PlotEdit

The party continues into the evening with a free bar paid for by Alan. Irma returns to the party. Stan gets hopelessly drunk on the free ale. Ken makes a speech wishing the newly-weds all the best. Alan makes his own speech. Irma grows depressed again at what she has lost. When the free bar finishes, a paralytic Stan joins Irma, Bet and Ray in the flat and cadges gin off them. Ray and Len row over the money Alan owes them. Len goes to Barrow in Furness for three weeks on a job. A baby is stolen from outside Hopwood Street post office. The Howards go off on their fortnight's honeymoon in Paris, waved off by the residents. Ray discovers from Charlie Clarke that Alan owes Willie Piggott £200 as well as the money he owes them. Bet takes Emily to show her the flat and they find Irma there with a baby.

CastEdit

Regular castEdit

• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Emily Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
• Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
• Alan Howard - Alan Browning
• Irma Barlow - Sandra Gough
• Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Maggie Clegg - Irene Sutcliffe
• Elsie Howard - Patricia Phoenix (Credited as "Elsie Tanner")
• Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
• Kenneth Barlow - William Roache

Guest CastEdit

• Handel Gartside - Harry Markham
• Charlie Clarke - Ray Dunbobbin

NotesEdit

• TV Times synopsis: Ray makes a surprising discovery - and so, too, does Miss Nugent
• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 6,650,000 homes (1st place).

Notable dialogueEdit

Len Fairclough: "Hilda, before you start chucking stones at those who owe money, if I were you I’d mend a few windows in me own greenhouse."