Episode 717
Production code	P228/717
ITV transmission date	30th October 1967 (Monday)
Stories by	Harry Driver Susan Pleat Leslie Duxbury
Writer	Adele Rose
Designer	Knowles Bentley
Director	Richard Guinea
Producer	Jack Rosenthal
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PlotEdit

Lucille returns from Ireland. Elsie is scared at the idea of meeting Emmeline Tanner. Ken gets a cold from being locked out. May Trickett helps Elsie clean the flat up. Hilda tells Stan she wants the parlour decorated. Len recuperates at the seaside. Emmeline arrives and tells the Tanners she wants to visit historical England. Stan gets cheap wallpaper, which turn out to be blank sheets. Ena gets a letter from the benefactor. He gives himself away by referring to her son as 'half-pint'. Elsie feels out of things with Steve and Emmeline.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
• Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
• Steve Tanner - Paul Maxwell
• Miss Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
• Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
• Jerry Booth - Graham Haberfield

Guest castEdit

• May Trickett - Mary Hignett
• Emmeline Tanner - Stella Bonheur

NotesEdit

• TV Times: No synopsis appeared in the magazine between Episode 702 (6th September 1967) and Episode 755 (11th March 1968)
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 8,550,000 homes (1st place).