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Plot

Elsie and Val clash for superiority at the Salon. Mrs Hepplewhite arrives to see Annie and reveals Emily gave her the brooch back whilst Annie was away. Annie gives Betty and Hilda presents by way of an apology. Elsie agrees to go out with Alan. In the Select, the concert takes place:

Master of Ceremonies - Cyril Turpin
Singing/playing Drink to Me Only - Emily and Ernie
Reciting The Owl and the Pussycat - Minnie
On the trumpet - Ken
Hylda Baker and Cynthia - Irma and Bernard
Singing Cockles and Muscles - Ena and Emily
Reciting The Girl I kissed On the Stairs - Albert

Cast

Regular cast

• Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
• Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
• Elsie Tanner - Patricia Phoenix
• Annie Walker - Doris Speed
• Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
• Valerie Barlow - Anne Reid
• Kenneth Barlow - William Roache
• Alan Howard - Alan Browning
• Sandra Butler - Patricia Fuller
• Bernard Butler - Gorden Kaye
• Ray Langton - Neville Buswell
• Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
• Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
• Irma Barlow - Sandra Gough
• Betty Turpin - Betty Driver
• Cyril Turpin - William Moore
• Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
• Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
• Emily Nugent - Eileen Derbyshire
• Ernest Bishop - Stephen Hancock

Guest cast

• Mrs Hepplewhite - Betty England

Notes

• Viewing Figures: First UK broadcast - 7,200,000 homes (2nd place).