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- Macabre tales include five scientists who drank themselves to death, two teenage runaways, and a boat tour of a mine where a double murder took place. To lighten the mood, a lecturer gives a talk on church organs.
- A man in a spacesuit enters a dusty, rat-infested suburban house and recovers an artefact: The Innes Book of Records. Inside, he discovers songs including "How Sweet To Be An Idiot" and "Let's Go Crazy", along with poetry by John Betjeman.
- The spacesuited man sits down to hear tales of disenchantment from a farmer, a tired married couple and a shoe factory quality control manager. Also features an exercise dance class with Nick Cabaret, and the Marx Brothers in the jungle.
- The female gender gets dissected, be it Jake Thackray's song about being nagged, Nick Cabaret's wishes for love, a protest singer dedicating a track to Melissa, or the art of romance being disrupted by the return of Godzilla.
- Eric the Policeman (Michael Palin) arrests the camera crew, forcing the BBC to show highlights from the following week's episode to fill air time. Meanwhile, we meet a painter without imagination and the urban spaceman.
- Vivian Stanshall reads poetry, Nick Cabaret performs a beachside concert to a mermaid, there's evolution via animation, jellyfish entering showbusiness, a rock star monk, and a Scottish Frankenstein's monster who just wants to dance.
- War is the overriding theme of this final episode, as young men go and return from battle, Laurel and Hardy sing in the foreign legion, and a middle-aged couple make preparations for a nuclear holocaust.
- Radio station PA Sue picks out the Innes Book of Records for a vacuous DJ to play. Tracks played are "Morning Song", "Boring", "Chalk and Cheese", "Human Race" and "All In The Name Of Love".
- A lonely sentient flower is interrupted by the bird calls of Percy Edwards, while the Alligator Jug Thumpers put on a show, as does a man who can regurgitate cigarettes. However, none of them are as enlightening as some toilet graffiti.
- Frying tips from a chef, votes for the Apathy Party, how to draw a leader, the nature of freedom, and the illicit thrills of late night fish and chips are this week's subjects from the Innes Book of Records.
- The man in the spacesuit sits down to listen to the Innes Book of Records for the final time. There, he learns about the simplicity of Shangri-La, hears organ music from Robin Richmond, and some more poetry from Sir John Betjeman.
- For this second series, the Innes Book of Records is found in different locations. Here a young girl in an attic gets to learn all about loneliness: the loneliness of a cowboy, a single man in a cafe, and a restless Groucho Marx.
- Sir George finds himself stuck on a desert island with only the Innes Book of Records for company. Tracks include "I Like Cézanne", "Love is Getting Deeper", "Keep On Rockin'" and "UFO Shanty".
- An elderly, hard-drinking vagabond plays the Innes Book of Records from a gramophone in a pram. Among the tunes he plays are a singing apeman, a miniature hot air balloonist and a scientist who just wants to dance.
- The Innes Book of Records is found in a basement where toys come to life. Included in the book is the man who took up a circus job as a female gypsy fortune teller, Victor Burnett performing magic, and The Spieglers singing Bach.
- Television informs events as a lonely man channel hops. While doing so, he discovers sights like John Cooper Clarke performing, the western "A Fistful of Pasta", and a man who only has one thing on his mind.
- A drunken journalist provides the story of the Knicker Elastic King, poetry from Ivor Cutler, and Kirk and Spock's disco takeover. Meanwhile, Schubert invents a new form of music known as "rock and roll", but realises it'll never catch on.
- Erotica is the subject of the Innes Book of Records as Nick Cabaret sings about his libido, Charlie Chaplin tries to stop illicit photography, and a sailor tells of his irregular love for his mother.