1. It Comes To Us All (A.K.A. Thicker Than Water)

Joshua Pledge, owner of Pledges Purer Pickles, has all but turned his toes and shuffled off to the great pickling shed in the sky. And although he has promised his set of false teeth (with plenty of wear still in them) to Bert Taylor, the factory, along with £9 17s 6d is to shared amongst Nellie and Eli.

Eli announces to all that he is simply back for the money, then he's off again and he only left the first time, namely 15 years ago, because he couldn't stand the pong. They then both find out they are heir to £20,000, but only if they can run the factory and the house together for the next five years.

First broadcast: 15th August 1968

2. Lead Me To The Altar

Eli, always one for the women, has brought back his latest conquest, but unbeknown to him, Nellie has smuggled in Ernest, her great missionary friend from Africa. Ernest is desperate to marry Nellie, which excites Eli greatly, as this could be his big chance to offload Nellie to the jungles of Africa and thus take over the house.

However, things take a turn for the worse as the nervous groom (aided by Eli's beer fuelled bachelor party) talks himself out of it and the blushing bride is destined to walk down the aisle alone.

First broadcast: 22nd August 1968

3. The Danger List

The "Gnomes of Colne" are having a productivity meeting in the pickling shed, namely how to fill the pools coupon in the next weekend. However, Nellie is having none of this and sends Eli off to count the gherkins in the stock room, but he soon comes up with a plan, to pretend to be ill and proudly announces to Stan that Nellie will be tucking him up in bed by dinner time.

Nellie falls for his phantom temperature, and after proudly proclaiming she will "dognose" his case, along with the help of Arkwrights Family Doctor, she announces Eli is pregnant. The fatal flaw in Eli's plan is that Nellie overhears him and Stan dancing around the bedroom so she decides to take revenge.

By turning up the electric blanket to full and hiding heaters under the bed, she soon has Eli believing he has a bad case of "Blackwater Fever", and adding a fictitious doctor, a vicar to read the last rites and an undertaker with a tape measure to the proceedings, she soon has him thinking his time is up.

But as is always the case, the ending turns out in Eli's favour. After being filled in by Stan of exactly what Nellie is up to, he's decided to go to the South of France to celebrate his "last few weeks on Earth", with money from the joint account.

First broadcast: 29th August 1968

4. Take A Letter

Since "Beetroot Bertha" has let the company "in-tray" get to such a state that British Rail won't transport it, Eli has decided to advertise for a secretary much to Nellie's disgust. Of course, Eli being Eli, he has to interview only the most glamorous and scantily clad young women.

"Nemenie No-Knicks" as Nellie so nicely puts it, gets the job and Eli sets to work straight away whisking her off for dinners and typing up the odd memo in the parlour on a typewriter that was holding down the pigeon loft roof.

Unfortunately, there is always a cloud on the horizon, and as soon as the new secretary finds out Eli doesn't have any money, and won't have any money until he has lived with Nellie for at least five years, she is off.

Never fear, Nellie finds a replacement straight away, but not another bird for Eli to chase, but a strapping six foot man called Willoughby!

First broadcast: 5th September 1968

5. You Make Me Feel So Young

The girls are leaving Pledges Purer Pickles, and Nellie is determined to get to the bottom of what is causing it. One of the girls whispers that it is Stan, he keeps chasing them around the factory. Stan thinks the reason he is like it is because of a secret stash of pickles from the 1914 - 18 war, found at the back of a store cupboard.

Now if these pickles can get old Stan going, Eli thinks he can make money by selling them down the Spread Eagle to all and sundry, Nellie is even feeding them to Arnold Ackroyd in the attempt to woo him, but he is only interested in talking business, and even Lily thinks they might pep old Walter up a bit!

Nellie decides to send some of the pickles to the chemist to be "dog nosed", but she also finds out Eli is selling them to make a tidy sum, the vicar pops round to preach how immoral this whole episode of pickles is, so Nellie makes Eli flush the whole lot down the pan.

However, it's still going on, Stan has just discovered at the back of the pickling shed, a First World War supply of beetroot.

First broadcast: 12th September 1968

6. The Wrong Side Of The Sheets

The attic needs clearing out, but Stan is itching to retrieve some personal papers before Nellie and Eli get in there. However, they both beat Stan to it and they find a couple of letters, one of which is a personal letter from the Pledge's mum to Stan, which was sent during the war. It describes how she is expecting again, and the present young baby girl has cut her first tooth.

This rings alarm bells, is their Dad not their Dad, and is Stan, the "Speccy Eyed Manure Man", their real Dad? They decide to confront him, but fortunately, it turns out that Stan's real wife Ada couldn't write, so the Pledge's mum wrote the letter on their behalf, and peace reigns one again at Pledges Purer Pickles.

First broadcast: 19th September 1968