In Sickness and in Health Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Episode #2.1

Else has died and Alf and Rita with friends and neighbours including landlady Mrs Hollingbury return from the funeral for the wake. With Else gone his pension will be halved yet the bills remain the same and Mrs Hollingbury surprises everybody by revealing that Alf has finally lost faith in the Conservatives and persuaded her to vote Labour with him at the last election. She also shows her racist side, provoking Rita's displeasure but being calmed down with an ironic kiss from Winston. Once he is left alone Alf finally breaks down in tears, bemoaning the loss of the 'silly old moo', whom he nonetheless loved.

Episode 2

Episode #2.2

Drowning his sorrows over Else with the bottle Alf passes out and is woken by Mrs Holingbery claiming someone is trying to get in the house. It's the visiting Rita and Winston but Mrs H locks the door at half ten every night and tells Alf she will lock him out if he is not back from the pub by then. Of course he fails to get back in time and gets the Johnsons to phone for an ambulance as a ruse. Unfortunately they get locked out of their own house whilst Alf passes out again on the sofa.

Episode 3

Episode #2.3

Mrs. Hollingbery's obsession with locking doors takes on new dimensions when she even locks Alf into his own flat but then he needs to go to toilet. Meanwhile the shopkeeper wants to call in Elsa's debts, and the milkman has some news about her gambling.

Episode 4

Episode #2.4

Everybody seems to be having Sunday dinner except Alf,who has no food in the house so he makes his very first trip to the supermarket,where his unfamiliarity with prices causes a bottle neck at the check-out and the manager giving him free food to be rid of him. Back home his efforts to ring Rita to ask her advice on making a meat pudding leads to another spat with the long-suffering Johnsons whose phone he is using and a row with Mrs Hollingbery who refuses to cook for him when he declines to help her with housework.

Episode 5

Episode #2.5

Rita buys Alf a jacket with medals sewn onto the breast pocket so he uses it to pretend that he is a disabled war veteran and gain a front row seat in Else's wheelchair at the football match. Unfortunately his dance of triumph when his team wins lets him down and later he gets involved in a row with a visiting Labour candidate after Rita has put a Vote Labour poster in the window.

Episode 6

Episode #2.6

Unaware of Else's demise Min Read and her deaf,senile sister Gwenneth come to stay and talk so much it's only when Rita comes in they learn what happened to Else. Min still has her cap set at Alf and vies with Mrs Hollingbery to provide him with food and a place to sleep since Gwenneth has taken his bed - and wet it. They leave next day as Alf,anxious for a street party to celebrate Prince Andrew's wedding, gets into another row with the Johnsons.

Episode 7

Christmas Special

29 mins

Having been fired from his job as a - very curmudgeonly - department store Santa, Alf faces Christmas alone. Rita has won a trip to Spain but opts to take Mike to save her marriage whilst Mrs Hollingbery is visiting relatives and Fred Johnson makes it clear Alf is unwelcome. After an accident delivering for the local corner shop Alf is all alone in the house and his efforts to fake suicide cut no ice with Fred. Fortunately Winston comes to the rescue.