PlotEdit

Dickie celebrates his birthday. Annie worries that Jack's medical let them down and frets about his health. Len plans to leave the Council. Councillor Farnsworth again asks Elsie to talk to him but she refuses. Elsie wants Ena to help Len but Ena tells her only she can help. Stan sells suit lengths bought with the £50 that Elsie lent him. Jack tells Hilda that Elsie gave Stan the £50. She gets the wrong idea and accuses Elsie of trying to buy her husband's attention. Betty tells Hilda that Cyril has been investigating some cloth that has been stolen from a tailors. Elsie starts talking to Len and tells him not to give up his council work. Alice's pensioner friends go on trip to the Fusiliers' Museum in Bury. Alice though misses the bus and Ray gives her a lift there. When Alice bursts into the room where Albert is giving a lecture, she shocks him, causing him to fall off the box on which he was stood.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Emily Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
• Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
• Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
• Audrey Fleming - Gillian McCann
• Dickie Fleming - Nigel Humphreys

Guest castEdit

• Alice Pickins - Doris Hare
• Councillor Farnsworth - Allen Cullen
• Spokeswoman - Elizabeth Kelly

NotesEdit

• TV Times synopsis: Stan enters the rag trade and Tatlock goes 'over the top'.
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 5,500,000 homes (8th place).