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| "Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?" | 4 January | Howard persuades a reluctant Clegg to take a message to Marina in the store where she works. Clegg buys random items, including ladies' stockings, in order to explain his extended presence in the store while he waits for a chance to pass the message. Seymour invents a drill and uses it in an attempt to find oil, with unhappy results. | - The runtime of this episode is just short of 34 minutes.
- The theme tune of Dallas is parodied in the style of the Last of the Summer Wine theme when Clegg and Compo use Seymour's bike to drill for oil.
- This is the first episode since it began in 1973 to open indoors in the studio and on videotape (all previous 62 episodes, plus pilot, open outdoors on location and on film).
- The episode is edited by about 4 minutes on the region 1 DVD release.
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| "The Heavily Reinforced Bottom" | 11 January | Compo takes up canoeing, with disastrous results. | - Filming took place near the Standedge Tunnels, (at the Tunnel End Cottages, close by). This location would be used again in the Series 10 episode ‘The Treasure of the Deep’.
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| "Dried Dates and Codfanglers" | 18 January | Seymour invents a high-security door lock, which fails miserably. Compo has lost a prized possession – a date Nora Batty threw at him! | |
| "The Really Masculine Purse" | 25 January | After Compo claims that any man who uses a purse is effeminate, Seymour tries to invent a strictly masculine purse. | |
| "Who's Feeling Ejected, Then?" | 1 February | Seymour builds an ejector seat, which Compo is persuaded to test. | |
| "The Ice-Cream Man Cometh" | 8 February | Seymour misses the good old days, and decides to promote the old tradition of bicycling ice-cream men. | |
| "Set the People Free" | 15 February | Howard and Wally have both been confined to quarters, and it's up to the trio to try to break them free. | |
| "Go with the Flow" | 22 February | Seymour volunteers the trio to help the Vicar and they are assigned to sell tickets for a production of Beatrix Potter – but all he succeeds in doing is getting himself thrown out of the local pub. Will Compo fare any better? | |
| "Jaws" | 1 March | Seymour invents a new waste disposal unit for Edie. | - This episode marked the first appearance of Eli (Danny O'Dea), who became a regular shortly after.
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| "Edie and the Automobile" | 8 March | Edie is having driving lessons – no-one is safe! | - This episode sees the start of a recurring joke, that would remain throughout the series, regarding Edie and her terrible driving.
- Despite her awful driving, later episodes suggest Edie passed her test somehow.
- First mention of Smiler
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| "Wind Power" | 15 March | Seymour's invents wind-powered rollerskates. |
| "When You take a Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible" | 22 March | Clegg receives word that an old friend in America, Bill Henry Duffield, died six months earlier. The trio relive some happy memories as a tribute. | - This episode marks the final appearance of Wally Batty. Joe Gladwin died less than a fortnight before it was broadcast.
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