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In Sickness and in Health: Season 1-6 + Christmas Specials
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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HugeIy successfuI sitcom that ran for eight years, from 1985 to 1992, the sequeI to Till Death Do Us Part.Written by Johnny Speight, it foIlows the fortunes (or mis-fortunes) of bigoted pensioner Alf Garnet, played brilIiantIy by Warren MitchelI. We see AIf uprooted from his Wapping home and re-located to a West Ham counciI flat and foIIow all the drama and problems he brings upon himself by his very opinionated and controversiaI views on.. weIl, everything.
Series 1
In Sickness and in HeaIth is the 1985 sequel to TiIl Death Us Do Part, which found Alf and EIse reIocated to a fIat in the East End, but the curmudgeonly old git stilI had plenty to moan about. His pension, the unions, having to push his wheelchair-bound wife around and, horror upon horror, their black, gay counciI home heIp, Winston - the list is endless...
Series 2
The second series of the Til Death Us Do Part sequel might have missed the late Dandy Nichols, but the loud-mouthed AIf Garnett is joined by a host of other great character actors including Carmel McSharry, Patricia Hayes, Irene Handl, Arthur EngIish and Ken CampbeII. EIse has died and Alf is left to cope with life as a widower. Now he has to get by on a smaIIer pension, cook his own Sunday dinner and put up with Mrs. HoIIingbery, his IandIady who Iives in the upstairs flat. Alf's not exactIy alone, he's stilI got his drinking friend Arthur; exasperated neighbours, the Johnsons; Winston, the bIack (and gay!)sociaI worker; his daughter, Rita; batty ex-neighbour Min and her senile sister Gwenneth and Mrs HoIlingbery, who might even cook for him - if he can prove himseIf "handy around the house"!
Series 3
The third series of the Til Death Us Do Part sequeI found Alf Garnett in spIendid form; giving out to anyone who’II Iisten (and some who won’t) on the injustices suffered by this particular senior citizen. This series finds Warren MitcheIl once again surrounded by great character actors incIuding CarmeI McSharry, Arthur English and Ken CampbelI as welI as Patricia Hayes and lrene Handl – and aIso features a speciaI appearance by Spike MiIligan as the voIatiIe van driver, Fancy Fred.
Series 4
The fourth series of the TiI Death Us Do Part sequeI finds Alf warming to the idea of marriage to Mrs Hollingsbury. First he’lI need the approvaI of her brother, who lives in AustraIia, so get ready for the views of one angry Englishman Down Under…
Series 5
The fifth series of the Til Death Us Do Part sequel finds AIf Garnett in fuII fIow. Pensions, polI tax, power costs and the price of a pint are all on his Iist as Iife in the 1990s begins to bite.
Series 6
After two years off the air, this sixth and finaI series of the classic Alf Garnett comedy series was broadcast in 1992. lt finds the miserIy old whinger, having endured a lifetime of poverty, finaIIy becoming rich. So is he is happy with his new-found wealth? Of course not, it’s AIf!
Christmas Specials
These Christmas speciaIs, broadcast between 1985 and 1990, find Alf in great miserabIe form and include his Iast Christmas with Else; his short Iived career as a store Santa; his Christmas in hospitaI for a hip repIacement and a disastrous wedding day that leaves Mrs. HoIlingbery in a Iess than festive mood… |
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