Series Three (1976)
| Episode | Title | Airdate | Overview | Original viewing figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | The Early Birds | 76-09-10 | The Goods and the Leadbetters fall out after Tom and Barbara make too much noise while working in their garden early in the morning. However, they soon apologise and they then decide to change their sleeping pattern by going to bed early and getting up early, but it turns out to be more difficult than it sounds. | 13.1 million |
| 3.2 | The Happy Event | 76-09-17 | Pinky is expecting, and she goes in labour in the middle of the night. Margo and Jerry are called into help, but the eighth piglet is a runt. In an attempt to save it, Jerry and Barbara rush to the hospital to get some oxygen, but are stopped by a policeman for speeding, while Margo helps Tom. | 15.4 million |
| 3.3 | 'A Tug of the Forelock' | 76-09-24 | When Mr and Mrs Pearson, Margo's domestics, go on holiday for a month to Canada, Tom and Barbara need money for a new mode of transport, so they decide to fill their place. However, after a week they are sacked for their behaviour. | 16.4 million |
| 3.4 | I Talk to the Trees | 76-10-01 | While at their allotment, Tom and Barbara come across Mr Wakeling talking to his plants and he claims that it helps them grow. Tom then decides to do an experiment to see whether he is right. Meanwhile, Margo is trying to become president of the music society. | 16.7 million |
| 3.5 | The Wind-Break War | 76-10-08 | Following her election as President of the Music Society, Margo decides to build an arbour in her garden, complete with a windbreak. However, this threatens to shadow Tom and Barbara's crops, so they ask her round to move the windbreak. She agrees but after an argument, the windbreak is not moved, but once the confusion is cleared up, they all have dinner together and share some of the Goods' homemade wine. Guest starring Timothy Bateson. | 15.8 million |
| 3.6 | Whose Fleas are These? | 76-10-15 | Tom and Barbara's chimney, having not been swept for some time, sweeps itself and they get covered in soot. As the soot also put the fire out, they go to Margo and Jerry's for a hot bath, but when they get home they realise they've got fleas. Mr Bulstrode (Michael Robbins), the council official who comes round to deal with the fleas, says they came from a dog. Meanwhile, Margo has been asked to become actively involved with the Conservative Party at the next general election. | 17.7 million |
| 3.7 | The Last Posh Frock | 76-10-21 | Barbara feels she has lost her femininity, and after she rips her last posh frock, Tom's initial lack of sympathy frustrates her. However, he decides to organise a dinner party, with Margo, Jerry and Barbara's old school friend Eileen, but the evening goes badly when Tom spends the whole time looking at Eileen. | 14.7 million |
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