The Best Episodes Written By Jimmy Perry

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Pilot

   S0:E112/29/1988

   London, 1927: Alf Stokes and his daughter Ivy are given the sack from their jobs on the music halls. Alf decides that he has no option but to go into service as a butler. When he arrives at the residence of Lord Meldrum, some familiar faces await him.

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   #2 - The Phantom Sign Writer

   S1:E11/14/1990

   Alf and Ivy are settled into their new jobs but things soon hot up when Sir Ralph suspects that his wife, Lady Agatha, is having an affair. Lord Meldrum's car is vandalised – someone has daubed the word "fornicator" on the side which causes a panic when the Bishop wants to use the vehicle.

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   6.8/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Gretna Green or Bust

   S3:E512/8/1991

   Miss Poppy and Dickie Metcalfe decide to marry and elope to Gretna Green, the rest of the household set off in hot persuit in an attempt to stop them...

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   #4 - A Day in the Country

   S3:E712/22/1991

   Lord Meldrum decides he is going to treat the servants to a picnic in the country. Nobody is surprised however, that upon their arrival at Peabody Hall, Sir Ralph and Lady Agatha are there too...

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   6.8/10(2 votes)

   #5 - Come to the Ball

   S4:E34/3/1993

   Lord Meldrum decides to inspect the servants' quarters and Mabel has found a purse containing five pounds. Then the staff are invited to the luxurious ball where the employers have to wait upon their servants...

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   6.8/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Well, There You Are Then...!

   S4:E64/24/1993

   Things look bleak for the Meldrums with most of their money lost on the stock market crash and the effects of the Bangokhan beetle. Cissy and Lavender try to save the situation, but the servants have little choice but to look elsewhere for their futures...

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   #7 - Royal Flush

   S2:E712/23/1990

   Excitement runs through the household when it is announced that the King and Queen of Dalmatia are coming to dinner, although Mrs. Lipton is upset to find that she will not be doing the catering. In addition, Noel Coward is expected to join them after the opening night of his new play...

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Please Help the Orphans

   S3:E111/10/1991

   Alf is being pestered by Mrs. Lipton to finalise his divorce so he gets an old friend to agree to pose as Mrs. Stokes. Meanwhile, he has a brainwave to make some money by fooling Mrs. Lipton into baking some cakes, which she thinks are destined for the local orphanage...

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #9 - Mrs. Lipton's Nasty Turn

   S3:E311/24/1991

   Having discovered Alf's deception and broken his Lordship's crockery in a fit of anger, Mrs. Lipton is left wondering if she still has a job. On a visit to the Sunshine Pantry, Ivy discovers the truth about Miss Potter's cherry cake...

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    #10 - Meet the Workers

    S3:E412/1/1991

    Miss Poppy annonces her engagement to Dickie Metcalfe but Alf smells a rat! Lord Meldrum is convinced that he must learn more about the lower classes before he can join the board of governors at the BBC and so he invites his factory workers to dinner and serves them fish and chips...

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    #11 - Yes Sir, That's My Baby

    S4:E13/20/1993

    Miss Cissy leads the house into helping out at the local soup kitchen for the poor. Meanwhile, Teddy is still trying to escape the romantic clutches of Madge Cartwright. This time, Alf thinks he has the perfect solution - he traces all of Teddy's illegitimate children and brings them to the house to face Madge...

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Requiem for a Parrot

    S4:E23/27/1993

    Lord Meldrum is intent on sending Teddy to his rubber plantation in Malaya, however the death of Lady Lavender's parrot leads to some bizarre funeral arrangements...

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    #13 - Beg, Borrow or Steal

    S1:E52/11/1990

    Alf is being blackmailed by the local pawn broker into letting him burgle the house. Lord Meldrum allows Cissy & Poppy to hold an evening of progressive poetry in the dining room. At last the relationship between Alf and Ivy is revealed to James.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Trouble at Mill

    S2:E211/18/1990

    The Prime Minister is coming to dinner but Alf's thoughts are consumed by Lady Lavender. At the factory, Teddy's flirtations with the factory girls causes a mass walk out...

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    #15 - Money Talks

    S2:E311/25/1990

    Lady Lavender throws her money out of the window and into the street, naturally some of the money goes astray when Alf gets his hands on it...

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Wounds of War

    S2:E512/9/1990

    To protect his master, Alf tells Sir Ralph that Lord Meldrum was wounded in the Artillery. Ivy is over the moon when James agrees to take her to the pictures. Mrs. Lipton is convinced that Alf's divorce is being held up by his wife...

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - A Deed of Gift

    S1:E21/21/1990

    Lady Lavender sends for her solicitor whom she instructs to give Ivy her shares from the Union Jack Rubber Company. James is tortured by thoughts of Miss Poppy after she asks to feel his muscles. Then Lavender sends for her solicitor again.

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    #18 - Hey Diddle Diddle (Pilot)

    S1:E11/1/1980

    It is 1959. Tired of academia, Cambridge University archaeology professor Jeffrey Fairbrother goes to Maplin's Holiday Camp as the new Entertainments Manager, a job he looks forward to with idealised optimism. Camp host, Ted Bovis, instructs his new recruit, camp comic Spike Dixon, in how to succeed at Maplin's. The pilot would subsequently be shown consecutively with the first series, although repeated broadcasts on television were edited to reduce the runtime down to a more standard half-hour format.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Current Affairs

    S3:E211/17/1991

    Alf continues to supply the Sunshine Pantry with Mrs. Lipton's cakes. Myrtle pays a visit to the house posing as Mrs. Stokes but can she persuade Mrs. Lipton?...

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    #20 - The Night of Reckoning

    S3:E612/15/1991

    Twelvetrees gets an offer to be butler for Sir Ralph and Lady Agatha. Mabel is on the verge of being evicted from her home. Meanwhile, Alf comes up with a drastic solution to Teddy's problem...

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    #21 - The Fall of the House Of Meldrum

    S4:E54/17/1993

    Meldrum is convinced that Sir Ralph has put a curse on him. In addition, the rubber plantation in Malaya has been ravaged by the Bangokhan beetle. The family face financial ruin!...

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    #22 - Labour or Love

    S2:E111/11/1990

    Lord Meldrum gives Teddy an ultimatum - marry Madge Cartwright or be sent to work in his factory. Teddy thinks it's a bluff but finds that his brother means every word. Alf discovers that Lady Lavender has got some money stashed under her bed and schemes to relieve her of the burden...

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    #23 - The Meldrum Vases

    S2:E412/2/1990

    Alf has hidden some of the money in one of his Lordship's antique vases - unfortunately Lord Meldrum has donated three identical vases to the Bishop's auction for Distressed Gentlewomen. James and Ivy are in a race to stop Alf retrieving the money...

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