Try 30 days of free premium.

Potter - Episode Guide

Season 1

Episode 1

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1979

No image (yet).

Redvers Potter arrives at work to find his nameplate being removed from his office door. At 12pm his company, Pottermints, is to be taken over but, until then, he is still in charge and he means to assert every last vestige of authority he has.

Episode 2

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1979

No image (yet).

A trip to the library causes Potter to catch the bus and it "savages" his umbrella. To make matters worse, his sister, Harriet, is staying the night with her artist husband, Willy. They have parked their caravanette on the drive and Potter doesn't trust it.

Episode 3

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1979

No image (yet).

Potter has another bad day. His sister Harriet and her dreaded husband Willy have to extend their visit because, despite all Potter's efforts, their caravanette remains unroadworthy. 

Episode 4

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1979

No image (yet).

Another busy day for Potter as he tries to adjust to his new life of retirement. Now he has time to help others with problems they didn't know they'd got.

Episode 5

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1979

No image (yet).

Potter calls to see how business is going in Tolly's antique shop. Things take a turn for the worse as he applies his experience of selling sweets to the art of selling valuable paintings.

Episode 6

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1979

No image (yet).

Potter and the Vicar encounter Harry Tooms for the first time when he is caught cheating on the golf course. Potter decides that gangsters are very charitable when it comes to the church and sends Tolly in to get a donation!

Season 2

Episode 1

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1980

No image (yet).

When the Vicar's wife, Jane, has an accident that lands her in hospital for a few days, Potter is quick to offer his services at the vicarage.

Episode 2

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1980

No image (yet).

Harry Tooms is envious that his new found friends all seem happily married and he is determined to woo his ex-wife. They offer him moral support as he tries to win her back.

Episode 3

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1980

No image (yet).

When Potter, the Vicar and their wives go for a jaunt to the countryside, they encounter Tolly on a protest against farming - and the farmers retaliation causes a problem for Potter that Harry Tooms manages to rectify.

Episode 4

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1980

No image (yet).

Potter and Aileen decide to pay a visit to their son, Rodney, who is now a pop svengali and looking after a video shoot on the South Coast. The Vicar and his wife decide to join them but Potter's fate is to get stuck under a bed in the hotel room...

Episode 5

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1980

No image (yet).

Potter and his friends visit ex-villain Harry Tooms and become involved in some dubious dealings connected with a roll of carpet.

Episode 6

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1980

No image (yet).

The Potter clan gathers for a momentous family occasion - the christening of their first grand-daughter. Potter controls the event with his usual managerial expertise, resulting in the usual inevitable complications.

Episode 7

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1980

No image (yet).

Potter tries a new role as guide to visiting foreigners. Could this lead to a third World War?

Season 3

Episode 1

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1983

No image (yet).

Potter, late of "Pottermints", and his friend and drinking companion the Vicar, feel that Potter's neighbour, the amiable Tolly, has a gap in his life. Can they fill it happily?

Episode 2

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1983

No image (yet).

The Vicar tells Potter that the church needs a new boiler. Potter, with all his experience, has an immediate plan to raise the necessary funds.

Episode 3

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Jul 31, 1983

No image (yet).

Potter, with time on his hands and all his managerial abilities straining at the leash, attempts to help his neighbour Tolly. It doesn't quite work out that way, but Potter is totally blameless.

Episode 4

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Aug 7, 1983

No image (yet).

Potter and his friend the Vicar go for a quiet drink in the pub and are rather startled by the arrival of a man in a boat.

Episode 5

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Aug 14, 1983

No image (yet).

Aileen has arranged a coffee morning with friends but Redvers Potter is going to spend the day clearing out the garage loft. These two occasions are not happily complementary.

Episode 6

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1983

No image (yet).

Potter, the Vicar, Tolly and their wives have been invited to a cheese and wine party. Inevitably, Potter decides to help some of the guests, but it does not necessarily make for a happier party.

Episode 7

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1983

No image (yet).

Potter cadges a lift from his neighbour Tolly to the golf club via the vicarage to pick up his Partner. Sounds simple, but problems occur which stimulate Tolly to behave in a most untypical way.

Try 30 days of free premium.