series two

Worzel has heard about a coach outing to the seaside for the old folk in the village and decides that he’s going along too. He tries and fails to get onto the coach and so, undeterred, decides to stow away in the boot, along with all the food hampers. By the time the coach arrives at the seaside Worzel has eaten everything, leaving the pensioners to starve all day. Worzel then decides to go off in search of more food. He soon meets up with a ship’s figurehead, ‘the Saucy Nancy’, who says she knows where they can find some whelks. After a long chase from the owner of the whelk stall the pair come across Aunt Sally in a Seaside Fair and a fight between her and Nancy over Worzel leads to his right arm being pulled off.

The Peters Family are away from Scatterbroook visiting relatives in Watford and, while they’re away, Worzel decides to move into their caravan. However, as he’s breaking into it someone else turns up who has other plans. Pickles Bramble, Worzel’s nephew, is in the Village causing havoc with his catapult firing missiles at everyone. He goes looking for Worzel at Scatterbrook and, whilst there, sees Mr Braithwaite’s advert for a farm hand. Pickles gets the job and Mr Braithwaite puts him up in the Peters’ caravan. When Mr Braithwaite opens up the caravan he, and Pickles see Worzel in there. Mr Braithwaite says he’s going to throw him on the compost heap but Pickles stops him, he has different ideas. He tells Worzel that if he doesn’t do all the work around the farmyard then he’ll tell Mr Braithwaite to throw him onto the compost heap.

Worzel’s on his holidays again so he decides to try out his ‘wangling head’ which is for fishing. To start off his new hobby Worzel first gatecrashes a local angling contest, to steal some worms, and then visits the local pub and steal the landlord’s prized stuffed pike off the wall. Worzel then decides to go ‘wangling’ in Mrs Bloomsbury - Barton’s fish - pond. However Enid, the house maid, mistakes Worzel for Mr Peters, who is working at the Hall, when she is sent to ask Mr Peters if he’ll have a look at Mrs Bloomsbury - Barton’s dishwasher. Worzel agrees but, by the time he’s gone into the house, has forgotten what he was asked to have a look at in the first place. After a quick look around Worzel spies Mrs Bloomsbury - Barton’s aquarium and decides it is what he was asked to take a look at - the fishwasher!

Worzel, for once, is at his post while Mr Braithwaite and an agricultural sales rep are talking in Ten-Acre field. The rep is trying to sell Mr Braithwaite an electronic crow - scarer and in the process both men are critisicing Worzel for being no use. This spurs Worzel into action and he constructs a huge catapult which he uses to fire potatoes at all the crows in the field. Unfortunately it isn’t only crows that he hits, many people in the village get pelted too and, unfortunately, one of them is the Crowman who gets his hat knocked off. The Crowman decides this is the final straw and so he sends his pigeons to summon up all of his scarecrows for a very special event, the trial of Worzel gummidge, and the penalty - death. Things get even worse for Worzel when the prosecutor arrives - Aunt Sally!

Worzel and Aunt Sally are penniless so they decide to go into town to Miss Fogg’s employment agency, to see if they can get a job. Worzel and Aunt Sally are both offered employment, as a kitchen maid and a gardener, but Aunt Sally is not pleased. She considers the job common and storms out of the building, however before Worzel leaves he picks up the job card and assures Miss Fogg that they’ll take the positions. Later it emerges that, in the confusion, Worzel took the wrong card. The card he actually picked up was for two vacancies placed by Mrs Bloomsbury - Barton, requesting a Butler and a Parlour Maid for a special luncheon she is hosting for her very rich and influential guest, Lady Partington. On hearing this Aunt Sally is delighted and so both go to the hall to serve luncheon in their own inimitable way.

There’s a talent night on at the Village hall and the first prize is £10. Worzel and Aunt Sally decide to enter as a double act, with Worzel under the impression that if they win the money they receive will be to pay for their wedding. However every attempt they make at forming a double act ends in disaster and so, eventually, they both enter the contest seperately. Aunt Sally, calling herself Madame Ermintrude, intends to perform the ballet ‘Swan Lake’, whilst Worzel chooses, after consulting all the animals he knows, to put on a magic show, under the alias of ‘The Great Worzel’. Things however go tragically wrong when, on the night, they both end up on stage together.

Mrs Bloomsbury - Barton needs to raise some money so she comes up with the idea of a fund raising bon - fire, despite it being August. She also wants a guy to burn. John and Sue immediately volunteer to make one but, unfortunately, Mr Braithwaite puts forward another proposition, she can burn his old scarecrow - Worzel. When John and Sue get home they rush to Ten - Acre and tell Worzel the bad news, on hearing it he bolts and makes for the edge of the village. Eventually Worzel calms down and after consulting the children and his thinking head he comes up with an idea, to make another scarecrow to take his place. But all doesn’t run smoothly when the scarecrow he makes, Dafthead, comes to life as well.

Once again Worzel is walking the village streets when, whilst passing a Junk Shop, he hears some very familiar cries coming from inside. He goes in to investigate and discovers Aunt SAlly unceremoniously dumped upside down in a washing machine. She begs Worzel to help her out but he refuses, despite her making many promises. There is one offer she makes however which he can’t afford to turn down. The one thing he wants more than anything in the world, marriage. John and Sue turn up at the shop and, to celebrate, they treat Worzel and Aunt Sally to fizzy pop and cakes at the local tea - rooms. Unfortunately, now she is free, Aunt Sally decides to change her mind that is until Sue tells her all about the Wedding Dress she has. Aunt Sally can’t resist the opportunity to show off so the Crowman is informed and the Wedding preperations begin.

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