Love Thy Neighbour
A white working-class socialist has his world turned upside down when an educated black man moves in next door.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Jack Smethurst , Rudolph Walker , Nina Baden-Semper , Kate Williams , Tommy Godfrey , Keith Marsh , Paul Luty , Harry Littlewood , Michael Slater , Ken Parry , Jumoke Debayo , Oscar James , Malcolm Rogers , James Fuller , George Roderick , Dick Bentley , Hazel Coppen , Tim Barrett
S1.E0 ∙ Pilot
When a Black couple moves in next door, Eddie decides that he and his wife Joan must move. He changes his mind when he sees the woman, but trouble is still afoot.
S1.E1 ∙ New Neighbours
The house next door to Eddie and Joan has been sold and the couple that moves in comes as a massive shock to Eddie.
S1.E2 ∙ Limbo Dancing
Joan tries some of Barbie's exotic food on Eddie. After joining the works social club, Bill challenges Eddie to see who's best at Limbo dancing.
S1.E3 ∙ The Petition
Bill gets angry at Eddie when he keeps ogling Barbie while she's sunbathing in the garden. Eddie thinks Bill is stirring things up, so he decides to move. Bill doesn't want any Black people moving in.
S1.E4 ∙ Factory Dispute
After an argument over a new machine at work gets out of hand, Bill and Eddie both withdraw their labour and go on strike. As a result, Barbie and Joan both also go on strike until the guys go back to work.
S1.E5 ∙ The Seven Year Itch
Eddie has a union meeting at the pub with Jacko and Arthur; Barbie and Joan think that their husbands have a roving eye, so they phone two friends to try to tempt them into cheating.
S1.E6 ∙ Refused a Drink
Eddie gets all excited about meeting Harold Wilson, but the arguments start when Bill puts a poster of Edward Health in his window. To prove a bet that Blacks can get served anywhere, Eddie dresses up in an Afro wig and blacks himself up.
S1.E7 ∙ Sex Appeal
Barbie suggests to Joan that she doesn't wear a bra like her, to try to keep Eddie interested, but Eddie doesn't even notice. When he later thinks he sees Joan and Bill embracing, Eddie gets really drunk and tries to start a fight.
S2.E1 ∙ The Housewarming Party
Eddie refuses to go to Bill and Barbie's housewarming party, thinking he isn't wanted. When the music gets too loud for him, he calls the police to break it up.
S2.E2 ∙ Voodoo
Bill and Eddie get into an argument about voodoo. When Eddie makes a voodoo doll of Bill, Bill scares Eddie when he pretends it's worked.
S2.E3 ∙ Clarky Leaves
After Eddie has a drunken night at the foreman's leaving party, he refuses to go for the job as it's against his principles. When his boss offers it to him with extra money and the key to the executive toilet, he soon changes his mind.
S2.E4 ∙ The Bedroom Suite
Joan convinces Eddie to buy a new bedroom suite in the sale. Unfortunately Bill wants the same suite, so they both decide to camp outside the shop overnight.
S2.E5 ∙ The T.U.C. Conference '72
Thinking his trip to the T.U.C. Conference will get him away from everything, Eddie gets a shock when Bill says he's going as well - and Barbie has arranged for the two men to share a room.
S2.E6 ∙ Religious Fervour
After being disturbed by the local Revivalist Band and having a big argument with the boys about religion, Eddie gets converted and joins the band; Joan hatches a plan to revert him to normal.
S3.E1 ∙ The G.P.O.
Bill and Barbie get a new phone. They share a party line but get a shock when they find out that they are sharing with Eddie and Joan. So Bill decides to wind Eddie up knowing he's listening in.
S3.E2 ∙ The Car
When Bill buys a brand-new car. Joan tries to convince Eddie that they need one, and after Bill's constant bragging Eddie finally buys ones, but he can only afford a little scrap heap.
S3.E3 ∙ Eddie Returns from Holiday
When Eddie gets home from holiday, he finds the place overrun: Bill is sitting in his pub chair, the new vicar is Black, a Pakistani now owns the corner shop, and Bill is inviting all his Black friends to the pub.
S3.E4 ∙ The Lion and the Lamb
The White and Black Vicars and Joan and Barbie try to stop the mass punchup between Eddie and his mates and Bill and his mates, planned for 12 o'clock; meanwhile, the two gangs are down at the gym.
S3.E5 ∙ The Lift
After Joan invites Bill and Barbie over, Bill and Eddie hatch a plan to escape to the club.The gang go home with Arthur as he's forgotten his wedding anniversary, though they get stuck in his block of flats lift.
S3.E6 ∙ Barbie Becomes Pregnant
Barbie announces that she's pregnant, Bill brags, and Eddie tries to convince Joan to start a family as well, believing that anything Bill can do, he can do better.
S4.E1 ∙ Hines' Sight
Eddie tries to vet those who are interested in buying the empty house next door: they must be white, Northern, and Manchester United supporters. Meanwhile, the social club has a new barman.
S4.E2 ∙ Friendly
Eddie and Bill enter a raffle, the prize being a trip for two to Paris. They decide to take each other should they win, leaving their pregnant wives at home, but their wives have other plans.
S4.E3 ∙ Working on New Year's Eve
The boys are asked to work on New Year's Eve and decide to throw a party.
S4.E4 ∙ Eddie's Mother-in-Law
Joan's mother comes to visit and Eddie puts his foot down and kicks her out. Joan leaves with her.
S4.E5 ∙ The Antenatal Clinic
Bill bets Eddie that he can't go 24 hours without saying a racial slur. The men have to join the ladies at the antenatal clinic.
S4.E6 ∙ Two Weeks to Babies
Bill overhears Joan talking about another mother, misunderstands, and starts a rumour that Joan's baby's father is the window-cleaner Speckie. Then the rumour switches to Barbie, and both men go after Speckie.
S4.E7 ∙ To the Hospital
Part 1. After a few false starts, Bill and Eddie get the girls to the hospital. When they are told that the babies might not come until morning, the boys go drinking.
S4.E8 ∙ The Big Day
Part 2. Eddie is still waiting for the phone call from the hospital, but can't help getting drunk again. His friends sober him up and get him to the hospital in time for the birth. Bill's child is born first.
S5.E1 ∙ The Mediterranean
At the club meeting, the men decide to take a trip to Majorca. The women threaten to withhold all their services if they do not take them, so off they all go. Through a misunderstanding, Eddie spends the duration of the trip in jail.
S5.E2 ∙ Teething Problems
Bill gives Barbie tickets to go to Trinidad. Eddie uses the envelope to write a note, throws it into the bin, and spends his whole morning going through the tip trying to find it. Meanwhile, the garbage man found them earlier and returned them, and Barbie has already gone. When Joan thinks Bill will wander, she makes him stay with her.
S5.E3 ∙ Eddie's Birthday
It's Eddie's birthday and the boys at the club band together to send him sexy birthday cards as a joke, which doesn't impress Joan. Bill also sends a joke one from Harold Wilson that leads to Eddie being arrested.
S5.E4 ∙ Cat's Away
Eddie is jealous of the attention Bill is getting from Joan, and turns his eyes to Sandra from the barber shop. She just flirts with him to get him to do the stock taking. Bill shows up, and then the wives, ending the fling before it starts.
S5.E5 ∙ Ghosts
The discussion in the club turns to ghosts. When Nobby says a ghost is haunting the club, Eddie and Bill make a bet that Eddie can't stay in the club all night.
S5.E6 ∙ Bananas
Eddie takes a crate of bananas that belong to Bill. While he is eating a banana, a giant tarantula comes out of the crate. It is a clockwork spider, but Eddie tells everyone he is dying from a bite. They all know better.
S6.E1 ∙ Reggie
Eddie is taking Joan for granted and she tries everything to get him to pay attention to her. She starts thinking about Reginald Truelove, her first boyfriend. One night when Eddie goes to the club, she invites Reggie over, but she has a change of heart by the time he gets there. Reggie answers the phone for her and tells her it's "Bloody Nora". She gets spooked and goes to the club to explain. Eddie is not there; she missed him. Next thing she knows, Eddie is in hospital for confronting Reggie.
S6.E2 ∙ Jacko's Wedding
Jacko comes back from holiday with news that he is getting married to a bingo caller he met on his travels. When she shows up, everybody thinks she's after his money; in fact, Joan knows this girl to be a gold-digger--and already married. She sends the girl packing and the wedding is off. Albert thinks Jacko will jump into the canal, and everybody heads out there to stop him.
S6.E3 ∙ Duel at Dawn
Bill tells Eddie he is having relatives stay at his house. They get into a dispute and decide to settle it with a duel. Nobby lends them his antique guns and off they go. Jacko loads the guns with blanks, and when Nobby sees this, he switches them for the real thing. When one gun goes off, Jacko goes down and Eddie thinks he killed him. Jacko only fainted.
S6.E4 ∙ The Darts Final
Joan forces Eddie to babysit so she can go to the movies with Barbie. The vicar comes round and Eddie cons him into babysitting so he can go to the club. The wives come home early and the vicar goes to the club to tell Eddie. Joan is so mad at him, she locks his clothes in the wardrobe so he can't go to the darts match. Eddie wears Joan's clothes and gets in all kinds of trouble.
S6.E5 ∙ Royal Blood
Eddie is researching his family tree. As a joke, Bill fakes an old portrait and says it is Eddie's ancestor. Eddie thinks he has royal blood and is lording it over everyone until Joan discovers that the documents were written in ballpoint pen. Mr. Pettigrew from Somerset House comes to the club and tells Eddie his ancestor was on the ship "The Bounty" and was indeed married to royalty: a black princess on Pitcairn Island.
S6.E6 ∙ Club Concert
The annual concert is looking dismal without a celebrity. Eddie phones the Duke of Edinburgh and Bill pretends he knows Charlie Williams. Charlie's agent tells him that he is booked in for the concert. The boys, thinking he is an impersonator, coach him on how Charlie acts and speaks. When Eddie insults him, he walks out. The night of the concert there is no Charlie, but Arthur tells Eddie that he turned away a drunk who called himself the Duke of Edinburgh.
S6.E7 ∙ The Nannies
The girls get a part time job on Saturdays, so they hire two nannies for the day, sight unseen. After they go to work, two sexy ladies show up to look after the children. These nannies get Bill and Eddie to do all the work while they lounge around all day. Barbie and Joan come home and catch them eating a meal together. The men are barred from all football and Joan and Barbie go to the match in their place.
S7.E1 ∙ Famous Crimes
Barbie invites Joan and Eddie to dinner and sends Bill down to the club to get Eddie. When Bill gets there, Jacko is showing off the handcuffs worn by Dr. Crippen, the famous murderer. He puts them on Bill and Eddie and they are stuck without a key. While Jacko goes to find keys, Eddie and Bill go home to dinner. They break into the factory to find something to cut them off when Jacko arrives.
S7.E2 ∙ The Lady and the Tramp
The club is having a Lady and the Tramp theme night: the men are to be tramps, and the ladies to be ladies. Not so simple for Jacko, who comes as the lady; his mother is the tramp. Unfortunately, the police crash the party because the club's liquor license has expired; Eddie forgot to renew it.
S7.E3 ∙ The Protection of the Law
Bill decides to leave the social club and go to the Caribbean Club. When Jacko, Eddie and Arthur hear there is a stripper over there, they go over too. When Bill sees them, he refuses to sign Eddie in. Eddie calls the race relation board and Bill is investigated and given a warning. When Eddie goes back to the club, Bill throws Eddie's pint of beer on the floor and they are both barred.
S7.E4 ∙ The Opinion Poll
Eddie wants to take an opinion poll at the club: "Are you for more blacks coming into this country"? The problem is, there are only 10 people and it is a tie. The next one to walk in the door will decide, but he happens to be a vicar and won't vote. He suggests they have it out in a boxing ring to decide who will win.
S7.E5 ∙ Manchester United
Bill and Eddie are looking forward to going to the FA Cup Replay between West Ham and Manchester United so much that they both pretend to be injured so that they can take a day off work to go to the match. However their wives have other ideas!
S7.E6 ∙ The TUC Conference
Eddie is sure he will get voted as president of the club for 10 years running; then Bill throws his hat in the ring. No one told Bill that the annual trip to the conference would mean Doris, a frisky lady who chases Bill all over the place, would be there. The night of the elections, a surprise candidate wins the election and a trip to the TUC conference with Doris.
S8.E1 ∙ The Local By-Election
Eddie campaigns for the Labour Party until he finds out his candidate is black. Bill invites everyone round for the election results and when Eddie sees that the candidate is white, he is stunned--until Charlie walks in. Apparently, Bill sent him to Eddie's house to impersonate the Labour candidate.
S8.E2 ∙ Eddie Becomes a Father Again
Joan joins a shopping club and Barbie tells Bill Joan is "in the club" (pregnant). Joan has ordered a pram and some baby supplies. Bill tells Eddie he is going to be a father, and confusion ensues.
S8.E3 ∙ Christmas Spirit
Eddie, Jacko, and Arthur have a meeting to vote for the darts captain for the upcoming Christmas tournament. Bill comes in and puts his name forward, so they decide on a drinking contest. Afterward, at home, Eddie must sleep on the couch, and he dreams they're all on a desert island; he is the dinner and Bill is the king. They win the darts match and Eddie gives the trophy to Bill.
S8.E4 ∙ The Coach Outing to Bournemouth
Joan accepts a coach trip to Bournemouth for her and Eddie, not mentioning that is a Tory event. Eddie is Labour so when he finds out, he loads up on crates of beer. He proceeds to get drunk on the coach, and makes the bus stop so many times, they finally abandon him.
S8.E5 ∙ For Sale
Eddie wants to sell his house for £15,000.00 so they can move to Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Brittain look it over and decide to buy it, until they see the neighbours; after which, being racists, they don't want it. Eddie had given Bill tickets to a game to get him and Barbie out of the house so prospective buyers wouldn't see them. To get even with Eddie, Bill puts an ad in the paper and lists Eddie's house for £1,500.00. He and Joan are swamped with buyers.
S8.E6 ∙ Power Cut
The Electricity Board cuts off the power to Bill and Barbie's for non-payment. They know they paid it; they just can't prove it. Joan lets them move in and offers to go down to the office with Bill to sort it out. Unfortunately, the man is Black and Eddie can't hold his tongue. Worse, they find out that Bill gave Barbie the cheque to mail,she gave it to Joan, and Joan gave it to Eddie. It's still in his pocket.
S8.E7 ∙ The Lodger
A homeless man, Albert, does odd jobs around the pub. Bill bets Eddie £5 that he won't take him home. Eddie does, and Joan takes a shine to him; she feeds him and gives him Eddie's new suit and he looks a million dollars. Eddie wins the bet, but the man's son comes to get him and gives Eddie £10 for his trouble. Apparently, he leaves home and takes up with strangers regularly.
