1. What Seems To Be The Trouble?

Nellie thinks Eli has a cough, so she carts him off to the doctors, but Eli being as stubborn as a mule, doesn't want to go. Only the appearance of a "dolly bird" makes him stay in the waiting room.

When they finally get shown in to the consulting room, it's Nellie who is diagnosed as being unwell, but is it all in the head?

First broadcast: 9th October 1969

2. The Birds And The Bees

Nigel, the Pledge's nephew comes to stay, so Nellie decides to throw a little tea party and invite all his little friends. However, Pass The Parcel is deemed too boring and when Nellie's back is turned the party degenerates into a mass orgy.

Nellie is shocked and is determined to keep Nigel away from the lure of the opposite sex by taking him to the art gallery. When they discover that everything on display has "everything on display" it's time to sit Nigel down for a talk on the facts of life.

First broadcast: 16th October 1969

3. Get Up Them Stairs

It's official! Walter has ruined Lily (Eli congratulates Walter at this point). It turns out that they are not actually man and wife. The vicar that allegedly married them wasn't a real vicar, as Nellie puts it so well: "That pastor? He was an impostor?"

Nellie's aim is to get both Lily and Walter legally married and Eli is to look after Walter whilst she organises it. Eli of course takes Walter out on his bachelor night and they are soon chatting up the women and supping more than their fair share of pints. They then come staggering in, Walter with cigar clenched between teeth and lipstick marks on his head. However, all is well the next day as they are both officially wed and as Walter has been saving himself for twenty four years, they're all sure he can't wait to get Lily "Up Them Stairs"!

First broadcast: 23rd October 1969

4. The Power Behind The Throne

There is an addition to the factory, a brand spanking new W.C., but it is an executive W.C., no cabbage pickers and picklers allowed to pull the chain, only management who hold a special executive key.

Soon, the workers are revolting and they decide to go on strike just as Mr Sidebottom of Sidebottom Supermarkets decides to pay them a visit to see their pickling methods. Eli soon puts a stop to the strike; he makes the head of the strike committee, namely Stan, an executive with a key to the executive lavvy. The rest of the workforce start to snub Stan and soon he reverts back to being a humble pickler and all the factory are on strike yet again.

Nellie gets up to make a rousing speech in the pub and everyone goes back to work on the promise that the "posh lavvy" is destroyed and everything is back to normal. The only problem is Mr Sidebottom is using the "posh lavvy" as the bricks come tumbling down.

First broadcast: 30th October 1969

5. Getting To Know You

Eli is off for a dirty weekend in the country, but before he goes, Nellie wants him to mend the fuses in the cellar. Whilst down there, they manage to get locked in, and their constant cries for help prove fruitless, so they are forced to spend the night sleeping under a pile of newspapers.

The next day dawns and they have yet to have anything to eat. Nellie discovers a jar of pickles from 1922, but there is only one left, so Nellie gets to eat it. They then start to reminisce about the old times, and Nellie feels she can confide in Eli about her secret, a tattoo of a heart in a place where no living soul can view it. Eli then whispers to her about his secret of wearing a corset to keep his belly in.

Finally they are rescued by Lily and Walter who hear them banging on the cellar door. Eli is raring to go and attempt to rescue what bit of dirty weekend there is left, but Nellie refuses to let him go until he has mended those "bloody fuses". She then slams then door, and they are back to square one.

First broadcast: 6th November 1969

6. Two Pennies To Rub Together

Pledges Purer Pickles is virtually bankrupt, and Nellie is trying to pay off the huge overdraft by writing a cheque to the bank, whilst Eli is attempting to sell the business to Mr Hardcastle of Hardcastle's Pickles. Soon, things are so bad they are forced to sell the furniture just to pay the wages!

Eventually, all the staff leave Nellie to run the factory on her own. Eli asks if she managed to run the production line on her own, leading to this superb line delivered in perfect Hylda Baker timing: "Me beetroots boiled over twice, and I didn't like the look of my chutney".

There's no meat in the house, all they can eat is pickled everything; Eli wants to eat either Nellie or the horse. They've got nothing left to pawn either, unless... well, the attic does hold a lot of family heirlooms... but nothing they want to give away. Then, of course, Lily and Walter appear on the scene and Walter has some compensation money from the council (but they aren't sharing). Things take a turn for the better when Hardcastle's Pickles is shut down due to a foreign 'clog iron' in the vinegar and the Pledges are back in business!

First broadcast: 13th November 1969

Christmas Special: The Ghost Of Picklers Past

It's Christmas at the Pledge household and Eli is overrun with turkey, and Lily and Walter. When Eli asks Nellie why they were invited she retorts: "It's Christmas ain't it, Lily and Walter are our own flesh and blood". To which Eli replies: "Get away, Lily's got no flesh, and Walter's got no blood".

A game of cards soon leads to Nellie, Eli, Lily and Walter conducting a séance by candlelight - they try to get in contact with their dad, Joshua. Whilst the spooky festivities continue, Stan and Grenville are making some alterations to the factory; they uncover a skull behind a brick wall and leave it on a table in the parlour... which Nellie then discovers, to her horror!

Nellie summons a priest to perform an exorcism on the house but when he feels a hand on his shoulder, he's off! However, it's only a hungover Stan underneath the sofa. He offers up an explanation as to the appearance of the skull (it was Beetroot Billy Buckley's granddad) leaving Nellie wondering what she was afraid of. Joshua Pledge then makes one final appearance, in his favourite chair... or so Nellie thinks... it turns out the mystical voice was not from a phantom Joshua, but a spritied Eli!

First broadcast: 26th November 1969