Bless This House

- Season 2

(1972)

Mike has created a sculpture which he hopes will make an impression with his peers, and win him a competition. But an incident with his sculpture means first place may be out of Mike's reach.

Sid and the family come home from a blissful family holiday, but Sid is incensed to see what neighbor Trev has done to his cherry tree. The whole situation causes major conflict.

After getting the wrong idea about the relationship Sally has with a teacher, Sid and Jean get one particular 'fact' wrong, and it results in unpleasant consequences. Meanwhile, Mike produces an interesting painting.

Jean's father is coming for the weekend, and Sid is desperate to not have to tolerate a weekend with him, so he plans a weekend of fishing.

Sid and Jean try to come to terms with their teenage daughter Sally, getting engaged to be married, to her new boyfriend Geoffrey.

When Sid and Jean, and Mike and Sally, go out for a family meal, Sid and Jean reminisce about when they first met. Back when Sid was a discharged soldier, and Jean was a WREN.

Jean wants Sid to go to a wedding with her and Sally and Mike, but Sid wants to go to the football match. He tries every trick in the book to get out of going to the wedding.

Jean is worried Sid may take advantage of the fact he meets flirty women in his line of work. So she tries to trick him by pretending to be a woman who is interested in him. But he cottons on, and plays along, with hilarious consequences.

Jean convinces Sid to do something constructive one Sunday, instead of just lying in bed. So they go for a picnic; but things go awry when they get lost, and the budgie goes missing.

Sid and Jean want to buy Mike a nice gift for his 20th birthday, but Mike wants a party at their house. Unfortunately for Sid and Jean, they aren't invited. So they decide to spend the night in the greenhouse so they can spy on the party.

Sid is enlisted by his boss to deliver the Chief Executive's Rolls Royce, but thanks to Mike and Sally's campaigning about how cars ruin the environment, things don't go to plan.

Sid hurts his foot after tripping over Mike's friend's statue. Meanwhile Sally takes an interest in the unknown; so Jean, Sally, and Betty decide to do a séance. They all come to regret it though, when the house appears to be haunted.