Nearest and Dearest

1. It Comes to Us All

Air Date: 1968-08-15

The sun is setting on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying – and who's left?

2. Lead Me to the Altar

Air Date: 1968-08-22

A little late love for Nellie – but was it worth keeping the home fires burning?

3. The Danger List

Air Date: 1968-08-29

If you go a funny colour, lie low; it's all in the mind. They can cure anything these days.

4. Take a Letter

Air Date: 1968-09-05

5. You Make Me Feel So Young

Air Date: 1968-09-12

The elixir of youth – an old wives' tale or a racing certainty? Well, if it worked for Stan!

6. The Wrong Side of the Sheets

Air Date: 1968-09-19

An accident of birth – but does it really matter what you are? It happens in the best families.

1. A Breach of the Peace

Air Date: 1969-07-08

Nellie arrives at the front door to meet two constables accusing her of shoplifting.

2. Wish You Were Here

Air Date: 1969-07-15

Nellie and Eli are off to the seaside on holiday, but it isn't long before familiar faces start appearing.

3. The Demon Drink

Air Date: 1969-07-22

When Eli's drunken antics prevent Nellie admission to the Women's Town Guild, she becomes determined to stop him from drinking.

4. All You Wish Yourself

Air Date: 1969-07-29

When Eli realizes that he's forgotten Nellie's birthday, he manages to plan an evening at The Starlight Club.

5. Now Is the Hour

Air Date: 1969-08-05

With the business not doing so well, Nellie decides that cuts are needed: first the horse, then Stan.

1. What Seems to Be the Trouble?

Air Date: 1969-10-09

Nellie takes Eli to the doctor, who is far more interested in Nellie's behaviour than in Eli's cough.

2. The Birds and the Bees

Air Date: 1969-10-16

Nellie and Eli agree to look after their teenage nephew Nigel, who Nellie believes it's time he learns the goings-on of the birds and the bees.

3. Get Up Them Stairs

Air Date: 1969-10-23

When Lily discovers that she and Walter aren't legally married, Nellie takes it upon herself to put matters right.

4. The Power Behind the Throne

Air Date: 1969-10-30

Eli installs an executive toilet in the factory and faces industrial action as a result.

5. Getting to Know You

Air Date: 1969-11-06

Eli plans an away weekend and Nellie wants to decorate the cellar, but an error strands the siblings together.

6. Two Pennies to Rub Together

Air Date: 1969-11-13

With growing competition, the factory faces closure, leaving Eli and Nellie penniless, starving, and staffless.

7. The Ghost of Picklers Past

Air Date: 1969-12-26

Boxing Day in the Pledge house: Lily and Walter join Nellie and Eli in a seance.

1. A Price on Your Head

Air Date: 1970-05-14

Eli isn't pleased to learn that Nellie has taken out an insurance policy on him in case of accident or death, so he takes one out on her, and the pair eagerly await an accident.

2. A Young Man's Fancy

Air Date: 1970-05-21

Eli has brought a new fur coat for his fiancée Marlene. Nellie takes an instant dislike to her and determines to prove that she is no good.

3. When You've Got to Go

Air Date: 1970-05-28

Nellie's had enough. She's reached the end of her tether and can no longer skivvy for her brother so she's decided to move out.

4. When Love Walks In

Air Date: 1970-06-04

Eli is trying to sell the business to Leonard Longbottom, but he also needs to convince Nellie to sell. Then Leonard falls for Nellie.

5. An Open-and-Shut Case

Air Date: 1970-06-11

With the workers off sick, it falls on Nellie, Eli, Lily, and Walter to keep the pickle production line going.

1. Make Yourself at Home

Air Date: 1970-12-17

When Walter and Lily's house suffers damage, Nellie and Eli must put them up.

2. Compliments of the Season

Air Date: 1970-12-24

Mother Nature scuppers Nellie's plans for a surprise Christmas lunch at a nice hotel for Eli and herself.

3. Barefaced in the Park

Air Date: 1971-01-14

A prowler has been tormenting ladies in a local park. When Walter is arrested and questioned, Nellie wants to prove his innocence.

4. A Man and a Woman

Air Date: 1971-01-21

Nellie isn't happy when the new coal man, Snatcher Snelling, becomes rather taken with a newly-styled Lily.

5. Bottoms Up

Air Date: 1971-01-28

Despite having no bartending experience, Nellie takes over running the Spread Eagle Pub for a friend.

6. X Marks the Spot

Air Date: 1971-02-11

Eli is struggling to cope with his role at the pickling factory, so he sends for a manager. The Labour Exchange sends Major Lovelace.

7. Something in the Night

Air Date: 1971-02-18

A burglar has been operating in the local area; his latest victims are Lily and Walter. Keen to protect her valuables, Nellie hides her treasured possessions.

8. Lucky for Some

Air Date: 1971-02-25

Desperate for funds, Nellie and Eli install Stan as a company director; their motive: to share in his recent windfall.

1. For Better, for Worse

Air Date: 1972-06-01

The problems of Pledge's Purer Pickles must take second place; for each of its co-owners are hearing wedding bells. But when the Pledge's enter the Matrimonial Stakes they inevitably fail to come under starter's orders.

2. A Place in the Sun

Air Date: 1972-06-08

Fourteen days' holiday in sunny Spain for 10p all in! It sounds too good to be true. And it is!

3. The Female of the Species

Air Date: 1972-06-15

A tiff in a launderette, under Nellie's gentle touch, bids fair to becoming a national crisis.

4. Worker's Playtime

Air Date: 1972-06-29

The Pledges consult an industrial efficiency expert in a bid to improve production. When the workers strike, it is left to Nellie and Eli to keep the pickles flowing.

5. The Right Spirit

Air Date: 1972-07-06

Annoyed with Eli for treating the home like a boarding house, Nellie kicks him out. The alternative living arrangements suit neither party.

6. A Question of Taste

Air Date: 1972-07-13

Can dandelion leaves picked at the time of the full moon really win for Pledge's Purer Pickles the coveted Golden Gherkin? Nellie's wonder ingredient lands her greatest rival, Arnold Guttersby, in a real pickle.

7. A Pair of Bloomers

Air Date: 1972-07-20

The long arm of the law reaches out for Eli from the distant past; but, with Nellie in court, all is set for the Law to get its knuckles rapped.

8. Episode 8

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1. Cindernellie

Air Date: 1972-12-21

Eli gives the Christmas club money to a promoter who promises a share of the profits from the Christmas play he's producing. He promptly spends it, and when Nellie and the gang find out, they offer to take over the roles. During rehearsals, the promoter makes a break for it.

2. Good Time Girl

Air Date: 1972-12-28

When local lothario Harry Hampton demands Eli repay a loan, Eli invites him to stay with him and Nellie in lieu of payment. This leads to Nellie getting a reputation as a good-time girl.

3. The French Disconnection

Air Date: 1973-01-11

After a visit from a French restauranteur, the Pledges travel to Paris to introduce their pickles to the European market.

4. Get Out of That

Air Date: 1973-01-18

The Pledges and the Tattersalls visit a health farm but when the diet proves inadequate, the call goes out to the pickers to bring them food.

5. The One That Got Away

Air Date: 1973-01-24

Ex-POW Siegfried, who was taken in by The Pledge Household, returns and vows to help Nellie and Eli.

6. The Visit

Air Date: 1973-01-31

Pledge's Pickles is all set for a Royal visit, and Nellie goes to great pains to get The Factory and staff ready.

7. Far from the Madding Pong

Air Date: 1973-02-07

Nellie is keen to buy a second home in the middle of nowhere, Eli is more keen on his Spanish holiday, and tries to put her off.