The BEST episodes of Till Death Us Do Part
Every episode of Till Death Us Do Part ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Till Death Us Do Part!
Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1, first as a Comedy Playhouse play in July 1965, then in seven series from June 1966 to December 1975. Created by Johnny Speight, Till Death Us Do Part centred on the East End Garnett family, led by patriarch Alf (Warren Mitchell), a reactionary white working-class man who holds racist, bigoted and heavily nationalistic views. He was put up with by his gentle and long-suffering wife Else (Dandy Nichols), his daughter Rita (Una Stubbs) and her bright but layabout husband Mike (Anthony Booth) whose socialist views were always at odds with Alf's.
#1 - State Visit
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/20/1967
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.
#2 - Alf's Broken Leg
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1972
Alf learns that Else has taken out an insurance policy just before he slips on the polished floor and breaks his leg.
#3 - Min The Housekeeper
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/1975
Alf, having moved in with his next-door neighbours, is becoming increasingly disenchanted with the set-up.
#4 - Christmas Club Books
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/1975
Alf is desperately trying to work out the local hostelry's Christmas club accounts.
#5 - Wedgie Benn
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/1975
Min and Bert take part in the usual Garnett living room discussion about politics and foreigners.
#6 - Paki-Paddy
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/1974
Alf meets his new neighbour in the pub … an Irish Pakistani with Irish Roots!
#7 - TV Licence
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1974
Alf doesn't think he needs a TV licence if he only wants to watch commercial TV.
#8 - Phone Call To Else
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/1975
With Else now in Australia, who will cook Alf his dinner when he gets home from work?
#9 - Pigeon Fancier
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1972
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
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/1974
With Gran apparently at death’s door, Alf feels she would want him to have her valuable watch.
#11 - Drunk In Charge Of a Bicycle
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1975
Alf, drunk in charge of a bike, is arrested by a black policeman... and is seen by a black doctor.
#12 - The Window
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/1975
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.
#13 - A Hole In One
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/1975
Alf and Bert take up golf - with particular emphasis on 19th hole activities.
#14 - Unemployment
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/17/1975
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.
#15 - Outback Bound
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/31/1974
'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
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1968
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.
#17 - Up The Hammers!
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1972
Alf decides that his new-born grandson will follow Bobby Moore into the No. 6 shirt at West Ham.
#18 - Dock Pilfering
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1972
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?
#19 - Holiday In Bournemouth
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1972
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.
#20 - The Wake
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/1975
Alf, Minnie and Bert have returned from Minnie's mother's funeral and Alf has a shocking cough.
#21 - Party Night
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/1974
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.
#22 - Moving In With Min
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/1975
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.
#23 - Peace And Goodwill (1966 Christmas Special)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/26/1966
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
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/1974
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.
#25 - Marital Bliss
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1975
Bert takes refuge in Alf's home when his wife loses her temper.