PlotEdit

Stan's bike is flattened by a steam roller. Elsie doesn't know whether or not to tell Dave that Leo Slater is a villain but she does in the end. Elsie receives an expensive pen. Lillian Smith tells Dave she knows about Leo's past. Dave refuses to give Lillian a divorce. She blames Elsie. Stan collects scrap. Dave gives in to Lillian. Elsie receives flowers. Stan takes up scrap art.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
• Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
• Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
• Cyril Turpin - William Moore
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Emily Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
• Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
• Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid

Guest castEdit

• Dave Smith - Reginald Marsh
• Lillian Smith - Rhoda Lewis
• Douglas Pickins - John Collin
• Leo Slater - Donald Morley

NotesEdit

• This episode uses a different-than-usual arrangement of Eric Spear's signature tune. Introduced in the previous episode, it is used in two more episodes before being dropped in favour of the previous arrangement in Episode 911 (17th September 1969).
• TV Times synopsis: In which Stan finds his true bent
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 6,250,000 homes (6th place).

Notable dialogueEdit

Stan Ogden: "I've never cracked it, you see."
Hilda Ogden: "Cracked what?"
Stan Ogden: "You've got to 'ave an idea. Like the apple fell on Shakespeare's 'ead. 'Eureka', 'e said."

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Dave Smith (to Leo Slater): "We walk on different sides of a line, you and me. I get pretty near it, sometimes I even do a bit of a tightrope back, but I never actually cross over."