In Sickness and in Health - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
Alf Garnett has not mellowed with the years and is as bigoted as ever. The Garnetts are now living in a council maisonette, near West Ham football ground, but Alf's lot is not made easy by having to push Else, who has rheumatoid arthritis, around in a wheelchair.
Episode 2
Opticians are the focus of Alf attention this week.
Also in the firing line are yer Fleet Street and yer Church, but he meets his match outside a ladies loo.
Episode 3
Alf hears of the provision of home-helps by the DHSS, but none of them will stay in the same house as him. After a session in the pub with Arthur, he returns home to find that Else has acquired a different kind of home-help - one who will stay!
Episode 4
Alf uses his neighbours' phone to ring his daughter Rita, in Liverpool. It's so much easier now 'you don't have to bother with the operator no more' - but Rita's not on the phone and Else is still next door but after all: what are neighbours for!
Episode 5
Rita comes home for a few days to visit Mum and Dad, and meets their new home-help, Winston. Mike , meanwhile, is still unemployed in Liverpool, and who can wonder, when 'the Tory Government's being run by a grocer's daughter!'
Episode 6
Unable to qualify for a powered wheelchair and fed up with pushing Else and the shopping home, Alf asks the local mechanic to modify an old lawn-mower engine for her chair. While demonstrating its safety to an unconvinced Else, Alf realises he forgot to ask for a brake.
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