmas Special"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Derren Litten, Mathew Horne & Aschlin Ditta	25 December 2007 (2007-12-25)	6.75

Catherine Tate's Nan (2009–15)[]

No. overall	No. special	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions) ^[1]
21	1	"Nan's Christmas Carol"	Gordon Anderson	Catherine Tate, Aschlin Ditta & Gordon Anderson	15 December 2009 (2009-12-15)	8.46
22	2	"Nan"	Geoff Posner	Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein & Dan Swimmer	4 January 2014 (2014-01-04)	4.47
23	3	"Nanger Management"	Geoff Posner	Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein & Dan Swimmer	27 December 2015 (2015-12-27)	3.14
24	4	"Knees Up Wilmott-Brown"	Geoff Posner	Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein & Dan Swimmer	30 December 2015 (2015-12-30)	2.97

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Not reported in the weekly top 15 programmes for four-screen viewer ratings.

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Weekly top 30 programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.

[Unreported_UK_viewers-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Not reported in the weekly top 15 programmes for four-screen viewer ratings.

[BARB-1] "Weekly top 30 programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.

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