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Steptoe and Son Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1963 - 1963
Episode 1
Wallah-Wallah Catsmeat
29 mins
When Hercules the horse seems to be ill, an initially depressed Harold is much cheered when the other rag and bone men bring good quality goods for him to sell since he can't go out totting himself. And when the vet explains that Hercules is merely suffering from insomnia and not destined to become Wallah-Wallah cats meat, Harold uses the situation to his advantage.
Episode 2
The Bath
30 mins
Harold wishes they had a proper bath, not just the old tin one in which his father sits, wearing only his hat and eating. He tries to build one in Albert's room, making his father sleep under the stairs. When Harold invites girl-friend Delilah round, he is incensed to see Albert in the bath. He makes him get out and covers it with a table cloth but Delilah assumes it's a chair, sits on it and falls through.
Episode 3
The Stepmother
30 mins
Harold is not happy when Albert announces that he intends to marry widowed sweet-shop owner Emma Marshall, especially as he will be kicked out of the house if the wedding goes ahead. When Emma comes to visit he deliberately gets his father annoyed so that Emma sees his nasty side and calls off the wedding.
Episode 4
Sixty-Five Today
31 mins
It's Albert's sixty-fifth birthday and, after pretending he has forgotten, Harold buys him a pair of gloves. He takes him to the theatre and to a Chinese restaurant for a birthday treat but these are alien to Albert and the evening ends in disaster.
Episode 5
A Musical Evening
29 mins
Harold has bought a load of old records and plans to add them to his collection. Albert on the other hand has got a job lot of shoes and mends them very noisily whilst Harold is trying to listen to the records. In the resultant fight records are smashed and the keys to the yard lost so that the pair have to spend the rest of the musical evening finding them.
Episode 6
Full House
29 mins
Albert is unhappy when Harold brings three new friends round to play cards, suspecting, rightly, that they are cheats taking advantage of Harold's gullibility. So he sends Harold out to buy a jug of beer and takes his place at the card table. When Harold returns he finds that his father - who has said that gambling is a sin - is a better cheat than the card-sharps and has won all their money back.
Episode 7
Is That Your Horse Outside
31 mins
Harold meets and falls for Dorothia, a wealthy woman who has been separated from her husband for five years. He thinks they have a future together. His father thinks that she is merely amusing herself with a bit of rough. Sadly for Harold he discovers that Albert is right when he goes to the house and finds the coalman's lorry outside.
