Tue, Nov 9, 1982
Ivy and Billy drive to Bridlington to collect a client's remains and enjoy a day at the seaside. Then Billy decides to use the coffin as a canoe but it springs a leak and Ivy fears that he has drowned. She holds a lavish memorial service which is very well-attended, including by Billy himself, who has not drowned but has spent the last few days with a young lady.
Tue, Nov 2, 1982
Ivy writes an article for The Undertakers' Journal in the hopes of winning a five guinea prize. It concerns another disastrous funeral where the hearse fell apart after crashing into a farmyard and the coffin and mourners had to be taken to the churchyard on a motor cycle and side-car. However, having finished it, Ivy reckons that it will be too bizarre to be believed and tears it up.
Mon, Nov 24, 1980
A despondent Ivy fails in her bid to become the president of the British Undertakers' Association and, to make things worse, Billy's pet frog is discovered inside the coffin at the latest burial. Misreading a note left by his aunt Billy wrongly assumes that she is suicidal and ends up dragging the canal for her whilst she joins the onlookers watching him from a bridge.
Mon, Oct 27, 1980
On the eve of the Undertakers' Annual Outing Ivy and Billy recall the previous year's trip when they gave a lift to the Pardoe family - kindly Mr Pardoe, his snooty wife, their greedy son Herbert and Herbert's betrothed, Mary Bennett. When the hearse broke down Herbert and his mother took the train, leaving Ivy and Mr Pardoe to reminisce on their past romance and for a new one to flourish between Mary and Billy - though Mary still married Herbert.
Mon, Nov 10, 1980
Having made an extremely good impression on Ivy Billy's new girlfriend Doreen then shocks her by suggesting that she and Billy spend a pre-marital weekend together to see if they are compatible. Eventually Doreen manages to convince Ivy that nothing untoward will happen and, thanks o Billy's clumsiness, nothing does - leading Doreen to believe that their relationship would be doomed.
Mon, Nov 3, 1980
When Ivy refuses to buy lucky heather from gypsy Vera Turnbull, she puts a curse on her and Billy. Ivy is sceptical until bad things start to happen including Billy ending up in hospital. However the tables are turned when Vera also has an accident - tripping over her basket of lucky heather.
Mon, Nov 17, 1980
Following a drunken birthday celebration Billy loses a coffin with a body due for burial . The police find it but in order to hit a funeral deadline Ivy has buried somebody else and when she and Billy try to swap the coffins back again they are arrested for grave robbing and must appear in court. They are acquitted but Ivy fears it will harm her application to be the British Undertakers' Association's first female president.
Mon, Feb 6, 1984
Billy makes it clear that he does not approve of Ernie's bride to be, Mary, and is a reluctant best man. He agrees to take Mary in the hearse to collect her wedding dress but when the hearse runs out of petrol and they are stranded in the countryside something happens that causes Billy to alter his opinion of his passenger.
Thu, Mar 6, 1986
Looking through the family album with Ivy and Billy, Mary is shocked to see a wedding photo with Billy as bridegroom. When Ivy explains that this was his elopement, carried out to please her, with the already-married Cynthia, Mary insists that Ivy accompanies her to visit the lady in question. There is a surprise in store for them both.