Editing In Sickness and in Health (section)

===Series 3 (1987)===
During the third series, Rita divorces Mike and moves back to [[London]] to marry a doctor (although Una Stubbs did not appear in the show after series two). Eamonn Walker also left at the end of series three. Three characters from the 1970s ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'' also made a comeback - Mrs. Carey and her henpecked husband Wally ([[Pat Coombs]] and [[Hugh Lloyd]], although Wally was now named Harry). Min also returns for an appearance, along with her sister Gwenneth who makes her second and final appearance in the series, as Handl died later that year.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hepple |first=Peter |date=3 December 1987 |title=For the Love of Irene |pages=28 |work=The Stage |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19871203/136/0028}}</ref> 
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|1 
|22 October 1987
| Rita has left Mike for good and is divorcing him. Alf is delighted by the prospect that his daughter is coming home to stay and look after him so he starts to prepare the spare room for her. But his joy soon turns to anger when he finds out that she has been having a romantic dalliance with the local GP, Dr Thompson, who later reveals to Alf that he intends on marrying her. Alf reluctantly lets Winston lodge at his flat and use the spare room instead.    
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|2 
|29 October 1987
| Alf receives a leaflet about AIDS, and at the pub he complains about how foreigners have brought the disease into the country. Later Alf and Arthur visit a sex shop, where Arthur sneakily steals a sex magazine and gives it to Alf to look after. Mrs Hollingberry soon discovers it in his possession, and Alf tries to blame it on Winston, so he can get him evicted. 
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|3 
|5 November 1987
| Dr Thompson gives Alf and Mrs Hollingberry a new cordless telephone. Soon, they come to blows when they each try to claim ownership on the phone. Alf also causes a commotion among his neighbours when he rings everybody he knows, which leads to a series of unfortunate incidents for Arthur and Fred. 
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|4 
|12 November 1987
| Min and Gwenneth pay Alf another visit, and he's desperate to try and get them to leave. Gwenneth causes a commotion at the pub when she mistakes Arthur for a former boyfriend. Later that evening, Min organises a seance at the flat whilst Winston and his boyfriend try to trick Alf into believing that he can hear an otherworldly spirit. 
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|5 
|19 November 1987
| At a tea dance, Alf gets into a fight with Fancy Fred ([[Spike Milligan]]). One afternoon a large truck parks outside his window, and Alf confronts the driver who turns out to be the same adversary he fought at the dance. Mrs Hollingberry volunteers Alf to clean her windows and soon gets into trouble when he gets his legs caught on the window ledge. 
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|6 
|26 November 1987
| On one of the hottest days of the year, Alf and Winston are watching cricket on the television in the back garden. Later that day, Alf visits the DHSS where he complains about not getting enough money for last winter's heating allowance. He later returns home, to find that Arthur, Mr Kittel and Mr Rabinksky have turned up uninvited, to watch the cricket.
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