September 2001 marked the return of The Ricky Gervais Show to XFM. Unfortunately the first few episodes are not in circulation, the earliest available recording being the 10th of November. Due to the success of The Office Ricky was important enough to now be given his own producer, one Karl Pilkington. Although originally employed as an off air producer Ricky and Steve quickly realised the potential of the round headed Manc and involved him more and more. By the end of series one Karl evolved from a background figure to virtually taking over.

Series 3 consisted of just 12 shows, even so Pilkington still managed to miss one by going on yet another holiday and there was one best of compilation, I have not included either of these. Karl ended season 2 by saying he was giving up the shows but the XFM management bribed him to come back by giving him Mondays off, much to Gervais and Merchant's disgust.

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This is the shortest season running for just six weeks, amazingly Pilkington doesn’t take a holiday during that time. The series ended with the last episode being cut short due to Ricky having to introduce REM at Live8.

So here they are by popular demand. These are all the shows featuring just Ricky and Steve due to Karl being absent.

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