The BEST episodes written by Johnny Speight
#1 - State Visit
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 2 - Episode 9
Alf is enraged to learn that Harold Wilson is to play host to the Russian president. Even worse, he reads that the Queen will have to meet this Bolshevik heathen - something that ought not to happen to someone who is descended from God.
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#2 - Alf's Broken Leg
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 4 - Episode 6
Alf learns that Else has taken out an insurance policy just before he slips on the polished floor and breaks his leg.
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#3 - TV Licence
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 1
Alf doesn't think he needs a TV licence if he only wants to watch commercial TV.
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#4 - Paki-Paddy
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 7
Alf meets his new neighbour in the pub … an Irish Pakistani with Irish Roots!
#5 - Phone Call To Else
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 2
With Else now in Australia, who will cook Alf his dinner when he gets home from work?
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#6 - Wedgie Benn
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 4
Min and Bert take part in the usual Garnett living room discussion about politics and foreigners.
#7 - Christmas Club Books
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 6
Alf is desperately trying to work out the local hostelry's Christmas club accounts.
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#8 - Min The Housekeeper
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 7 - Episode 2
Alf, having moved in with his next-door neighbours, is becoming increasingly disenchanted with the set-up.
#9 - Pigeon Fancier
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 4 - Episode 2
Alf's in the money; celebrating at the pub he meets a friend and thinks he has a sure-fire way of making some more.
#10 - Gran's Watch
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 5
With Gran apparently at death’s door, Alf feels she would want him to have her valuable watch.
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#11 - Drunk In Charge Of a Bicycle
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 7 - Episode 3
Alf, drunk in charge of a bike, is arrested by a black policeman... and is seen by a black doctor.
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#12 - The Window
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 7 - Episode 4
When Mike points out that the windows at the Garnett house have not been washed in years, Alf decides to save money and clean them himself rather than bring in a professional.
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Till Death Us Do Part - Season 7 - Episode 5
Alf and Bert take up golf - with particular emphasis on 19th hole activities.
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Till Death Us Do Part - Season 7 - Episode 6
Alf is not a happy bigot. He has lost his job and returns to an empty and dark house. And all on his birthday too. He fears that he has been burgled but in fact the lights go on and friends and neighbours are ready to spring a happy birthday surprise on him.
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Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 1
'Marvellous innit? Just because her sister feels ill, Florence "Silly Moo" Nightingale wants to pack her lamp and dash all the way out to bloody Australia!
#16 - The Blood Donor
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 3 - Episode 2
Sensing cowardice, Mike tries to talk Alf into giving blood. Despite Alf's concerns about who his blood would be given to, he's finally convinced to do it on a five bob bet.
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#17 - Dock Pilfering
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 4 - Episode 4
Even at the breakfast table Alf is on his high horse, mouthing off about how the government should put looters and thieves up against the wall and shoot them. However, when he gets to work and found that Else has got her own back on him by putting nothing in his lunch-box, he faces an ethical dilemma: steal or starve?
#18 - Up The Hammers!
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 4 - Episode 5
Alf decides that his new-born grandson will follow Bobby Moore into the No. 6 shirt at West Ham.
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#19 - Holiday In Bournemouth
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 4 - Episode 3
The Garnetts decide it's time they got away from the trials and tribulations of the East End and jump on a train for a holiday. It's not long, however, before loud-mouthed Alf gets on everyone's nerves by taking a swipe at women's lib.
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#20 - The Wake
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 5
Alf, Minnie and Bert have returned from Minnie's mother's funeral and Alf has a shocking cough.
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#21 - Party Night
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 6
Alf is feeling the effects of the demon drink and Else is not convinced that it's the single glass of port or the sausages that's making him ill.
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Till Death Us Do Part - Season 7 - Episode 1
With no sign of Else ever coming back to England, Alf decides to put his house on the market, though with Rita and Mike as sitting tenants, this creates a problem.
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#23 - Peace And Goodwill (1966 Christmas Special)
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 2 - Episode 1
As the Garnetts celebrate Christmas, Alf berates Rita and Mike for only giving him 'Whiffs' as opposed to real cigars and second-rate socks - whilst they have bought Else a dress - and accuses his atheist son of hypocrisy.
#24 - The Royal Wedding
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 2
Alf tries to organise a street party in celebration of the Royal Wedding. Unfortunately nobody else seems interested. This episode master copy no longer exists in the BBC Archive and exists as an "off-air" copy only.
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#25 - Marital Bliss
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 3
Bert takes refuge in Alf's home when his wife loses her temper.
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#26 - To Garnett, A Grandson
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 4 - Episode 1
Rita gives birth to a baby son and Alf, eventually - as he would rather be in the pub wetting the baby's head - goes to visit her in hospital.
#27 - Alf's Dilemma
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 2 - Episode 10
Alf lectures everyone on the benefits of Mary Whitehouse's edifying new book - a rhapsody that is abruptly interrupted when the diarrhoea from which he's suffering flares up. At that point he discoverers that their loo isn't working due to Else's tea leaves...
#28 - Strikes And Blackouts
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 3
The Garnett’s game of Monopoly is disrupted by a blackout.
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#29 - A House With Love In It
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mike tries to help Alf out when he forgets his 25th wedding anniversary - but no good deed goes unpunished!
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#30 - Arguments, Arguments...
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 1 - Episode 1
Incensed by Mike's comments about his home, Alf takes himself off to the pub to drown his sorrows.
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#31 - Intolerance
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 1 - Episode 4
After a bit of a fracas at the European Cup Winners Cup in Glasgow, Alf returns home with a black eye and no voice.
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#32 - The Phone
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 3 - Episode 1
Alf wins £17 on the horses only to find out that Mike couldn't place the bet as the phone box was occupied. He is soft-soaped into believing that getting a telephone installed is in his own best interests, but he soon finds out it's anything but.
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#33 - In Sickness and In Health...
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 2 - Episode 8
Alf is ill in bed while everyone else is downstairs enjoying the television. A visit from the decrepit Dr. Kelly results in a verdict of "nothing wrong with you", so Alf sets off in search of a second opinion.
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Till Death Us Do Part - Season 3 - Episode 7
Dr. Kelly prescribes bed rest for a poorly Else, so her sister Maud moves in to look after things. When Alf makes his contempt more than plain, he finds out he's got to fend for himself or starve. Much of this episode survives from a domestic home recording - only the first four minutes and the closing credits are missing.
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#35 - Hair Raising!
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 1 - Episode 2
An argument about clothes turns into one about Alf's baldness, of which he is particularly sensitive. After being caught trying one of Rita's wigs he resorts to a fearsome concoction to try to induce his hair to grow. This episode no longer exists in the BBC Archive.
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#36 - Three Day Week
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 5 - Episode 4
Else decides to act on Mr Heath's advice and begins her own 'Save It' campaign.
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#37 - The Letter
Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6 - Episode 7
Else has written to Rita suggesting she, Mike and the baby join her in Australia.
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