In Sickness and in Health

In Sickness and in Health
Created by	Johnny Speight
Starring	Warren Mitchell Dandy Nichols Carmel McSharry Eamonn Walker Arthur English Una Stubbs Ken Campbell Eileen Kennally Tricia Kelly Harry Fowler Hugh Lloyd Pat Coombs James Ellis
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	47
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	1 September 1985 – 3 April 1992
Chronology
Preceded by	Till Death Us Do Part

In Sickness and in Health is a BBC television sitcom which ran between 1985 and 1992. It was a sequel to the highly successful Till Death Us Do Part, which ran between 1966 and 1975, and Till Death..., which ran for one series of six episodes in 1981.

The series had 47 episodes, and unlike its predecessor, all the episodes have survived and are available on DVD.

Although the final show was broadcast in 1992, Warren Mitchell would continue to perform as Alf Garnett on special occasions; this meant on stage in front of a live audience, and similarly to an invited audience consisting largely of celebrities and public figures.

In 1997, a number of special shows were arranged for Granada Television, in which Alf would be in his front room in the company of Mrs Hollingbery or in the pub with a drinking partner. The material was written by Johnny Speight and Alf now grumbles about the Labour Party being returned to power under Tony Blair.

After Johnny Speight's death in 1998, Warren Mitchell decided that he no longer wanted to play Alf.

In 1991 a Dutch version of the series, In voor en tegenspoed ("In good times and in bad"), debuted on Dutch TV. According to the end credits only the first 12 episodes were based on Speight's original scripts. Two more series of episodes were written by Paul-Jan Nelissen and Marc Nelissen. The Dutch Alf Garnett is called Fred Schuit (played by Rijk de Gooyer). He lives in Amsterdam, supports AFC Ajax, drinks jenever for medicinal reasons, and doesn't trust a TV-set unless it's made in Eindhoven. The series was awarded two Awards of the Dutch Academy.

The American counterpart to this series was Archie Bunker's Place, which preceded In Sickness and in Health by six years.

This comedy series debuted in 1985 and took the former Till Death Us Do Part characters Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell) and his wife Else (Dandy Nichols) from their Wapping house to a lower-class one-level flat in West Ham. Else now uses a wheelchair due to Nichols' real-life ill health.

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