Steptoe and Son - Season 2 (1963)

It's Albert's sixty-fifth birthday and, after pretending he has forgotten, Harold buys him a pair of gloves. He takes him to the theatre and to a Chinese restaurant for a birthday treat but these are alien to Albert and the evening ends in disaster.

Harold plans a musical evening with some old 78rpm records, while Steptoe Sr. insists on noisily mending his shoes.

Albert is unhappy when Harold brings three new friends round to play cards, suspecting, rightly, that they are cheats taking advantage of Harold's gullibility. So he sends Harold out to buy a jug of beer and takes his place at the card table. When Harold returns he finds that his father - who has said that gambling is a sin - is a better cheat than the card-sharps and has won all their money back.

Harold meets and falls for Dorothia, a wealthy woman who has been separated from her husband for five years. He thinks they have a future together. His father thinks that she is merely amusing herself with a bit of rough. Sadly for Harold he discovers that Albert is right when he goes to the house and finds the coalman's lorry outside.