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George And Mildred (Full Episodes)

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George & Mildred   S02E05 The Right Way to Travel 1977 24m 33s

George & Mildred S02E05 The Right Way to Travel 1977

Mildred wants to go to Majorca on holiday, but George wants to go back to Blackpool like they usually do. He tries to talk Mildred out of going by pointing out that neither of them can speak Spanish. What is worse for George is that Mildred wants them to travel with the Conservative Association to obtain a 40% discount. Labour supporter George is not happy with that idea either. The Ropers attend a meeting with the club, at which they accept him, despite his awful answers to their questions about his political views and Fourmile's objections to him. Fourmile falsely claims that the trip is fully booked, so George refuses to join. George is unable to book a hotel in Blackpool because the hotels there are full due to Labour holding their conference there.

George & Mildred   S02E06 The Dorothy Letters 1977 24m 19s

George & Mildred S02E06 The Dorothy Letters 1977

While Mildred is cleaning, she finds an old case which contains many love letters written by George to somebody called Dorothy. He refuses to tell her who Dorothy is, so she takes George off for some relationship counselling. At the session, Mildred tells the counsellor about the letters, but he refuses to talk about them. At home, he admits to Mildred that they were written to Dorothy Lamour and that he never sent any of them.

George & Mildred   S02E07 No Business Like Show Business 1977 24m 16s

George & Mildred S02E07 No Business Like Show Business 1977

Jeffrey Fourmile is producing and directing the Hampton Wick Players' Christmas pantomime, Cinderella. A problem arises however, which leaves the production short of a second ugly sister. Mildred, who has been eager to take part in the play, is offered the role. She accepts, despite being cast in a role that is usually played by men. Ethel and Humphrey arrive for the evening of the performance, but by then, Mildred has fallen ill and lost her voice, leaving George to take her place. However, the taxi taking him there crashes into Ethel and Humphrey's car, so Fourmile plays the role instead.

George & Mildred   S03E01 Opportunity Knocks 1978 24m 48s

George & Mildred S03E01 Opportunity Knocks 1978

Mildred invites people to her coffee morning, but the only guest who arrives is Ann, who is heavily pregnant. Jerry tells George about a scheme to poach pigeons from Trafalgar Square to create a 'pigeon farm'. They would breed them, kill them, fry them and sell them in a chain of shops. George has very little money, so he thinks it a good idea to sell the house to raise the capital to back it. He goes to Fourmile to ask him to put the house on the market, which he gleefully does without charging any commission. Mildred is angry when she finds out from Ann that George tried to sell it, so it is taken off the market. Jerry tells George that he has another scheme — selling newts.

George & Mildred   S03E02 And So to Bed 1978 23m 32s

George & Mildred S03E02 And So to Bed 1978

After their bed breaks when George sits on it, Mildred is determined that they buy a new one. However, their attempt to buy one in a shop fails because they do not have enough money and George is on a hire purchase blacklist. George bets on a horse race accumulator and wins, but when he comes to collect his winnings the bookmaker only gives him 85 pence, after deducting the money owed by George from previous losing bets.

George & Mildred   S03E03 I Believe in Yesterday 1978 23m 46s

George & Mildred S03E03 I Believe in Yesterday 1978

Mildred receives a letter from an American, Lee Kennedy, with whom she had a fling during WW2 when he was a flight sergeant. She accepts his invitation to have dinner with him at the Dorchester Hotel. She is pleased to see him, but is soon disappointed when he tells her that he has also invited 18 other women, who soon arrive. George phones Gloria Rumbold, with whom he had a five-year nonsexual relationship when she was young, slim and soft-spoken. He arranges to meet her in the pub. However, he leaves before meeting her when he sees that she is now a plump, outspoken, middle-aged woman who works in a massage parlour.

George & Mildred   S03E04 The Four Letter Word 1978 25m 12s

George & Mildred S03E04 The Four Letter Word 1978

Mildred's brother-in-law Humphrey offers George a job, but the notoriously lazy George does not want it, despite Mildred's insistence. After learning that Humphrey is planning a weekend away in Jersey with his attractive young secretary Maggie, George tells Humphrey that he will not tell Ethel about his trip if he claims that there is no job at his firm for him. When Ethel finds the tickets for Jersey in Humphrey's jacket pocket, he claims that they are a present for George and Mildred and she gives the tickets to them. When George reveals that Humphrey's plan was to take his secretary, Humphrey rips up the tickets.

George & Mildred   S03E05 The Delivery Man 1978 24m 29s

George & Mildred S03E05 The Delivery Man 1978

Ann goes into labour whilst Jeffrey is away at work in Birmingham. George takes her to the hospital in his sidecar. At the hospital, the staff wrongly assume that George is her husband — and he faints whilst watching the birth.

George & Mildred   S03E06 Life with Father 1978 25m 7s

George & Mildred S03E06 Life with Father 1978

George's father moves into an old folks' home, then turns up at George and Mildred's house after claiming that he was thrown out of the home. Mildred phones the home's manager, who tells him that he was not evicted — he left because they would not allow him to keep his ferret there. At the house, it escapes. Fourmile accidentally kills it by running over it, then gives them a live one to replace it.

George & Mildred   S04E01 Just the Job 1978 24m 41s

George & Mildred S04E01 Just the Job 1978

George is called to a job interview — the position vacant is that of traffic warden. George has no love for the "little Hitlers" as he sees them, but takes the job. George (reluctantly) and Mildred (happily) agree to attend Tristram's school prize giving. George tickets several cars outside the school, including Fourmile's.

George & Mildred  S04E02 Days of Beer and Rosie 25m 22s

George & Mildred S04E02 Days of Beer and Rosie

A 33-year-old man, Bill, approaches George in the pub and tells him that he is his son, conceived on VE Night in 1945 when Bill believes that George had a one-night stand with Bill's mother, Rosie — who died recently. George was drunk on the night in question and cannot remember if he had sex with Rosie. He is disappointed when he finds out that an acquaintance of his, Ernest, who was there with another woman, is the real father.

George & Mildred   S04E03 You Must Have Showers 24m 13s

George & Mildred S04E03 You Must Have Showers

Mildred wants to have a shower installed in the bathroom, but she and George cannot afford anyone other than Jerry (Roy Kinnear), who will install it for a small fraction of the price charged by the others. Jerry smashes through the wall to the Fourmiles' bathroom whilst Fourmile is in the bath. When Jerry repairs the damage, he makes a mistake with the water pipes, meaning that the Ropers' controls operate the Fourmiles' shower and vice versa.

George & Mildred   S04E04 All Work and No Pay 24m 57s

George & Mildred S04E04 All Work and No Pay

George resigns from his job as a traffic warden, but tries to figure a way of avoiding Mildred discovering it, as he does not want to incur her wrath. She finds out, and manages to persuade his manager to take him back, but George is reluctant to return. George allows Jerry to store 40 bags of cement in the Ropers' garage. Mildred is horrified, because she has told Fourmile that he may use it to store his second car. Fourmile drives it into the garage, expecting it to be empty - and drives into the cement.

George & Mildred  S04E05 Nappy Days 23m 59s

George & Mildred S04E05 Nappy Days

Jeffrey, Ann and Tristram Fourmile are attending a funeral, so they ask the Ropers to look after baby Tarquin for the day. Mildred is pleased, but George thinks it an imposition. When Mildred goes out, George is left in sole charge of Tarquin. The Fourmiles' car breaks down on their journey home and as a result they are delayed for a few hours. George takes Tarquin in his pram to a British Legion darts match. When George returns home, he realises that he left Tarquin at the pub. He retrieves Tarquin and hands him over to the Fourmiles, but Mildred is angry when she finds out.

George & Mildred S04E06 The Mating Game 25m 27s

George & Mildred S04E06 The Mating Game

Mildred wants Truffles, George and Mildred's Yorkshire terrier, to have puppies. George is happy with that, since he thinks there might be money in it. They decide to pair Truffles with Ethel's Yorkie, Pomeroy. Truffles has four puppies, but they were clearly sired by another dog.

George & Mildred S04E07 On the Second Day of Christmas 25m 51s

George & Mildred S04E07 On the Second Day of Christmas

George and Mildred reflect on their uneventful Christmas — even Mildred's mother, (Gretchen Franklin), has a more exciting time. Ann invites them over for a post-Christmas drink and George loses a lot of money to Jeffrey playing a game of pong. Ethel and Humphrey arrive.

George & Mildred  S05E01 Finders Keepers 24m 5s

George & Mildred S05E01 Finders Keepers

It is George and Mildred's twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. Not only does George remember but he buys Mildred a present at which she is thrilled. How did he afford it?

George & Mildred  S05E02 In Sickness and in Health 25m 24s

George & Mildred S05E02 In Sickness and in Health

When Mildred has to go to hospital, it looks like George will be left in the house on his own. Jerry, however, has other ideas.

George & Mildred   S05E03 The Last Straw 24m 51s

George & Mildred S05E03 The Last Straw

Mildred is disenchanted by her failure to be included in the social life on her middle class estate. She and George return to George's old council estate, with an eye to moving back, and visit his old neighbours Alf and Gladys (Michael Robbins and Queenie Watts), but they find the terraced streets are gone, replaced by modern tower blocks. Mildred wants to move to Australia. Fourmile is delighted at the prospect of George moving to the other side of the world. She and George go to Australia House to see if they can move there. They are rejected due to having nothing to offer Australia. Back in Hampton Wick, Mildred's spirits rise when she is invited reluctantly by Fourmile to join a local committee and a campaign to save a Victorian lamp post. However, George crashes his motorcycle into the lamp post, knocking it down.

George & Mildred   S05E04 A Driving Ambition 25m 33s

George & Mildred S05E04 A Driving Ambition

Mildred leaves the house, saying that she is attending her twice-weekly keep-fit class with Ann. Mildred is actually having driving lessons, which she has kept secret due to not wanting George to teach her himself. When George says to Ann that he is surprised that she is not at the class, she tells him that the classes have stopped. When he sees Mildred in a car with a man, he suspects that she is having an affair. Mildred, Fourmile and Ann are amused at George's suspicion. Mildred decides to let him continue believing that, so that he pays more attention to her than usual. The driving instructor comes to the house and George questions him, leading to George finding out the truth.

George & Mildred   S05E05 A Military Pickle 1979 24m 53s

George & Mildred S05E05 A Military Pickle 1979

George's brother Charlie (Peter Birrel) visits, and brings a letter addressed to G Roper that arrived in 1949, just after George had left home. The letter contains call-up papers which George and Mildred assume are for him. When they tell the Army, they inform him that the deserter is George's sister, Gloria.

George & Mildred   S05E06 Fishy Business 25m 24s

George & Mildred S05E06 Fishy Business

Mildred accidentally flushes George's pet goldfish, Moby, down the drain. After George searches the pipes under the garden for his beloved fish, Mildred buys him two homing pigeons, but they fly away two days later.

George & Mildred   S05E07 I Gotta Horse 24m 55s

George & Mildred S05E07 I Gotta Horse

Mildred's mother (Gretchen Franklin), reveals to Mildred's sister Ethel that Mildred may be in possession of a valuable antique horse statue when one just like it appears in the Country Life magazine and is valued at £10,000. Ethel asks Mildred for it, claiming that she wants it to remember their father by. When Mildred shows it to Ann, she tells Mildred that a similar statue recently sold for £10,000. Mildred has it valued, and finds out that it is a cheap reproduction which was made in Birmingham in 1927 that is worth 30 shillings. George is proud of having bought three of them for £5 each — until Mildred tells him that they are cheap copies. Fourmile releases the family's pet mouse into the Ropers' garden. When Ethel next visits, Mildred sells her horse to her for £15. When George brings the mouse into the house, Ethel drops the horse and it breaks. Mildred points out that she has three more of them.

George & Mildred   S05E08 The Twenty Six Year Itch 1979 25m 45s

George & Mildred S05E08 The Twenty Six Year Itch 1979

George takes a shine to Beryl, the new barmaid at the local pub. After she tells him that she is a widow, he claims to be a widower. Mildred attends the Young Conservatives' Christmas dinner and dance with Jeffrey whilst Ann and their sons visit her mother. Mildred leaves early by taxi after accidentally spilling her drink on her dress. George takes Beryl to the Fourmiles', pretending that it is his house, letting himself in with the key he was given. George admits to Beryl that he is married, and goes home. Mildred is angry with George when he calls her Beryl.

George & Mildred S5E1 (Finders Keepers) 22m 54s

George & Mildred S5E1 (Finders Keepers)

George buys Mildred a fur coat from the Oxfam shop but when she hears that he found a credit card in the pub she assumes he used it in the shop and returns the coat - only to find, too late, that she was mistaken. Jeffrey is disapproving when he learns that Tristram is playing with a new friend from the council estate and finds that he is not the only one who is a snob.

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George & Mildred S5E3 (The Last Straw) 23m 35s

George & Mildred S5E3 (The Last Straw)

The Ropers feel shunned by their middle class neighbours so George suggests they move back to the street in which he grew up, only to find it has been replaced by a tower block and that the area is ruled by gangs of teen-aged vandals. They consider emigrating to Australia but are told they are too old. Finally Mildred finds her niche - on Jeffrey's committee to save a Victorian lamp-post - though George manages to accidentally scupper this too.

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George & Mildred S5E7 (I Gotta Horse) 23m 29s

George & Mildred S5E7 (I Gotta Horse)

Browsing through 'Country Life' Ethel sees a photo of a Ming dynasty china horse worth ten thousand pounds. Her mother tells her Mildred owns the only other one in the world and Mildred agrees to sell it to her,having first established that it is one of many worthless copies made in 1927 and not the real thing. For once the Ropers come out on top as Mildred pockets Ethel's cheque for 1,500 pounds and Tristram's pet mouse has the last word.

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George & Mildred S5E8 (The Twenty Six Year Itch) 24m 10s

George & Mildred S5E8 (The Twenty Six Year Itch)

Jeffrey gets an invite to the Young Conservatives' Dinner Dance but Ann will be away so she persuades him to take Mildred instead. A jealous George chats up widowed barmaid Beryl, telling her he is single and arranging to meet with her on the night of the dance whilst he is alone in the house. However Mildred feels out of her depth and returns home early,forcing George to tell Beryl the truth. The Ropers go to bed and, whilst Mildred declares that she loves George for all his faults, his response is less assured - he calls her Beryl.

George & Mildred S5E6 (Fishy Business) 23m 56s

George & Mildred S5E6 (Fishy Business)

George lets his goldfish,Moby, swim in the sink and Mildred accidentally pulls the plug out,losing Moby, so, by way of compensation, George buys two supposed homing pigeons and builds a loft in the backyard to, calculatedly, annoy Jeffrey. Once released the pigeons never return and Mildred, feeling sorry for George, buys him another goldfish, though it comes at a price.

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George & Mildred S5E2 (In Sickness and in Health) 23m 54s

George & Mildred S5E2 (In Sickness and in Health)

Mildred goes into hospital with suspected appendicitis so kindly Ann, to Jeffrey's annoyance, has George round for dinner. When he gets home he finds Jerry, who has been evicted, wanting to stay,along with his 'niece.' But the appendicitis is actually indigestion, and Mildred comes home early. She is not happy to find two unwelcome guests and throws them out. Lucky for them Tristram has a tent pitched in the Fourmiles garden.

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