Till Death Us Do Part - Season 6

First aired: 1/8/1975 6 episodes

Episodes

1. Phone Call to Else

Aired: 1/8/1975

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.

2. Marital Bliss

Aired: 1/15/1975

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

3. Wedgie Benn

Aired: 1/22/1975

Alf, the Reads and the Rawlins get involved in the inevitable political argument. Alf regards long term Labour minister Anthony Wedgewood Benn a fraud because he has a title – which he will later renounce – and lives in a wealthy Conservative neighbourhood. Mike, however, turns the tables on his father-in-law by pointing out that Alf is a Conservative voter living in a far from wealthy Labour stronghold.

4. The Wake

Aired: 1/29/1975

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.

5. Christmas Club Books

Aired: 2/5/1975

Alf has been charged to look after the Christmas club subscriptions at the local pub. However maths is not his strong point and he has trouble balancing the books. This in turn leads to the regulars suspecting that, instead of intending to pay them out, he is keeping the cash to join his wife in Oz and an argument breaks out, though he is almost importuned by a gay man.

6. The Letter

Aired: 2/12/1975

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