In Sickness and in Health was a BBC television sitcom which ran between 1985 and 1992. It was also a sequel to both the highly successful Til Death Us Do Part which ran between 1966 and 1975 and Till Death... which ran for one series (six episodes) in 1981.
This comedy series debuted in 1985 and took the former Till Death Us Do Part characters Alf Garnett, played by Warren Mitchell and Else Garnett (Dandy Nichols) from their Wapping house to a lo...
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In Sickness and in Health was a BBC television sitcom which ran between 1985 and 1992. It was also a sequel to both the highly successful Til Death Us Do Part which ran between 1966 and 1975 and Till Death... which ran for one series (six episodes) in 1981.
This comedy series debuted in 1985 and took the former Till Death Us Do Part characters Alf Garnett, played by Warren Mitchell and Else Garnett (Dandy Nichols) from their Wapping house to a lower class one level apartment in the East End of London. Else now uses a wheelchair and Alf grumbles about having to push her around everywhere. The council sends a black, gay man named Winston, played by Eamonn Walker, to do housework and help care for Else. Despite Alf's dual-prejudices against Winston, eventually the two became used to one another, and Winston takes Alf to watch his beloved West Ham United. Alf nevertheless gave Winston the nickname Marigold.
Alf and Else's daughter Rita (played by Una Stubbs) occasionally appeared, and...
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