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The Best Episodes of Till Death Us Do Part

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The Best Episodes of Till Death Us Do Part

Following the chronicles of the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf Garnett, a reactionary working-class man who holds racist and anti-socialist views.

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  1. Background image for Three Day Week
    8.4/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Three Day Week

    S5:E4

    Else begins her own three-day week so there's no dinner for Alf.

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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Peace and Goodwill
    8.1/10(34 votes)

    #2 - Peace and Goodwill

    S2:E1

    Christmas lunch in the Garnett household is anything but peaceful as it turns into a debate of politics, the Monarchy, the Monarchy's politics, religion, whether there is a heaven or hell, the fuel to burn the Christmas pudding and a trip to the hospital for Alf to remove a coin he has swallowed accidentally eventually follows in the episode "In Sickness and in Health".

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  3. Background image for Strikes and Blackouts
    7.9/10(29 votes)

    #3 - Strikes and Blackouts

    S5:E3

    There's a power cut – isn't there?

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    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #4 - Aunt Maud

    S3:E7

    When Else is laid up with bronchitis her sister Maud comes to look after the family. She and Alf hate each other and, after he insults her once too often, she refuses to cook for him. She also sees the opportunity to make him jealous when Else's old flame George Pringle comes to visit and Maud hints at something that might have happened between him and Else on Brighton beach before the war.

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    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #5 - Gran's Watch

    S5:E5

    Gran appears to be dying, so she won't need her late husband's gold watch now, will she?

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  6. Background image for TV Licence
    7.6/10(27 votes)

    #6 - TV Licence

    S5:E1

    Alf feels he doesn't need a TV licence if he only gets commercial television.

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  8. Background image for The Blood Donor
    7.4/10(23 votes)

    #7 - The Blood Donor

    S3:E2

    Believing that Alf is scared to be a blood donor Mike goads him by betting him that even if he did give blood it would be rejected. This does the trick but Alf is sure that his blood will be given to somebody of importance and then has a dream that he is at Buckingham Palace where he has helped out the queen by his donation.

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  9. Background image for A Woman's Place is in the Home
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #8 - A Woman's Place is in the Home

    S2:E6

    Alf returns home late, after doing overtime to find no fire, no family and no food. The family, it turns out, have been out to the cinema, Rita and Else arrive back without Mike in tow, who it is revealed is at a local fish and chip shop for the three of them, leaving out Alf. Rita surmises that if Alf were to call the chip shop from the local phone box (many households, including the Garnett household, in the late 1960s, were not connected up to the national telephone network, relying on calls made from and received in local call boxes), he might get through in time before Mike places the three orders – Mike is queuing to place the orders.

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    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #9 - The Phone

    S3:E1

    When Mike is unable to get into the phone box to place Alf's bet on a horse which ultimately wins, Alf decides it is time for the Garnetts to have their own phone. Despite Mike trying to wind him up by pretending to be the operator, Alf is proud of his new possession but gets fed up when Else allows Min from next door to come in and use the phone, turning down the volume on the television show he is trying to watch

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    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #10 - The Royal Wedding

    S5:E2

    Alf wants to throw a street party for the royal wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips

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    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #11 - Party Night

    S5:E6

    Alf likes a drink, but isn't amused when the women have a skinful.

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  13. Background image for State Visit
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #12 - State Visit

    S2:E9

    Alf is furious that the Russian premier, Kosygin, has been invited to Downing Street by Harold Wilson. Believing that Britain is selling out to the Commies, Alf decides to take Else on a trip to Downing Street to protest—and then on to see Her Majesty at the Palace!

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  14. Background image for Alf's Dilemma (aka Cleaning Up TV)
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #13 - Alf's Dilemma (aka Cleaning Up TV)

    S2:E10

    A quiet afternoon in the Garnett household is the result of Mike and Alf both reading their own new books, and Else and Rita boredly sitting by, wondering what their respective husbands are reading. It transpires that Alf is reading "Cleaning up TV", the book written by the TV morality, anti-swearing, anti-blasphemy, anti-violence campaigner Mary Whitehouse. After ridicule levelled at him from both Mike and Rita ("She's concerned, for the bleedin' moral fibre of the nation!"), whose moral standards are at almost polar opposites from those of Mrs Whitehouse and Mr Garnett, Alf suffers a bout of diarrhoea, which he has been suffering from all day.

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  15. Background image for Sex Before Marriage
    6.9/10(19 votes)

    #14 - Sex Before Marriage

    S2:E2

    Redecorating the living room leads on to discussions of sexual mores, including suspicions that Mike and Rita had premarital sex. They convince Rita's parents that they didn't, but as soon as they leave the room, Mike and Rita begin laughing, leaving this debate open-ended. Else then reminds Alf that he attempted sex with her before they were married. A discussion with Wally the Milkman leads on to a discussion about the existence of God, to which Mike denies His existence. After Alf is left alone to complete the wallpapering, he realises that he has accidentally left the wallpaper strips too short. Later, he pays a local decorator to complete the job while the rest of the family are out. When Else comes back, she then decides she doesn't like the floral pattern she herself chose, and Alf storms out, insisting "I'm going down the pub!" before returning moments later realising he has no more money, having paid the local decorator £8 10s.

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  16. Background image for In Sickness and in Health
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #15 - In Sickness and in Health

    S2:E8

    Alf is ill in bed with the rest of the family downstairs ignoring him, watching TV. Eventually an NHS doctor with a cough, with questionable competence, arrives and declares that there is nothing wrong with Alf. Alf retorts that on a previous occasion that this doctor diagnosed nothing wrong with a patient, the patient died shortly after. Alf demands to see a specialist and is admitted to hospital, but is frustrated that he has to go on a bus and an ambulance will not be called. In hospital, he frightens a fellow patient, shows surprise at how much compassion the coloured nurses show and overhears a discussion by two surgeons about the operation they are due to perform on Alf tomorrow, including how they must not drink too much brandy that night and how they will have to hurry the operation tomorrow so they can play a round of golf.

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  17. Background image for Paki-Paddy
    6.6/10(32 votes)

    #16 - Paki-Paddy

    S5:E7

    Alf shows his prejudice against immigrants, one of whom moves in next door.

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  18. Background image for The Bulldog Breed
    6.5/10(9 votes)

    #17 - The Bulldog Breed

    S2:E4

    A visit by people collecting for a Vietnam War victims charity leads to a debate about war – the Vietnam, Second and First World Wars – only then resulting in Alf opening up a world map and showing his complete lack of knowledge of where Russia and even Asia is. This, naturally, is down to the Labour Government for giving away the British Empire. When questioned whether he supports the causes for all three of those wars, he claims to support the causes of the First and Second World Wars, citing his time out in the deserts of North Africa for the Second. Then a lorry parks outside, blocking the sunlight entering the Garnett living room window. An argument erupts between Alf and the lorry driver, with the lorry driver refusing to move. When he thinks no-one is looking, he lets the tyres on the lorry down, only to be overlooked by a lorry driver and a policeman. The policeman hands him a tyre pump, to which Alf reluctantly obeys. So much for the bulldog breed!

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  19. Background image for Caviar on the Dole
    6.5/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Caviar on the Dole

    S2:E5

    Mike is certainly crowing when he loses his job – not that that is anything to be pleased about – but the Government have just announced an increase in Unemployment Benefit payments. Combined with having to pay Alf £1 a week rent yet claiming £5 a week national assistance for rent, Mike is pleased with the profit he is making, until he is told by a friend that these things are checked up on. When he gets home, Mike is behaving unusually friendly towards Alf, but Rita sees right through him. He then reveals why his attitude has changed – he is wanting to curry favour with his father-in-law and landlord so that Alf will not report Mike to the authorities.

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  20. Background image for The Wake
    6.5/10(19 votes)

    #19 - The Wake

    S6:E4

    Min's mother has died and everybody has returned from the funeral though Min is adamant that her mother will be reincarnated as a blackbird. Having made sure that he has not already learnt of its outcome Alf settles down to watch the Ali-Foreman fight on TV but there are, of course, complications.

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  21. Background image for The Funeral
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #20 - The Funeral

    S3:E4

    Out of grudging respect for a dead female neighbor he despised, Alf orders the telly off for the whole day. Mike then tells Alf that his beloved West Ham will play Fulham, on telly that evening, but will Alf watch the Hammers 7–2 triumph

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    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #21 - Monopoly

    S3:E3

    It's New Year's Eve and Alf, not wanting to join the others at the party over the road, gets out his old Monopoly set. When the rest of the family returns they have a game, leading to the inevitable falling out over property between Alf and Mike, and Alf taking drastic action.

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  23. Background image for The Letter
    6.2/10(17 votes)

    #22 - The Letter

    S6:E6

    Alf is heartbroken to learn Else isn't returning to England and has written a letter confirming it to Rita.

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  24. Background image for Phone Call to Else
    6.1/10(23 votes)

    #23 - Phone Call to Else

    S6:E1

    Alf is missing Else who is still away in Australia and Rita and Mike convince him to make a long-distance phone call to her. But Else answers and lays the phone down to answer the doorbell, the time clicks away and the bill grows. Dandy Nichols last appearance as Else Garnett on the series.

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  25. Background image for A Wapping Mythology
    6.0/10(12 votes)

    #24 - A Wapping Mythology

    S2:E7

    A picture of the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII, leads to Alf praising the former King for being "the greatest monarch the country ever had". He then goes on to claim that his father and the former King used to drink regularly at The Royal Crown pub, where he claims they were the only two who could down a yard of ale in exactly 8 and a half seconds. Else discredits the first half of the story but believes the part about Alf's father's drinking abilities. When asked how he knew this person was the real Duke of Windsor, Alf claims he can always see Royalty in breeding.

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  26. Background image for Marital Bliss
    6.0/10(21 votes)

    #25 - Marital Bliss

    S6:E2

    Min and Bert Reed from next door have a fight and split up.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Three Day Week" is the best rated episode of "Till Death Us Do Part". It scored 8.4/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/30/1974. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Peace and Goodwill".