List of Derry Girls episodes

This is a list of episodes of the British television sitcom Derry Girls.

Series overview

Series		Episodes		Originally aired		Ave. UK viewers (millions)
				First aired	Last aired
	1	6		4 January 2018	8 February 2018	2.84
	2	6		5 March 2019	9 April 2019	3.10

Series 1 (2018)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
1	1	"Episode One"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	4 January 2018	3.28[1]
On the first day of a new school year in 1994 Derry, Erin is annoyed by her cousin Orla reading her diary. Michelle introduces her English cousin James to Erin, Clare, and Orla. Sixteen years before, Michelle's aunt Cathy left Derry for an abortion in England, but instead had James and has returned with him following her divorce. Out of concern James would be severely bullied at the local boys' school, he is made the first male pupil at the Catholic girls' secondary school—Our Lady Immaculate College—which Michelle and her friends attend. Erin's crush David Donnelly invites her to his band's gig, and Michelle threatens a first-year pupil on the school bus. Prefect Jenny Joyce confronts the group over the incident and reports them to Sister Michael, who gives them detention, causing Erin to miss David's gig. 97-year-old Sister Declan dies while supervising detention, and Sister Michael enters to find Michelle retrieving her confiscated lipstick, Erin climbing out a window, and James—barred from the female-only toilets—urinating into a bin. The teens' parents are summoned, and James learns his mother has moved back to London.
2	2	"Episode Two"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	11 January 2018	3.02[1]
Erin and Orla's grandfather Joe's brother Colm—notorious for his monotonous stories—is tied to his radiator by two terrorists who steal his van, using it to transport weapons across the border before exploding it. Orla's mother Sarah and Colm are later interviewed by UTV. Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle, and James are eager to attend a class trip to Paris until learning tickets are £375. When Jenny explains she is paying for the trip out of her trust fund, the friends are disappointed to learn none of them have trust funds. They seek jobs to earn the money, and Michelle steals a noticeboard from a chip shop advertising various part-time employment. The shop owner Fionnula discovers the theft, and the group is made to clean the shop. Michelle accidentally sets fire to Fionnula's flat above the shop with flaming shots. They call Erin's mother Mary and aunt Sarah, who stage the scene to resemble Colm's burglary. Returning early, Fionnula catches them in the act, and Erin's family is banned from the shop.
3	3	"Episode Three"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	18 January 2018	2.78[1]
After cramming for exams all night, the friends see a dog resembling Erin's recently deceased pet, Toto. They pursue it into a church where, overcome by sleep deprivation and caffeine, Clare, Michelle, and Orla believe a statue of the Virgin Mary is smirking. Chasing the dog to the upper floor, Erin sees it urinate directly above the statue. Mistaking the urine for tears, the others tell Sister Michael of the "miracle", hoping to be excused from exams. Before Erin can tell the truth, handsome young priest Father Peter becomes interested in their story. He suggests Toto was resurrected to lead Erin to the church, and Toto's grave in the back garden is discovered to be empty. Overhearing her mother on the phone, Erin confronts Mary, who confesses she actually gave Toto to neighbour Maureen Malarkey; Toto was the dog Erin saw. Enamored with Peter, the friends maintain the hoax. Peter reveals to Erin that he was close to abandoning the priesthood to pursue a girl. Believing he is referring to herself, Erin reveals the hoax, but the friends are branded liars who pranked the Catholic Church, and have to take their exams.
4	4	"Episode Four"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	25 January 2018	2.55[1]
In an international exchange to help victims of the Chernobyl disaster, several teenage Ukrainians come to stay in Derry. Erin and Orla's family hosts the deadpan Katya, who is uninterested in Erin and Orla's lives but immediately attracted to James. Mary and Sarah are horrified to discover their father Joe is dating a new woman, 62-year-old Maeve. Michelle is attracted to Artem, the Ukrainian staying with Jenny, and encourages her friends to attend Jenny's party. Suspicious of Katya, Erin finds condoms in Katya's bag, and several Ukrainian boys give Erin money they owe Katya. Assuming she is a prostitute, Erin tries to prevent James from having sex with Katya, accusing her in front of the entire party. Katya explains she was collecting money from the other Ukrainians to buy Jenny a thank-you gift. Michelle discovers 'Artem' is actually Clive, a Protestant from East Belfast who took a wrong turn leaving Aldergrove Airport; terrified of the Catholics, he pretended to be one of the Ukrainians. Katya decides to stay with Jenny's family for the remainder of her time in Derry.
5	5	"Episode Five"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	1 February 2018	2.63[1]
On 12 July, Erin's family and friends attempt to avoid the Orange walks by leaving Northern Ireland for a brief holiday to neighbouring County Donegal in the Republic. They discover an Irish Republican Army man using the false name Emmett hiding in the boot of their car to cross the border undetected. Erin's father Gerry and Joe argue over whether to take Emmett across and risk arrest. After having her fortune told by Sarah, Michelle believes Emmett is her future husband, but Michelle is not attracted to him. After Gerry and Joe's continuous disagreements, Emmett flees the restaurant where they stopped for lunch, steals their tent—borrowed from their neighbour Jim—and the group watches him depart in the boot of another car.
6	6	"Episode Six"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	8 February 2018	2.76[1]
Gerry is unable to pick up the family's photos without the necessary red docket, which Mary finds in the wash, having turned the white clothes pink. Joe tries to collect the photos with Sarah, whom Ciaran the clerk recognises from the photos, and she brings him to dinner. Erin seizes her chance to replace the school magazine's editor, but the staff quits, forcing Erin to recruit her friends. Struggling to come up with a lead story, Erin finds an anonymous letter from a student coming out as a lesbian. Despite Clare's disapproval, Erin publishes the story but is censored by Sister Michael, and circulates the newspaper anyway. Clare confides to Erin that she wrote the letter, but is hurt by Erin's reaction and begins avoiding her. At the school talent show, Orla performs a step aerobics routine to "Like a Prayer" ("Pray" in the international Netflix broadcast), eliciting ridicule. Coming to her defence, Erin, Clare, Michelle, and James join Orla onstage, ending Erin and Clare's feud. Erin's family watches a television news report of a bombing.

Series 2 (2019)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
7	1	"Across the Barricade"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee[2]	5 March 2019[2]	3.68[3]
The teens and their classmates spend a weekend with Friends Across the Barricade, a peace initiative with pupils from a Protestant boys' secondary school. Each teen is assigned a "buddy" from the other school, but Peter—returned to the priesthood after a failed relationship—is unable to guide them into finding common ground. James attempts a working-class accent and attitude to befriend his buddy, which only unsettles him, as does Orla's intense survivalism, while Michelle and Erin fail to seduce their buddies, Harry and Dee. Because Harry is committed to his purity bracelet, Michelle demands to swap buddies. The group prepares to abseil off a cliff, but Clare—terrified her buddy will let her fall due to mistaking his hatred of "athletes" for "Catholics"—incites an argument between the pupils that escalates into a physical fight. All parents are called in, and their resulting lectures to their children inspires Erin to write "parents" on the blackboard as something Catholics and Protestants have in common, and she shares a smile with Dee.
8	2	"Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee[4]	12 March 2019	3.35[3]
Sister Michael takes a liking to a Child of Prague statue. A new English teacher, Ms De Brún, charms Erin and her friends. Mary and Gerry's date at the cinema is interrupted by Sarah, Ciaran, Joe, and Colm. Their screening of The Usual Suspects is evacuated due to a security alert, and Mary is tormented by missing the film's conclusion. They return home to discover the teens have raided the Christmas snacks. Enthralled by the charismatic Ms De Brún, the friends are invited to her house, where she gives them wine. At school, they learn she has left; angrily assuming she was dismissed, they steal the statue as leverage to force the school to retain Ms De Brún. Accidentally breaking off the statue's head, they glue it on upside down as Sister Michael walks in. The girls' parents are summoned, soon followed by Ms De Brún, who reveals she resigned for a better position elsewhere, contrary to her lessons of "spontaneity". The families are told to replace the statue, and the teens receive a week's suspension. Sister Michael tells Mary the plot twist of The Usual Suspects.
9	3	"The Concert"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	19 March 2019	3.05[3]
The friends prepare to attend Take That's concert in Belfast, but a TV report about a polar bear escaped from Belfast Zoo leads Mary to forbid them from going. Undeterred, they board a bus to Belfast, with Michelle bringing a suitcase of vodka. Sister Michael is also aboard, and the friends lie to her that the suitcase is not theirs. The bus is halted, and the army uses a remote control vehicle to detonate the suspicious luggage. Fleeing on foot, the friends encounter Irish Travellers and accept a lift from a passing driver, Rita. Drunk and distracted by opera, Rita collides with a sheep, which the girls are forced to move off the road. Realising that James—who has the concert tickets—is not with them, they retrieve him from the Travellers. Back home, the adults learn the polar bear was recaptured by firefighters near the A6 whilst eating a sheep carcass. Michelle and Clare's mothers arrive, expecting to find Michelle, James, and Clare there, and the adults realise the teens lied to go to the concert. Watching the concert on TV, Gerry laughs when he sees them in the audience.
10	4	"The Curse"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	26 March 2019	3.08[3]
The family gather for a wedding, to which Erin has brought her friends. Mary and Sarah's maternal aunt Bridie, attending with her 50-year-old son Eamonn, insults the parenting of Mary, Sarah, and Joe. Mary responds by telling Bridie to "drop dead"; seconds later, Bridie dies. Mary is perturbed by speculation that she has the power to curse people. At Bridie's wake, Michelle pressures her friends to try hash scones, which are inadvertently distributed to the party. Retrieving most of the scones, the friends try to flush them down the toilet, blocking it and causing a flood. Recognising Bridie's earrings as having been stolen from their mother, Mary and Sarah take them off Bridie's corpse but are caught by Eamonn. Back home, Joe offers the family several scones saved from the wake, to Erin's horror.
11	5	"The Prom"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	2 April 2019	2.88[3]
At school, Jenny organises a 1950s-style prom, and Sister Michael introduces Mae, a new pupil of East Asian descent from County Donegal. Invited into Clare's group, Mae vows revenge against Jenny for buying the dress she wanted. With James attending a Doctor Who convention on prom night, Erin offers to go with Clare, but instead invites John Paul, the subject of her unrequited affection. Mae asks Clare to go with her, and Orla takes Joe. Erin is crushed when John Paul fails to appear, but James, called by Mary, skips his convention to take her to the dance. Michelle's two separate dates leave for the pub together, and Clare learns from Mae's former classmate that Mae was expelled from her last school for being a bully. The friends realise Mae is planning to humiliate Jenny as she is crowned prom queen, inspired by Carrie. Clare tries to stop Mae, as Erin, Michelle, and James try to move Jenny offstage but end up drenched in what turns out to be tomato juice. The adults watch a TV news report of the IRA's ceasefire, and join their neighbours celebrating in the street.
12	6	"The President"	Michael Lennox	Lisa McGee	9 April 2019	2.57[3]
Derry awaits a visit from President of the United States Bill Clinton on 30 November 1995. Most schools will close, but Sister Michael insists on a normal day at Our Lady Immaculate. Having written to Chelsea Clinton, the friends naïvely plan to spend the day with her, while Joe, Colm, and Jim try to track the President with a CB radio. They believe he is staying in Burt in Inishowen, County Donegal, where Gerry reluctantly drives them only to discover they overheard a taxi dispatch. Most pupils truant to watch Clinton's speech, and only Jenny and Aisling attend school; Aisling leaves, and Sister Michael tells Jenny to do the same. James' self-absorbed mother Cathy returns to bring him to London and help with her business designing stickers. He tells his friends he is leaving, but Michelle follows him, warning of his mother's selfishness and assuring him he is a true "Derry Girl", but James declines to stay. Riding with his mother to the airport, James decides to stay in Derry instead. He returns to the girls and they embrace, walking together past a TV hire shop playing footage of Clinton's speech in Guildhall Square.

Ratings

Derry Girls : UK viewers per episode (millions)

Season		Episode number						Average
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	1	3.28	3.02	2.78	2.55	2.63	2.76	2.84
	2	3.68	3.35	3.05	3.08	2.88	2.57	3.10

Audience measurement performed by Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.[5]

References

1. "Weekly top 30 programmes - BARB". www.barb.co.uk.
2. "When is Derry Girls back on TV?". Radio Times. 19 January 2019.
3. "Four-screen dashboard". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
4. "Derry Girls: Series 2 Episode 2 Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague". IMDb. 12 March 2019.
5. "BARB | Broadcasters Audience Research Board".