Alf is clipping his toenails with scissors when someone knocks the door. It is Min ( Patricia Hayes ), his old neighbour, and she has brought along her sister - the senile Gwenneth ( Irene Handl ).
This appalling pair pair proceeds to move in ( "only for a few days" ), turfing Alf out of his bed. Gwenneth is not only deaf ( and has to wear a hearing aid ) but has problems remembering who Alf is. Rita arrives and informs Min that Mrs.Garnett has passed on.
Min takes an instant dislike to Mrs.Hollingbery, and when both women prepare dinners for Alf war breaks out...
The second season of 'And In Health' ended with this cracker, reintroducing Min ( last seen in the 'Till Death' spin-off ), who stayed behind in Eastbourne when Alf and Else went back to London. This will ring a bell with anyone who recalls what it is like when friends or relatives turn up uninvited, and take a house over completely. Luckily for Alf, Rita's arrival gives him the chance to make a beeline for the pub.
As 'Min' and 'Gwenneth', Patricia Hayes and Irene Handl are a scream, practically reducing Alf to silence for most of the episode. Min still fancies him ( "my husband Bert couldn't awaken me as a woman!" ) and, her face covered in make-up, presents him with a meat pudding, only for Mrs.Holiingbery to chuck it out of the window. Only a few episodes back Alf and Mrs.Hollingbery were themselves up to this kind of behaviour. Now the Irish widow seems fond of him to the point of over protectiveness. Her first name, incidentally, is given here for the first time - 'Camille'.
The climax takes place at a street party intended to mark the wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson ( how long ago that all seems now! ). As was the case with the Royal Wedding party in 1973, hardly anyone turns up, and when Alf tries to fix bunting to a lamp post it triggers a dispute with Mr.Johnson, leading to a 'Last Of The Summer Wine'-style stunt as a ladder gives way, causing Alf to fall into Fred's car.
Funniest moment - Min's wonderfully over the top display of grief at the news of Else's passing. It shows what a marvellous actress Patricia Hayes was.
Second funniest moment - Alf realising Gwenneth has wet his bed!
This appalling pair pair proceeds to move in ( "only for a few days" ), turfing Alf out of his bed. Gwenneth is not only deaf ( and has to wear a hearing aid ) but has problems remembering who Alf is. Rita arrives and informs Min that Mrs.Garnett has passed on.
Min takes an instant dislike to Mrs.Hollingbery, and when both women prepare dinners for Alf war breaks out...
The second season of 'And In Health' ended with this cracker, reintroducing Min ( last seen in the 'Till Death' spin-off ), who stayed behind in Eastbourne when Alf and Else went back to London. This will ring a bell with anyone who recalls what it is like when friends or relatives turn up uninvited, and take a house over completely. Luckily for Alf, Rita's arrival gives him the chance to make a beeline for the pub.
As 'Min' and 'Gwenneth', Patricia Hayes and Irene Handl are a scream, practically reducing Alf to silence for most of the episode. Min still fancies him ( "my husband Bert couldn't awaken me as a woman!" ) and, her face covered in make-up, presents him with a meat pudding, only for Mrs.Holiingbery to chuck it out of the window. Only a few episodes back Alf and Mrs.Hollingbery were themselves up to this kind of behaviour. Now the Irish widow seems fond of him to the point of over protectiveness. Her first name, incidentally, is given here for the first time - 'Camille'.
The climax takes place at a street party intended to mark the wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson ( how long ago that all seems now! ). As was the case with the Royal Wedding party in 1973, hardly anyone turns up, and when Alf tries to fix bunting to a lamp post it triggers a dispute with Mr.Johnson, leading to a 'Last Of The Summer Wine'-style stunt as a ladder gives way, causing Alf to fall into Fred's car.
Funniest moment - Min's wonderfully over the top display of grief at the news of Else's passing. It shows what a marvellous actress Patricia Hayes was.
Second funniest moment - Alf realising Gwenneth has wet his bed!