8.5/1031 votesLoading...#1 - The Scarecrow Hop
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/8/1979
Mrs. Bloomsbury - Barton sacks Aunt Sally, and as she is homeless she turns up at Worzel’s barn. As soon as she arrives she starts telling him, Sue and John about where she is going to go next, and this prompts John into saying how boring the village is. Sue protests and brings up the fact that there is a village dance on that evening and Aunt Sally and Worzel decide to go. They both agree that they need outfits to wear and visit the local museum to pinch some. At the dance, Worzel finds the music boring and requests the band play ‘The Scarecrow Hop’ which is a roaring success.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.5/1030 votesLoading...#2 - Fire Drill
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/1980
When Mrs. Bloomsbury-Barton holds a bonfire party, her choice of Guy to burn on it causes Worzel some alarm...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.5/1031 votesLoading...#3 - The Scarecrow Wedding
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/1980
Worzel rescues Aunt Sally from inside a dishwasher at a junkshop and in return she promises to marry him...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.4/1036 votesLoading...#4 - Worzel & the Saucy Nancy
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1980
Worzel stows away on the village coach outing to the seaside, where he meets the Saucy Nancy. She tells him that she saw Aunt Sally floating in the sea, but unknown to them she has been rescued by a fairground operator...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.4/1030 votesLoading...#5 - The Trial of Worzel Gummidge
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1980
Worzel is worried when a salesman tries to convince Mr. Braithwaite to replace him with an electric rook scarer...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.4/1027 votesLoading...#6 - The Return of Dolly Clothes-Peg
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/19/1981
A letter is delivered to Scatterbrook but no one, save for John and Sue, recognise the name of the person it is addressed to - Worzel Gummidge. When they find him they discover the Crowman is fixing him up and therefore reads the letter for him. It is from ‘Dolly Clothes-Peg’ writing that she is coming to see Worzel on the ‘eleventy-twelve’ bus and that she is bringing a big cake for him. Unfortunately she spends all her money, including her bus fare, on the cake and so she has to walk to Scatterbrook. When she doesn’t arrive on the bus Worzel thinks she is not coming and becomes upset, but worse is yet to come...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.3/1033 votesLoading...#7 - A Fishy Tale
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1980
While trying his hand at "wangling" in Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton's fishpond, Worzel is mistaken for an odd job man ...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.3/1030 votesLoading...#8 - Will the Real Aunt Sally...?
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 7/10/1981
Worzel cannot believe his ears when Aunt Sally accepts his proposal of marriage, but almost in the same breath he is rejected. He enlists the help of John and Sue and between them they discover that there are is another Aunt Sally in the village. The children are so worried about the effect this may have on Worzel that they tell the Crowman...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.2/1034 votesLoading...#9 - The Crowman
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/18/1979
Worzel wants a wife and so he asks The Crowman to make him a ‘handsome head’, spotting an opportunity for Worzel to learn a lesson the Crowman agrees. He tells Worzel that in return for one of his own heads he can have the loan of a head which he has made for a ‘decorative scarecrow’ ordered by Mrs. Bloomsbury - Barton. The next day Worzel turns up at Mrs. Bloomsbury - Barton’s Hall to pick up his new handsome head from the Crowman, who is working there. However, he is not the only one working there that day. Mr. Peters is also there, re-wiring the hall, and chaos quickly ensues when Worzel is asked to help him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1027 votesLoading...#10 - Worzel in the Limelight
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/1980
Worzel and Aunt Sally enter the talent contest at the village hall. Their plan to perform as a double act soon turns sour...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.2/1028 votesLoading...#11 - Worzel in Revolt
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 7/3/1981
The Crowman has dispatched pigeons to round up Aunt Sally and Worzel. When they arrive at his abode they discover why. He has heard about a cake fight the pair have had at the bishop’s tea party. He explains to them that due to their recent absenteeism they are both in bad books with their owners. The Crowman has therefore decided that the safest place for them is to stay with him until the fuss has died down. However, he wants them to both earn their keep with Worzel being his valet and Aunt Sally acting as parloir maid. Unfortunately, things don’t go the way the Crowman plans when it emerges that Aunt Sally is making Worzel do all the work.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.2/1024 votesLoading...#12 - Worzel's Birthday
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/31/1981
Ten Acre field is covered in flowers of all colours and sizes for Worzel’s 'bestest birthday'. This comes as no surprise to John and Sue who, over the previous weeks, have had to endure his many hints. They plan a surprise party and have also scraped all their savings together to buy him a gigantic birthday cake... but will it survive the attention of Aunt Sally ?
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.1/1030 votesLoading...#13 - Worzel Pays a Visit
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/1/1979
As usual Worzel is up and about the village bright and early, and on his rounds stops to steal a pint of milk for his robin redbreast. Later on, as Sue is reading Worzel a newspaper article about Aunt Sally being stolen at the village fete, Mr. Braithwaite bursts in the barn and sends John and Sue to Mrs. Bloomsbury - Barton’s with a box of apples. Whilst there, the two see that Aunt Sally is present, working as a maid. On their return to Scatterbrook, Sue rushes to Ten - Acre field to tell Worzel where Aunt Sally is and as soon as he can, he goes to the hall to see her.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.1/1032 votesLoading...#14 - The Return of Dafthead
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/6/1980
Sue and John go up to Ten - Acre field to give Worzel a present - a bowl of Black Forest Gateaux mix. When they arrive they find a different scarecrow at Worzel’s post, Dafthead. It turns out that he has put a bucket on Worzel’s head, tied him up and then dumped him in his barn. Sue and John free Worzel and the trio head up to Ten - Acre to confront Dafthead. When they arrive he is still eating the cake mix so Worzel tries to outsmart him. Unfortunately, Dafthead is too clever so Worzel decides to go and see the Crowman to see if he has any ideas.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.1/1026 votesLoading...#15 - Captain Worzel
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/13/1980
Mr Shepherd is taking Aunt Sally on a canal boat holiday through West Chester in order to see a museum owner, Mr. Pursglove, who he believes wishes to purchase her. However, before he can leave, Worzel spies her in the back of the car and decides to jump in and stow away with them. At the boatyard he gets out of the car to explore and ends up seeing a face he recognizes - Saucy Nancy. He climbs aboard her boat, but unfortunately it’s the same boat Mr Shepherd has hired, and when Aunt Sally gets aboard... of course, a fight ensues!
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
8.0/1030 votesLoading...#16 - Dolly Clothes-Peg
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/1980
Worzel and Aunt Sally are both employed at the fair but Worzel, as usual, has a problem. She is walking out with ‘The Great Orlando’, the strongman. After being let down by her yet again he goes for a walk and meets up with ‘Dolly Clothes - Peg’, an ex shop window dummy who is currently employed as a makeshift scarecrow. She explains to him how the Crowman had brought her to life and they both decide to go for a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the local tea room. Unfortunately, Aunt Sally is already there and, to make matters worse, so is ‘The Great Orlando’.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.9/1030 votesLoading...#17 - A Little Learning
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/25/1979
After losing his arm yet again Worzel is sick of people like John Peters calling him stupid, so he sets about the arduous task of locating his ‘clever head’. After searching high and low Worzel finally remembers where he’s hidden it - in the chimney of the local school that John and Sue go to. Worzel gets on the school roof and puts on his clever head. However, getting down is not so easy and he soon begins to draw attention to himself by making a racket. Miss Jamieson, the school teacher is so bothered by this noise that she goes out to investigate. When she sees Worzel she asks him what he’s doing on the roof and Worzel, feeling cocky in his clever head, demands a ‘satisfactory question’. The school teacher fires difficult questions at him, and to her amazement he gets them all right. She decides to tell Mr. Foster, the headmaster, that she has discovered a ‘genius’ on the school roof.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.9/1030 votesLoading...#18 - Worzel the Brave
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/22/1980
Mrs Bloomsbury - Barton has sold her hall to a Colonel Bloodstock who is bringing all his belongings into the village via rail. On the same journey is Aunt Sally as a package for Mr. Shepherd. Unfortunately, she gets taken up to the hall with the Colonel’s furniture, and when she arrives manages to convince him that she is a maid that comes along with the hall. She does not, however, reach there unobserved. From a field Worzel sees everything and decides to visit her. When he arrives he gets a less than warm reception - in fact he is thrown by her and finally seen off the premises courtesy of Colonel Bloodstock and his shotgun! Worzel realizes the only way he can rescue Aunt Sally is to go and see the Crowman and ask him for a ‘brave head’.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.9/1028 votesLoading...#19 - Choir Practice
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/20/1980
It’s harvest festival time and Worzel is on loan to the vicar in order to keep the starlings out of the Church rafters. He isn’t the only newcomer at the church - the vicar also has an orphan called Samantha staying with him. Worzel is posted in the graveyard, but as night falls he becomes scared of the ghosts. Meanwhile, the Church choir are practicing for the harvest festival service but as the orphan Samantha draws attention to herself in a pure white smock, John and Sue realize who she really is - Aunt Sally! Once the choir is in full swing she slips away in order to get back to the vicarage first so that she can eat all the supper that Mrs Braithwaite has prepared. She must first however cross the graveyard, and as soon as Worzel catches sight of her in white he is off, heading for the vicarage. He gets there first and when Aunt Sally comes along he realizes there was no ghost, but if you’re in the choir there’s plenty of tea and cake!
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.9/1027 votesLoading...#20 - Muvver's Day
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/12/1981
After being driven out of the village baby contest Worzel decides he wants his mum. The only person who can help him is the Crowman who deduces that a scarecrow called 'Sarah Pigswill’ was made from a row of turnips which, twelve months later, seeded Worzel. Technically making her Worzel’s mother. The wheels are set in motion and Worzel prepares for the arrival of his mother on his ‘bestest birthday'. Unfortunately, he soon realises that her idea of a birthday tea and his own are very different.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.9/1026 votesLoading...#21 - The Golden Hind
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/17/1981
The Golden Hind, a new fish and chips shop has opened in the village. As usual Worzel is wandering about the village and is attracted by the smell. He is just about to enter the establishment when he meets the shop’s mascot, a ship’s figurehead called ‘Jolly Jack’. He explains what fish and chips are and reveals that he is a friend of Saucy Nancy. Once the coast is clear Jack takes Worzel inside the shop and they help themselves to as much food as they can carry. A little later Worzel bumps into Aunt Sally who, smelling the chips, decides she wants some. He stubbornly refuses to comply with her wishes and she goes off to find her own, ending up working at the Golden Hind and meeting Jolly Jack - will she find love ?
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.8/1044 votesLoading...#22 - A Home Fit for Scarecrows
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1979
During a torrential downpour Worzel leaves his post and heads for the cosy warmth of John and Sue’s Romany Caravan at Scatterbrook. Unfortunately, John won’t let him in, even though Worzel promises to teach them Worzelese, the Scarecrow language. Instead, Worzel shelters in the old barn where he keeps his heads. After a few minutes John and Sue join him and as he has no furniture, promise him an old chair that Mrs. Braithwaite is throwing out. The next day the village wakes up to a crime wave - Worzel has been up since cock’s crow stealing furniture and has set up home in one of the back fields.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.8/1033 votesLoading...#23 - Worzel's Nephew
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1980
Worzel receives an unexpected visit from his cockney nephew, Pickles Bramble. The youngster gets a job on the Braithwaite's farm and blackmails him into doing all the work. He has to come up with a scheme to rid himself of the troublesome relative...
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.8/1032 votesLoading...#24 - Very Good, Worzel
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1980
Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton tries to impress the guests at her dinner party by hiring a butler and parlour maid for the event. Unfortunately for her, the jobs are given to Worzel and Aunt Sally...
Director: James Hill, David Pick
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
7.8/1028 votesLoading...#25 - Moving On
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/1980
The Braithwaites and the Peters have been on holiday in Tenerife and return home to a very unpleasant and unwelcome surprise. While they’ve been away Worzel and Aunt Sally have moved into their farmhouse, eaten all their food and completely wrecked the place! Mr Braithwaite finds what he believes to be just his old scarecrow and an old doll, Aunt Sally, and so puts the damage down to vandals. As they clear up the mess a newcomer, Mrs Cousins, comes along and takes away Aunt Sally for her daughter, Emma, and of course Worzel follows. When the coast is clear Worzel drags Aunt Sally away but their reunion is short-lived. The fair is passing through the village and Aunt Sally jumps on their wagon and joins them. Worzel, not to be beaten, grabs the Crowman’s trike and follows her as the disapproving Crowman follows on foot.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
The Best Episodes of Worzel Gummidge
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Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the...
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Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"The Scarecrow Hop" is the best rated episode of "Worzel Gummidge". It scored 8.5/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by James Hill and written by Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse, it aired on 4/8/1979. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Fire Drill".